The new documentary The Internet’s Own Boy describes the rise and tragic death of computer hacker Aaron Swartz, a child prodigy who at age 15 had visions of harnessing technology to change the world.

Computer programming prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawa, a 16-year-old girl from Pakistan who seven years ago became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world, is on life support after ...

The death of Aaron Swartz has intensified a debate over access to information on the Internet. Swartz was a computer prodigy and activist who committed suicide on Friday. He was only 26, but he had ...

Doctors are expressing new hope about the condition of Arfa Karim Randhawa, the 16-year-old computer programming prodigy from Pakistan who has been in intensive care since experiencing an epileptic ...

NEW YORK (AP) Computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped develop RSS and co-founded Reddit, has been found dead weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millions of scholarly ...

A well-respected computer prodigy and political activist was arrested in Boston today on charges he hacked into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer system, stole 4 million articles ...

Nigeria’s education system may not be as bleak as circumstances suggest, with the report of the distinction of a nine-year-old computer whizz-kid, Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo, who has set a record as the ...