Last year, Luis von Ahn won the prestigious $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, which honors outstanding mid-career inventors who are improving the world...
One of my favorite artifacts in the museum is the first computer mouse, which is currently on display in the Silicon Valley section of Places of...
Graphic designer Susan Kare is the “woman who gave the Macintosh a smile.”1 She is best known for designing the distinctive icons, typefaces, and...
Stephen B. Adams, Lemelson Center fellow during the Fall of 2015. His research project is entitled “Before the Garage: The Beginnings of Silicon...
Gerardo Con Diaz, Lemelson Center Fellow and PhD. candidate at Yale University, delivers this month's colloquium talk, "Intellectual Property and...
A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered...
The Super Bowl is a cultural event that attracts the attention of more than just football fans. In 2013, Super Bowl XLVII was the third most watched...
Much of the world’s Internet management and governance takes place in a corridor extending west from Washington, DC, through northern Virginia toward...
As a girl growing up in the 1960s, Janese Swanson never dreamed of being an inventor. Although fascinated by technology, she had never heard of any...
