A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the ...

The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern ...

ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance sector, has released a new model aimed at enhancing the ...

ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance industry, has announced the launch of the Next-Generation Digital Standards (NGDS) Object ...

Instead, it uses "objects," data structures that contain various types of data and have variable sizes. Therefore, traditional hardware compression techniques handle objects poorly.

Researchers have discovered a new method for turning nearly any object into a data storage unit. This makes it possible to save extensive data in, say, shirt buttons, water bottles or even the ...