In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

Binary encoding formats promise significant performance improvements for communications-intensive apps. TheServerSide caught up with Martin Thompson, founder of Real Logic, who implemented a new ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

Gray code is a systematic ordering of binary numbers in a way that each successive value differs from the previous one in ...

Advancements in the speed of hardware, software and network connections prompted FIX to examine the current version of the FIX Protocol (the electronic communications protocol for real-time exchange ...