Instead, we should teach computer languages early on. Computer languages allow students to transform ideas into action. Here is a simple rule that a math teacher might describe to her students: ...

A new computer language for modeling biological phenomenon can "think" like cells and molecular mechanisms think, thereby simulating the dynamics of biological phenomenon. Through incorporating ...

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed -- without requiring them to code.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work.

The code he writes is further informed by statistical analysis of language. For example, English has substantially more nouns than verbs, and when new words enter the English vocabulary they most ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

The truth is that the overwhelming majority of computer languages are products of big institutions — corporations or universities — because they have to be.