When the Cold War heated up in 1946, the U.S. and the Soviet Union took their rivalry from Earth to the stars. Sputnik, the ...

I have NCAR to thank for my entire career. I worked at NCAR as a FORTRAN programmer in the late 1980s while an undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Colorado, just down the hill. NCAR is ...

Today marks the anniversary of the Apollo 12 launch. What better way to celebrate than with historical women, some of whom made the launch happen? While we are familiar with Marie Curie and Joan of ...

Coding, also known as computer programming, is the process of translating human instructions into a language that tells machines what, how, and when to perform those tasks. When instructing a computer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI, XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. Vigil’s founder and CEO, Kole Lee, dropped out of Stanford ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...

Since the advent of Keynesianism, economics has been plagued by faulty assumptions and methodologies, and—given the influence of economists in government and on the Federal Open Market Committee—it’s ...

Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift. By Noam Scheiber Noam Scheiber has ...

LinkedIn is an interesting company. Since the early 2000s, it's been the home of everyone's resume-of-record on the internet. It's a social network with feeds and followers. It's a learning hub. And ...