With a severe shortage of college-trained IT workers across the U.S., what’s it going to take to get more students to pursue computer science studies? Two researchers think they have an answer: ...

It's fun to bend your brain to think that way by playing around with functional languages, but it can be just as interesting to see how easy it is to do that sort of thing in languages you already ...

You’d think that the most popular event at a computer science playground might involve putting a computer together. But for Cambridge Public School’s Computer Science Playground, the honor of most ...

There is a mystery at the heart of Too Much Fun, the new book about the history of the Commodore 64 by the Danish academic and game designer Jesper Juul: Why is the C64—by far the best-selling home ...

Do you have an ancient laptop or desktop just lying around? Transform that aging PC into an NAS, experiment with a new OS, ...

Yeah, COBOL is still used a lot in the financial sector... if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yeah, that would have been hugely useful in a number of other BASICs. It was always a pain to run out of ...