Boston lost one of its most influential pioneers in entrepreneurship last week when MIT professor Ed Roberts died at age 88. Roberts came to MIT as an undergrad in the 1950s and never left. Over seven ...

In 1962, a young man hailing from San Mateo, California successfully applied for a transfer from the local college to the University of California, Berkeley. Ed Roberts was a polio survivor with both ...

Ed Roberts, who died of pneumonia April 1 at 68, has rightfully been described as an architect of the personal-computer revolution. Microsoft was born after Bill Gates and I sold our first piece of ...

Nowadays, people look back on the 1950s as the Happy Days, but for the kids who grew up during that time, it was anything but. Hovering over them were the twin terrors of The Bomb and a raging polio ...

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 personal computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business, has died aged 68. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of ...