Featured Artist: Gabriella Marcarelli

The Artist of Computer

A short account of the contributions of Donald E. Knuth to the eld of computer science is given, with emphasis on his classical text The Art of Computer Programming. Also discussed are his development of the T E X typesetting system, the LR parser and attribute grammar.

The happy artist ?

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at...

FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: INDIGO SYSTEm

Existing endovascular options for lower extremity and visceral arterial thromboembolism face the challenges of limited trackability, vessel injury, and incomplete revascularization. At the forefront of advances in catheter materials and technology, Penumbra, Inc. recently introduced the IndigoTM System for mechanical thrombectomy in the periphery. The Indigo System is designed to address the li...

On Featured Transition Systems

Software Product Lines (SPLs) are families of similar software products built from a common set of features. As the number of products of an SPL is potentially exponential in the number of its features, analysing SPLs is harder than for single software. In this invited paper, we synthesise six years of efforts in alleviating SPL verification and testing issues. To this end, we introduced Featur...

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