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
Is It Time for Perl Certification? Tim Maher calls for the Perl community to adopt a serious certification program, both to help individual Perl programmers make it through the hiring process, and to increase Perl's standing in the corporate IT market. Mon, 17 Nov 2003
TTCN: A Test Description Language A formal, manufacturer-independent software testing notation may help us raise the bar on software quality. Mon, 17 Feb 2003
China's Linux Gamble Companies such as Microsoft are stepping up their efforts to battle software piracy in Asia, but the result is a surge of interest in Linux. Mon, 5 Sep 2005
Tomorrow's Software Factory--Today If you read enough technology news, you are bound to run into the software factory. But just what is a software factory? Tue, 31 Jan 2006
How Fast Is It? Solid Information Technologies has introduced a do-it-yourself benchmarking kit for telco application developers. Mon, 13 Jun 2005
Extremely Rich Media If rich media is a good thing, then extremely rich media must be a great thing. Two Intel managers take a tour of cellphone symphonies, talking toilets, and defunct dot-coms…all in search of the next killer app. Mon, 27 Jan 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
Open Source Software: What, How and Why? If you're thinking about getting involved with an open source project, asking the right questions is the first step to getting the correct answers. Mon, 24 Nov 2003
Human-Targeted Denial of Service In the past, denial of service attacks have frequently been employed by
hackers to plague network services with spurious requests, while semantic
attacks have been used to dupe unsuspecting Internet users into various
get-rich-quick scams. A new possible class of attack would aim at services rendered by humans. Mon, 30 Jun 2003
How to Write a Chess-Playing Program, Part 1 The first part of this two-part series provides some background in game theory and uncovers some of the most popular search algorithms. Mon, 25 Aug 2003
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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