HyperWebEnable

On May 27, 2003, a 19-year-old jazz musician and college dropout from Houston, Texas, released the first version of a content management system he had built by forking…

When Microsoft needed someone to lead a global community of 17 million beta testers who collectively shape the future of Windows, they chose a software engineer who also…

In the world of open-source software, few contributions are as invisible yet essential as keeping a kernel stable. Every time an Android phone receives a security patch, every…

On the evening of February 4, 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook from a Harvard dorm room, he was not alone. Sitting beside him, writing server code and…

In 2007, a 19-year-old university student in Perth, Australia, began tutoring her classmates in graphic design software. She noticed something that would change the trajectory of an entire…

In the early 1970s, designing a computer chip was a task reserved for a tiny elite of electrical engineers working inside semiconductor companies. The process was slow, artisanal,…

Every time you type a password to unlock your computer, log into a website, or access a cloud service, you are using an invention that traces directly back…

In 1951, a graduate student at MIT faced a choice: write a term paper for Robert Fano’s information theory class or take the final exam. David Albert Huffman…