CodeHistory.org https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Ferranti Mark 1: Programming the First Commercial General-Purpose Stored-Program Computer Harvard Mark I and the Birth of Large-Scale Program Preparation Colossus and the Wartime Practice of Reconfigurable Electronic Programming George Stibitz and Remote Computing: The 1940 Teletype Demonstration Goldstine and von Neumann’s Flow Diagrams: Drawing Programs Before Flowcharts Had a Name ENIAC’s 1948 Stored-Program Conversion: Reprogramming the First Electronic General-Purpose Computer The IAS Machine and the Coding Style That Spread the von Neumann Architecture Alick Glennie and Autocode: The First Step from Machine Orders to Compiled Notation Laning and Zierler’s Algebraic Compiler: Writing Mathematics Instead of Machine Code SHARE and the First Program Library: When Computer Users Began Sharing Software Defaults Are Decisions: The Invisible Politics of Software Design The Cost of Abstraction: Every Convenience Moves Complexity Somewhere Software Archaeology: Reading Old Code as Historical Evidence The Stack Is a Social Artifact: How Layers Accumulate People, Standards, and History When Software Became Infrastructure: From Programs to Dependence Debugging as a Way of Knowing: How Programmers Learn What Machines Actually Do Interfaces Outlive Implementations: The Durable Boundary in Computing The Hidden Work of Maintenance: Why Software History Is Mostly About Change When Code Became a Supply Chain: Dependencies, Packages, and Trust Standards Are Executable Agreements: Why Interoperability Is a Social Achievement Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff, and Prometheus: Engineering Multi-Agent Systems Systematically Michael Littman and Markov Games: Extending Reinforcement Learning to Multiple Agents Hyacinth Nwana and Software Agents: Classifying the Agent Boom of the 1990s Peter Stone and RoboCup: Multi-Agent Learning in a Competitive World Jeffrey Bradshaw and KAoS: Policies for Governing Autonomous Agents Keith Decker and TAEMS: Modeling Tasks for Distributed Agent Coordination Tuomas Sandholm and Automated Negotiation: Algorithms for Deals, Auctions, and Contracts Michael Wellman and Market-Oriented Programming Tim Finin and KQML: Giving Software Agents a Communication Language FIPA and the Attempt to Standardize Agent Communication Ivis Buric and GPT Pilot: An AI Developer That Builds Step by Step Xingyao Wang, Graham Neubig, and OpenHands: Building an Open Software-Development Agent Sourcegraph Cody and Repository-Aware AI Coding at Codebase Scale Scott Wu, Cognition, and Devin: The Autonomous Software Engineer Maor Shlomo and Base44: Natural-Language Software Creation with a Built-In Backend Eric Simons and Bolt.new: Building Full-Stack Apps Inside the Browser Varun Mohan, Codeium, and Windsurf: From AI Autocomplete to an Agentic IDE Paul Gauthier and Aider: Git-Native AI Pair Programming in the Terminal Saoud Rizwan and Cline: Giving a Coding Agent Files, Terminal, and Human Approval Vercel v0 and the Shift from UI Generation to Full-Stack App Building DeepSeek-Coder and the Open Code-Model Scaling Race Qwen2.5-Coder and the Expansion of Open Multilingual Code Models CodeGen and the Scaling of Conversational Program Synthesis CodeRL and the Use of Test Feedback to Train Code Generators LiveCodeBench and the Fight Against Benchmark Contamination InCoder and the Rise of Fill-in-the-Middle Code Editing CodeT5 and the Encoder-Decoder Model for Code Understanding and Generation TransCoder and Unsupervised Translation Between Programming Languages Home Journal