David Woodruff, a professor in CMU's Computer Science Department, and Samson Zhou from Texas A&M University received a ...

Reed-Solomon codes are block-based error correcting codes with a wide range of applications in digital communications and storage. Reed-Solomon codes are used to ...

A technical introduction to the fundamentals of programming with an emphasis on producing clear, robust, and reasonably efficient code using top-down design, informal analysis, and effective testing ...

The control structures that test Boolean values only test for whether or not the value is nil, which is considered to be false. Any other value is considered to be true. Often a predicate will return ...

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. `Who are you?' said the ...

The School of Computer Science offers five bachelor's degrees. The School of Computer Science offers a number of undergraduate minors for non-SCS students. Accepted and enrolled non-SCS undergraduate ...

Thread operations include thread creation, termination, synchronization (joins,blocking), scheduling, data management and process interaction. A thread does not maintain a list of created threads, nor ...

PREFACE: The language defined by the first edition contained an enormous lacuna: although facilities were specified for signaling errors, no means was defined for handling errors. This occurred not ...

I wrote this article in 1994 in response to a request posted to a discussion group. Since then, I've seen it in various places around the Net. This version is essentially the same as the earlier, but ...

This course covers the design and implementation of compiler and runtime systems for high-level languages, and examines the interaction between language design, compiler design, and runtime ...

`I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; `Seven jogged my elbow.' On which Seven looked up and said, `That's right, Five! Always lay the blame on others!' `You'd better not talk!' said Five.

Introducton I adapted this information from a web site and I have made it available locally. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Below is the ASCII character table, ...