In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to Microsoft BASIC 1.1 and ported it from the 8080 processor to the MOS 6502 microprocessor. Gates had always intended this BASIC to run on more than just the ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

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 ...

As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society, the economy, and politics. Yet, most social ...

This book covers the essential mathematics that will take you from basic coding to serious software development. Ronald T. Kneusel shows how vectors and matrices give you the power to handle complex ...