The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed aging, inflexible computer systems at the heart of the U.S. economy -- and a shortage of experts to fix the problem. This is slowing the government’s effort to get ...

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed -- without requiring them to code. Biologists and chemists have a new ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. People love to tell you that in computing, everything is reduced to ones and zeroes. That may be so for ...

There's more to the story than the alphabet.

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Dead languages aren't as unimportant as they seem, because learning Latin, Sanskrit and Ancient Greek will make coding easier ...

Imagine telling a story in an Indigenous language and having a computer interpret and produce digital images for the story. Simon Fraser University (SFU) scholar Jon Corbett aims to make this happen ...

Apply now for 2026 entry or join us on a discovery afternoon to see where a Sheffield masters could take you. Our programme bridges computer science, machine learning, linguistics and signal ...