The parade of articles and blog posts on Bill Gates' legacy continue to roll out as Gates' last day as a full-time employee (June 27) rapidly approaches. Joel Spolsky, the CEO of Fog Creek Software -- ...

Early pioneers in computer science were women. Women like Grace Hopper, Jean Bartik, Dame Stephanie Shirley and Lynn Conway, were among the first programmers as the field emerged, and left a lasting ...

Programming skill per se has nothing at all to do with founding a startup. Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) wasn't a programmer, neither is Nick Swinmurn (founder of Zappos), Scott Kurnit (founder of ...

I'm currently a student at a university and for the past three years I've been working on a degree in finance but recently I've had some slight experience with programming and found that I enjoy it ...

Computing professionals are on the front lines of almost every aspect of the modern world. They’re involved in the response when hackers steal the personal information of hundreds of thousands of ...

For much of the work that human beings perform, both the what and the how are defined. Under these circumstances, it’s easy to evaluate employee performance or to devise hiring criteria. But where the ...