As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

So, the story goes something like this. In 1947, in Virginia, US, an error was spotted on the Harvard Mark II, one of the first programmable computers in the world. A ...

Computer scientists are building mathematical models to represent the safest and most effective ways to perform surgery, including tasks such as suturing, dissecting and joining tissue. Borrowing ...

Johns Hopkins computer scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are creating a digital ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

In the US, a 2016 Gallup poll found that the majority of schools want to start teaching code, with 66 percent of K-12 school principals thinking that computer science learning should be incorporated ...

A controversial plan from a Broward County Democrat to require high schools to offer computer coding courses and let students count them toward foreign language requirements was heralded Thursday as ...

No. And high schools shouldn’t treat it that way. By William Egginton Dr. Egginton is a professor of the humanities. Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to ...