Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes emit radiation, wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time, and inspired the movie The Theory of Everything during his lifetime. His long list ...

Editor’s note: The Post Independent is republishing this column by Alison Osius from April 2007, in memory of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, whose physical being has left the universe. I flipped ...

When Stephen Hawking's computer voice was in danger of disappearing, his team called Eric Dorsey for help. The Palo Alto-based engineer worked for the company that helped create Hawking's CallText ...

And in 1985, after contracting pneumonia, Hawking underwent a tracheotomy that left him unable to speak. He is only able to communicate verbally using the assistance of a computer.

Stephen Hawking, a brilliant ... Ed Bradley: But Hawking turned to computer technology, and his new disembodied voice only added to his mystique.

Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea. ... It always took Stephen a long time to compose sentences on his computer, but eventually he was able to guide the driver back on course.

Stephen W. Hawking, ... speechless but for a computer-synthesized voice, Dr. Hawking had suffered since the age of 21 from a degenerative motor neuron disease similar to amyotrophic lateral ...

Hawking's "voice," as he explains on his website, is a computer-based communication system that has been provided by Intel since 1997. To learn more about how it works, click here .

Stephen Hawking may be most famous for his work on black holes and ... told reporters this week at a news conference about a new AI program he developed that can teach itself to play computer ...

World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who died March 14, 2018,, didn't believe in God and called heaven "a fairy story." Hawking, who died at 76, wrote "there is no God" in his final ...

On Tuesday, Stephen Hawking's final, posthumous book "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" was released, detailing final thoughts the physicist had on the biggest questions humankind faces. In the ...

— -- Stephen Hawking's computer speech system got a modern upgrade from engineers at Intel who added predictive text to the decades-old program the scientist uses to communicate with the world.