The creation of the C programming language was a massive milestone for classical computing. Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s, C was an easy ...

Reversible programming languages and computing represent a forward‐looking paradigm in which every computational operation is designed to be invertible. In these systems, each transition from one ...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” opens “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. The passage referred to the French Revolution, but today it could refer to the revolution ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

With a trend to bigger and bigger machine learning models, state-of-the-art artificial intelligence research continues to run up against the limits of conventional computing technology. That's one ...

Quantum computing hardware continues to improve to the point where we may actually see real-world use cases in the next few years and so it’s probably no surprise that we are also seeing a steady ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

AI and machine learning systems have become increasingly competent in recent years, capable of not just understanding the written word but writing it as well. But while these artificial intelligences ...

(1) A programming language or machine language. (2) Everyday computer language, which includes computer technologies and concepts as well as hardware and software products (everything in this ...

In the US, a 2016 Gallup poll found that the majority of schools want to start teaching code, with 66 percent of K-12 school principals thinking that computer science learning should be incorporated ...