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Pain free Spark/Cobol files integration. Seamlessly query your COBOL/EBCDIC binary files as Spark Dataframes and streams. Add mainframe as a source to your data engineering strategy. Among the ...

Venezuela was once South America’s wealthiest country. Now it’s one of the world’s least prosperous. According to United Nations and humanitarian officials, 70% of the people currently heading ...

Code is hardly ever developed from scratch. Rather, new code typically needs to integrate with existing code and is dependent upon existing libraries. Two recent studies found that developers spend, ...

Curious about a lot of things in life, technology is one of them. When you stop and think about everyday life, you can easily view everything as an event. Consider the following sequence: Your car's ...

The second installment of a three-part article addressing the legacy of chemical weapons use in the Iran-Iraq War and Iran’s chemical weapons program. The article focuses on the history of and ...

In recent years, there has been an explosive increase in the amount of bioinformatics data produced, but data are not information. The purpose of bioinformatics research is to obtain information with ...

“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982. Take a tour through the research ...