Over the last 2 years, we moved our inherently sequential data processing engine, written in Haskell, to a parallel version.
Running the parallel version of our system barely increases CPU time,
while the wall time (time from start to end) is significantly…

The cuts focused on the company’s corporate staff exceed an earlier projection and represent about 5% of the company’s corporate workforce.

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Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls

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In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then turned it into one of the most mind-bending riffs on identity in the digital age I've ever heard.

I was laid off 2 months ago with thousands of coworkers and I’ve never even seen a severance letter let alone been offered severance.

Sim, who was born in 1955, founded the company in 1981. He was its chairman and CEO since its inception.

I am worry a lot about how great Java/Javabeans and all the runtime work they are doing is and how much excitement this is generating. I am literally losing sleep over this issue since together with a move to more server based applications it seems like it…

Scientists are increasingly studying quantum entanglement, which occurs when two or more systems are created or interact in such a manner that the quantum states of some cannot be described independently ...

On the 950th anniversary of the royal transfer of The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin, Lincoln, John Goodall looks at the medieval development of what is without doubt one of Europe’s most brilliantly conceived cathedrals. Photographs by Paul Highnam for…

At this point, knowing what AI can't do is more useful than knowing what it can