Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet ...

For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also ...

Every job has its quirks. But some feel almost like a world of their own. Like programming—we (indirectly) interact with it every day, yet many of us know surprisingly little when it comes to what ...

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 ...

Starting this fall, students at USF will have the opportunity to earn a bachelor's degree in computer science and interdisciplinary social sciences from the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

If you’re looking to break into the computer science field, earning an associate degree in computer science could help you jumpstart your career. An associate degree takes half the time of a ...

Imagine you have a paper list of your monthly expenses and want to find the total. A skilled comptometer (mechanical calculator) operator could perform this calculation much faster than is possible ...

There are now fewer computer programmers in the U.S. than there were when Pac-Man was first invented—years before the internet existed as we know it. Computer-programmer employment dropped to its ...

Back in the day, women had limited privileges; they were not allowed higher education, didn’t have the right to vote, and had limited job choices. The fields of science, medicine, and technology were ...