Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience
IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles were simple. First, it should be easy to read. Rather than sprawling over line-endings and being broken up by a tangle of curly braces, each chunk would be surrounded with indented white space. Second, it sh
Showdown
ShowdownWin or lose, a computer program’s contest against a professional Go player is another milestone in AI UPDATE Mar 12th 2016: AlphaGo has won the third game against Lee Sedol, and has thus won the five-game match. TWO : NIL to the computer. That was the score, as The Economist went to press, in the latest round of the battle between artificial intelligence (AI) and the naturally evolved sort
The future of computing
The future of computingThe era of predictable improvement in computer hardware is ending. What comes next? IN 1971 the fastest car in the world was the Ferrari Daytona, capable of 280kph (174mph). The world’s tallest buildings were New York’s twin towers, at 415 metres (1,362 feet). In November that year Intel launched the first commercial microprocessor chip, the 4004, containing 2,300 tiny trans
Bingoo!
USERS will probably not notice the difference. But the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo!, the world's biggest software firm and the leading web portal, for a ten-year partnership in searches and advertising on the internet, may one day be seen as a momentous event. The combination, which was announced on July 29th after years of speculation about a tie-up, is not as far-reaching as originally envi
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Rosetta stone' offers digital lifeline
Page last updated at 10:46 GMT, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 11:46 UK You might be familiar with the heartbreak and frustration of a failed hard disk - fretting over the loss of precious pictures, irreplaceable files squirreled away over years, often lost forever. These are depressingly regular losses often visited on those who do not make regular back-ups. According to one report by Swedish data salva
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