A phonetic script for English created in 1847 by Isaac Pitman and Henry Ellis was used as a model for the IPA.
The Stack Data Structure in C and C++. The stack is a common data structure for representing things that need to maintained in a particular order. For instance, when a function calls another function, which in turn calls a third function, it's important that the third function return back to the second function rather than the first.
Our article in Operating Systems Review, Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack, is a concise introduction to the Singularity project. Singularity was a multi-year research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools.