As Nexstar and Sinclair Take on Disney Over Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC Is Happy — but Will It Backfire?

Station groups Nexstar and Sinclair went aggressive on Disney by refusing to air 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' last week. But will ...

Are Studio Screwups Choking Late-Night TV?

In part two of a two-part series, nearly a dozen insiders examine the economic forces pummeling the genre, and consider who’s ...
Tobacco Control

Digital footprints of the US e-cigarette market: correlations among retail sales data, social media activity and Google search trends

Introduction The global market for electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has been changing rapidly. There is limited research ...

Late-night TV is under threat from Trump and a precarious business model

Once the crown jewel of network television, the late-night format faces intense political pressure as ratings and revenue ...
IEEE

Model-Free Tracking Control for Linear Stochastic Systems via Integral Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: This paper investigates optimal tracking control of linear stochastic systems with multiplicative state-dependent and input-dependent noise via a novel model-free integral reinforcement ...
IEEE

OpenH: A Novel Programming Model and API for Developing Portable Parallel Programs on Heterogeneous Hybrid Servers

Abstract: Heterogeneous nodes composed of a multicore CPU and accelerators are today’s norm in high-performance computing (HPC) platforms due to their superior performance and energy efficiency. Tools ...