Forty years go on 22 May 1973, Bob Metcalfe, who worked at PARC, Xerox's legendary Research Centre in Palo Alto at the time, wrote a memo that laid the foundations for a technology that hasn't grown less significant since then.
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Gary Arlen Kildall was born on 19 May 1942. Kildall was the computer scientist who developed the highly successful CP/M operation system, and founded Digital Research Inc.
The Science Museum in the UK in collaboration with other institutions conducted a survey to find out what British inventions and innovative solutions from the last 100 years were considered the most influential.
On the last weekend of May, the German auction house Breker held a bid, and sold one of the first Apple computers ever made in the world.
Ninety-two-year-old Captain Jerry Roberts, former codebreaker, was awarded MBE by Queen Elisabeth for his codebreaking work at the legendary Bletchley Park during World War Two.
Revolutionaries, the speaker series of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View will feature three of the most prominent science writers on modern computer history at 20 p.m. on 15 May.
The world?s first webpage went live on 30 April 1993 to present World Wide Web technology.
Harry D. Huskey, born in 1916, will receive the 2013 Fellow Award from the ComputerHistoryMuseumin Mountain View.
Java and its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) are already eighteen years old, but they still have areas for improvement such as localization, application isolation and parallel operations.