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In the world of natural language processing, few names carry as much weight as Christopher Manning. For more than three decades, this Australian-born computer scientist has been at…

In an industry obsessed with adding more features, more frameworks, and more complexity, Rich Hickey did something radical — he took two years off from paid work to…

In the early 1980s, Stanford University had a problem that no one had commercially solved. The campus was home to roughly 5,000 computers — mainframes, minicomputers, workstations, personal…

In the early 1990s, the software industry faced a crisis of communication. Dozens of competing methodologies, each with its own notation, battled for dominance in boardrooms and engineering…

In 1972, a young engineer placed a coin-operated cabinet in a Sunnyvale bar called Andy Capp’s Tavern. The machine had one instruction printed on its screen: “Avoid missing…

Kathleen Booth (1922-2022) created one of the first assembly languages in 1947 for the ARC computer at Birkbeck College, London. She also co-designed pioneering British computers and co-authored foundational computing textbooks.

In May 2013, at the JS Conference in Portland, Oregon, a young Facebook engineer named Jordan Walke stepped onstage and demonstrated something that most JavaScript developers in the…