Computer programming may seem like magic these days, but most programs are built from conceptual steps that use visual aids to work out how the program needs to flow. Each function of a program can be ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. “The Algorithm” is impenetrable. It’s mysterious, it’s all-knowing, it’s ...

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines. Leslie Lamport may not be a household name, but he’s behind a few of them for ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. What if instead of searching through menus within programs like Microsoft Excel, our computers could understand the problem we’re trying ...

Spoiler alert: there's nothing in there. There’s even a technological counterattack, as companies roll out technology designed to detect software-composed writing. But the bottom line is that ChatGPT ...

Algorithms help us find lots of things: a date, a driving route, a chainsaw. For software companies, however, finding the right one to use isn’t easy. Algorithm developers are in short supply, and ...