Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

After college students took a programming course, parts of their brain activated as they read code. Surprisingly, before the students took the class or knew anything about programming, the same groups ...

In a stunning upset at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025, Polish programmer Przemysaw Debiak, bested OpenAI's custom-built AI model in a grueling 10-hour coding competition. Debiak's victory, ...