nTIM PATRICK has been working professionally as a software architect and developer for nearly
25 YEARS. By day he develops custom business applications in Visual Basic for small to medium-
sized organizations. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). In April 2007,
Microsoft awarded Tim with its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his work in sup-
porting and promoting Visual Basic and its community of users. Tim received his under-
graduate degree in computer science from Seattle Pacific University. You can contact him
through his web site, www.timaki.com.
As I write this foreword, I am collaborating with four leading user interface
(UI) component vendors on a presentation for the 2004 JavaOneSM conference.
In our presentation, the vendors will show how they leverage JavaServerTM
Faces technology in their products. While developing the presentation, I am
learning some things about the work we’ve been doing on JavaServer Faces for
the past three YEARS. The vendors have their own set of concerns unique to
adapting their product for JavaServer Faces, but they all voice one opinion
loud and clear: they are very relieved to finally have a standard for web-based
user interfaces.
G
UILLAIN-BARRéSYNDROME(GBS)is an uncommon disorder,but one
whose impact is far out of proportion to its incidence.Despite a
usually good prognosis,GBS is a particularly frightening and often life-
altering experience for those diagnosed with the disorder.Many patients
are acutely aware of the rapid loss of control of their muscular function,
including vital functions such as breathing and swallowing,and fre-
quently feel that they are dying.The experience is almost as unnerving
for the families of affected individuals.During the acute phase of the ill-
ness GBS patients experience the indignity of helplessness in addition to
their fear of death or permanent disability.Prolonged disability is com-
mon and some permanent residual effects are becoming increasingly
recognized.It has been our experience in meeting patients at support
groups,that individuals who have been affected by GBS have a great
desire for a better understanding of the disorder,even YEARS after the
acute experience.
I originally wrote this for a Z80 back in the early 80s. I found the source
code recently in one of the boxes of printouts I ve kept over the YEARS. Good
thing too, since most of the work was on a CPM system using 128k 8inch floppies.
ieee754的標準,原英文版的!Twenty YEARS ago anarchy threatened floating-point arithmetic. Over a dozen commercially significant arithmetics
boasted diverse wordsizes, precisions, rounding procedures and over/underflow behaviors, and more were in the
works. “Portable” software intended to reconcile that numerical diversity had become unbearably costly to
develop.
Thirteen YEARS ago, when IEEE 754 became official, major microprocessor manufacturers had already adopted it
despite the challenge it posed to implementors. With unprecedented altruism, hardware designers had risen to its
challenge in the belief that they would ease and encourage a vast burgeoning of numerical software. They did
succeed to a considerable extent. Anyway, rounding anomalies that preoccupied all of us in the 1970s afflict only
CRAY X-MPs — J90s now.
David Vernon is the Coordinator of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems and he is a Visiting Professor of Cognitive Systems at the University of Genoa. He is also a member of the management team of the RobotCub integrated working on the development of open-source cognitive humanoid robot.
Over the past 27 YEARS, he has held positions at Westinghouse Electric, Trinity College Dublin, the European Commission, the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Science Foundation Ireland, and Etisalat University College.
He has authored two and edited three books on computer vision and has published over eighty papers in the fields of Computer Vision, Robotics, and Cognitive Systems. His research interests include Fourier-based computer vision and enactive approaches to cognition.
He is currently a Professor at Etisalat University College in Sharjah-United Arab Emirates, focusing on Masters programs by research in Computing fields.".[1]
This book has existed (in one form or another) since the first edition of C# and the .NET Platform
was published in conjunction with the release of .NET 1.0 Beta 2, circa the summer of 2001. Since
that point, I have been extremely happy and grateful to see that this text was very well received by
the press and, most important, by readers. Over the YEARS it was nominated as a Jolt Award finalist
(I lost . . . crap!) and for the 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award in the programming book category
Yet another mp3 player, but this time using SVGALib under Linux. The idea was to use a 320x240 display which can be used in a vehicle. I wrote this quite a few YEARS ago, before mp3 players were so cheap. It uses mpg123 for the mp3 decoding.
It’s your first day in the lab.Undoubtedly you are experiencing a range
of emotions: excitement, curiosity, anxiety. You will be working in
this lab and with a group of people, as well as with your supervisor,
for several YEARS to come. This is the first day of a long commitment
and, for some, a hard road ahead. Which is why it’s important to get
off on the right foot.
Aodv for NS-2. A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a kind of wireless ad-hoc network, and is a self-configuring
network of mobile routers connected wirelessly. MANET may operate in a standalone fashion, or may
be connected to the larger Internet. Many routing protocols have been developed for MANETs over
the past few YEARS. This project evaluated three specific MANET routing protocols which are Ad-hoc
On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Dynamic MANET Ondemand
routing protocol (DYMO) to better understand the major characteristics of these routing
protocols. Different performance aspects were investigated in this project including packet delivery
ratio, routing overhead, throughput and average end-to-end delay.