Forty years ago, a Canadian bank pioneered a brand new computer system that allowed non-programmers to help write code. The paradigm was so disruptive that it was ignored by computer scientists for ...

Drawing boxes and arrows on a whiteboard has long been a mainstay of software development planning. Originally created in the 1970s by IBM, this idea of flow-based programming has long dominated the ...

I'm trying to determine if this flow-based programming paradigm is good for us. We're going to, soon, be inundated with multiple different "streams" of inbound data in multiple formats and there are ...

NoFlo, a company that has built an open-source visual programming tool based on “flow-based programming,” a concept that came out of IBM in the 1970s, is launching a $100,000 Kickstarter campaign ...

Do websites dream of electric designers? Can web content know itself? The Grid, a San Francisco startup, is changing the way websites are designed by radically changing the role of the designer. This ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. The National Security Agency (NSA) is not perhaps known for ...