There are dozens of ways you can make a GIF on your phone or computer without using dedicated software like Photoshop. Some of them are downloadable, while others simply work in your browser.

As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was seeking a way for users of incompatible computers to share graphics files. The first GIF he created was unspectacular—a picture ...

Dr. John Femiani is a professor who exemplifies just that. Dr. Femiani, associate professor in the computer science and software engineering department, balances his time between being a practicing ...