Abstract: This article introduces CORDA (COnvergent Reactive Distributed Abstractions), a programming model for decentralized software based on replicated convergent dataflows. CORDA encapsulates ...

The Paid Family and Medical Leave program goes into place Jan. 1 and offers employees up to 20 weeks of paid time off in the case of serious health events. Minnesota Department of Employment and ...

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When GOG’s new Preservation Program was announced last November, the very welcome scheme to ensure games keep running on modern machines in perpetuity had some lofty goals. The purpose is to create a ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Since the days of the PlayStation 3, players have been earning Trophies in their PlayStation games by completing challenges and finishing games, but ...

One of the most important breakthroughs in computing was the stored-program concept, proposed by John von Neumann and colleagues in 1945 in the design of the EDVAC computer. The idea was simple but ...

Larisa Thomason has been listening to Huntsville public radio station WLRH for almost 50 years. Now, she’s threatening to change the dial. “My daughter calls WLRH the soundtrack for her childhood,” ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Low-code and modular programming environments are transforming PLC programming, with vendors providing pre-packaged libraries and objects that eliminate traditional IEC-61131-3 style coding, allowing ...