Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer, died Nov. 20 at a nursing home in Hexham, England. He was 94.

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

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Ahree Lee’s ‘Pattern : Code’ honors the history of women in the connected fields of crafts and computer science. Before the fast-fashion business model made it possible for clothing companies to churn ...

After meeting Alan Turing, Mr. Brooker went to work at the University of Manchester and wrote the programming language for the first commercial computer. By Cade Metz Tony Brooker, the mathematician ...