In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

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Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level since 1980, according to data from the Current Population Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The fall correlates with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Job displacement is a serious issue everywhere, but professional computer science majors should get ready for a tightening of the ...