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Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word ...

Sometimes recent historY is the hardest to see. Consider the computer and its word processing software — programs like Microsoft Word that allow us to write letters or resumes or, for professional ...

We're going to take a moment now to remember a pioneer of computer engineering. Evelyn Berezin died over the weekend at age 93. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: She was the daughter of a seamstress and furrier, ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died at 93 this week. She was most known as the designer of the first true word-processing computer. But she designed many other innovative computing systems and ...

Computers are great at treating words as data: Word-processing programs let you rearrange and format text however you like, and search engines can quickly find a word anywhere on the Web. But what ...

Many Windows-based computers come with a version of Microsoft Word, the widely used word processing software. More often then not, however, Apple computer's do not come with any version of Word.

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...