A confluence occurs when two rivers flow together; downstream the combined forces gather strength and propel their waters forward with increased vigor. In academic research, according to George ...

Programming languages now routinely incorporate sophisticated mechanisms to handle computational effects – those ancillary actions beyond mere computation, ranging from memory management and exception ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Robby Findler, professor of computer science at Northwestern Engineering, and collaborators released Racket 8.0, a milestone implementation of one of the world’s leading environments for ...

When a system is programmed properly, the multiple technologies at work will function seamlessly, and end users won’t complain about a difficult UI. But any number of programming languages exist, each ...