For decades, empirical research has shown that programming is a demanding cognitive activity: Developers rely on working ...

The famous moth taped into a Harvard logbook in 1947 is often called the birth of the word "bug" in computing. The truth is ...

Discover how computers play chess, from the Mechanical Turk to advanced chess engines and their strategies against human ...

Discover the intriguing journey of India's first educational computer to IIT Kanpur and the origins of enduring lab ...

NILES, Mich. (WNDU) - The Niles History Center is marking America’s 250 th birthday with special programming throughout the month of July. Mollie Watson, Assistant Director at the History Center, ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages" -- c. 1470: Cipher disk -- 1613: ...

Elvis Costello knew he needed a well-paying job to become a musician, so he went into computer programming before releasing his 1977 debut album.

Most adults can still handle basic spelling and maybe even work through a long division problem with enough time. But ...

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

Join the Master of Science in Computer Science (MS-CS) on Coursera, an advanced degree program offered by the University of Colorado Boulder and hosted online through Coursera’s learning platform.

Firms have to balance hi-tech and age-old skills when training up young workers.