John G. Kemeny (left) and Thomas E. Kurtz made a truly Basic contribution to computer science in 1964. Courtesy Dartmouth Library __1964: __ In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at ...

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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 ...

Goal programming is a very powerful technique for solving multiple objective optimisation problems. It has been successfully applied to numerous diverse real life problems. In this paper a Taboo ...

Awash in a sea of data, how do scientists identify the function of a newly cloned gene? Online resources like the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) provide a helping hand. Although the ...