The previous article examined the concept of logic gates. They can be made from discrete and active electronic components, although today logic gates are available within integrated circuits. In this ...

Hone your fundamental understanding of computer systems by completing this online course called NAND to Tetris. The idea is to develop each fundamental unit that goes into making computer programs a ...

The digital world offers many advantages over its analog relatives, the use of boolean logic among them. Some of the functions, like NOT, OR, and AND are fairly straightforward and line up nicely with ...

As any tech company can tell you, there is a major shortage of engineers in the U.S., particularly computer programmers. Code.org, a non-profit founded by entrepreneurs Hadi Partovi and his brother ...

Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems ...

In the world of Silicon Valley, there are few books held in higher esteem than "The Art of Computer Programming," a multivolume set by Stanford professor emeritus Donald Knuth. "If you think you're a ...

In the world of Silicon Valley, there are few books held in higher esteem than "The Art of Computer Programming," a multivolume set by Stanford professor emeritus Donald Knuth. "If you think you're a ...

Gates: "I was 13 when I first got access to a computer. I wrote a program to play tick-tack-toe" Hey kids! Forget trying to become a doctor or rapper or a football star, not to mention all the teasing ...