When I was first struggling to learn about computer networking standards 100 years ago, a friend who happened to be big in the IEEE boiled the whole thing down for me with a light bulb analogy. “You ...

South Hills High School teacher Saleta Thomas bills her class as a digital game-design program for students. But once students opt to take the class, they start learning computer coding through basic ...

For the fourth year in a row, the federal government released its “Report Card on Computer Security at Federal Departments and Agencies” (download PDF). The average grade for fiscal 2003 was a D (65).

There is a sense of complete wonder at the insides of a computer, and it’s something I find both worrying and surprising. I am of the first generation for whom computers have been standard items in ...

Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the Forgotten Internet series, on UUCP. The short summary is that it was a system for ...

“If you can show that the networking hardware either presents novel features or is improved by the invention to become a more effective tool, you may overcome a Section 101 rejection.” Technologies ...

Belle Wong is a freelance writer specializing in small business, personal finance, banking, and tech/SAAS. She spends her spare moments testing out the latest productivity apps and plotting her latest ...

Kenneth Ma, left, a member of the University of Washington team behind the PrezVR virtual reality presentation app, gives a demo to Lawrence Tan, right, a fellow computer science student attending the ...