A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory ...

Lisp is one of those interesting computer languages that you either love or hate. But it has certainly stood the test of time. Of all the ancient languages that are still in practical use, only ...

During the AI research boom of the 1970s, the LISP language – from LISt Processor – saw a major surge in use and development, including many dialects being developed. One of these dialects was Scheme, ...

Researchers have been producing computer models of biological systems for almost as long as there have been computers. But these efforts have picked up in recent years as computing power has increased ...

Bel is interesting, not least because it highlights the enduring and improbable longevity of one of the earliest high-level programming languages. That’s no small feat, especially given the ...

John McCarthy, best known for coining the term artificial intelligence and inventing the programming language Lisp, died on Oct. 23. He was 84 years old. His death was announced by Stanford University ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...