More programmers and engineers are adopting a practice known as “vibe coding,” a technique where the coder tells an AI assistant what to build based on what they feel will work. Clarence Huang, vice ...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang caused a stir when he declared recently that kids no longer need to learn to code - AI will do that for us. “Over the last 10-15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage ...

Creating synthetic life could be easily within our grasp soon based on a comparison with the evolution of computer chips. Computer programming and gene synthesis appear to share little in common. But ...

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 a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...

Although perhaps not as much of a household name as other pioneers of last century’s rapid evolution of computer hardware and the software running on them, Niklaus Wirth’s contributions puts him right ...

Over the past several decades, the technology industry has offered American workers some of the highest wages and highest levels of job security. But recent uncertainty in the labor market has called ...

In the interconnected world of big data, it’s no secret the field of computer science is booming. At Northwestern, the number of computer science majors has grown more than 600 percent since 2011, ...

If you were a Windows programmer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most likely you had a copy of Programming Windows by Charles Petzold on your bookshelf. The book, in its many editions, was so ...