STAR CITY, Russia – Decades before helping to write the programs that led to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, Charles Simonyi learned the basics on a clunky, Soviet-era computer called Ural-2. Next ...

In 1969, internet pioneer Paul Baran predicted that by the year 2000, computer programmers may very well be the richest people in the world. Remember, this is when Bill Gates was just a 14-year-old ...

Francis Wolke moved across the country to Silicon Valley with a dream – to join the ranks of the wealthy elite. But instead the 30-year-old computer programmer went down a dark path and his name would ...