Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our ...

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...

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The course is targeted at students with a wide range of backgrounds in Computer Graphics, ranging from students with no previous experience to students with undergraduate courses in Computer Graphics.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

A brief timeline of PC graphics bus interfaces. The history of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. The status of the current industry-standard PCI Express (PCIe) bus. Prior to the PC era, ...

CHICAGO, Jan. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SIGGRAPH, the premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques worldwide, is preparing for the 53rd annual conference taking place July 2026.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...