The Michael J. Fox Foundation Launches 2026 "Parkinson's IQ + You" Event Series to Educate, Empower and Connect People and Families Living with Parkinson's Disease

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research marks the eighth year of its Parkinson's IQ + You national event series, traveling across the United States to educate and empower people and ...

‘Not everybody needs to go beyond the basics of computing, just as not everybody needs to write poetry’

Jeffrey D. Ullman emphasizes the importance of basic computing knowledge, akin to literacy, without the need for advanced ...
InfoWorld

R language is making a comeback – Tiobe

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...
Grist

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...
The Conversation

Surzhyk: why Ukrainians are increasingly speaking a hybrid language that used to be a marker of rural backwardness

Oleksandra Osypenko does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
Scientific American

ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation

After its release in late 2022, ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. Since then the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ...
acm.org

The Rational Programmer: Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to check certain conditions at ...
Entrepreneur

Nvidia’s CEO Says It No Longer Matters If You Never Learned to Code: ‘There’s a New Programming Language’

Jensen Huang is the CEO of $3.48 trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia. At London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that AI enables anyone to write code, simply by prompting a chatbot to do it for them. The ...
Business Insider

Coding isn't dead, but how it's taught needs to change, says Google DeepMind research scientist

Stefania Druga is a research scientist at Google DeepMind and creator of AI education platform Cognimates. Early AI literacy helps kids develop healthy relationships with the tech as they learn to "co ...
Nature

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...
Wired

The Best Programming Language for the End of the World

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...