My first experience in computer programming was a freshman year introductory course in high school. It was one of the first courses I signed up for. I liked computers ...

Ensuring that a building design is code-compliant can be a complicated task for architects. Whether this involves understanding the codes, tracking code updates or checking designs against the code, ...

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In the latest episode of his 99% Invisible podcast, Roman Mars bravely takes on a very sensitive topic: the design of prisons which contain execution chambers or house prisoners in solitary ...

When you’re building software and break something at the module level, the blast radius is small. A bug in a function? You fix the function. Maybe a couple of calls. No big deal. But at the ...

In the wake of the tragedy of Sept. 11, few of us responsible for the design and construction of buildings could avoid contemplating, over and over again, the critical importance of providing for ...