Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I discuss an increasingly angry question ...

Programming will change. There will be fewer professional programmers who make their living coding line-by-line. But programmers will still be needed in order to code line-by-line, either to fill in ...

September 13 is the 256th day of the year. These three digits may not mean anything to many people, but for those of us who work in different areas of computing it represents the number of whole ...

...only this time, in reference to the average number of lines of code each programmer on a particular team should be responsible for supporting/maintaining. Because of all the variables involved, I ...

I’m one of those founders who can do everything besides code. Marketing? A breeze. Accounting? Accounted for. Operations? Cake walk. Code? I’ll be right back! Not being able to code has put a damper ...

You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a ...

To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix ...

(Reuters) - The trial of a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programmer accused of stealing code from the investment bank got underway Wednesday with testimony from Goldman technology employee ...

There’s an old story from the Jewish tradition about a group of rabbis debating who owns a bird found near a property line. The rule seems simple—birds on one side belong to the property owner, birds ...

From the computer programming question-and-answer site Stack Overflow, we learn of the unfortunate story of a programmer who tattooed a "fork bomb," a type of self-replicating denial-of-service attack ...

A former Goldman Sachs programmer was sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison for stealing code from the company's high-frequency trading platform. Sergey Aleynikov was a programmer at the large ...