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NetApp Reports Strong Financials
Wed, 21 May 2008 20:33:25 -0400
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Salesforce.com Profit Rises, Lifts 2009 Estimates
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Workday to Mobilize HCM
Wed, 21 May 2008 19:14:51 -0400
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HP-EDS Merger Could Bring Massive Job Cuts
Wed, 21 May 2008 18:57:01 -0400
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Instead of Yahoo, Microsoft spotlights aQuantive
Wed, 21 May 2008 09:21:06 -0700
The prospect of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination, with all its questions on how to "integrate" the two companies, is again bubbling to the...
Oil prices pass $135 after report of supply drop
Wed, 21 May 2008 18:20:23 -0700
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car - and paying for just about everything else - a growing burden for Americans.
Fed sharply lowers outlook for U.S. growth; sees higher inflation, jobless rate
Wed, 21 May 2008 16:32:32 -0700
The Federal Reserve today sharply lowered its projection for economic growth this year, citing blows from the housing and credit debacles...

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Microsoft Offers Rebates to Shoppers Using Its Search
Thu, 22 May 2008 04:46:55 -0000
Microsoft is taking a new approach to jump-starting its search engine: offering rebates to people who use it to find and buy some products.
Google Says It Will Defend Competitive Rationale of a Yahoo Deal
Thu, 22 May 2008 04:49:29 -0000
How can Google, the Internet search and advertising giant, contend that teaming up with Yahoo in search ads would not invite an antitrust challenge?
Open-Source File Format Is to Be a Part of Microsoft Office
Thu, 22 May 2008 04:47:15 -0000
Under pressure from European regulators and others, Microsoft is to say it will give customers the ability to use documents in Open Document Format — the main rival to the Microsoft Word format.

CNN.com - Technology

Surprised astronomers catch a dying star
Wed, 21 May 2008 18:16:41 -0400
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TVA vulnerable to hacking, GAO says
Wed, 21 May 2008 17:10:11 -0400
The nation's largest publicly owned utility company may be vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to a new report.
Professor makes breakthroughs, ballads
Wed, 21 May 2008 09:15:47 -0400
"Attracted by your gravity, your body's so compact / Pulling me inward, prepare for close contact," Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher sings in his song about a deep-space object known as a black hole.

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Nanotubes, Like Asbestos, Could Threaten Health
Wed, 21 May 2008 10:40:00 -0400
Tiny tubes made of carbon atoms have promised to revolutionize industry. But a new study in mice suggests that one kind of nanotube produces biological changes like those caused by asbestos.
Toyota Leads Race for 'Green' Cars
Wed, 21 May 2008 06:00:00 -0400
The sale of the one-millionth Prius emphasizes Toyota's early lead in hybrid vehicle sales. But Honda plans to introduce a low-cost hybrid car in the U.S. market early next year. And Nissan and GM will follow a year later.
Google, Apple Go Head to Head in Ultimate Frisbee
Tue, 20 May 2008 16:41:00 -0400
Every few weeks during the spring, stalwarts of the Internet economy — companies like Google, Apple, Facebook and Yahoo — meet on an open field to shout out their brand loyalties and throw things at each other. It's not the downturn in the economy that has blood pressures high. It's ultimate Frisbee.

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Rural homes dominate broadband UK
Wed, 21 May 2008 23:11:34 -0000
Rural households are now more likely to have a broadband connection than residents of towns, says Ofcom.
Microsoft offers cash back search
Wed, 21 May 2008 19:49:55 -0000
Microsoft is offering shoppers cash rebates to use its new service in a bid to close the gap on market leader Google
Net downloads to get age ratings
Wed, 21 May 2008 12:14:28 -0000
Games and videos downloaded from the web are to be policed by a voluntary age rating scheme.

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A tech 'renaissance' in Europe
Wed, 21 May 2008 14:51:13 -0400
May 21 - Central and Eastern Europe has quietly become a hub of innovation for start-ups and top tech companies alike.
Touchphones put finger on success
Wed, 21 May 2008 01:28:29 -0400
May 21 - Touchscreen mobile phones are the sector's next killer application, and Asian makers and consumers are joining the party.
The Google of Europe?
Tue, 20 May 2008 14:09:58 -0400
May 20 - A Slovenian start up called Zemanta is "feeling lucky" after winning international investment for its innovative technology.

