Interruptions aren’t just a staple of our daily lives. They’re also crucial for making computer systems work as well as they do, as they allow for a system to immediately respond to an event. While on ...

You don't have to give up on getting your point across just because you don't want to be rude. Whether it's during a work meeting or a gossip session with friends, it's normal for people to interrupt ...

In a typical online meeting, humans don't always wait politely for their turn to speak. They interrupt to express strong ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. If you’re the type of person who cares about conversational etiquette, the idea of interrupting someone ...

About a month ago at work I overheard one woman complaining to another woman about a coworker’s habit of interrupting everyone in meetings. “That’s just how it is around here. The women listen, but ...

Conversations are how we share ideas, build relationships and feel heard—it’s one of the most natural parts of being human. A good conversation has rhythm, with each person taking turns to speak and ...

Just as you can often treat device registers as a memory-mapped struct, you can treat an interrupt vector as a memory-mapped array. In my last column, I suggested that you use casts sparingly and with ...

Recent turmoil in the Uber boardroom has raised the issue of ‘manterrupting’. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway says men shouldn’t interrupt less, women should interrupt more. Last week, David ...

Every time a computer receives a network packet, completes a disk write, or a user moves the mouse, the processor handles an event known as an ...

Defining device drivers Discussing the difference between architecture-specific and board-specific drivers Providing several examples of different types of device drivers Most embedded hardware ...