At a Halloween party we threw for MIT students this weekend, the subject of Fortran came up (yeah, I know, nerdy stuff) which pretty much drew blank looks from the more junior witches and warlocks.

Nasa develops designs on computer long before the craft take to the air Nasa is seeking help from coders to speed up the software it uses to design experimental aircraft. It is running a competition ...

Aleks Krotoski tells the story of Fortran, the language that helped the scientists of the 1950s and 60s to put men on the moon and harness the atom. Show more The history of computing is dominated by ...

Nasa is seeking help from coders to speed up the software it uses to design experimental aircraft. It is running a competition that will share $55,000 (£42,000) between the top two people who can make ...