The parade of articles and blog posts on Bill Gates' legacy continue to roll out as Gates' last day as a full-time employee (June 27) rapidly approaches. Joel Spolsky, the CEO of Fog Creek Software -- ...

Early pioneers in computer science were women. Women like Grace Hopper, Jean Bartik, Dame Stephanie Shirley and Lynn Conway, were among the first programmers as the field emerged, and left a lasting ...

Do I really need a mentor to be good in programming? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer ...

For much of the work that human beings perform, both the what and the how are defined. Under these circumstances, it’s easy to evaluate employee performance or to devise hiring criteria. But where the ...

Ventilators, retired doctors, N95 face masks — all have been in high demand from heads of state and U.S. governors, but now you can add COBOL programmers to that pandemic response list. That's right, ...

Computing professionals are on the front lines of almost every aspect of the modern world. They’re involved in the response when hackers steal the personal information of hundreds of thousands of ...

Most job postings for software developers list a degree in Computer Science as a preferred item, if not a requirement. But are these degrees indicators of better developers? A recent survey from ...