A bug in 3D Pinball for Windows let the game run at 5,000 FPS on faster hardware, but Microsoft eventually capped the frame ...

Billionaire software engineer Charles Simonyi, who left Microsoft Corp. to co-found a company called Intentional Software Corp., says the new firm's software-development tools will reduce annoying or ...

From a moth lodged in a computer's relay component in 1947 to costly failures in space and healthcare — a retrospective on ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes an anti-spam service to mistakenly block Exchange Online and ...

A Taylor Series expansion is what is known in the business as an approximation, or more often than not when x is nowhere near zero, a hack. It is only as sophisticated as the code around it to ensure ...

NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth crawled into an ...

NASA scientists today announced they are releasing free software that will find ‘bugs,’ or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as ‘open source software.’ ...

Mathematician Grace Hopper, who earned a PhD at Yale and later became a US Navy rear admiral, pioneered compilers and helped ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. American engineers have been calling ...

I first played this game, via a teletype machine, in the early 70’s on a HP2000(mini? Mainframe?) running HP Timeshare BASIC. The code was in BASIC of course. I’ve no idea if it was a port, or a ...