Romera-Paredes and colleagues’ work is the latest step in a long line of research that attempts to create programs automatically by taking inspiration from biological evolution, a field called genetic ...

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UMass Lowell’s computer and information sciences program uses a bottom-up approach, where you first learn about the machine you will be using as a tool. Our programming sequence allows you to build a ...

Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM. Particle physicists use some of ...

Why do we build radios or clocks when you can buy them? Why do we make LEDs blink for no apparent purpose? Why do we try to squeeze one extra frame out of our video cards? We don’t know why, but we do ...

Have you ever wondered if there is a correlation between a computer’s energy consumption and the choice of programming languages? Well, a group of Portuguese university researchers did and set out to ...

Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer known as the “Father of ASCII,” the method by which computers translate letters and numbers into digital language, has died. He was 84. Bemer, who published some of the ...