Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our ...

If you’ve ever tried to learn a language using a free app, you already know the pattern: a few basic lessons, a handful of common phrases, and then—boom—half the features are locked. That’s why Mondly ...

The Commodore 64 Ultimate is the most astonishing retro product I have ever reviewed. I was expecting it to be a straightforward, modern take on the all-time best-selling personal computer. I imagined ...

Before joining the School of Computing Instruction (SCI) in 2017, Mark Moss spent 25 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. His service took him to Korea, Germany, Washington, D.C., ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colleagues routinely describe Michael Running Wolf as someone who walks seamlessly between two worlds. As an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at the software-development company SynthBee in ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...