Recent alumnus of the Master of Computer Science program (May 2013), Joseph Howse, has just released his book, OpenCV Computer Vision with Python, through Packt Publishing. Joseph's concise and ...

A team of computer scientists recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow -- up to 60,000 times slower than code written in ...

SEE: Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward Python's move to top spot on the Tiobe index was a result of other languages falling in searches rather than Python ...

Researchers at MIT propose a novel programming system -- Gen -- that enables users to easily create AI and machine learning programs.

IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles ...

Python creator Guido van Rossum reveals the strengths and weaknesses of one of the world's most popular programming languages.

Traditional computer programming has a steep learning curve that requires learning a programming language, for example C/C++, Java or Python, just to build a simple application such as a ...

Over time, from the development of assembly language through more human-readable languages like C and Python and Java, programming has climbed what computer scientists call increasing levels of ...