you've probably seen somewhere the definition of computer science as the study of computers and that probably wasn't particularly helpful because what does it mean to study a computer to get to a ...

C is the most perfect language and it will run on anything. It will even run on a computer without a CPU. The computer in question here is the Gigatron, a fully-functional ‘home computer’ the likes of ...

Compilers are a bit like Florida election officials: They’re suddenly in the spotlight after years of relative anonymity. The reason for the attention is the arrival of fast and complex 64-bit ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The technology that makes the fastest computers so fast -- parallel processing -- is starting to wend its way from the research community into personal computers, and a Purdue ...

The development landscape is ripe with new languages and improvements on existing ones. Mozilla’s Rust, Apple’s Swift, Kotlin from JetBrains, and the experimental Python variant Mojo (and many others) ...

Mr. Ulman, an emeritus professor at Stanford University, and Mr. Aiho, an emeritus professor at Columbia University, met at the graduate school of Princeton University. After earning a PhD from ...

ALGO was a compiling system that automatically translated algebraic statements into machine language for the Bendix G-15 computer. This brochure is the 1960 operating manual for the compiler. A ...