Delivering Video Over IP Networks Delivering broadcast and multicast video, on-demand media, and personalized content with a consistently high quality of experience (QoE) is no small task. Mon, 16 Apr 2007
Designing User Interfaces for Cooperating Devices It's hard enough to design a user interface for a standalone product. But when you have two devices that must work in concert, the level of difficulty multiplies. Mon, 16 Apr 2007
Secure GSM At a conference on Secure GSM at the UK's Institute of Electrical Engineers in London, researchers discussed the trade-offs of encryption and the characteristics that would define an ideal security software agent. Mon, 3 Mar 2003
Synchronizing Replicated Data in Mobile Distributed Networks Managing the distribution of data in mobile, distributed networks can be a real challenge, since synchronization methods relying on continuous connectivity are impractical. Mon, 10 Feb 2003
The Commodore Comeback Although the Commodore 64's heyday is long past, a
strong user base of loyal Commodore enthusiasts is
keeping the venerable 8-bitter relevant in the 21st century. Mon, 20 Dec 2004
Code Quality in Open Source Software: Inspecting Apache Code inspections conducted by Reasoning indicate that open source software and commercially developed projects show similar defect rates when the software is young, but that over time, open source code grows more robust. Mon, 14 Jul 2003
The Economics of Programming Languages Why do well-designed languages like Lisp fail to achieve widespread use, while clunky languages like COBOL continue to thrive? Mon, 18 Apr 2005
Cache Coherency: Now More than Ever Without cache coherency methods, data corruption and lousy system performance are not far away. Mon, 2 Jun 2003
Bluetooth Security Is Bluetooth any more secure than 802.11b? Or are the days of costly cellphone and PDA viruses nearly upon us? Mon, 19 May 2003
One Giant Leap Forward The flight of SpaceShipOne marks the beginning of a new space age. Fri, 25 Jun 2004
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
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