While IBM’s engineer John Backus created FORTRAN as a critical early programming language in what IBM says was the “programmable” era, the company says its idea for the cognitive computing ...

Two years ago this month, IBM announced that it had developed a cognitive computer chip, inspired by human neural architecture. That chip was developed as part of the SyNAPSE project, which has a ...

IBM is working on a project, called QEDwiki, that takes a stab at a long-held industry promise: end-user programming. Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging technology, plans to talk about ...

Head researcher of IBM's Cognitive Computing group, Dharmendra Modha, announced last November that his group had simulated over 500 billion neurons using the Blue Gene/Sequoia supercomputer at the ...

While IBM has always exposed Watson application programming interfaces, Rob High, chief technology officer for Watson at IBM, says CognizeR is an SDK that eliminates the need for a developer to write ...

IBM's departure puts a cloud over work that was supposed to turn Swift into a powerhouse technology for corporate app development. Swift is a programming language first released by Apple in 2014 ...

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...