Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Findings by Hopkins researchers suggest that all humans are equipped with the foundation needed to learn programming ...

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 ...

In today’s digital age, computers have become an integral part of our daily lives. From the moment we wake up to check our smartphones to the complex systems managing our cities’ infrastructure, ...

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.

Simula, an acronym for Simulation Language, is touted as the first object-oriented programming language created by Norwegian developers Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard in 1962 when determining how ...

In April 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student of computer science at the University of Helsinki, Finland, began his personal project — to create a new operating system kernel. This modest ...

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 ...

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 ...