EVERYONE has the intuition that some languages are more difficult than others. For the native English-speaker, professional agencies that teach foreign languages have made it quite clear. America ...

If horror meister Stephen King was a computer programmer, his language of choice would probably be COBOL: it’s quite verbose in exposition, has been around for ages and people still make a lot ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed aging, inflexible computer systems at the heart of the U.S. economy -- and a shortage of experts to fix the problem. This is slowing the government ...

This article contains interviews with senior lecturer Richard Pattis and Professor Dr. Crista Lopes of the school of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine; Google software engineer Edward ...

JOHNSON gets mail. Tom K., a reader in Ottawa, asks: I had always understood English to be a reasonably easy language to learn, because it lacks many of the features that make other languages ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Communicating with a computer using natural language is an appealing idea. Although it is technically difficult to ...