Doug Meil is a software architect in healthcare data management and analytics, and an ACM Senior Member. He also founded the Cleveland Big Data Meetup in 2010. More of his BLOG@CACM posts can be found ...

That's why Asia's TV ad money -- something like 99% of it -- still goes to local stations. Total TV ad spending in Asia is likely to increase 84% by the end of the century, from $25.2 billion to $46.4 ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

This week's World Cup quiz is focused on the 1990 tournament, when West Germany triumphed in Italy. How much do you know about the finals? The 1990 FIFA World Cup™ produced some of the most iconic ...

Programming is the backbone of modern technology, and understanding a programming languages list is essential for developers, students, and tech enthusiasts. In 2026, Python leads AI and data science ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field. By Trip Gabriel Robin Lakoff, a linguist who analyzed what she considered the unique ...