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Destination Multimedia
Authors: Compaq Computer Corporation
Venue:  (1995)

:Multimedia has opened up whole new vistas of educational and entertainment possibilities. Destination Multimedia brings those possibilities right to your own PC. With author and multimedia professional Aaron E. Walsh showing you the way, you'll discover how to... Choose and purchase a new multimedia PC or upgrade an older PC with new sound and graphics hardware Install the software you need to support a CD-ROM drive or other equipment Select the best CD-ROM software for you and your family Troubleshoot finicky multimedia software Plus, Destination Multimedia gets you up to speed quickly with a comprehensive, plain-English guide to all the buzzwords you might have heard whenever the subject of multimedia has come up. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Comment on Generic Universal Switch Blocks
Authors: Hongbing Fan, Yu-Liang Wu, Yao-Wen Chang
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2002)

In the paper [5], the authors defined the well-structured symmetric switch block MN,W showed that MN,W is universal for any pair of positive integers N and W. However, we find that this result is partially correct. Here, we show that, when N¿7, MN,W is not universal for odd Ws (¿3) and it is universal for any even W.
Visual IFPS/Plus for Business, 1st edition
Authors: Paul Gray
Venue:  (1995)

:The Interactive Financial Planning System (abbreviated Visual IFPS /Plus) was originally developed in the early 1970's by Dr. Gerald R. Wagner (then a professor at The University of Texas at Austin) and his students. Its original impetus came from the desire to model risk in a way that could be easily understood by executives. The implementation that resulted is a general - purpose financial panning language that is particularly user friendly. Since then, Visual EFPS / Plus has been developed further and marketed by COMSHARE, Incorporated of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has been widely adopted in both industry and universities. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Controlling garbage collection and heap growth to reduce the execution time of Java applications
Authors: Tim Brecht, Eshrat Arjomandi, Chang Li, Hang Pham
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (2001)

In systems that support garbage collection, a tension exists between collecting garbage too frequently and not collecting garbage frequently enough. Garbage collection that occurs too frequently may introduce unnecessary overheads at the rist of not collecting much garbage during each cycle. On the other hand, collecting garbage too infrequently can result in applications that execute with a large amount of virtual memory (i.e., with a large footprint) and suffer from increased execution times die to paging. In this paper, we use a large colleciton of Java applications and the highly tuned and widely used Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW) conservative mark-and-sweep garbage collector to experimentally examine the extent to which the frequency of garbage collectio impacts an application's execution time, footprint, and pause times. We use these results to devise some guidelines for controlling garbage and heap growth in a conservative garbage collection in order to minimize application execution times. Then we describe new strategies for controlling in order to minimize application execution times.
User-space communication: a quantitative study
Authors: Soichiro Araki, Angelos Bilas, Cezary Dubnicki, Jan Edler, Koichi Konishi, James Philbin
Venue: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1998)

Powerful commodity systems and networks offer a promising direction for high performance computing because they are inexpensive and they closely track technology progress. However, high, raw-hardware performance is rarely delivered to the end user. Previous work has shown that the bottleneck in these architectures is the overheads imposed by the software communication layer. To reduce these overheads, researchers have proposed a number of user-space communication models. The common feature of these models is that applications have direct access to the network, bypassing the operating system in the common case and thus avoiding the cost of send/receive system calls.In this paper we examine five user-space communication layers, that represent different points in the configuration space: Generic AM, BIP-0.92, FM-2.02, PM-1.2, and VMMC-2. Although these systems support different communication paradigms and employ a variety of different implementation tradeoffs, we are able to quantitatively compare them on a single testbed consisting of a cluster of high-end PCs connected by a Myrinet network.We find that all five communication systems have very low latency for small messages, in the range of 5 to 17 &micro;s. Not surprisingly, this range is strongly influenced by the functionality offered by each system. We are encouraged, however, to find that features such as protected and reliable communication at user level and multiprogramming can be provided at very low cost. Bandwidth, however, depends primarily on how data is transferred between host memory and the network. Most of the investigated libraries support zero-copy protocols for certain types of data transfers, but differ significantly in the bandwidth delivered to end users. The highest bandwidth, between 95 and 125 MBytes/s for long message transfers, is delivered by libraries that use DMA on both send and receive sides and avoid all data copies. Libraries that perform additional data copies or use programmed I/O to send data to the network achieve lower maximum bandwidth, in the range of 60-70 MBytes/s.
Contemporary Logic Design, 1st edition
Authors: Randy H. Katz
Venue:  (1994)

