In 1966, a simple program named ELIZA surprised scientists by eliciting human-like emotional responses. Despite its basic ...

The pace of development and proliferation of artificial intelligence tools — generative, agentic, physical — can be hard to follow, but IT leaders must do their best to stay apprised of potential ...

Learning to program in C on an online platform can provide structured learning and a certification to show along with your resume. Learning C can still be useful in 2026, especially if you want to ...

Requests to datasets from San Francisco Open Data have skyrocketed since the introduction of AI coding assistants.

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Have you ever wondered how websites, mobile apps, or software actually work? If you’re new to technology, computer programming might sound confusing or even intimidating. Computer programming for ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Students and alumni at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working with high school students across the United States to tutor them in calculus. The reason? A lack of calculus courses, ...

In the 1970s, MIT researchers built a computer model to simulate the future of human civilization. It predicted that resource depletion, pollution, and population growth would converge around 2020, ...

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is aiming to access the brain without the use of invasive implants. Gestala, newly founded ...