Modern language evolution typically takes place gradually. This involves thinking about words fusing despite being so far ...

GDL is a free/libre/open source incremental compiler compatible with IDL (Interactive Data Language) and to some extent with PV-WAVE. Together with its library routines it serves as a tool for data ...

Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript (BWIPP) generates all barcode formats entirely within PostScript so that the process of converting the input data into the printed output can be performed by the ...

Every January, Americans swear this will be the year they finally change. Lose weight. Fix a relationship. Stop procrastinating. Drink less. Show up more. And every February, most of those resolutions ...

Of all the greatest poets that have ever written, which is the least known to American readers? I would join many others who point to Tu Fu (a.k.a. Du Fu). He wrote 16 centuries ago during the Tang ...

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet’s story begins with a little girl. In the early 1800s, Gallaudet arrived back home in Hartford, Connecticut, to visit his family after completing his education in two seeming ...

It is not enough to treat AI ethics as a postscript to a technical course nor to tell students: “Don’t be evil.” It is only by developing a deeper understanding of how humans live together, how they ...

In July, 1971, the young poet Bernadette Mayer took thirty-six diaristic photos a day and noted down a companionable number of words, then assembled it all into a show, “Memory,” in which the images ...

There are a number of ways that you can create PDFs on a Linux system. You can use an application like LibreOffice or OpenOffice, or you can take advantage of any of a number of commands that can ...

Sometimes all you remember of a teacher is a voice—“a way of happening, a mouth.” I never met Harold Bloom, but like many of his readers, I thought I knew his voice very well. Bloom, who died on ...

In the early 1980s, my job in the graphics department at a newspaper meant spending a large part of my day typing words and control codes into a computer terminal to set type I’d use for headlines on ...