If you program computers, especially if you’re a data scientist who writes code, then you should know about Donal Knuth. Knuth is the venerable Stanford University professor emeritus of computer ...

A co-worker recently recommended that I read Knuth's classic "The art of computer programming". I have a lot of respect for this co-worker, but then I've heard some negative things about these ...

Modern day computer artist, [Amy Goodchild] surveys a history of Early Computer Art from the 1950s and 1960s. With so much attention presently focused on AI-generated artwork, we should remember that ...

Learning to code seems an increasingly practical skill in a digitizing world. Languages that were once known only to a few masters in their field are beginning to be democratized. However, not ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

His work at Bell Labs in the 1960s laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV. By Cade Metz Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped ...