Here is our guide to some of the more dominant tech generations in computer history, as embodied by the programmers who gave them life.

Previous generations of computers were designed to answer questions that we already know. The next generation will tackle a much tougher task: formulating the questions Big Data needs to answer.

The rapid development of computer-based communication technologies, typified by the advent of the Internet, is said to be giving rise to a novel form of community, a global electronic community. The ...

Generation Beta will start arriving in 2025 — and some experts predict they will be immersed in artificial intelligence and technology even more than the generations before them.

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku says quantum computers could make the computers we use today as old-fashioned and obsolete as the abacus.