In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...

For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In practice, that ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

Fast, highly sophisticated code analysis and code transformation tools are essential for modern software development. Before releasing its mobile apps, Facebook submits them to a tool called Infer ...

A new research paper shows that all of the world's computer code is vulnerable to one particular exploit. Seems bad. Reading time 2 minutes A new study shows that pretty much all of the world’s ...

Ever since the invention of the computer, coders have been working in the medium of 1s and 0s, creating the modern world by directly or indirectly manipulating binary computing bits that can be in one ...

A reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of ...