Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

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 ...

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NVIDIA's cuOpt leverages GPU technology to drastically accelerate linear programming, achieving performance up to 5,000 times faster than traditional CPU-based solutions. The landscape of linear ...

Many important practical computations, such as scheduling, combinatorial, and optimization problems, use techniques known as integer programming to find the best combination of many variables. In ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

In recent years, a number of localities have been experimenting with providing a universal basic income, often referred to as UBI. In their idealized form, UBI policies would give every citizen a ...