Bell Labs veteran Stephen Johnson, in an interview, tells about the creation of Yet Another Compiler Compiler, and shares some advice as well: You can't rewrite a program too many times.

Momentum is building for quantum computing and some observers say that a usable, fault-tolerant quantum system could appear ...

Unix is among the oldest and most reliable operating systems. Developed in the late 1960s and early '70s at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, Unix was never seen as a cash cow for Ma Bell. In fact, AT&T ...