John Backus, 82, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, died March 17 in Ashland, Ore., ...

From Reddit threads to roundtable events, debating the merits of programming languages is not a new phenomenon. And while much of the recent discourse has centered around AI’s impact and whether or ...

Tony Brooker laid the foundation to transform computer science from an academic discipline into a fixture of daily life. At the University of Manchester in 1954, Mr. Brooker developed one of the first ...

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 ...

There's no shortage of software developer jobs right now and employers are on the lookout for Python, Java and SQL coders in particular, hiring data indicates – with Go also catching the eye of ...

Sometimes, technology is a reasonable excuse for a holdup. But in the case of the unemployment benefits that are part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, processing delays are not due to a glitch, but the ...