Regional-language Wikipedia editors now find themselves doing double duty: feeding AI systems with credible knowledge while ...

Programming began as a way to give simple instructions to machines that barely worked. Over decades, it evolved through punch ...

Software developers have spent the past two years watching AI coding tools evolve from advanced autocomplete into something that can, in some cases, build entire applications from a text prompt. Tools ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

Wikipedia exists in 357 language editions, but research through machine learning shows that not every one tells the same story. Jo Guldi, a professor, historian, writer and data scientist who teaches ...

“AI systems, from Google Translate to ChatGPT, learn to ‘speak’ new languages by scraping huge quantities of text from the internet. Wikipedia is sometimes the largest source of online linguistic data ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Sharing a database is the greatest sin when you architect Microservices yet Space-Based Architecture is built around shared data. How do these approaches coexist? Do Microservices make any sense if ...