Today's Google doodle commemorates computer pioneer Grace Hopper. Born Grace Brewster Murray in New York in 1906, she studied at Vassar College and later became the first woman in the 233-year history ...
The world’s banking, business and governmental systems are underpinned by a programming language developed over half a century ago - but fewer people than ever know how to use it today. Devised in ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed aging, inflexible computer systems at the heart of the U.S. economy -- and a shortage of experts to fix the problem. This is slowing the government’s effort to get ...
It sounds like the name of a rock band from the 1960's but COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language and was first developed in 1959, is back in the news. As reported by CNN, US state ...
The English language programme Cobol is to be used in the International Computers and Tabulators 1301 computer. So, 57 years ago starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 12th 1960 ...
On top of ventilators, face masks and health care workers, you can now add COBOL programmers to the list of what several states urgently need as they battle the coronavirus pandemic. In New Jersey, ...
Grace Murray Hopper has been honoured with a Google doodle today for what would have been her 107th birthday Credit: Photo: AP The 107th birthday of computer scientist Grace Hopper has been celebrated ...
State officials say aging computers systems that rely on a pre-Internet programming language may be causing delays in processing jobless benefits.... 'COBOL Cowboys' Aim To Rescue Sluggish State ...