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When Robert Griesemer joined Google in 2003, he was already one of the most accomplished virtual machine engineers alive. He had worked on Sun Microsystems’s Java HotSpot VM…

In 2005, a young physicist-turned-programmer at Brigham Young University looked at the fractured state of scientific computing in Python and decided to do something radical. Two separate array…

In 2003, Matt Dillon did something that most kernel developers consider either heroic or insane — he forked an entire operating system. After years as one of FreeBSD’s…

Stanley Mazor co-invented the Intel 4004, the world’s first commercial microprocessor. His instruction set architecture helped launch the age of personal computing and programmable devices.

In the early 1960s, while most computer scientists were busy writing programs that solved practical problems, a young Venezuelan-born mathematician was asking a far more radical question: what…

In 2011, a Stanford professor quietly uploaded a machine learning course to the internet. Within weeks, 100,000 students from 196 countries had enrolled — more people than Stanford…

The story of Roberto Ierusalimschy, the Brazilian computer scientist who co-created Lua — a tiny, embeddable programming language that powers game engines, web infrastructure, and millions of applications worldwide.

In the fall of 2012, a 26-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian graduate student entered a deep convolutional neural network into the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge — an annual competition…