__1815: __English mathematician George Boole, who would help establish what is now known as Boolean logic, is born. Boole's breakthrough was the insight that logic, which had previously been ...

If you have any experience with social media monitoring platforms, you know that getting precise results may be tricky at times: Apps can show a lot of noise for brands with common names or, quite the ...

Several centuries ago, during the Merovingian period I think, I taught whole courses on online searching. Those skills are still important, and I’m still teaching them in different guises and ...

We’re going to focus on three fundamental operations - NOT, AND, and OR. Today, Carrie Anne is going to take a look at how those transistors we talked about last episode can be used to perform complex ...

A little bit of computer science has made it possible to reduce the time it takes to find new genes from years to milliseconds. Researchers at Stanford University have developed a simple processing ...

CareerBuilder has released a special guide for sourcing professionals who use Boolean searches to find candidates based on keyword strings. CareerBuilder says their "cheat sheet" can make anyone ...

Transistors wired in series and parallel patterns make up "gates," which accept binary input (0 = no pulse; 1 = pulse) and generate binary output. Although AND requires both inputs to be 1 in order to ...