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, ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — What began as a forgotten tape in a storage room at the University of Utah has now become a restored piece of digital history. Experts at the Computer History Museum in ...

To me, AI’s scariest aspect is the so-called singularity—the threat of a runaway intelligence explosion leaving humanity in the dust. But today’s state of the art in artificial intelligence is already ...

Lessons on digital citizenship, coding, debugging code, prompting AI, and analyzing AI outputs help students develop valuable ...

ChatGPT was unveiled in public beta form slightly before Christmas. It is a chatbot powered by the GPT-3.5 large language model (LLM) designed to use generative AI and natural language processing (NLP ...

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field advances one credible paper at a time. That system is now under serious ...