Byte-sized evolution

Evolution of Saturn’s Mid-sized Moons

PACS images can be treated byte by byte

Our PACS project at the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium radically follows from an overall IT perspective. The emphasis on image flow throughout the entire hospital supersedes operations within the image-generating departments. Image management outside the radiology department is not an afterthought, but rather an integral part in, and even a driving factor for, decisions that the departm...

Perfect Byte-Correcting Codes

We present a few new constructions for perfect linear single byte-correcting codes. These constructions generate some perfect single byte-correcting codes with new parameters, and some perfect single bytecorrecting codes with known parameters and simpler presentation and implementation over the known codes. It is also shown that nonequivalent perfect linear single byte-correcting codes exist wh...

Byte Code Genetic Programming

This paper explores the idea of using Genetic Programming (GP) to evolve Java Virtual Machine (JVM) byte code to solve a sample symbolic regression problem. The evolutionary process is done completely in memory using a standard Java environment.

Column: Every Last Byte

Inheritance powder is the name that was given to poisons, especially arsenic, that were commonly used in the 17th and early 18th centuries to hasten the death of the elderly. For most of the 17th century, arsenic was deadly but undetectable, making it nearly impossible to prove that someone had been poisoned. The first arsenic test produced a gas—hardly something that a scientist could show to ...