Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

For comprehensive term dates, see Calendar of academic dates. Classes: add/swap/change tutorial January 11 (Sunday) Last day to add classes, swap classes, change tutorials using goSFU. Last day to ...

Abstract: Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization is a subset of gradient-free optimization that emerges in many signal processing and machine learning (ML) applications. It is used for solving optimization ...

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Abstract: Imbalances between the four sampling channels of a coherent detector with polarization diversity can rapidly degrade system performance. One of these imbalances, namely the receiver skew, ...

In 2011, indie game studio Tiny Speck launched Glitch, an anti-combat MMO which failed to gain any interest. Due to the team being located in three locations, it built an instant-messenger during ...

Facebook probably needs no introduction; nonetheless, here is a quick history of the company. The world’s biggest and most-famous social network was launched by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student ...

Correspondence to Dr Jocelyn A Srigley, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 711 Concession Street, M1-Room 8, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8V 1C3; srigley{at}hhsc.ca Background The Hawthorne effect ...