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Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

I am a huge fan of Danielle Navarro's book Learning Statistics with R. It is the most accessible statistics book I know of. My students love it. I love it. It's free, and it comes in not only R, but ...

Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative member of the Supreme Court, will publish a book next year, joining several of his colleagues who have inked deals in recent months to publish. Alito, who was ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools evolve, a growing challenge faced by educators is how to leverage the invaluable AI-assisted learning, while maintaining rigorous assessment. AI tools, such as ...

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Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.