Although the design was, inevitably, controversial, the vast and abstract form is a bold attempt to convey the incomprehensible magnitude of the Holocaust.

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The Cascalog system has combined the Cascading system for abstraction of advanced data processing on Hadoop and other systems, the Datalog declarative programming language that is well suited for expressing database queries in an abstract form, and the Clojure language to create a declarative language for queries that can be run on Apache Hadoop.

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The company split itself in two, one half publishing the magazine and the other managing the mainframe database of content that powered the magazine (and eventually, on-screen listings.) Benefitting, perhaps, from the fact that the content of the magazine was highly structured (and repetitive) to begin with, the database part of the company set out to abstract the ongoing production of the listings from their printed form.

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Literal representations of the human brain appeared on the front of several outfits, while more abstract interpretations of "gray matter" appeared on dresses in the form of shiny metallic coils in blue and orange-red.

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It took a while, but finally the art world is appreciating the role played by Frelinghuysen, Morris, Shaw and Gallatin in developing a uniquely American form of abstract art.

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