Now that Labor Day weekend is over, let’s get back to a bit of work. That is to finish this fuel oil level alarm so it functions flawlessly. As I wrote two weeks ago before I got a vicious summer cold ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

Picture a coder. No, not the nerdy kind with big glasses who sits alone at lunchtime with a humming laptop and a neglected, half-eaten sandwich. Think instead of the coder who wears cool suits, has ...

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Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...