JavaScript, a smash hit among programmers, made the web powerful. Now Mozilla's Rust could protect the web from hack attacks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve, it can be difficult to track which tools are most popular for different purposes. Similarly, trying to keep tabs on the relative popularity of ...

Our research area investigates the fundamental principles, processes and technologies for the design, verification, analysis, implementation and optimization of computational systems. Our interests ...

Many of today’s programmers—excuse me, software engineers—consider themselves “creatives.” Artists of a sort. They are given to ostentatious personal websites with cleverly hidden Easter eggs and ...

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. Credit...Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer; Source Photographs by Sue Bernstein and Paul ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...