MINNEAPOLIS – Robert Stephens recalls with precision the night he signed the deal that would put his sassy startup, Geek Squad, under the massive corporate umbrella of Best Buy. Parked in an alley ...

Gibbs celebrates you, the computer geek! You, my computer geek friend, are fantastic! You are amazing! You can coax electrons to do things that don’t just matter to people, they have transformed our ...

BROOKS, Ky.--At Geek Squad City, it's no accident that everywhere you look are well-groomed young people in dark pants, white shirts, and narrow black ties. Since its founding by Robert Stephens in ...

— -- It started with the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Then came geek chic. Now, "brogrammers" — computer programmers with frat house sensibilities — are hitting the scene. And the stars of The ...

Corporations spend a great deal of time and money training their employees how to work the office computers. But when it’s a personal computer and it’s sitting at your home with its bottomless pit of ...

The media is full of geek stereotypes, everywhere from Big Bang Theory to episodes of CSI and NCIS. These images of geeks as antisocial, immature dorks may seem harmless — but a new study suggests ...

In the beginning, computers were mystical machines created to meet the special needs of government, researchers and large corporations. These were "mainframe" computers. Huge and expensive, only the ...

The typical image of a computer geek is that of a socially clueless loner. Not only single, but can’t even get a date. Data, however, paints a somewhat different picture — at least when it comes to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The stereotype of computer scientists as geeks who memorize Star Trek lines and never leave the ...