compiler

Last century, program compilers accelerated software development by rapidly translating commands into ones and zeros that computers can understand.

By contrast, Now was a joint venture between two of the UK's biggest record labels, EMI and Virgin, giving compilers immediate access to the day's biggest songs.

Edward Mathers worked as a crossword compiler for The Observer newspaper under the pseudonym Torquemada.

He joined the growing computer research team at Carnegie Mellon, working on programming architecture such as compilers, which “translate” source code into specific functions.

There, he worked on computer architecture and programming languages, particularly compilers, which translate programs written in so-called “high level” languages, like today’s Java or C++, into steps a computer can execute.