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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A European public-private consortium aims to make exaflop supercomputers based on the central-processing units used in smartphones and tablet computers. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2014
Researchers are developing computer-aided design software to improve the physical layout of the discrete-droplet lab-on-a-chip. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 15, 2014
When teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced last year, almost all of them provided reasonably detailed renderings that gave us...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 11, 2013
As computer chips grow denser, it becomes increasingly difficult to measure the progression of Moore's Law. Exacerbating this situation is the mutability of the...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2013
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | February 13, 2013
When it comes to reconstructing the past, you might think that astrophysicists have it easy. After all, the sky is awash with evidence,IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 3, 2012
Researchers are starting to build chips in the third dimension, and many industry experts believe that this year the chip will start to become a cube. Building...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2012
Many computer scientists say the High-Performance Linpack test is not the best performance measurement for the world's top supercomputers. The new Graph500 benchmark...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2011
The January 2011 issue of IEEE Spectrum reviews the most important innovations that came of age in the past 10 years, based on their influence, usefulness, and...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 20, 2010
Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until it can overcome the mysterious malady known as "droop."IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | July 29, 2009