Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around every boardroom and business school: "With AI writing code, does programming still matter?" It's a fair question. Generative AI can ...

Amy Ko is a professor of computer science and director of the Code and Cognition Lab at the Information School at the University of Washington in Seattle. I had many exciting plans for the end of my ...

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...

Quantum computing is moving fast, and by 2026, knowing about quantum programming languages will be a big deal. It’s not just ...

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 ...

Learning programming at an early age will not only equip students with a solid foundation of digital knowledge and skills, but also open up new opportunities for them to get jobs when joining the ...

A co-worker recently recommended that I read Knuth's classic "The art of computer programming". I have a lot of respect for this co-worker, but then I've heard some negative things about these ...

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 ...