The lost language of Ugaritic was last spoken 3,500 years ago. It survives on just a few tablets, and linguists could only translate it with years of hard work and plenty of luck. A computer ...

By Collins Kissiedu SARPONGIn an era where digital literacy is a fundamental skill, the ability to teach programming ...

An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?

With AI's rise, effective communication in English is now vital for programming, shifting focus from coding syntax to clarity ...

Improve existing software. Create technologies that make everyday life better. Use computer science, and smartphones to capture more data from citizen scientists. Software is everywhere: interfaces to ...

You need your very own programming language, too. Google has Go, first conceived in 2009. Facebook introduced Hack last spring. And Apple unveiled Swift not long after.

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon are developing a programming language that seamlessly handles code, objects, and values from multiple other languages in the one program.

Programming languages are classified as high-level or low-level languages. Translators are needed to translate programs into the machine code that a computer understands.

In fact, software engineering has grown so fast in the last several decades that it has become tightly connected with all other areas of computer science (e.g., artificial intelligence, parallel ...