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

Neel Somani has built a career that sits at the intersection of theory and practice. His work spans formal methods, mac ...

Don Flaherty worries about the future of the data center industry “every single day.” During his four years as mayor of Ellendale, North Dakota, the town has welcomed a growing data center campus from ...

On average, students in this program are saving more than $8,000 on tuition and 1,000 hours they would have spent in a ...

Put rules at the capability boundary: Use policy engines, identity systems, and tool permissions to determine what the agent ...

The researchers stressed the lack of openness in the top climate risk publications doesn’t indicate flawed research or ...

If schools want to prepare young people for a future shaped by technology, they must act now to ensure that computer science is not a privilege for a few but a foundation for all. The time to begin is ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

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 ...

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 ...