Advances in science and engineering still rely on Fortran more than any other language by many important measures. Surprised? You shouldn’t be, although many people who call themselves programmers ...

In 1977, scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched two Voyager probes into space to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Now, nearly 50 years later, ...

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82. Subscribe to ...

1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three years in the making, it would be refined in work that continues to this day. While this ...