The computing industry is dominated by men but this wasn’t always so. Coding was once considered a female job. While men were responsible for the building of machines, females programmed them. The ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Computer programming is the bedrock of the computer systems, ...

In 2004, the pioneering computer programmer Kathleen ‘Kay’ McNulty Mauchly Antonelli reflected on her career: “All the years I gave talks about the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) ...

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 ...

Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...