Why language isn't computer code The differences between formal and natural languages are as big as the similarities ...

Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the 'multiple demand network,' which is also ...

The curse of ambiguity Ambiguity in program descriptions leads to the possibility, if not the certainty, that a given natural language description can be converted into computer code in various ...

Dr. Egginton is a professor of the humanities. Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to fulfill the foreign language graduation requirement for high school.

In the beginning, computer programmers translated their desires into the language of machines. Now, those machines are becoming conversant in the language of their programmers. OpenAI's newly released ...

A Florida bill proposes to let credits from computer-coding classes count like those for Spanish or French courses—but many are skeptical.

When students in Florida choose which foreign language to study in high school, they might soon have an unusual choice to make: French, Spanish, or computer code?

The release of OpenAI Codex, a new Al system that translates natural language to code, marks the beginning of a shift in how computer software is written.

A new bill passed by the Kentucky Senate counts computer programming classes toward fulfilling foreign-language requirements in public schools. Parents debate whether coding should be a supplement ...

Artificial intelligence tools can now create not only speech and text but also computer code. Here, we look at what that might mean for coders and computer programmers.

In effect, we’ve taught computers how to speak human, so why not also teach computers to speak more computer? That’s what IBM’s Project CodeNet seeks to accomplish.”We need our ImageNet ...