AP Top Technology News At 12:47 a.m. EDT

'Indiana Jones' and the computer-generated jungle
By DERRIK J. LANG Thu, 22 May 2008 04:47:26 -0000
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In these hallowed halls, Indiana Jones almost seems out of place. A banner with a two-dimensional cutout of the swashbuckling archaeologist swings through the lobby of Industrial Light and Magic, where life-size replicas of Darth Vader and Bobba Fett from "Star Wars" stand guard....
Facebook preparing for redesign to clear clutter
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Wed, 21 May 2008 22:45:27 -0000
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Having nearly tripled its audience and added about 20,000 new applications over the past year, Facebook Inc.'s popular online hangout is about to undergo a housecleaning....
Microsoft lures search traffic with cash rebates
By JESSICA MINTZ Wed, 21 May 2008 19:37:21 -0000
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo....

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HP introduces new 'green' label for products
Wed, 21 May 2008 21:00:00 -0700
The Eco Highlights label will flag the company's most environmentally friendly peripherals, like a completely recyclable printer.
GamePie: GameFly's social Facebook application
Wed, 21 May 2008 20:19:00 -0700
GameFly launches a Facebook application that allows gamers to share what they are currently playing; review and score games that they have played in the past; and make a wish list of games that they want to play in the future.
Carbon trading our way out of hunger crisis
Wed, 21 May 2008 18:05:00 -0700
A seemingly magical chemical combined with a carbon trading network is one company's hope for ending world hunger and reducing global warming.

 

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500 FAQSYS - A wealth of programming links, including 3D/2D math, fractals, optimization, compression, video cards, graphics file formats.
Meta Description: [ Faqsys is a site for graphic related programming. A large collection (>40 MB) of txts, faqs, docs etc. ]

2D special effects - A master thesis about various 2D special effects, with example movies.

404 3D Coding Blackhole - A tutorial series discussing several aspects of 3D graphics programming, in C. Topics include mathematical background, transformations, polygon filling, clipping, hidden surface removal, texture mapping, and shading.

3D Object Intersection - A grid of intersection routines for various popular objects, pointing to resources in books and on the web.
Meta Description: [ 3D Object Intersection ]

A project on Graph Drawing: AGD-Library - The aim of our project is to develop efficient algorithms for automatic graph drawing that are integrated in a library (AGD-Library), and that can be used within a new flexible graph editor (Graphlet).

An Interactive Introduction to Splines - Bezier, B-spline, NURBS, and many other spline curves and surfaces with interactive 2D Java applets and VRML.

Andrew's Autostereogram Pages - A detailed development of a stereogram-generation algorithm is presented, complete with a ready-to-run Windows program to download and experiment with.
Meta Description: [ Introductory and technical information about 3D autostereograms, including downloadable software. ]

Andrija Radovic´'s Algorithms - Several unique algorithms for fast and optimal computations with integer numbers and graphics suitable for hardware implementation: dividing, square rooting, line drawing, ellipse drawing, Haiku plot routine.

BSP Tree FAQ - How to manipulate and use binary space partition (BSP) trees.

Chris Bregler's home page - Research and recent papers on video-based capture of human movements. The main applications are feature animation, video games, and analyzing Movement Disorder

comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions - Basic computations frequently needed in graphics.

404 DDJ, July 1995: BSP Trees - Implementing and Using BSP Trees: Fast 3-D sorting
Meta Description: [ Software tools and techniques for global software development. Dr. Dobb's features articles, source code, blogs,forums,video tutorials, and audio podcasts, as well as articles from Dr. Dobb's Journal, BYTE.com, C/C++ Users Journal, and Software Development magazine. ]

Exaflop - Articles of interest to computer graphics.

Fast Line Drawing Algorithms by Po-Han Lin - Contains sources for graphical algorithms to draw lines. Included are the popular Bresenham algorithm, the Wu's Symmetric Double-Step, and the fastest non-cpu dependent algorithm, the Extremely Fast Line Algorithm (EFLA).

Faster 3D Graphics by Not Drawing What Is Not Seen - Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
Meta Description: [ Faster 3D Game Graphics by Not Drawing What Is Not Seen;ACM Crossroads 3-3 ]

404 GFX - Several articles on real-time graphics rendering.

404 GFX: Computer Graphics Programming - Several articles on advanced graphics programming, mostly 3D-related.

Graphics Gems Repository - The official site for source code, errata, and addenda to the Graphics Gems book series.
Meta Description: [ Source code, errata, and addenda to the Graphics Gems book series ]

Hardware Perlin Noise Demonstration - Article by Paul R. Dunn. Describes a fast way to generate perlin noise by using 3D texture blending hardware.

