Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

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 ...

A few years ago, as journalist Clive Thompson started working on his new book about the world of coding and coders, he went to see the musical Hamilton. His take-away? The founding fathers were ...

Figured this might be the best place to ask. I'm curious if there's any good books that give some detail on how and/or why some programming languages evolved the way they did, especially during the ...

After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer. By Cade Metz Tony Brooker, the mathematician ...

Kathy Ryan, director of photography: “It isn’t often that we publish a photograph made over 60 years ago on the cover of the magazine. This archival photo showing computer operators with an Eniac — ...

Coding is a facet of computer programming, and programmers are often called coders. Coding is a process used to write instructions for what a computer, application, or software program does and how it ...

Chris Piech, professor of computer science at Stanford University, answers the internet's burning questions about coding. Do you need to know math to be good at coding? How many computer languages are ...

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