A digital-video (DV) camera needs to feel good in your hands as well as capture great images. David reviews Sharp's new $1,500 lightweight VL-FD1U Mini DVcam, and reports that it scores on both counts.
Alex's Report From CES 2001
Alex Pournelle
At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, headliner technologies and products included digital radio, the DataPlay mini-optical media, satellite Internet service, digital radio, and wireless Ethernet, reports Alex Pournelle.
Graphics Will Mainstream In 2001
Alex Pournelle
The graphical computing revolution has moved mainstream: Bad news for PC manufacturers, great news for you. A look at the next revolution, accessibility to great new tools, and distribution media.
Extending Enterprise Value with Web 2.0 In this webcast we will talk about how to simply build and quickly remix Web 2.0 applications and the role of the IT department and how they support mashups. We will discuss how IBM can help IT teams adapt existing enterprise systems as well as develop unique ones that can support end user driven mashups in a reliable, scalable and secure way. We will highlight a simple scenario adapting an enterprise information source for mashups and how to test it. We will also cover how IBM can help you build agile, fast and simple web applications based on dynamic scripting languages that dramatically reduces development time. Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 12pm PT / 3pm ET
2008 International Mathematica Conference Dr. Dobb's interviews Wolfram Research's Theo Gray, co-founder and Director of User Interfaces, and Roger Germundsson, Director of Research and Development, about the upcoming 2008 International
Mathematica Conference.
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.