Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Linguist Anne Curzan delights in the nuances and evolution of language. She says we should embrace they/them as singular pronouns---which have actually been used for hundreds of years. Anne Curzan is ...

Are you old enough to remember the floppy disk? Take a moment to enjoy the evolution of computers as seen through Jeff Hay’s 19-year history with a company called Contoso, that sure looks a lot like ...

THESE images of retro personal computers are a throwback to their humble beginnings, revealing the technological evolution of the devices over their first 25 years. Taken by photographer John Short, ...

Joshua Plotkin’s dive into the evolution of language began with clarity—and also a lack of it. Today, if you wanted to talk about something that’s clear, you’d say that it has clarity. But if you were ...

This paper gives an account of the principles of computer simulation of genetic systems and its application to the theoretical study of processes of evolution. The scope of this technique is ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Computer scientists have long dreamed of the possibilities of what artificial intelligence ...