:The book provides comprehensive coverage of programmable logic, including ROMs, PALs, and PLAs. A Practical Matters section concludes most chapters, which ties theory to practice and explains design technologies in detail. To synthesize the text coverage of combinational and sequential design methods, the author uses a detailed case study of a simple processor design in the final two chapters. The text introduces readers to a wide range of software tools, including schematic capture, logic simulation and Boolean minimization, and demonstrates how they fit into the hardware design process. The author also encourages hands-on experimentation with software tools such as LogicWorks to bolster the reader's understanding of practical design methods.
InTml: a description language for VR applications
Authors: Pablo Figueroa, Mark Green, H. James Hoover
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on 3D Web technology (2002)

We present the Interaction Technique Markup Language (InTml), a profile on top of the core X3D that describes 3D interaction techniques (InTs) and hardware platforms. InTml makes 3D InTs easier to understand, compare, and integrate in complete virtual reality (VR) applications. InTml can be used as a front end for any VR toolkit, so InTml documents that plug together 3D InTs, VR objects, and devices can be fully described and executed.
Internet and World Wide Web Simplified, 2nd edition
Authors: CORPORATE Maran Graphics Staff
Venue:  (1995)

:Nowadays the Internet and the World Wide Web are front-page news almost every day, so you know they're important. But if you don't know why they're important or what they are -- let alone how to use them -- Internet and World Wide Web Simplified is for you. This accessible, full-color guide features illustrations by the renowned maranGraphics team of artists. You see step-by-step exactly what your computer screen will look like as you follow plain-English instructions for what to enter and what to click. With Internet and World Wide Web Simplified, abstractions like protocols, HTML, e-mail and IP address, and the like are rendered in fun, informative illustrations that anyone can understand (and even gurus can use to understand concepts better). The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
A graduate/undergraduate computer graphics course and laboratory
Authors: B. D. Carroll, Gerald R. Kane
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual Southeast regional conference (1976)

This paper contains a syllabus and a description of a graduate/undergraduate level course in computer graphics offered by the Electrical Engineering Department at Auburn University. The course is designed to acquaint the student with the fundamental hardware and software components of real-time computer graphics systems. Topics covered include characteristics and features of hardware components, general-purpose graphics software, display files, two and three-dimensional transformations, clipping and windowing, perspective, hidden-line elimination and shading. Interactive graphics and a survey of applications will also be included.Classroom lectures and presentations are supplemented by laboratory demonstrations and student projects. Laboratory facilities will be described in the paper. Available equipment includes a DEC GT42 Graphics System, Tektronix 4012, 4013, and 4014 Graphics Terminals, and a Tektronix 4631 Hardcopy Unit. All of the above units are supported by a DEC PDP 11/40 under the RSTS/E System. A graphics utility package common to both the refreshed and stored graphics terminals is being developed.
Relational Database Design Clearly Explained
Authors: Jan L. Harrington
Venue:  (1998)

:Relational Database Design Clearly Explained provides a straightforward and in-depth explanation of the creation and maintenance of relational databases. Database management and design expert Jan L. Harrington shares useful advice necessary for good relational database design, and offers practical tips and techniques for creating the support and efficiency you want your database to provide.
Narrow bus encoding for low-power DSP systems
Authors: Youngsoo Shin, Kiyoung Choi, Young-Hoon Chang
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (2001)

High levels of integration in integrated circuits often lead to the problem of running out of pins. Narrow data buses can be used to alleviate this problem provided that the degraded performance due to wait cycles can be tolerated. We address bus coding methods for low-power core-based systems incorporating narrow buses. We show that transition signaling combined with bus-invert codking, which we call BITS coding, is particularly suitable for the data patterns of typical DSP applications on narrow data buses. The application of BITS coding to real circuit design is limited by the extra bus line introduced, which changes the pinout of the chip. We propose a new coding method, which does not require the extra bus line but retains the advantage of BITS
Othermindedness
Authors: Michael Joyce
Venue:  (1999)

