More than 45 million U.S. workers could be displaced by automation by 2030 amid advances in the field of artificial intelligence, according to 2021 estimates from the research firm McKinsey Global ...

Building software requires establishing step-by-step logical and meaningful programs, procedures, and associated documents to be read by a computers’ hardware, which is integral to the successful ...

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 ...

On a most basic level, a computer programmer writes, well, programs. Programmers will also rewrite, debug, maintain, and test (and retest) software and programs that instruct the computer to ...

Programmers write, test, and troubleshoot code for software and applications. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects a 10% decline in U.S. programmer employment between 2020 and 2030, due to ...

An Andrew Sullivan reader writes: It is fashionable in the software industry in particular to take the view that new ideas should not be patentable because the world would be better off if those ideas ...

EVERY LABOR analyst says the same thing: There are jobs for people who know computers inside and out. Inside–with the software–is one of the fastest-growing employment areas in the world of high ...

Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

Decades ago, accountants kept financial records manually, using paper and pencil to enter transactions. Accounting machines followed by increasingly complex technology served the needs of businesses ...

Computing is part of everything we do. Computing drives innovation in engineering, business, entertainment, education, and the sciences—and it provides solutions to complex, challenging problems of ...