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, some ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was to ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM in 1950 as a programmer was to work on ...