Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well. Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software ...

Like engineers who design high-performance Formula One race cars, scientists want to create high-performance plasmas in twisty fusion systems known as stellarators. Achieving this performance means ...

The White House launched a two-year competition this week that will award millions of dollars in prize money to teams that develop artificial intelligence tools that can be used to protect critical ...

Mainframe computers running code dating back to the 1960s are still vital to some banks, airlines and government departments, but the skilled engineers familiar with their COBOL computer language are ...

Computer programmers are being challenged to write the world’s sneakiest and most confusing code in a competition that opens next week. To win, entrants must find ways to write programs in the C ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...