The First Programming Languages: ... she was one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark 1 computer, ... Now, this history didn't end in 1959.

When Ned first opened up the can o’ worms of “which programming language is the best,” it seemed like a fine opportunity for an argument, Monty Python style.

Long before former President Barack Obama declared that computer science education should be available for all, a pair of Dartmouth College mathematicians created a new computer language that would ...

Language evolves, and that includes tech job titles. They may reference what programming languages are used and whether someone is focused on the “frontend” (graphical interfaces) or “backend” (system ...

First computer programmers were women; they figured it out without manuals. Dec. 4, 2007 — -- At 83, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik -- a devoted bridge player and grandmother of five -- had a ...

In the same year, Kemeny applied for a National Science Foundation grant to bring a GE-225 computer to Dartmouth and build the first fully functional general-purpose time-sharing system. Despite ...

Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural-language-understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family said Thursday.

Inside a whirring fMRI machine, a computer programming challenge flashed across a screen suspended above a Johns Hopkins graduate student. Her eyes scanned the passage of code attempting to figure out ...

But, in fact, many of the first computer programmers and coders were women, explains Nathan Ensmenger, a professor and expert on the history of computing at Indiana University and author of The ...