In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

"Let me tell you a funny story I made up about the guy who wanted to reach into in, and he couldn't. And it bothered him. It'd bother you, wouldn't it?" So begins the tale of a troubled man lost ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

factoryBeanObjectType should either be a Class or a ResolvableType. This has been the case since day one but the core container ignored the property if it wasn't any of those types. It now throws an ...

Even though the model-view-controller pattern is widely used and well documented, the way how the different MVC components, like view, model and controller, are instantiated and wired with the ...

Abstract: This paper presents an inexpensive, portable experimental platform that, when coupled with student-owned data acquisition boards, can be used in a variety of lecture-based courses including ...

In the November issue, Editor Michael Sanson wrote about how some restaurants on slow nights appear to be using second- and third-string employees who often do more damage than good with customer ...