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Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Boole. In our modern digital world, we’re always hearing about “Boolean variables”—1 or 0, true or false. And one might think, “What a trivial idea! Why did someone even explicitly need to invent...

Born, quite obviously, in 1815, George Boole was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician who became the first ever Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork (UCC). Long after penning his 1854 masterpiece, An Investigation of the...

The end of this year sees a double English bicentennial in the history of computing. On 2 November we celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of mathematician and logician Georg Boole then on 10 December the two hundredth anniversary of...

George Boole, born November 2, 1815, died December 8, 1864, was a British mathematician and philosopher. He is known as the creator of Boolean algebra, the basis of all modern computer arithmetic. His father was a simple merchant in the city of Lincoln...

He came from poverty and wasn’t expected to go much further than the small village in Co. Limerick where he was raised, but Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, never stopped dreaming and never stopped believing. His life story is...