Evelyn Berezin, a computer scientist who designed the world's first word processor, has died at the age of 93. In addition to revolutionizing how the world writes, Berezin also developed the first ...

Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word ...

If you’ve used a computer, it’s almost certain you have used Microsoft Word. The aptly named word processor is one of the most influential computer programs in history. From schools to businesses, ...

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Windows offers “WordPad” as the default rich editor. It works, but then it’s limited. I am sure there are many processors available, but what makes Jarte interesting is that it is based on the same ...

The literary history of the early years of word processing—the late 1960s through the mid-’80s—forms the subject of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes. The year 1984 was a key moment ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

Charles Dickens wrote with a feather quill. T.S. Eliot used a fountain pen engraved with his initials. Jack Kerouac typed On the Road on a portable Underwood. The technology of writing — how words ...

Similar to previous overseas studies, teachers in our study spent significantly more time teaching paper-based writing than ...