Bel is interesting, not least because it highlights the enduring and improbable longevity of one of the earliest high-level programming languages. That’s no small feat, especially given the ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

AutoCAD is drafting and design software used to create everything from buildings to households items. But what if its connection to the 1960-founded LISP programming language could help engineers ...

John McCarthy, creator of the Lisp programming language and pioneer in utility computing—the forerunner of today’s cloud computing—died Sunday in Stanford, California. He was 84. AI master: John ...

Researchers have been producing computer models of biological systems for almost as long as there have been computers. But these efforts have picked up in recent years as computing power has increased ...