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
PhotoPlus Expo 2003 Tired of computer shows nobody comes to, Ernest heads to New York City to have some fun looking through his lens at new digital cameras and printers. Mon, 17 Nov 2003
Memories and Cookies The optimism and untethered ambition of the dot-com boom may have vanished from the face of the Internet, but it lingers on in cookie files. Mon, 15 Sep 2003
Tomorrow's Software Factory--Today If you read enough technology news, you are bound to run into the software factory. But just what is a software factory? Tue, 31 Jan 2006
ScanSoft Rekindles Dragon's Flame With Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8, ScanSoft finally delivers on the promise of speech recognition software. Mon, 11 Apr 2005
Testing Localized Applications Segue Software's Peter Piela details the requirements for a successful globalization test tool. Mon, 13 Sep 2004
Is It Time for Perl Certification? Tim Maher calls for the Perl community to adopt a serious certification program, both to help individual Perl programmers make it through the hiring process, and to increase Perl's standing in the corporate IT market. Mon, 17 Nov 2003
Throwing Cryptography a Curve Ball Once the young upstart of the security world, elliptic curve cryptography has come into its own. Here's why developers should take note. Mon, 1 Aug 2005
Building Your Home Video Jukebox Here's how to rip, encode, and watch your videos with a miminal amount of fuss. Mon, 9 Feb 2004
CeBIT America 2003, Part 2 In Part 2 of the CeBIT America 2003 show report, Ernest and Alex review some nifty gadgets and tackle the big industry questions. Mon, 14 Jul 2003
Voice Recording Meets Open Source Dr. Dobb's talks with Bruce Kaskey, cofounder of <a href="http://www.orecx.com">OrecX</a>, about the Oreka open source project and why it's an important contribution to the open source community.
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.
