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On November 21, 1941, the SS Pasteur, a former French luxury liner now stripped of its finery and ferrying raw materials and men across the deadly North American shipping routes, [...]

In last month's installment in the continuing saga of data compression, we created an LZSS compressor (a variant of LZ77), which was capable of achieving respectable compression ratios while also […]

Compression Continued This month, we continue our look at data compression. Last time, we examined RLE compression, Huffman coding, LZ78 compression, and its close relative, LZW compression. We even wrote […]

This month, we're going to explore one of my favorite subjects and a much-requested topic: data compression. In essence, the whole basis behind the theory of data compression is to […]

Leader of the Pack There's an interesting story behind this month's program. When I began working for Borland, my job was to write and maintain the Turbo C runtime library. […]

In the last few months, we've examined both LZW and LZSS data compressors; this month, we're going to take a long look backward. While LZW and LZSS represent the state […]

This month's program was inspired by an old brainteaser. The objective is to find a 10-digit number wherein each digit represents the number of times that digit appears in the […]

Computer Game Programming Do you remember the teenage chess fanatic from your high-school days? He was that awkward fellow who packed a chess set with him wherever he went and […]

Legend has it that the term 'bug' came from a particularly amusing incident involving the Harvard Mark 1 computer. In the 1940s, relays were used as switching devices for the […]

This month, we're popping the cork on the champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of the 'What's the Code?' column. The old adage goes 'Time files when you're having fun,' […]

What's the Code? Last month we talked about the BIOS data area and video-memory organization in the PC. This month, we are going to build on that knowledge to tackle […]

Many readers have commented on the code listing formatting, and we're working on it. Last month, we began a new method of formatting, which should help beginners read the program. […]

If you sit around a table with a few programmers talking shop, sooner or later the topic of conservation turns to binary trees. Possibly the most elegant data structure I've […]

SORTING IT ALL OUT ... When it was a green programmer, still wet behind the ears, my approach to adding a sorting function to a program was simple: I would […]

STRANGE VICTORY Hitler's Conquest of France. By Ernest R. May. Illustrated. 594 pp. New York: Hill & Wang. $30. The defeat of France in 1940 ranks as one of the [...]

BETWEEN SILK AND CYANIDE A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945. By Leo Marks. Illustrated. 614 pp. New York: The Free Press. $27.50. Leo Marks'S father founded the London secondhand bookstore immortalized by [...]

The Culture of Secrecy, Britain 1832-1998 David Vincent Oxford University Press xii+364pp 25.00 £ ISBN 0-19-820307-1 `Unnecessary secrecy in government leads to arrogance in governance and defective decision-making.' So states [...]

New Orleans -- WWOZ(FM), known as The Guardians of the Groove, is an independent, volunteer-powered community radio station located in New Orleans, broadcasting 100 kW of analog at 90.7 FM, [...]

DOUBLE CROSS The True Story of the D-Day Spies By Ben Macintyre. 416 pp. Crown, 2012. $26. While the Allies were securing their tenuous beachhead at Normandy, the Germans kept [...]

CROSSING THE RHINE Breaking into Nazi Germany 1944 and 1945--The Greatest Airborne Battles in History By Lloyd Clark. 416 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008. $25. Inserting forces behind the lines [...]

YOU ONLY NEED TO ASK YOURSELF two questions to understand how important the Latino market will be in influencing the future of the American economy. First, can you remember when [...]