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
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
When Computers Vote When election day rolls round again, can we trust the electronic voting machines for a fair and auditable vote? The Open Voting Consortium is working on it. Mon, 12 Sep 2005
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
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
A Supercomputer in Every Chip Clusters based on commodity chips have revolutionized the supercomputer industry, but at the same time, traditional supercomputers based on powerful vector CPUs are making a comeback. Steven explains why and how these approaches work together. Mon, 10 May 2004
Elegance in Computer Programming There are always many ways to structure and code a program that will achieve the goals set for it. Some ways are brutal and some elegant. What constitutes beauty in a computer program? Mon, 21 Jul 2003
Testing Times Resolving temporal costs at the level of individual machine cycles Wed, 30 Oct 0003
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
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
Native Object/Relational Wrappers Application-specific O/R wrappers allow an application to utilize the database in an
object-oriented manner without changing the database structure to meet the needs of
individual applications. Java ORDBMSs allow the wrapper class to be cataloged in the database
and wrapper objects to be created using SQL statements. Mon, 20 Jan 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.
