At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate ...

Most students know how to work a computer. But do most students know how a computer works? No, says Richard Weiss, a visiting assistant professor of computer science. That’s why he created a course in ...

For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

Today, we’re going to look at the history of programming Since Joseph Marie Jacquard’s textile loom in 1801, there has been a demonstrated need to give our machines instructions. In the last few ...

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.

Professor Shwetak Patel’s computer lab at the University of Washington looks like the workshop of a very eccentric tinkerer: It includes a 3-D printer tucked in a corner, spectrum analyzers lined up ...

Computer science teachers in K-12 schools face a rigorous challenge because the technology changes so rapidly. Business and government nationwide have issued calls for more and better-trained teachers ...

Spreadsheets are still useful, but if you do a lot of work with numbers, you'll realize that they have limitations.

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Back in 2018, a story went viral about Owura Kwadwo Hottish, a middle-school teacher in Kumasi, Ghana. What was remarkable about this story was the fact that Hottish was teaching his students how to ...