More than a quarter of all computer ... programming brethren — few other computer-related occupations have. So what makes programmers different? To answer that, we need to dive forehead first ...

Before early computers became small, inexpensive, and "personal," they were difficult to use. At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting wires, then flipping switches ...

More than a quarter of all computer ... programming brethren — few other computer-related occupations have. So what makes programmers different? To answer that, we need to dive forehead first ...

It’s widely accepted that the first computer program ... But a reader asks: what is the oldest computer program that was not only written and put into use, but remains active today?

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home ... up and use as part of ...

Knowing how to program a computer ... It worked: at first at Dartmouth, then at other schools. In the 1970s and early 1980s, when home computers came along, BASIC did as much as anything else ...

Today, the computer programming field is dominated by men. But that wasn’t always the case. In fact, for a long time, computer programming was a women’s field. At Gender News, Brenda D.

One of the earliest and most influential examples of artificial intelligence was Christopher Strachey's draughts (checkers) program ... the first commercially available general-purpose computer ...

What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

Joyce Wheeler was one of a select group of scientists who used Edsac in their research Everyone remembers the first computer they ... that described how to program it and, by working through ...