Ventilators, retired doctors, N95 face masks — all have been in high demand from heads of state and U.S. governors, but now you can add COBOL programmers to that pandemic response list. That's right, ...

Earlier this month, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy made an urgent call for programmers who have experience with COBOL — a programming language over 60 years old — to help the state deal with the ...

WASHINGTON — Most states – including those in the D.C. area, use a 60-year-old computer language called COBOL to run unemployment department computers. That’s according to a national association ...

There has been a sudden rise in COBOL specialists among Banks and insurance firms, and they are ready to pay higher salaries ...

You’d think a computer programming language created in 1959 would be outdated — but you’d be incredibly wrong. Most people know Java and C++, but good ol’ COBOL is still alive and kicking. In the US, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed aging, inflexible computer systems at the heart of the U.S. economy - and a shortage of experts to fix the problem. This is slowing the government's effort to get ...

Some states have found themselves in need of people who know a 60-year-old programming language called COBOL to retrofit the antiquated government systems now struggling to process the deluge of ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will explore the invention of the COBOL computer-programming language on its 50th anniversary in a display ...