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
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
Thoroughly Modern Hard Drives Consumer demand is growing as hard drive engineering reaches the limits of current technology. Mon, 8 Mar 2004
The Year Ahead Lynne predicts that 2005 will bring us more spam, less security, and maybe some shake-ups in search—but each of these fields holds opportunity for technical innovation. Mon, 24 Jan 2005
Return of the Lone Game Developer Thanks to two recent trends in game development, single developers and small teams once again have the chance to create high-quality games on par with the best of the commercial world. Mon, 8 Sep 2003
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
The Music of the Earth Geophysicist Frank Scherbaum believes that the Earth makes true music—and that scientists of all kinds should open their ears. Mon, 17 Mar 2003
System-Wide Windows Hooks Moishe explains how to set system-wide hooks in order to intercept and modify information being sent to or from Windows applications. Mon, 14 Feb 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
Inside ClearType in Windows Longhorn Maxim examines the clean, crisp typeface rendering coming up in Windows Longhorn, and presents source code in C++ for programmers wanting to do the same thing now. Mon, 11 Apr 2005
Modeling with Domain-Specific Languages With Domain-Specific Modeling, the developer make models of solutions in a language that contains the concepts and rules from the problem domain the developer works in. Fri, 2 Dec 2005
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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