At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting wires, then flipping switches, and even punching paper cards. Over time, engineers developed ways to abstract away low-level ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas in 1963, was initially invented to more easily teach programming to undergraduates, reports ThoughtCo. “BASIC was ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...

Enrollment, Retention & GraduationFall 2023 HighlightsThe six-year graduation rate for first-generation students who entered CU Boulder in 2017 and graduated in 2023 or earlier was an all-time high of ...

Bill Atkinson died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Atkinson was one of the earliest Apple employees, responsible for key Mac software and its graphical user interfaces. But he ...

During WJAR-TV's first few years on the air, there wasn't as much programming available to us. Those early broadcasters produced 105 to 110 live, local programs every week! One of those shows was ...

Alan Kay, the famed computer scientist, says he didn’t really know what the term “computer science” meant in 1966, when he read a lengthy description of a programming language written by a ...

If I were to categorize programming languages like art movements, there would be mid-century utilitarianism (Fortran, COBOL), high-theory formalism (Haskell, Agda), Americorporate pragmatism (C# ...

To develop a computer programming language for Indigenous languages—and currently in Cree—Corbett uses its natural language and cultural perspectives directly in the computer interface. For example, ...

Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth died on 1 January 2024, just weeks before his 90th birthday. The long-serving ETH Professor of Computer Science achieved world fame by developing the Pascal programming ...