RADIO BROADCAST: The global language of computer code

PRI/BBC/WGBH, The World, January 11, 2011

STREAM OR DOWNLOAD FEATURE: http://www.theworld.org/2011/01/11/history-of-computers-exhibit/

The Computer History Museum sits in the heart of Silicon Valley, just down the street from Google and other global tech firms. I went to check out the museum’s big reopening, and despite its eye-catching robots, supercomputers and video games, I was largely drawn to the story the museum was trying to tell about the evolution of programming languages. A museum curator and an emeritus professor of computer science help explain.

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