IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1964 IBM Corporation announced a ...

In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot. Specifically, the massive gamble he took in 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential to ...

Bob O. Evans, a computer scientist who in the 1960s led the development of a new class of mainframe computers the famous 360s helping turn IBM into a data-processing power, died Sept. 2 in ...

1964 was a very busy year for Fred Brooks Jr. As he was launching the computer science department at UNC-Chapel Hill, Brooks was also shuttling north to IBM’s campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he ...

Dr. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. liked building things, first laying foundations for modern computer systems at International Business Machines Corp. and later at the University of North Carolina, where he ...

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, died Nov. 17 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was ...

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...