Custom software development is not an easy endeavor, requiring specific attention to the details that the customer needs for their software. Time is also changing; the emergence of AI combined with ...

Over the last decade, enterprises have transformed the way they build software. What used to be mostly proprietary code is now dominated by open-source components. In many cases, more than 80% of an ...

Last week’s Docker announcement that it would make more than 1,000 of its Docker Hardened Images free and open-source software, combined with Anaconda’s AI Catalyst and other development technologies, ...

In just the first year offering the free and open source software and free culture minor, Rochester Institute of Technology has graduated five students who are already sharing their insights with the ...

One of the many things AI is doing is make us confront and attempt to clarify many of our concepts: What does it mean to code? What does it mean to be conscious? Where is the boundary between ...

Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest. In the late 2000s, I was working at Borland, the formerly high-flying software ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

The debate around open-source vs proprietary software continues to shape how individuals, developers, and businesses choose their tools. With open source software explained as community-driven and ...

Responding to student interest and a growing industry demand for workers with such skills, Rochester Institute of Technology is launching the nation’s first interdisciplinary minor in free and open ...