The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

Abstract: Visual grounding tasks aim to localize image regions based on natural language references. In this work, we ex-plore whether generative VLMs predominantly trained on image-text data could be ...

How a discontinued legacy sparked a modern language built to last for decades — Ring emerged after Microsoft canceled Visual FoxPro. I’m glad I had the opportunity to contribute to improving the Ring ...