A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.” By John Markoff Bill Atkinson, the Apple Computer ...

Experts say that a Ph.D. degree is typically necessary for research-intensive or project management computer science ...

For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions. By John Markoff In November 1952, a Harvard sophomore, ...