Can a computer think for itself? We can use computers and other digital devices to do lots of different things. We can send messages, go shopping, watch a video or play a game. Many of the machines ...

Computer hardware and software have evolved in such a way that they are vital components of diverse systems. Due to advances in data collection and analysis, along with ever increasing computational ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Computer programs are now essential for the analysis of large population genetics data sets that are increasingly being generated. We review 24 such programs here, and list their main features, ...

It’s widely accepted that the first computer program was written by Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, in 1842, although a device for which it was intended wasn’t built in her lifetime. But a reader asks ...

Computing is part of everything we do. Computing drives innovation in engineering, business, entertainment, education, and the sciences—and it provides solutions to complex, challenging problems of ...

Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of the C++ programming language, once said that "our civilization runs on software." This statement is impressively backed by reality, in which software controls a huge ...