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 ...

A computer program might help us reconstruct the roots of our languages (called protolanguages), according to a study by a group of researchers from California and Canada.

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

The computer program is based upon the linguistic theory that words evolve in a way which can be thought of as similar to a family tree. That is, traces of proto-languages remain in the “roots ...

This article is more than 12 years old. Maddy Petrovich, 14, of Wellesley, Mass. first started learning how to use the programming language Scratch when she was 10 years old. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) ...

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?

Online computer programming students study a variety of advanced mathematics and how they apply to writing code, designing software and building computer applications using programming languages.

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.