Software that translates a high-level request into the low-level commands required to perform the operation. The most common abstraction layer is the programming interface (API) between an application ...

It’s rare for me to be surprised by a painting show, but I didn’t see “Taking Shape” coming. The exhibition is a generous survey of abstract art made from the 1950s to the 1980s, drawn from the ...

In software development, hardly any principle enjoys as much prestige as abstraction. Those who abstract are considered forward-thinking. Those who recognize and combine commonalities are considered ...

Startup Art Projects and Sofie Contemporary Arts are pleased to present "Between Logic and Light: Material and Meaning in Abstraction", a group exhibition featuring six contemporary artists whose ...

The AMR Bank is a set of English sentences paired with simple, readable semantic representations. We hope that it will spur new research in natural language understanding, generation, and translation.

An interface between hardware and software. A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is generally used as a common driver for peripheral devices. The application calls the operating system; the OS calls the ...