Long before silicon chips, a Victorian mathematician dreamed of a machine that could run any algorithm imaginable, and in ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

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 ...

A Northwestern competitive programming team won seventh place in the 2024 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Mid-Central USA Regional Contest, held last month at the University of ...

On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded with a radical idea: that powerful computing should be personal. Fifty years later, Apple stands as one of the most influential technology companies in ...

Before speaking with Professor Jae Woo Lee, I had gotten to know him through dozens of campus message board posts and professor reviews of his infamous course, Advanced Programming. According to a ...

Three competitive programming teams from Northwestern participated in the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest’s (ICPC) North America Mid-Central Regional Contest, held Nov. 8 at the ...

A free manual on first principles for building useful AI systems with CLI agents like Claude Code. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's tweet on Dec 26, 2025: "I've never felt this much behind as a ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...