The first story, typically told by software designers and AI companies, urges people to say “I do” to AI and embrace bespoke friendship programmed on your behalf. AI company Replika, for instance, ...

Intel released the 80286 processor on February 1, 1982, making the CPU 44 years old. According to the company, the 16-bit chip represented a significant evolution ...

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 ...

The City of Pompano Beach will mark Black History Month with the exhibition Tsunami: Waves of Displacement at Bailey Contemporary Arts, opening February 1 and running through February 28, 2026. The ...

Early on in Robert Dickson’s tenure as the chief information officer for Wichita Public Schools, he reviewed the district’s technology every five years. The pandemic cut that to three years. Then, in ...

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 ...

Computer Science education has gone through boom-and-bust cycles before. The best-known ones happened in the mid-1980s after the PC boom and in the early-2000s after the dot-com boom. There are ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs. The computer first appeared on the Broadway stage in 1955 in a romantic comedy—William ...

Though computer science requires high cognitive skills in general, a significant portion of computer science education is based on applying these skills in the concrete context of programming. With ...