Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

Ventilators, retired doctors, N95 face masks — all have been in high demand from heads of state and U.S. governors, but now you can add COBOL programmers to that pandemic response list. That's right, ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

Understanding organismal traits and learning how they evolve and adapt to different environments is crucial for biologists and the battle against biodiversity loss. To be truly efficient, however, the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ChucK is a programming language designed for computer music. It aims to be expressive and straightforward to read and write with respect to ...

David Thomas Henry Wright is the recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowship. He is a member of the Electronic Literature Organisation and an international consultant for the ...

Some old computer languages are destined to never die. They do, however, evolve. For example, Fortran, among the oldest of computer languages, still has adherents, not to mention a ton of legacy code ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article describes the design of a framework for sound synthesis in LC, a new computer music language we prototyped, together with ...