Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Turing Award winner, computer pioneer, inventor of influential programming languages: Niklaus Wirth’s achievements and accomplishments in the field of computer science are far-reaching. He is probably ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Imagine telling a story in an Indigenous language and having a computer interpret and produce digital images for the story. Simon Fraser University (SFU) scholar Jon Corbett aims to make this happen ...

Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980. Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level ...

In the age of technological advancement, the parallel between human programming and computer code has sparked a fascinating debate. Are we, as humans, programmed in a manner akin to how computers are ...