Georgia Tech continues to excel in the world’s premier student programming competition. Computer science Ph.D. student Xieting  (Creatix) Chu placed first in the Third International Collegiate ...

However, once you read this, the fact that you read it is now history, too. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Like many, I’ve repeated George Santayana’s quotes, but ...

On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering ...

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I have zero programming experience. But after a few minor setbacks, I was able to build a custom website in no time.

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Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

The whiteboard in Professor Mark Stehlik’s office at Carnegie Mellon University still has the details of what turned into a computer science program for high school students. Stehlik and colleague ...

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 ...

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...