Software built into the cameras on iPhones and Android phones makes quick work of decoding QR codes. How do you do that on a laptop or desktop computer? I have a friend who calls me occasionally to ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

UK banks are still using software code that was written in the 1960s and 1970s, with only a handful of employees who understand them. According to a survey of 200 UK banks, 16% rely on software from ...

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...

Computer programmers are being challenged to write the world’s sneakiest and most confusing code in a competition that opens next week. To win, entrants must find ways to write programs in the C ...

Leo Porter receives funding from the National Science Foundation and receives compensation for sales of the book "Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming." Daniel Zingaro receives funding from the ...

A few weeks ago brought an announcement from Google that over 25% of all new code created within the company is generated by AI. This is a notable statement from a company that creates some of the ...

We’re seeing a wave of new generative AI tools that can write text, generate images, create music and more. Some can even write computer code, which makes sense when you think that computer code is ...

GIFs have been around since way back in 1987, but show no signs of disappearing. They continue to be a popular way of sharing short videos in just about any app, on just about any platform. Whether ...

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 ...

Government researchers in the U.S. are studying methods to help identify hackers based on the code they use to carry out cyberattacks. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the lead ...