This is why it’s important to understand and master these search operators. Why It’s Called Boolean. Boolean refers to George Boole, a 19th-century mathematician who invented Boolean logic.

The Google Doodle highlights some of Boole’s most important work — Boolean logic, and Boolean operators. Boole died in 1864, but his work was key to the search engines that power much of the ...

We experimentally demonstrate that COTS DRAM chips are capable of performing 1) functionally-complete Boolean operations: NOT, NAND, and NOR and 2) many-input (i.e., more than two-input) AND and OR ...