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Varun Chandrasekaran, an Illinois Grainger professor of electrical & computer engineering, is among a team of researchers who have received a $5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research ...

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The C programming language is one of the most influential in computing history. In just 100 seconds, learn why C remains the backbone of modern software—powering operating systems like Linux, Windows, ...

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The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...