A visitor to the UAE is trying to promote a new computer language he developed to identify Arabic as a programming language. A visitor to the UAE is trying to promote a new computer language he ...

Twenty years ago, when I was at Princeton, I and all of my fellow graduate students in physics were required to pass two foreign-language achievement tests in order to get our degrees. Since then, ...

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed – without requiring them to code. By making it easier to search ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

The English/Dari critical care manuals help with treatments at outposts such as Forward Operating Base Lightning near Gardez, Afghanistan. Military medical personnel have teamed with computer ...

Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created the computer language BASIC and the networking system DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the computer revolution, has died. He was 96. Kurtz was ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...