When students in Florida choose which foreign language to study in high school, they might soon have an unusual choice to make: French, Spanish, or computer code?

Why language isn't computer code The differences between formal and natural languages are as big as the similarities ...

Dr. Egginton is a professor of the humanities. Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to fulfill the foreign language graduation requirement for high school.

In effect, we’ve taught computers how to speak human, so why not also teach computers to speak more computer? That’s what IBM’s Project CodeNet seeks to accomplish.”We need our ImageNet ...

The curse of ambiguity Ambiguity in program descriptions leads to the possibility, if not the certainty, that a given natural language description can be converted into computer code in various ...

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 ...

A new bill passed by the Kentucky Senate counts computer programming classes toward fulfilling foreign-language requirements in public schools. Parents debate whether coding should be a supplement ...

One of Facebook's green initiatives involves converting their software from one language to another. What makes one code greener than another?

How does the brain interpret computer languages? Neuroscientists detect a distinct brain network that grows stronger with practice.