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 Problems of Personalization Online retailers are crowding onto the "personalization" bandwagon—with humorous and occasionally insulting results. Mon, 1 Nov 2004
XAML: Microsoft's New Markup Language XAML was developed by Microsoft as the user interface language for Windows Longhorn, but some developers are betting that it will become a cross-platform standard. Mon, 7 Mar 2005
The Size of Your Software Function point analysis offers companies a standard way to measure the size of software projects. Mon, 10 Jan 2005
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
Cleaning the Spam Cesspool Can Bayesian anti-spam techniques rescue e-mail users from the sewage of unwanted messages? Mon, 15 Sep 2003
Java J2EE: A Shotgun Start Dennis explains how to write a fully enterprise architecture-ready Hello World program, using J2EE. Mon, 13 Jan 2003
The Web Services Threat Model Combining easy access with human-readable data formats and open integration standards, Web services create an obvious attraction for thrill-seeking and malicious hackers alike. The relative inexperience of developers creating XML-based Web services may also lead to accidental "attacks" that cost time and money regardless of the developers' good intentions. Mon, 15 Dec 2003
CeBIT America 2003, Part 1 In Part 1 of the CeBIT America show report, Ernest and Alex review new laptops and PDA technology from the likes of Sony and Handspring. Mon, 7 Jul 2003
Testing Times Resolving temporal costs at the level of individual machine cycles Wed, 30 Oct 0003
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
Finding Runtime Concurrency Errors in Multithreaded Java Applications Join Coverity on June 3 at 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT for a web seminar "Finding Runtime Concurrency Errors in Multi-threaded Applications." In this session Thomas Schultz of Coverity's Advanced Technology Group will offer a presentation and demonstration of Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java, a new dynamic analysis solution for multithreaded Java applications that automatically and predictably detects existing and potential race conditions and deadlocks that can cause deadly application behavior. Register today and find out how to:
<ul><li> Automatically and rapidly detect serious concurrency errors</li>
<li> Avoid data corruption and application failures
<li> Sharply reduce the problem of testing billions of unpredictable thread interleavings </li>
<li>Reduce risk of migration to multicore systems</li>
<li>Combine dynamic and static analysis to improve overall code quality</li></ul>
Solving the Multicore Programming Problem Processor raw speed gains are hitting a brick wall of power consumption. The voracious appetite for performance now must be sated through the use of multiple CPUs. The problem: multicores are hard to program. Chuck Moore of AMD said "To make effective use of multicore hardware today, you need a PhD in computer science." Learn how Gedae expands the pool of multicore developers while offering unrivaled performance and productivity. Event Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
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.
