The University of Louisiana at Lafayette unveils a new PhD blending AI, data science and leadership, with online and on-campus options starting Fall 2026.

The Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history.

Meet ENIAC, which stands for electronic numerical integrator and computer. "We like to refer to it as the start of the age of computing," Paul Shaffer, an ENIAC historian, said. For context, this ...

My computer coding education ended in a high school classroom in the early 2000s, when I created a game in which two camels spit at one another. The experience of typing every line of code was ...

Now in its fifth year, the Northwestern Computer Science PhD Application Feedback Program, led by Northwestern Engineering’s Fabian E. Bustamante, aims to assist prospective students with their ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

MathWorks, a leading developer of mathematical simulation and computing software, revealed that a ransomware gang stole the data of over 10,000 people after breaching its network in April. The company ...

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs. Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

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The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...