Quick: what’s 4 + 5? Nine right? Slightly less quick: what’s five plus four? Still nine, right? Okay, let’s wait a few seconds. Bear with me. Feel free to have a quick stretch. Now, without looking, ...

Is the world’s first commercial quantum computer the real deal or not? No one is quite sure. The most recent experiment adding fodder to this debate used the quantum computer made by the Canadian ...

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines. Leslie Lamport may not be a household name, but he’s behind a few of them for ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for girls ...

Have computer programmers innovated themselves out of a job? That’s the fear driving theories that AI will remove the need for humans who can write computer code. Today's most sophisticated large ...