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Reduce the size of a processing core, and usually more can fit onto one chip. IntellaSys took that approach with its Scalable Embedded Array (SEA) architecture, which resembles Parallax's Propeller […]

Although Lisp was the host for many of the first graphical user interface (GUI) packages, popular activity in this area has shifted to more primitive but widely used languages such […]

As the poem goes, 'Water, water everywhere ... .' If Mike Plusch and Christopher Fry have their way, that's how the development world will be, but there will be plenty […]

Developing accurate translation software remains complicated and elusive. Language is a barrier to business and demand for translation of foreign-language documents far outstrips the capabilities of expensive and over-stretched translation […]

Microsoft claims that nearly all world-class software is built using Visual C++, but the reading list looks daunting * What is it? 'Nearly all world-class software, from the leading Web […]

Creating macros is a lot easier than you think. We show you how to cope with VBA, the macro language introduced by Microsoft Word 97. When Microsoft released Word 97, […]

Nick Langley reveals what you need to know before taking on C and C++ * What are they? C is a programming language most commonly used with Unix. C++ is […]

IF YOU DESIGN IN VERILOG, USING THE HDL'S PROGRAMMING-LANGUAGE INTERFACE IS VALUABLE FOR INVOKING A C FUNCTION FROM VERILOG. THIS ARTICLE PROVIDES THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO START WRITING USEFUL [...]

IF THERE is one piece of technology Microsoft takes very seriously it is extensible markup language (XML). And at Tech Ed 99 this was among the software giant's most important […]

Part 3 of this series examines Java applets and CGI/DLL programs Peter Jacso is associate professor of library and information science at the department of information and computer sciences at […]

SERVERS, SWITCHES and routers certainly suck up a lot of electricity. But according to power engineers at Cleveland-based Eaton Corp., all that hardware actually accounts for less than a third […]

SYSTEM DESIGNERS, especially those dealing with communication systems, use Matlab and Simulink or SystemC to specify algorithms to implement in hardware. However, the SystemC approach entails reimplementation of the design [...]

THOUGH THEY WERE once the only practical platforms for Web application development, high-level scripting languages have been eclipsed in recent years by Java and by snazzy, high-performance packaged solutions geared […]

Like astronomers who convene at distant sites to observe an eclipse, software developers came to San Francisco this month to see a revealing alignment. In the largest concentration of talent […]

STADIUM IS A QUITE sophisticated piece of Java code. It provides a basic distance-learning environment for hosting various events handled by different organisations. Last year, the open University Lab set […]

It's time for business-to-business marketers to wake up and smell the Java. Most of the attention given to Sun Microsystems' red-hot Java programming language has focused on the impact it [...]

Microsoft Corp. will rely on its large corps of Visual Basic developers to provide the leverage it needs to push into the Internet. On one front, Microsoft hopes to entice […]

The concept of software agents recently got some nice attention with the long-delayed appearance of tools and applications for General Magic's Magic Cap operating system. Magic Cap is sexy, the […]

InfoWorld readers are taking their personal computer networks into the information systems mainstream. You are going beyond the personal productivity applications that fueled the PC revolution. You are going beyond […]

By Paul M. Sherer and Evan O. Grossman The delay routines in Microsoft Corp.'s QuickPascal and Borland International Inc.'s Turbo C and Turbo Pascal languages work improperly on 486-based PCs, […]

This is the second part of a two-part interview with R. Douglas Kahn, president and CEO of Interactive Images Inc. of Woburn, Mass., which developed the Easel graphical interface development […]

If You're Searching for Pain-Free Way To Add DOs Memory, Go Ask Ada The second editorial of PC Week's July 11 issue, headlined 'Additional Memory Should Come with Minimum Pain,' […]

Word for Windows' BASIC-like programming language is a key element in Microsoft Corp.'s strategy to create an integrated suite of Windows and OS/2 Presentation Manager applications. Before the end of […]