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
Power Management for Mobile Devices With the convergence of new computing, communication and entertainment applications on wireless handsets, power demands are increasing rapidly, yet the capacity of batteries cannot keep up. Mon, 6 Mar 2006
UDDI: Is It Still Relevant? UDDI, the "red headed stepchild" of web services standards, is regaining significance with the rise of service oriented architectures. Mon, 7 Feb 2005
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
CES 2004: Photo Gallery If you didn't make it to CES this year, you can still browse through the booths virtually; these snapshots from the show capture the hottest new devices and gadgets. Mon, 19 Jan 2004
Apache Axis and the Next Generation of Web Services XML interchange via asynchronous, reliable messaging is the next wave of Web services interaction. The Apache Axis project provides a way to transport XML using reliable messaging within and across the extended enterprise, while preserving the
interoperability of SOAP over HTTP across the public Internet. Mon, 23 Jun 2003
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
The Case for SOA Service oriented architecture is a hot new buzzword in enterprise development—but what does it mean, and why should you care? Mon, 27 Jun 2005
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
The Tortoise and the Hare Tuomo Kortesmaa explains how a 566 MHz Celeron can outrace a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4. Mon, 28 Jul 2003
What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed) Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
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.
