An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

A degree in computer science is as worthwhile as ever. There is, after all, a lot more to the field than just coding. The discipline covers many exciting topics, such as IT system design, security, ...

This perspective article explores the transformative potential of brain–Computer Interfaces (BCI) in undergraduate systems engineering programs, a domain characterized by high attrition and a widening ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...