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The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...
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AI Can Generate Code. Is That a Threat to Computer Science Education?

While computer science education experts acknowledged the uncertainty of the job market right now, they argued it’s still ...

Young Mainers are learning to build their own computers from scratch

The program run by non-profit Give IT Get IT uses parts from refurbished or recycled computers that would otherwise be thrown ...
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How The TI-99/4A Home Computer Worked

Over on YouTube [The 8-Bit Guy] shows us how the TI-99/4A home computer worked. [The 8-Bit Guy] runs us through this odd ...

Want to build on Bill Gates? Microsoft open-sourced the original code written by the company founder - now it's over to you

Microsoft open-sourced Bill Gates’ 1976 6502 BASIC interpreter, showcasing early programming features and its historical role ...
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'Queen of Code' Grace Hopper and the moth that gave us the word ‘computer bug'

Mathematician Grace Hopper, who earned a PhD at Yale and later became a US Navy rear admiral, pioneered compilers and helped ...