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 ...

Like any great poet, Badr expressed his deep love for the language he had received as patrimony by changing it irrevocably. His 1985 collection Aamad contains a prefatory note titled “A letter to 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 ...

Genesis. By Henry Kissinger, Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt. Little, Brown; 288 pages; $30. John Murray; £22 To assess the extent to which humans will keep hold of their destiny, the book grapples with ...

A couple celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary was asked to share the secret to their enduring, happy marriage. The elderly husband replied, “It’s simple. Over the years, I made all the big ...

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 ...