Complex, computational work with huge sets of data is now common practice in fields such as genomics, economics, and astrophysics. Researchers in these and similarly data intensive fields depend on ...

Dr Barbara Liskov — a mostly retired Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer in object-oriented programming and distributed systems and the winner of the 2008 ACM A ...

Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult thing to keep track of. Time zones, leap ...