Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

Romera-Paredes and colleagues’ work is the latest step in a long line of research that attempts to create programs automatically by taking inspiration from biological evolution, a field called genetic ...

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Imagine telling a story in an Indigenous language and having a computer interpret and produce digital images for the story. Simon Fraser University (SFU) scholar Jon Corbett aims to make this happen ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

The life of Emi Morikawa, 17, changed dramatically after she learned computer programming. Morikawa was just another high school student who liked to study English. But now the young programmer runs ...