Steve Lewin-Berlin, VP of Engineering and Operations for CilkArts, has written an interesting introspective post on why using serial semantics in a natively parallel programming construct is the cat’s ...

The programming terminology you'll hear the compiler people use is "sequential semantics." One of the interesting areas is what can we do if we ensure sequential semantics.

But deep within the arcane world of programming semantics, differences of opinion are hotting up. Their eruption will change the landscape of the Internet, and much else, for the better.

Probabilistic Programming Language: A specialised language that integrates probability theory into its syntax and semantics, allowing for the concise specification of complex statistical models ...

For more than 50 years, linguists and computer scientists have tried to get computers to understand human language by programming semantics as software. Now, a University of Texas at Austin ...

Intuitive robot programming for non-experts will be essential to increasing automation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Programming by Demonstration (PbD) is a fast and intuitive approach ...