Microsoft Research has had 7,000 downloads of its Comega programming technology, which is intended to bridge the gap between relational, object, and XML data models. Comega, or Cω, is described by ...

Occasionally one may hear that a data model is “over-normalized,” but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to ...

The relentless pace of semiconductor development continues unabated. Despite the slowdown in Moore’s law, feature sizes continue to shrink as new geometries come online. Constant innovations in both ...