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

A note from the Editor in Chief: Scientific American is celebrating its 166th year. Given its history as the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S., it's probably no surprise that it has ...

Many of the fastest-growing, highest-paying jobs require computer-science skills and the ability to work with data--but they aren’t programming jobs, and they don’t require a computer science degree.

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

Purpose: This case history reports on the process of developing a method to identify, extract, and clean string citation data from a corpus of articles to assist future studies on research methods, ...

For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression. Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who came of age with his field. During the nascent years of ...

To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...