More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...

Without getting hysterical,” Brookings Institution economist Mark Muro replied, “the unemployment jump for programming really does look at least partly like an early, visible labor market effect of AI ...

Compilers represent programs in the computer’s memory with an abstract ‘tree’ structure. Using this representation, a genetic-programming system ‘mutates’ a program by randomly changing ...

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 ...

Aho, 79, and Ullman, 78, were honored for creating some the underlying algorithms and theories that made computer programming accessible to non experts. They wrote fundamental textbooks that are ...