Willow Ahrens, a new assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, is working to make programming high-performance ...

Your career goals and personal interests should guide your choice of a first programming language, not just what’s popular.

OpenAI and Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) models, GPT and Gemini, achieved first- and second-place level results in a ...

Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

Computer science involves much more than writing code. It blends technical knowledge —like programming, algorithms and data systems — with soft skills, such as communication and problem-solving.

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

To her children, Charlene Roberts-Hayden was like a character out of the book and movie “Hidden Figures” — just born a generation later, and working as a pioneering Black woman in computer programming ...

New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and High Valyrian and ...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang delivering a keynote at GTC 2025. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Naming chips after prominent scientists has been a decades-long tradition at Nvidia. Following its upcoming ...