HiEnd3D - Dedicated to all kinds of innovations in interactive 3D graphics. It's all about new interesting ideas, useful programming tricks and enjoyable visual experience.
Meta Description: [ innovations in interactive 3D graphics ]

Hugues Hoppe's Homepage - A collection of research graphics articles.

Implicit Surfaces - 3D modeling using implicit surfaces blended based on a CSG tree. Publications on the theory, picture gallery, and links.

Inferno Project - The research of Ray Tracing accelerated by modern Graphics Hardware (GPU).
Meta Description: [ The Inferno Project - research of realtime ray-tracing on programmable graphics hardware (GPUs) ]

Ken Turkowski's Contributions in Computer Graphics - Antialiasing, color spaces, testure mapping, shading, geometry, image registration, numerical computation, open source articles.
Meta Description: [ Computer Graphics Papers and Resources ]

Levels of Detail and Polygonal Simplification - This paper covers the techniques of Polygonal Simplification in order to produce Levels of Detail (LODs). The problem of creating LODs is a complex one: how can simpler versions of a model be created? How can the approximation error be measured? How can the visual degradation be estimated? Can all this be done automatically? After exposing the basic aims and principles of polygonal simplification, we compare recent algorithms and state their various qualities and weaknesses. Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
Meta Description: [ A comparative study of recent polygonal simplification techniques to produce levels of detail; ACM Crossroads 3-4 ]

M Spline - A new linear best quality and fast algorithm of raster image scaling.

Map Projection - Very basic grey page with some useful links on map projection.

Map Projection Overview - Everything you always wanted to know about map projections, and then some.

Medical Articles Records GroundTruth - This site contains ground truth data for biomedical images to help develop algorithms to automatically extract information from the printed page. There is also a visual tool and analysis tool called Rover to aid researchers with their algorithms.

404 Modeling Ocean Waves using IFFTs - A practical tutorial on using the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform to generate and animate a deep ocean wave heightfield. Includes source and demo.

Modeling Sprite Animation Using Finite State Automata - Article by Diana Gruber on how to model sprite animation in a computer game.

500 Portal Technique for Real-time 3D Engines - This document describes how you can render a set of 3D polygons using the portal technique.

PseudoGrey - Algorithm allows accurate encoding and decoding of 1786 levels of grey within a 24-bit image; text overview, sample images, and a Java test program can be found at this site.
Meta Description: [ description of pseudoGrey, a technique for storing 1786 levels of grey in 24-bit imagery ]

Ray Tracing News - An infrequent newsletter on ray tracing and general computer-graphics research and resources.

Ray Tracing News Index - Hand-built topic index to some of the articles.

Real-time Optimally Adapting Meshes (ROAM) - A paper describing a method for continuously maintaining view-dependent triangular meshes to achieve desired frame rates.

500 Representing a Camera in a 3D Real-time Engine - This article describes how you can use a 3x3 matrix and a vector to represent a camera in a 3D viewing system.

Shadow Generation Algorithms - This page gives a link to a (compressed postscript) paper on a shadow generation algorithm.

Stylized Depiction - Survey of non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) for computer graphics and animation: painterly rendering, toon shading, painterly image processing, and simulation of traditional artistic media.
Meta Description: [ Links to material on non-photorealistic rendering for computer graphics and animation. ]

Texture Mapping as a Fundamental Drawing Primitive - Article by Paul Haeberli and Mark Segal. Survey of applications of texture mapping including simple texture mapping, projective textures, and image warping; description of texture mapping techniques for drawing anti-aliased lines, air-brushes, and anti-aliased text; and show of how texture mapping may be used as a fundamental graphics primitive for volume rendering, environment mapping, color interpolation, and contouring.
Meta Description: [ Paul Habaerli's Grafica information is no longer available at this location. ]

The Progressive Fans Representation - A new technology for progressive transmission and view-dependent simplification of manifold and non-manifold meshes.

University of Florida Surflab - Research in geometric modeling and its application to areas such as Rapid design of complex geometry, 3D Graphics, Scientific Visualization

VDSlib: A View-Dependent Simplification Package - Public domain package for view-dependent simplification and rendering of polygonal environments.

Xvox demo - Trilinear displacement mapping and depth addaptive tessellation with DX8. Terrain rendering example provided

Zime: archaic ornament and data encoding vehicle - Personal graphical signet for your internet site and/or HTML email.
Meta Description: [ The official website of the EXPO2000 project ZIME (Latvia) ]