Every so often, I start to do something on a computer and have to stop myself to say: “That’s not a good idea.” Fortunately, it’s all I need to prevent myself from doing something I shouldn’t that ...

When we define technology in computer systems, it means using computers and related tools to handle information. This ...

Meta’s chief AI scientist and one of the godfathers of AI Yann LeCun recently said that computer science degrees may not ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A new computer is a major purchase. It can be among the most expensive electronics that money can buy, potentially functioning as the center ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Understanding the core principles of computer programming is the first step to writing effective code. Learning about ...

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 ...

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, but it can still provide many hours of ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...