Physicists have created a new computer code that could speed up the design of the complicated magnets that shape the plasma in stellarators, making the systems simpler and more affordable to build.

Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. By Libby Banks Reporting from Berlin Needlework and computer coding might seem to be ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...

The front page of the Jan. 24 New York Times announced that there’s been a “stampede” of students wanting to study computer science, and universities can’t meet that need. Previous generations of ...

One of the most powerful features of language-based generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, or AWS Code Whisperer is the ability to create computer code. After all, code is just another ...

Cody Wilson with 3-D printer gun plans in Austin on May 4, 2015. Wilson is engaged in a legal fight to distribute plans for printing 3-D weapons. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times) Cody Wilson ...

We’re seeing a wave of new generative AI tools that can write text, generate images, create music and more. Some can even write computer code, which makes sense when you think that computer code is ...

Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...

In the beginning, computer programmers translated their desires into the language of machines. Now, those machines are becoming conversant in the language of their programmers. OpenAI's newly released ...

Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone. Good code has both substance and ...