(CN) - An adviser to Europe's high court said that neither the functionality of a computer program nor its programming language are protected by European copyright laws. The Chancery Division of the ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

No, HTML is not a computer programming language. This may ruffle the feathers of web developers and graphic designers who take pride in the webpages they have built. Nevertheless, HTML is not a ...

MIT biological engineers have devised a programming language that can be used to give new functions to E. coli bacteria. [Janet Iwasa, MIT] From the synthetic biologist’s point of view, living cells ...

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...