:According to renowned hyperfiction writer and cultural theorist, Michael Joyce, in network culture, "we ache with a murky sense of a newly evolving consciousness and cognition alike, almost as if we could feel the evolution of consciousness in the same way a sleeping adolescent feels the bone ache of growing pains as if in a dream."Joyce's first collection, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, charted a life of what Deleuze and Guattari call "complex mixtures" between the poles of art and instruction, teaching and writing. This new collection continues that complex mix in the form of what Joyce has called theoretical narratives, both a narrative of theory and a text in which theory often takes the form of narrative. His concerns range from hypertext and interactive fiction to the geography of cyberspace to interactive film. Joyce searches out the emergence of nature culture in spaces ranging from the shifting nature of the library to MOOs and other virtual spaces to life along a river.While in this collection Joyce continues to be one of the most lyrical, wide-ranging, and informed cultural critics and theorists of new media, the essays exhibit an evolving distrust of unconsidered claims for newness in the midst of what Joyce calls "the blizzard of the next" as well as a recurrent insistence upon grounding our experience of the emergence of network culture in the body.This book will have wide interest for general readers interested in new media and the internet as well us for specialists in literature, feminist and cultural studies, rhetoric, and interactivity. Students at all levels will be engaged by Joyce's provocative, poetical, and always accessible meditative andanalytic power.
Writing, Teaching, and Researching History in the Electronic Age: Historians and Computers
Authors: Dennis A. Trinkle
Venue:  (1999)

:Focusing on the role of the computer and electronic technology in the discipline of history, this volume presents a series of previously unpublished articles by the major scholars associated with the marriage of computers and history. Representative articles address H-Net, scholarly publication, on-line reviewing, enhanced lectures using the World Wide Web, historical research, and many other pertinent topics.
On the marginal utility of network topology measurements
Authors: Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, John Byers, Mark Crovella
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement (2001)

The cost and complexity of deploying measurement infrastructure in the Internet for the purpose of analyzing its structure and behavior is considerable. Basic questions about the utility of increasing the number of measurements and measurement sites have not yet been addressed which has led to a "more is better" approach to wide-area ,measurement studies. In this paper, we step toward a more quantifiable understanding of the marginal utility of performing wide-area ,measurements in the context of Internet topology discovery. We characterize the observable topology in terms of nodes, links, node degree distribution, and distribution of end-to-end flows using statistical and information-theoretic techniques. We classify nodes discovered on the routes between a set of 8 sources and 1277 destinations to differentiate nodes which make up the so called "backbone" from those which border the backbone and those on links between the border nodes and destination nodes. This process includes reducing nodes that advertise multiple interfaces to single IP addresses. We show that the utility of adding sources beyond the second source quickly diminishes from the perspective of interface, node, link and node degree discovery. We also show that the utility of adding destinations is constant for interfaces, nodes, links and node degree indicating that it is more important to add destinations than sources.
Statistical Quality Control with Microcomputer Applications
Authors: Larry E. Shirland
Venue:  (1992)

:Concentrates on the technical and managerial aspects of quality, especially statistical process control (SPC). Divided into two parts, it begins with basic statistical principles and the design and use of control charts. Section Two deals with planning and applying acceptance sampling designs. Includes a significant amount of diverse data sets generated to enable students to analyze potential scenarios. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Efficient subtyping tests with PQ-encoding
Authors: Yoav Zibin, Joseph Yossi Gil
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (2001)

Subtyping test, i.e., determining whether one type is a subtype of another, are a frequent operation during the execution of object-oriented programs. The challenge is in encoding the hierarchy in a small space, while simulataneously making sure that subtyping tests have efficient implmentation. We present a new scheme for encoding multiple and single inheritance hierarchies, which, in the standardized hierarchies, reduces the footprint of all previsously published schemes. The scheme is called PQ-encoding after PQ-trees, a data structure previously used in graph theory for finding the orderings that satisfy a collection of constraints. In particular, we show that in the traditional object layout model, the extra memory requirement for single inheritance hierarchies is zero. In the PQ-encoding subtyping tests are constant time, and use only two comparisons. Other than PQ-trees, PQ-encoding uses several novel optimization techniques. These techniques are applicable also in improving the performance of otehr, previously published, encoding schemes.
PC Learning Labs Teaches Microsoft Access 95 with Disk
Authors: Logical Operations
Venue:  (1996)

:After years of perfecting innovative software teaching techniques for thousands of students in the classroom, PC Learning Labs presents a proven personal approach that makes learning Microsoft Access for Windows 95 a snap. PC Learning Labs believes the quickest way to learn is by doing, and this combination book/disk tool helps you do just that. It delivers the same hands-on instruction that has helped thousands of beginning users just like you become truly confident and productive in Microsoft Access for Windows 95.
A scenario-driven role engineering process for functional RBAC roles
Authors: Gustaf Neumann, Mark Strembeck
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies (2002)

