When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more This past fall, I began my master's program in Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley. I ...

This content originally appeared on Mashable for a US audience and has been adapted for the UK audience. Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over the ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...