Gerald (Jerry) Estrin, a computer pioneer in the United States and Israel who built the first computer in the Middle East, has died. Estrin died March 29 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 90.

It took computing historians until the late 1970s to recognize Victorian-era mathematician Ada Lovelace — once best known as the daughter of poet Lord Byron — as the world’s first computer programmer.

Alan Turing, one of the most important pioneers of the computer world, was given a bit of honor last summer in a Google tribute on what would have been his 100th birthday. Fast-forward a little over a ...

Harlan Anderson, who founded Digital Equipment Corp. with Ken Olsen in 1957, has written a new book on his days as a computer pioneer: “Learn, Earn and Return: My Life as a Computer Pioneer,” ...