In this paper we present a novel scenario-driven role engineering process for RBAC roles. The scenario concept is of central significance for the presented approach. Due to the strong human factor in role engineering scenarios are a good means to drive the process. We use scenarios to derive permissions and to define tasks. Our approach considers changeability issues and enables the straightforward incorporation of changes into affected models. Finally we discuss the experiences we gained by applying the scenario-driven role engineering process in three case studies.
Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do
Authors: David Harel
Venue:  (2000)

:The computer has been hailed as the greatest innovation of the 20th century, and there is no denying that these technological marvels have dramatically changed our everyday lives. They can fly airplanes and spaceships, route millions of phone calls simultaneously, and play chess with the world's greatest players. But how limitless is the future for the computer? Will computers one day be truly intelligent, make medical diagnoses, run companies, compose music, and fall in love? In Computers Ltd., David Harel, the best-selling author of Algorithmics, illuminates one of the most fundamental yet under-reported facets of computerstheir inherent limitations. Looking only at the bad news that is proven, discussing limitations that no amounts of hardware, software, talent, or resources can overcome, the book presents a disturbing and provocative view of computing at the start of the 21st century. Harel takes us on a fascinating tour that touches on everything from tiling problems and monkey puzzles to Monte Carlo algorithms and quantum computing, showing just how far from perfect computers are, while shattering some of the many claims made for these machines. He concludes that though we may strive for bigger and better things in computing, we need to be realistic: computers are not omnipotentfar from it. Their limits are real and here to stay. Based on hard facts, mathematically proven and indisputable, Computers Ltd. offers a vividly written and often amusing look at the shape of the future.About the Author: David Harel is William Sussman Professor of Mathematics at The Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel. One of the world's leading computer scientists, he is the author of the critically acclaimed Algorithmics, which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide.
Sun Staroffice 5.1 for Windows, 4th edition
Authors: Brian Proffitt
Venue:  (2000)

:Sun's StarOffice 5.1 is a powerful suite of programs that is ideal for use in smalland home offices. Now available as a free download for Windows-based PCs, the integrated word processor, spreadsheet program, graphic and presentation programs, mail and news readers, event planner, and formula editor is completely compatible with Microsoft's Office. In Sun StarOffice 5.1 for Windows, you will get up to speed with the many features of the software without having to wade through pages of text and tedious instructions. The business-focused tasks help professional users get familiar with how to accomplish their everyday goals right from the start. In addition, the tips and troubleshooting tips are sure to put anyone at ease.
On computing the optimal bridge between two convex polygons
Authors: Binary Bhattacharya, Robert Benkoczi
Venue: Information Processing Letters (2001)

Given two convex polygons P and Q we want to find a line segment (a bridge) that connects P and Q so that the maximum distance from a point inside P across the bridge to a point inside Q is minimized. We propose a linear-time algorithm to solve this problem, improving the O(n2log(n)) algorithm described by Cai, Xu and Zhu [Inform. Process. Lett. 69 (1999) 127-130].
A tool-based interactive drawing environment
Authors: Robert St. Amant, Thomas E. Horton
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Graphical user interfaces rely heavily on the tool metaphor. In most drawing systems, for example, functions are organized as they might be on a workbench; buttons associated with drawing modes for lines or rectangles are called line-drawing or rectangle-drawing tools; etc. Despite the similarities, however, there remain many differences between software tools and physical tools. This paper gives a concise account of tool use in general, and describes a drawing application, called HabilisDraw, that relies on a detailed correspondence to physical tool behavior.
Microsoft Works 4.5 for Windows for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: David C. Kay
Venue:  (1998)

:So you're wondering how Microsoft Works 4.5 works! This book guides anyone through Works' word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, database, and communications features -- including Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Whether you want the big picture or just quick stuff to work faster and smarter, you'll find Microsoft Works 4.5 For Windows For Dummies fact-packed with all the fundamentals, plus extra fun tips. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Grasp Microsoft Works' tools from startup to printing -- including basic mouse, keyboard, and Windows skills Save time and trouble by avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls of novice PC users Browse the World Wide Web by using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Shave minutes off your workday by using Wizards and automatic features Make presentations colorful and effective with spreadsheets and charts Organize and analyze the numbers and data for your household, business, or volunteer organization Use Microsoft Wizards to create professional-looking direct mail pieces