The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages
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From ACM TechNewsMIT News| March 17, 2023
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When Jan Scheuermann grasped a chocolate bar and raised it to her mouth last year, it was a neuroscience breakthrough.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 14, 2013
Prior to his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook—his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy—to Apple chief executive...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | December 10, 2012
Pat Hickey, who covered his first Montreal Canadiens game in 1968 for the now-defunct Montreal Star, and who has chronicled the team's exploits over the past 22...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 27, 2012
The success of Israel's Iron Dome in shooting down missiles fired from Gaza has a lot to do with a company you've probably never heard of: MPrest Systems.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 26, 2012
With Paul Otellini heading in May to the nearest 18-hole course, speculation is rampant about who will replace him.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 21, 2012
Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 7, 2012
It sounds like an air traveler's nightmare: a sophisticated software attack that allows hackers to access internal airport computer systems and manipulate data...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 17, 2012
On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of dining at the exclusive Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 10, 2012
In the 15 years that computer hackers have gathered in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conference, an event where unknowns can become stars and tech heavyweights are...Bloomberg From ACM News | July 25, 2012
Since the mid-1990s Liam Casey, PCH International's chief executive officer, has helped technology companies with the nastiest task in Silicon Valley: building...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | July 5, 2012
James Collier is loping in a broad circle on the Midsummer Common in Cambridge, England, holding aloft a two-foot fiberglass antenna.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | May 21, 2012
According to its New Jersey-based operator, Hibernia Atlantic, the $300 million Project Express will be 5.2 milliseconds faster than the AC-1, with an execution...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | April 25, 2012
In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | April 3, 2012
Big defense budgets during the aughts financed the deployment of thousands of robots, including unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles, to Iraq and Afghanistan...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 6, 2012
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 28, 2012
Last fall, Russ Freeman's successful business shooting commercial aerial photos and video flew straight into a political battle over control of the nation's skies...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 13, 2012
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 13, 2012
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 6, 2012