Each year, the Oregon Programming Language Summer School covers topics in the foundations of programming languages. All the recordings of the lectures that took place during this year's event are now ...

There remains a gulf between computation models like Turing machines that appear in theory of computation texts, and introductory programming languages. The simple and powerful Scheme programming ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

In 1951, Saul Gorn was working for the US Army doing complex calculations for the Ballistic Research Laboratory. To do the calculations, he was using some of the first computers: ENIAC, EDVAC, and ...

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Machine learning and AI bring powerful new capabilities to business computing. Despite their complexity and extensive data and compute demands, ML and AI are fundamentally software development ...

Programming languages shape how software, apps, and websites are built, making them one of the most important skills in the modern digital world. With industries shifting toward automation, AI tools, ...