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
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
Why Is SCM So Complicated? Will merging changes, configuring releases, and tracking defects ever be easy? Tue, 22 Feb 2005
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
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
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
Berkeley DB XML Berkeley DB XML is an open-source embedded XML database for applications that need XML document management services. It provides transaction-protected storage of XML documents and an optimizing XPath query processor for efficient document retrieval. Mon, 3 Feb 2003
Patenting Your Software: A Patent Attorney's Warning Thomas Jackson identifies common pitfalls in the patent application process, and evaluates the do-it-yourself guides available for inventors. Mon, 8 Dec 2003
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
DDOS: Just a Matter of Resource Why are we so vulnerable still to distributed denial-of-service attacks? Because the Internet has no policy for monitoring service and isolating misbehaving network elements. Mon, 10 Feb 2003
Finding Runtime Concurrency Errors in Multithreaded Java Applications Join Coverity on June 3 at 9:00 a.m. 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.
