In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer. Too bad nobody has that title anymore. Born in 1815, Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician credited with first interpreting how to ...

Alan Cox is so well-regarded in the open-source software community that he can pull in a crowd of eager techies to discuss theoretical software stability on a Sunday afternoon, as he did at last ...

Workers are not just selling labor. They are selling ideas. The law should require that they are told which ones.

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Editor’s Note: CI originally published this programmer focused content on May 22. Since, we have updated it with new information as of June 20. Programmers often work independently, and many find ...

Some workers start their career in software development only to discover that they want to manage a development team. Traditionally, this is the next logical step in professional growth. However, it's ...