Several technical advances have been achieved recently in the pursuit of powerful quantum computers. Now, Computer scientists have made an important breakthrough in the field of programming languages: ...

Georgia Tech continues to excel in the world’s premier student programming competition. Computer science Ph.D. student Xieting  (Creatix) Chu placed first in the Third International Collegiate ...

For his doctoral thesis, in which Jung established the first formal foundations for safe systems programming in Rust, he has now received several internationally renowned awards. Ralf Jung is a ...

Kathryn Cunningham discussed her work applying human-computer interaction methods to support the needs and goals of computing students at the undergraduate level. An emerging trend within computer ...

Robby Findler, professor of computer science at Northwestern Engineering, and collaborators released Racket 8.0, a milestone implementation of one of the world’s leading environments for ...

The Tufts Department of Computer Science has announced a major change in its curriculum, with the introductory course “Introduction to Computer Science” — or CS11 — now requiring students to have ...

Arguing about which programming language is the best one is a favorite pastime among software developers. The tricky part, of course, is defining a set of criteria for "best." With software ...

IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles were ...