The creation of the C programming language was a massive milestone for classical computing. Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s, C was an easy ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

(1) A programming language or machine language. (2) Everyday computer language, which includes computer technologies and concepts as well as hardware and software products (everything in this ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The advance of quantum computing has the promise of reshaping artificial ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

Several technical advances have been achieved recently in the pursuit of powerful quantum computers. Now, Computer scientists have made an important breakthrough in the field of programming languages: ...

AI and machine learning systems have become increasingly competent in recent years, capable of not just understanding the written word but writing it as well. But while these artificial intelligences ...

AI language skills let you command robots in plain English. The same AI tech lets the robots navigate the chaos of the real world. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

A quantum computing startup called Quantum Machines has released a new programming language called QUA. The language runs on the startup’s proprietary Quantum Orchestration Platform. Quantum Machines ...

Lexon now features a compiler that allows users to translate code from it to Solidity, Sophia or JavaScript. Smart contract computer language Lexon (LEX) launched a compiler on Aug. 3, allowing ...

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