The New York Times

As a Kid, Bill Gates Sneaked Out His Window at Night — to Write Code

A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...
People

Why Bill Gates Is Telling All About Life Before His Billions, from Trying LSD to Being Put in Therapy by His Parents (Exclusive)

With "Source Code," the billionaire businessman and philanthropist is looking back at both the “wonderful” and the weird moments of growing up Gates Family; Ian Allen/Gates Notes Microsoft co-founder ...
InfoWorld

What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...
ZDNet

AlexNet, the AI model that started it all, released in source code form - for all to download

There are many stories of how artificial intelligence came to take over the world, but one of the most important developments is the emergence in 2012 of AlexNet, a neural network that, for the first ...
NPR

Bill Gates gets personal in his new memoir, 'Source Code'

: [EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to include the disclosure that the Gates Foundation is a financial supporter of NPR.] SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Bill Gates has written a lot of books, but ...