Programmers tend to have their own distinct styles, but it's not really feasible to pore over many lines of code looking for telltale cues about a program's author. Now, that might not be necessary.

There aren't many subjects in the programming world -- and, by extension, the data science world -- more controversial than pair programming. This is when two programmers or two data scientists ...

Four cities will each receive a team of five open source Web programmers for 11 months, as selected by Code for America, a new nonprofit that’s pairing Web geeks with city governments. The selected ...