Generative AI is already changing the way software engineers do their jobs. GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, ChatGPT, Tabnine, and various other AI coding tools are quickly gaining traction, helping developers… Read More
Artificial intelligence software programs are becoming shockingly adept at carrying on conversations, winning board games and generating artwork — but what about creating software programs? In a newly published paper,… Read More
Programmers looking to experiment or get better at the tools and technology that they use for their day jobs are turning to a competitive game called “Battlesnake” — made by… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Frances McCue is a poet, writer, co-founder of nonprofit community writing center Hugo House, and a teaching professor at the University of Washington. She reads this piece in… Read More
How do you build an underwater robot that can locate an airplane wreckage and deliver its engine to the surface? Some students, making up more than 70 teams, will have… Read More
The programming languages that developers use to create software are as varied and dynamic and spoken language. New languages crop up and existing ones evolve over time and borrow from one another. The… Read More
If you were asked to come up with an idea for a month-long project to expand and solidify your skills in your chosen field, what would you pick? This is… Read More
Understanding how to work effectively on a team is critical for a successful career in computer science, you can be a great programmer no matter when you start learning — and, yes,… Read More
Lesley Baker is a software developer and mother of two. When her oldest son started struggling with physical pain, she found a way to use her skills to help kids… Read More
Programming languages tell computers what to do, and now researchers from the University of Washington want to do the same for scientists working with chemical reactions. In what could potentially… Read More
Every programmer likely remembers how they learned to code. For guys like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the magic began on the Teletype Model 33. For others, it may have been… Read More
A game that combines fantasy baseball and Monopoly. A project that identifies soccer teams that are suffering from missing players due to preventable injuries. A website called SuperBowlDrinkingGame.com. Sunday’s conclusion of the first-ever… Read More
Some 9-year-olds do pretty cool things like build a Lego set or finish a Harry Potter book. Then there’s 9-year-old whiz kid Pranav Kalya, a fourth-grader at Willow Elementary School in California, who… Read More
Greg Linden is a veteran software engineer and startup entrepreneur in Seattle who developed Amazon.com’s recommendation engine, started the personalized news website Findory.com and worked for Microsoft’s Live Labs, among other… Read More
Our guest on the latest GeekWire Podcast was Daniil Kulchenko, the 15-year-old sophomore from Kenmore, north of Seattle, who last week announced the sale of his cloud-computing startup, Phenona, to Vancouver, B.C.-based… Read More
University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by 50 percent or more by segmenting software code into areas… Read More