Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Abstraction is considered a virtue in software development. However, practice shows that wrong abstractions cause more harm ...

The Muscarelle Museum of Art takes an engaging, expansive approach to highlighting the often-overlooked female practitioners ...

The Israel Museum opens its new winter fare with ancient charts, abstract paintings, compelling graphics, and alfresco beauty.

By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as ...

Abstract: Examples are useful for inspiring ideas and facilitating implementation in visualization design. However, there is little understanding of how visualization designers use examples, and how ...

In software engineering as in all technical work, we find ourselves writing definitions of the concepts we need to work on. Often, such definitions leave much to be desired. In two earlier BLOG@CACM ...

Background: Observational studies that examine the comparative effectiveness of healthcare services often face challenges in controlling for confounding by indication. This study examines whether ...

The pillar is topped with a simple carving of a human face. Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites—Karahantepe in southeast ...

This page provides answers to the most commonly asked questions regarding abstract submission, confidentiality, and presentation policies. Questions are listed together at the top of the page for ...

An abstract sentence is a sentence that expresses an idea, concept, or quality rather than something you can see, touch, or measure directly. It deals with things like emotions, values, theories, or ...