Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

SAN FRANCISCO - Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming, died Saturday at the age of 70, according to his longtime employer. Mr. Ritchie created the popular C programming language and helped ...

In one form or another, C has influenced the shape of almost every programming language developed since the 1980s. Some languages like C++, C#, and objective C are intended to be direct successors to ...