Latest AI mystery is that there are 11 specific nouns used frequently by LLMs when creating short stories. Why those words?

Language understanding is inherently multimodal. Whether we read, listen, or converse, our brains go beyond words to draw on visual scenes, prosody, prior ...

Svoboda, D., 2026: The SEI CERT Coding Standard for Fortran. Software Engineering Institute blog, Accessed July 1, 2026, https://doi.org/10.58012/w9t7-6y96. This blog ...

Like many people who read Hackaday, we are fairly fluent in a number of computer languages, but we have to admit it is easier to pick up languages that look like they group with things like Fortran.

Fortran is one of the oldest programming languages; it was specifically designed for scientific and engineering applications back in the 1950s. Despite being a legacy language, Fortran is still ...

Last fall, Eric Klopfer decided to conduct an experiment in his undergraduate computer science class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He divided the class into three groups and gave ...

In May, a research team from MIT announced a new programming language, Finch. It’s designed to support both flexible control flow and diverse data structures. “Finch facilitates a programming model ...

Even if generative AI hides SQL behind the curtain, it will continue to play a critical role in how we interact with and use data. In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on ...

ParaMonte has been developed while bearing the following design goals in mind: Full automation of Monte Carlo and Machine Learning simulations as much as possible to ensure user-friendliness of the ...

One might argue language creation might be accelerating today, but it’s not a new problem. In my BLOG@CACM post “Why Are There So Many Programming Languages?”, I described how variants of programming ...