Key components of the software supply chain can and should be designed with reasonable confidence that they will not fail. But this requires a shift from the prevailing test-fix-test coding cycles to ...

Brain scans show that most of us have a built-in capacity to learn to code, rooted in the brain’s logic and reasoning ...

Abstract: Software programming requires both API reference (know-what) knowledge and programming task (know-how) knowledge. Lots of programming know-what and know-how knowledge is documented in text, ...

Pierce’s Types and Programming Languages, with its clean, fully specified, mechanically verified formal semantics. At the same time, its heady fumes entrance the software architects of the world with ...

Large language models (LLMs) now make it possible to build high-quality translation systems, and even train new models, with far less data than before. Because LLMs learn shared semantic ...

By any measure, there is an enormous number of programming languages. Some lists contain hundreds, while the Historical ...

The human visual system provides us with a rich and meaningful percept of the world, transforming retinal signals into visuo-semantic representations. For a model of these representations, here we ...

After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.

Famous for easy concurrency, Go has become the language of countless cloud-native projects, and now its ramping up for AI-powered workloads. Here’s everything you should know about Google’s hit ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

Which Google Cloud service should they choose as their end to end ML platform? A research team at BrightVerge Labs ingests about 36 TB of raw text each week from PDF files, chat transcripts, and ...