Brands can shatter when their core meaning breaks. This article examines why. It looks at companies like Kodak, Volkswagen, ...

INQUIRER FILE PHOTO Victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.” –Tacitus In Morong, Bataan, stands a $2.3-billion ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Predicate pushdown is a widely adopted query optimization. Existing systems and prior work mostly use pattern-matching rules to decide when a predicate can be pushed through certain operators like ...

Archived as of Sep 4th, 2025: A new implementation with a more recent version of DuckDB can be found in this repo. We integrate Robust Predicate Transfer into DuckDB, when you finish installing DuckDB ...

Abstract: This monograph is about verifiable computing (VC). VC refers to cryptographic protocols called interactive proofs (IPs) and arguments that enable a prover to provide a guarantee to a ...

Abstract: Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are cryptographic security techniques that allow secure data exchange without revealing secret information. This research study investigates and analyzes ...