The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) will award Regents’ Professor Amy Bruckman and three former ...

Learn how to implement a classic substitution cipher in C! This step-by-step tutorial walks you through encoding and decoding messages by replacing each letter with another according to a fixed key. A ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...

Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android. Historically, Swift has been closely tied to Apple's ecosystem ...

Fortran refers to a general-purpose computer programming language ideal for scientific computing and numeric computation. Since its inception in the 1950s, Fortran has dominated the computationally ...

In 1958, McCarthy specified LISP, the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today (only Fortran is older by one year). The full form of Lisp is List Processing. Like Fortran, ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor/author in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 30 years experience as an investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in… Artificial intelligence ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.

Many of today’s programmers—excuse me, software engineers—consider themselves “creatives.” Artists of a sort. They are given to ostentatious personal websites with cleverly hidden Easter eggs and ...