The Science Grid Major upgrades to the nation's scientific grid, completed in 2004, will start showing results in the next year. Mon, 8 Nov 2004
The Computing Landscape Has Changed A series of surprise announcements from Intel, AMD, Sun, HP and IBM has changed the playing field in the computer industry. Mon, 26 Apr 2004
Not Your Father's Telephone Bill explores the new frontier of high-bandwidth telephony. Also: Chip wars heat up. Mon, 1 Mar 2004
The Future of Science The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is the beginning of a new era in the use of computers. Mon, 28 Jul 2003
Computational Science The nascent Biomedical Informatics Research Network and the University of Arizona's new computer-guided telescope prove that computers make scientific discoveries happen faster. Mon, 3 Mar 2003
The Science Grid Major upgrades to the nation's scientific grid, completed in 2004, will start showing results in the next year. Mon, 8 Nov 2004
Not Your Father's Telephone Bill explores the new frontier of high-bandwidth telephony. Also: Chip wars heat up. Mon, 1 Mar 2004
Open Source Gems Bill covers open source tools for security, backup, and business processing, as well as the JBoss J2EE server and the latest FreeBSD and eCS releases. Mon, 9 Jun 2003
The Computing Landscape Has Changed A series of surprise announcements from Intel, AMD, Sun, HP and IBM has changed the playing field in the computer industry. Mon, 26 Apr 2004
What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed) Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
