Digital signal processing is a stealth technology. It is the core enabling technology in everything from your cellphone to the Mars Rover. It goes much further than just enabling a one-time breakthrough product. It provides ever-increasing capability; ...

Our complex world is characterized by representation, transmission, and storage of information - and information is mostly processed in digital form. With the advent of DSPs (digital signal processors), engineers are able to implement complex algorithms ...

From the dawn of the DSP (digital signal processor), an old quote still echoes: "Oh, no! We’ll have to use state-of-the-art 5µm NMOS!" The speaker’s name is lost in the fog of history, as are many things from the ancient days of 5µm chip design. This ...

Many signal processing applications require both efficiency and programmability. Baseband signal processing in 3G cellular base stations, for example, requires hundreds of GOPS (giga, or billions, of operations per second) with a power budget of a few ...

In past decades, “Moore’s law”1 has governed the revolution in microelectronics. Through continuous advancements in device and fabrication technology, the industry has maintained exponential progress rates in transistor miniaturization and integration ...

Since 1979 saw the design of the first wave of user-programmable DSP chips—the Intel 2920, the NEC µPD7720, and the Bell Labs (AT&T) DSP-1—2004 is a 25th anniversary that’s appropriately celebrated with the collection of articles presented in this month’...

Ken Coar’s “The Sun Never Sets on Distributed Development” (ACM Queue 1(9), December/January 2003) is a fine, succinct, and to-the-point(s) article. Absolutely required reading for every telemanager. I’m sure I’ll include some of Ken Coar’s insights in ...

People have warned against “monoculturalism” in the software community for years. Parallels have been drawn between Internet viruses and worms such as ILOVEYOU and Microsoft SQL Slammer and, for example, the Mexican boll weevil that devastated cotton ...

OpenGL, the decade-old mother of all graphics application programming interfaces (APIs), is getting two significant updates to bring it into the 21st century.

It has been the conventional wisdom for some time that it is more cost effective to use many smaller servers rather than one large centralized mainframe. The arguments in favor of this view are, essentially, that expansion is cheaper and that one is not ...

Emerging Robotics Technologiesand Applications Conference. March 9-10, 2004. Cambridge, Massachusetts - PerCom (IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications). March 14-17, 2004. Orlando, Florida

In 1999, Teresa Meng took a leave of absence from Stanford University and with colleagues from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, founded Atheros Communications to develop and deliver the core technology for wireless communication ...

A potentially deadly illness, clinically referred to as UML (Unified Modeling Language) fever, is plaguing many software-engineering efforts today. This fever has many different strains that vary in levels of lethality and contagion. A number of these ...

Over the last decade, businesses and governments have been giving increasing attention to business processes - to their description, automation, and management. This interest grows out of the need to streamline business operations, consolidate ...

I remind you, first, that "damnéd" has two syllables, calling for a Shakespearean sneer as sneered by Olivier strutting his King Richard III stuff.