I have been at Queen Mary since 2011. Within C4DM, I lead the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, a research team focused on music and human-computer interaction, especially the design and evaluation of ...

A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia ...

Amy Ko developed the computer programming language Wordplay to equalize the playing field for would-be coders. Credit: Doug Parry I had many exciting plans for the end of my sabbatical year ...

For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

The formal study of computer programs as mathematical objects predates the invention of the modern computer itself, and continues to this day under the aegis of Programming Languages and Formal ...

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Deep tech Programming in ‘natural’ language is coming sooner than you think October 10, 2021 - 2:00 pm Sometimes major shifts happen virtually unnoticed.

Listen to this story IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own.

Why shouldn’t those “interfaces” be humanely designed? Let that sink in. Programming languages are tools, designed by people for a specific purpose.