Procedural abstraction is the process of converting a specific procedure into a general procedure by ignoring certain details. This is used during the design process to allow the programmer to focus on the structure of the program instead of the detail...

In computer science, abstraction is a mechanism and practice to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on a few concepts at a time. The following English definition of abstraction helps to understand how this term applies to Computer...

ADAPTABLE WEB SERVICES. Song Zhou, Deptment of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama At Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 Web services are becoming one of the mostly influential technologies for developing heterogeneous distributed applications. So it is valuable to create an adaptable...

48 HOURS OR LESS: A RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR GENERAL CHEMISTRY STUDENTS. Barbara G. Rackley, Adriane G. Ludwick, Melissa S. Reeves, and Kylc R. Willian, 102 Armstrong Hall, Dept. of Chemistry, Tuskegee Urnversity, Tuskegee, AL 36088. In this paper, we make the argument...

The Geometry of Hope: Latin Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, an exhibition at N.Y.U.’s Grey Art Gallery, poses two interesting questions: What characteristics identify art as provincial? And what does hope have to do with making art? Organized by the Blanton...

The refrain of “I Like ’Em Big and Stupid,” singer and comedienne Julie Brown’s little-remembered 80’s-era pop exegesis on female desire, came to mind while I was looking at Jonathan Lasker’s paintings at Cheim and Read Gallery. Mr. Lasker’s work is big and stupid—obvious and...