When a novice is learning a new language, they will begin by translating a vocabulary word into their first language to understand its meaning and use it in a sentence. Compilers perform a similar ...

C is the most perfect language and it will run on anything. It will even run on a computer without a CPU. The computer in question here is the Gigatron, a fully-functional ‘home computer’ the likes of ...

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper ’34 Ph.D., known affectionately as “Amazing Grace,” would have been 109 years old today. Inventor of the first computer compiler, she was a pioneer of women in STEM ...