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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Last month, federal agencies and utility executives held GridEx IV, a biennial event where officials responsible for hundreds of local utilities game out scenarios...Bloomberg From ACM News | December 22, 2017
Under fire for Facebook Inc.'s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 21, 2017
The prospect of blockchain technology remaking financial services just moved a step closer to reality after banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 20, 2017
On Wednesday, the exterior of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters bore an eerie message: "Ban Russian Bots." Someone—the company doesn't know who—projected the...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 13, 2017
Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company's size has made it too attractive as a target for government...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | October 10, 2017
In the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, the country's social media was awash in press reports of dubious origin.
Bloomberg News From ACM News | May 1, 2017
China has green-lit a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies' technology and hamstring their operations...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 7, 2016
There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they’re sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents.BloombergBusinessweek From ACM News | October 27, 2016
Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer programmer named Bennie Smith sat on his...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 4, 2016
You devoted your life to human-driven transportation, engineering SUVs at Ford and taking Hyundai (as U.S. CEO and president) to record levels of sales in the U...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2016
Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 26, 2016
On a recent Monday in April, more than 100 executives from some of the world's largest financial institutions gathered for a private meeting at the Times Square...Bloomberg From ACM News | May 3, 2016
Technology and Internet companies would have to provide government agencies with access to data when served with a court order under long-awaited draft legislation...Bloomberg From ACM News | April 13, 2016
When Daniel Rigmaiden was a little boy, his grandfather, a veteran of World War II and Korea, used to drive him along the roads of Monterey, California, playing...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 11, 2016
Every afternoon, crowds of Cubans gather outside Havana's top hotels—mob boss Meyer Lansky's favorite Nacional de Cuba, Ernest Hemingway's old haunt Ambos Mundos...Bloomberg From ACM News | February 5, 2016