It all started with Eliza Doolittle. I’m not speaking about my fondness for musicals, I’m referring to the birth of “chatbots.” ...

On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em-dashes. “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes ...

For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In practice, that ...

Tech CEOs have recently touted vibe coding as a way to become more productive. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in June that he ...

Brain scans show that most of us have a built-in capacity to learn to code, rooted in the brain’s logic and reasoning networks.

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched university students’ brains as they learned to code. The team used functional ...

INDIANA, Pa. – Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s bachelor’s degree program in Computer Sciences, Languages and Systems has earned full reaccreditation from ABET, the world’s leading accreditation ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...