Research software is like the tower-building game Jenga — tools atop tools atop tools. When developers tweak their individual pieces, this can change the function of the software that depends on them, ...

Politics PhD student Eric F. Miller was awarded a Connected PhD summer experience grant to attend three workshops at UMass ISSR (Institute for Social Science Research). He gained experience in ...

Statistical programming language R has climbed back up to 8th place in Tiobe's latest programming language popularity index, just behind JavaScript and up from 20th position last July. In May, when R ...