Following are samples of the 50,000+ entries, photos, diagrams and charts in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in America (more about the author at ...

Yet with the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well. I am not speaking of the idea of impartial, objective, and meticulously ...

Donald Sobol, the creator of the beloved character Encyclopedia Brown, died last week of natural causes, his family says. He was 87. The first in the Encyclopedia Brown series book was published in ...

These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt ...

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLEVELAND HISTORY is a collaborated effort between CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, and the northeastern Ohio community. Originating in the ...

Encyclopedia Britannica is closing the book on its print edition. The move may be the single most powerful symbol to date of our rapidly changing media world, a world in which hard copies of books ...

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the company’s Kentucky warehouse, the company says, and when the last one sells, there’ll be no more. It could be just ...

Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone ...

Dave Shaw remembers when the encyclopedia salesman came to his family's rural Cass City home -- in Michigan's thumb -- nearly 35 years ago. Shaw was 9 years old, and had persuaded his parents to get a ...