That's right, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has a new request you might not have seen in the headlines. He needs help from computer programmers adept in a decades-old programming language called COBOL.

THEN: His computer programming ability was legendary, with a popular myth circulating that he wrote a text editor called "vi" in one weekend in 1976. Eric Schmidt even stated, inaccurately, that ...

Last week I wrote in memory of Jean Bartik, the last of the original six ENIAC programmers. Unfortunately there have been several important figures in computer history who left us recently. Some ...

That’s more or less what happened to Graydon Hoare. In 2006, Hoare was a 29-year-old computer programmer working for Mozilla, the open-source browser company.

She foresaw how Babbage’s design could be a general purpose computer, that it might manipulate not merely numbers but also music, even one day composing complex and scientific pieces.

Two programmers who helped Ponzi-schemer (and now prison punching bag) Bernard Madoff program an old computer to produce false records have been indicted, according to the Post.

Among the tiny graves on Blocker Hill, the wind echoes with the tortured cries of computer programmers. Beneath the eight grave markers, and perhaps in a rumored unmarked grave nearby, lie reams ...