Douglas waged a war of words. "Imagine that you're there," says my guide, George Buss, stepping onto the four-foot-high concrete replica of a speaker's platform, installed here in 1992 to ...

On December 8, 1968, Douglas Engelbart sat in front of a crowd of 1,000 in San Francisco, ready to introduce networked computing to the world. Engelbart was no Steve Jobs. He was a shy engineer ...

Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.

The Department of Education has scored two very important victories in this matter, although the judgment has gone against it. The first is that there is now certainty with regard to the Head of ...

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