Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every month or so, computer scientist Ramsey Nasser gets a desperate email from the Arabic world, or sometimes China, or Russia, ...

If you want to build software, it's almost mandatory that you'll need to know the English language since all of the tools rely upon that tongue. Unfortunately, that puts non-English speakers at a huge ...

In the Arab world, aspiring programmers are faced with a unique kind of challenge: nearly every computer language, platform, and standard in history has been built around a Latin character set — a set ...

BONN: Deutsche Welle’s DW-TV Arabia has slated a six-hour block of programming in Arabic, with the core schedule made up of four half-hour segments of the news flagship Journal. DW-TV Arabia has ...

Disappointed by the heavy reliance on English for programming, computer scientist and designer Ramsey Nasser created a new coding language in Arabic Studying computer science at the American ...

“Emojinal is the next step after قلب,” says Nasser, referring to Alb, the first Arabic programming language, which he created in 2012. Nasser says he’s interested in English alternatives for coding ...

Today’s edition is guest-edited by subscriber Dorothy Santos, a writer, editor, and curator focused on new media and digital art, the internet of things, augmented reality, online performance, gaming, ...

Some are born to speak Arabic, some choose to study the language and some have it thrust upon them. The Army assigned me to learn Arabic before they sent me to Vietnam in 1968. I pursued the Arabic ...

Every month or so, computer scientist Ramsey Nasser gets a desperate email from the Arabic world, or sometimes China, or Russia, asking for his help. They want to know more about Qlb — pronounced ...