Nearly 6 in 10 parents have revealed they'll often text their kids to come down for dinner instead of calling for them. A survey of 2,000 American parents of school-age children found the average kid ...

This research described in this article was a collaboration between the Whitlam Institute, the Centre for Western Sydney and Wester'ly, a grassroots network of community organisations in Western ...

The programming language, developed five decades ago, didn't require code to be entered on punch cards. It also allowed computer novices to begin programming without a lot of academic training. NPR's ...

Today’s students have grown up with smartphones, tablets, and virtual assistants. Most can comfortably navigate any new app or digital device and outsmart parental controls. That’s why adults often ...

Recently, I helped a very smart friend with a computer problem. She was having an issue with the program she uses most and asked me for some assistance. The solution to her issue turned out to be ...

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...

Computers have been around for decades, but longevity hasn't resulted in everyone acquiring the basic set of computer knowledge. A Reddit thread discussing a lack of basic computer skills that ...

On Sept. 27, 2011, TestOut Corporation, an information technology (IT) certification company based in Pleasant Grove, Utah, announced the launch of a new line of innovative certification exams called ...

Physicists create a stable quantum gate as a basic element for the quantum computer. Physicists from Konstanz, Princeton and Maryland create a stable quantum gate as a basic element for the quantum ...