A note from the Editor in Chief: Scientific American is celebrating its 166th year. Given its history as the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S., it's probably no surprise that it has ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

(1) For the languages used in AI, see AI programming languages. (2) A language used to write computer instructions. A programming language lets the programmer express data processing in a symbolic ...

Famous for easy concurrency, Go has become the language of countless cloud-native projects, and now its ramping up for AI-powered workloads. Here’s everything you should know about Google’s hit ...

Midori -- the Microsoft skunkworks operating-system project -- is still alive and moving forward. Midori is a new operating system being developed by a team of all-star Microsoft programmers. Midori ...

The open-source project behind Rust has detailed the programming language's milestones over the past five years since releasing Rust version 1.0. Rust was created at Mozilla and the project boasts ...

“Learn to code.” That three-word pejorative is perpetually on the lips and at the fingertips of internet trolls and tech bros whenever media layoffs are announced. A useless sentiment in its own right ...

The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages ...

Generally speaking, writing your own games for retro consoles starts with C code. You’ll need to feed that through a console-specific tool-chain, and there’s certainly going to be some hoops to jump ...