Children will be able to bring their LEGO creations to life with the help of LEGO Boost, a new building and coding set that utilizes bricks with environment sensors, and a connected iOS application.

When parents these days hear the old saying “The jobs of tomorrow haven’t been invented yet,” they tend to add, “so my child had better learn to code.” As software has redefined a range of industries ...

A new evaluation of popular parallel programming languages finds that the C++ library provides the best combination of usability and performance Multicore programming is a tricky problem. Developers ...

Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho developed many of the fundamental concepts that researchers use when they build new software. By Cade Metz When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met while waiting in the ...

If you’re thinking about coding as a new career path, you won’t find many programming building blocks more foundational than Python. Make it an integral tool in your coding repertoire with the ...

When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met while waiting in the registration line on their first day of graduate school at Princeton University in 1963, computer science was still a strange new world.

Hard work and persistence are the basic elements needed for one to succeed. Hard work, obviously. To succeed at something, be it building a business or playing basketball, one needs to put in the ...

Blocks grow with you — from basic alphabet blocks and geometric building blocks, to Tinker Toys and Legos and girder and panel sets, to bricks and split-face cinder blocks. As pointed out in a recent ...