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 ...

The Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history.

Programming began as a way to give simple instructions to machines that barely worked. Over decades, it evolved through punch ...

Programming didn’t begin with laptops or apps. It started with mechanical machines, punched cards, and handwritten logic. Over decades, languages evolved to make computers faster, smaller, and more ...

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 ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Tech leaders have been adamant that artificial intelligence will forever change industries, jobs, and skills. That remains to be seen in most industries, but in the world of software engineering, AI ...

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.

The name of Poland’s first computer referenced the river running through Wrocław and the country’s one-thousandth anniversary. On 26 January 1961, the ELWRO electronics plant (Wrocławskie Zakłady ...

Hearst Networks UK has unveiled the lineup of star-studded titles that will be premiering on Sky HISTORY throughout the rest of the year. In June, Secrets Declassified, hosted by David Duchovny (The X ...

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does it mean to program?” For context, one of us had just completed academic ...