The IAM’s annual celebration of the new academic year will take place in the IAM lounge on Monday, September 21, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Join us for cake, refreshments, and good company!

Numerical computing is a vital part of the modern scientific infrastructure. Almost all numerical computing uses floating point arithmetic, and almost every modern computer implements the IEEE binary floating point standard, published in 1985. This standard is arguably the most important in the computer industry, the result of an unprecedented cooperation between academic computer scientists […]