Charles Stark Draper is best known for his work on gyroscopic instruments and other navigation systems for sea, air, and space craft. He was born on October 2, 1901, in Windsor, Missouri. After high school, he attended the University of Missouri for...

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Library successfully developed a 'gopher' or software utility that provides access to both library resources and the Internet. The Draper gopher was initially developed to make better use of information technology in providing access to library services. The gopher...

Francis J Madden is one of a team of five engineers who received the prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize (www.draper.com) from the NAE (National Academy of Engineering, www.nae.edu) on Feb 21, 2005, for its work on the Corona project. The goal of the...

John BackusJohn Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, died Saturday. He was 82.Backus died in Ashland, Ore., according to IBM Corp., where he spent his career.Prior to...