If you wanted to know whether shifts in the African climate during Paleolithic times correlated with the appearance and disappearance of hominin species, how would you find the answer? It's a tricky question because of the ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 17, 2015
0
85
For decades, materials scientists have worked to infuse the lessons learned from natural proteins into the design of new materials.
Materials Science
Sep 14, 2015
0
92
Microsoft has released a new computer science curriculum designed for teens who may not have expressed much interest in computer programming – and teachers who don't necessarily have any background in the field, either.
Software
Sep 2, 2015
0
104
Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) are working to document some of Australia's oldest Indigenous languages which are at risk of being lost forever.
Social Sciences
Aug 20, 2015
0
27
Last year, MIT computer scientists and Adobe engineers came together to try to solve a major problem that many companies face: bit-rot.
Computer Sciences
Jul 10, 2015
5
210
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs dangerous software bugs by automatically importing functionality ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 29, 2015
6
3628
The Java programming language, which has just turned 20 years old, provides developers with a means to write code that is independent of the hardware it runs on: "write once, run anywhere".
Business
Jun 1, 2015
2
54
The initial phase of a DARPA program that used publicly accessible online games to accelerate the verification of software has helped produce hundreds of thousands of program annotations in common software programming languages, ...
Software
May 28, 2015
0
12
Bill Shorten's recent announcement that, if elected, a Labor Government would "ensure that computer coding is taught in every primary and secondary school in Australia" has brought attention to an increasing world trend.
Other
May 21, 2015
0
90
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has revealed his computer programming skills after sharing on Facebook a Sudoku puzzle-solver code he wrote.
Other
May 6, 2015
0
23
