Today, computers are in everything, everywhere. This fact is making computer scientists and software engineers indispensable. They are the ones leading the way in developing the next generation ...

Building software requires establishing step-by-step logical and meaningful programs, procedures, and associated documents to be read by a computers’ hardware, which is integral to the successful ...

Technology shapes how we work, play, connect, and discover. At Northwestern, we don’t just keep up—we push the boundaries of what’s possible. As a hub for bold, interdisciplinary research, we connect ...

Students in Vincent St-Amour’s new Responsible Software Engineering course are analyzing case studies of software failures and exploring tools and techniques to prevent similar disasters Software ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Application software developers may create custom software for a specific customer or commercial software to be sold to the general public. Some applications software developers create complex ...

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...

Ian (he/him) is a contributing writer and a communications professional. He holds a master’s degree in sociology, and currently, he a is a doctoral candidate completing his dissertation. Brenna ...

Harvard’s Computer Science department debuted a new course this semester — COMPSCI 1060: “Software Engineering with Generative AI” — an applied engineering course in which students use AI to follow ...

Are you looking for a challenging career that allows you to work with computers and make an impact on today’s society? Consider becoming a software engineer. To work in this high-tech career, you ...

This department was founded in 1963 with the name Systems Analysis Department in the School of Applied Science. At that time the curriculum was focused on operations research, and mathematical ...

We'll talk about how large programs are typically broken up into into function units. Today, we’re going to talk about how HUGE programs with millions of lines of code like Microsoft Office are built.