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
Unreasonable Facsimiles Why are the cycles of obsolescence so brief for computer hardware? Why does our software grow ever more bloated? Perhaps it has to do with the use of graphics-intensive simulated reality environments for even the simplest tasks. Mon, 31 Mar 2003
Beyond Google: The Next Generation of Search It is estimated that by 2005 the volume of digital data will double every three months, and search engines will at best only reach 50 percent of the total available web pages. How will existing search engines evolve to cope with this explosion of information? Or will some upstart with a new vision topple the reigning kings of search? Mon, 25 Aug 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
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
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
TechXNY/PC Expo 2003 The PC Expo show in New York City was slow this year, but Daniel still found lots of stuff worth seeing. Mon, 22 Sep 2003
When Robots Attack Humans attack computers on a routine basis, while stories of machines attacking humans are still science fiction. But computers do attack their own kin. How can we deal with this threat? Mon, 21 Apr 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
The Semantic Web and You The Semantic Web is more than a fantastic technology of the future; it's a business tool for today's enterprise. Mon, 23 May 2005
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
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.
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