Multi-core systems are fast replacing traditional single core machines. In the next five years, it is predicted that thousands of cores will be the norm. A principal engineer with Intel's Microprocessor Technology Lab recently offered this advice: "developers should start
On July 3rd an article by respected journalist George Will appeared in the Washington Post, called "Independence Days," about the citizens of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina declaring independence from Britain on May 20, 1775--more than a year ahead of
I was encouraged in my writing by a number of supportive colleagues, friends and experts in this field, who found the format that I had chosen threw welcome light on some important themes very poorly illuminated by surviving sources. Recreating
Jews were outside Pacelli's vision of the Church. They had a place in the Christian dispensation, but a marginal one that bordered between contempt and conversion. When faced with the "flesh and blood" reality of the Holocaust, the academic Pius
As one of the few pro-U.S. and pro-Israel voices in thefield of Middle East studies, I find my views get frequently mangled by othersin the field - thus I have had to post a 5,000-word document titled "Departmentof Corrections (of
Many of us will hoist a glass of bubbly and nibble a plate of paté in a Gallic eatery today in a misty-eyed hommage to Bastille Day -- that heart-warming moment in 1789 when a mob stormed a near-empty prison,
It is impossible to ignore the recent growth of the U.S. undocumented migrant population, which has almost tripled over the space of the past fifteen years.1 According to recent estimates, the annual flow of undocumented migrants into the U.S. is
This blog is run by Rick Shenkman, the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008). Mr. Shenkman, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, is an associate professor
Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University, and the author, most recently, of Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents. His other books include: Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady and Morning in America: How
