In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges ...

Introduction -- Babbage's Engines -- Semi-automatic Computing -- Logic, Computability and Formal Systems -- Automating Control -- Logic and the Invention of the Computer -- Machine Code Programming ...

Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.

The Gödel machine is a hypothetical self-improving AI that rewrites its own code to optimize problem-solving when it can mathematically prove a better strategy.