Media banks: entertainment and the Internet.(MIT Media
Lab)
There are two emerging models for delivering high-density,
synchronized audiovisual presentations: video-on-demand and the
Internet. The first is based on long-lived connections and . . .
Post-modern video. (digital video)(MIT Media Lab)
Digital video is no longer a special-purpose curiosity, but is an
integral component of all emerging computer-mediated communications
systems. Moving pictures, conferencing, entertainment systems, . . .
Asparagus soup. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Media Laboratory)(MIT Media Lab)
Many years ago in Stowe, Vermont, Tom Watson, Jr. (former IBM
chairman) and Olive Watson served lunch to Jerome Wiesner (former MIT
president) and his daughter. The first course was asparagus . . .
Secrets of Software Quality: 40 Innovations from IBM.
Craig Kaplan, Ralph Clark, and Victor Tang, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New
York, 1995. 383 pp. (ISBN 0-07-911795-3).
Secrets of Software Quality describes 40 innovations that helped one
of IBM's software . . .
The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide.
Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, and Jeri Edwards, John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., New York, 1996.604 pp. (ISBN 0-471-12993-3).
There is nothing more pleasing than reading a book by informed and
engaged authors . . .
Doing IT Right: Technology, Business, and Risk of
Computing.
Harold Lorin, Manning Publications Co., Greenwich, CT, 1996. 402 pp.
(ISBN 1-884777-09-0).
Doing IT Right is a timely book that takes a dead aim at what Hal
Lorin calls the "empty center between . . .
Access control systems: from host-centric to network-centric
computing.
In this paper, we review the important theoretical models of computer
access control systems Using the IBM Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS)
operating system as the example, we show how the principles . . .
System generator for producing manufacturing
applications.
The Application System Generator (ASG/pc) offers powerful
capabilities for integrating the personal computer into problem-solving
in manufacturing engineering. Implemented on Pentium[TM]-class . . .
The information framework. (John Zachman's framework for
information systems)
John Zachman's framework for information systems architecture
has been widely discussed since its publication in the IBM Systems
Journal in 1987. This paper shows how the development of the . . .
Event-driven network topology monitoring function.
This paper discusses the design of a topology management application.
The application monitors the topology of point-to-point networks in
which each network node is required to contain only local . . .
An object-oriented system for 3D medical image analysis.
As part of a European Commission-funded research project on medical
image analysis, we have developed a system aimed at solving a real
clinical problem: the outlining of the target volume and organs . . .
Succeeding with Objects: Decision Frameworks for Project
Management.
Adele Goldberg and Kenneth S. Rubin, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.,
Reading, MA, 1995. 542 pp. (ISBN 0-201-62878-3).
For many years a favorite party game of IBM instructors has been to
select a . . .
Technical note: from dynamic supertypes to subjects: a natural
way to specify and develop systems.
When we understand, specify, and develop systems, we use certain
concepts and constructs to deal with complexity. Object-oriented (OO)
approaches provide good ways for doing so. However, many . . .
Creating global software: text handling and localization in
Taligent's CommonPoint application system. (Taligent Inc.)
Developing software that can be used across global enterprises is one
of the many challenges of today's information technology systems.
Taligent's CommonPoint [TM] application system eases this . . .
Real-time complexity metrics for Smalltalk methods.
This paper presents the rationale for ubiquitous and immediate metric
feedback on the complexity of Small talk methods whenever they are
viewed or changed. It also presents seven metrics for . . .
Approach to object security in distributed SOM. (System Object
Model)
We briefly review the IBM System Object Model (SOM, incorporated in
SOMobjects[TM]) and Distributed SOM (DSOMJ. We then describe the base
DSOM security architecture characterized by the presence of . . .
Storing and using objects in a relational database.
In today's heterogeneous development environments, application
programmers have the responsibility to segment their application data
and to store those data in different types of stores. That . . .
Automatic code generation from design patterns.
Design patterns raise the abstraction level at which people design
and communicate design of object-oriented software. However, the
mechanics of implementing design patterns is left to the . . .
Business language analysis for object-oriented information
systems.
Business language analysis grows out of a philosophy that treats
business organizations as living systems. A key concern is the meaning
of business information that provides adaptive survival . . .
Object technology in perspective.
Since its beginnings half a century ago, the technology applied to
the development of software has continually evolved. Object technology
is the result of a long progression of improvements, from the . . .
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