The INTELLECT n a t u r a l l a n g u a g e d a t a b a s e q u e r y s y s t e m , a product of Artificial Intelligence Corporation, is the only commercially available system with true English query capability. Based on experience with INTELLECT in the areas of quality assurance and customer support, a number of issues in evaluating a natural language database query system, particularly the IN...

Abstract This paper presents and discusses a number of criteria for the design and implementation of electronic market servers. It first briefly reviews a number of electronic markets currently operational over the internet then offers some ideas on the types of new markets that may become successful. It then presents the design criteria for market servers, necessary to support these virtual ma...

In this paper we present a complete acoustic survey of the British Broadcasting Corporation Maida Vale recording studios. The outlines fast room measurement framework for capture spatial impulse response measurements use in three or six degrees freedom Virtual Reality rendering. Binaural recordings from KEMAR dummy head as well higher order Ambisonic taken using microphone are presented. An com...

This paper discusses about advanced disk storage necessary for distributed systems. It briefly discusses the disk storage research and the various storage systems developed. Among them the Petal, distributed virtual disks developed at the systems research center, Digital Equipment Corporation and PersonalRaid, mobile storage for distributed and disconnected computers developed at Princeton Univ...

Procedural material shaders continue to pop up since the advent of fragment programmability. Most of these shaders concentrate on interesting animated effects. The cg shades demo successfully explores the use of fragment shader programming for a different kind of materials: Highly repetitive, man-made materials. The given code shows a variety of implementation options adapted to different usage...

Microsoft acquired Connectix Corporation, a provider of virtualization software for Windows and Macintosh based computing, in early 2003. In late 2003, EMC announced its plans to acquire VMware for $635 million. Shortly afterwards, VERITAS announced that it was acquiring an application virtualization company called Ejascent for $59 million. Sun and Hewlett-Packard have been working hard in rece...

This research focused on the question: What leadership constraints contribute to the complexity of the working environment faced by global virtual team leaders and how do those leadership constraints impact the behavior of leaders when they are trying to meet team member expectations? This qualitative study of a high performing team within a multinational corporation (MNC) identified four const...

A corporate website is the virtual representation of a corporation or organization on the Internet. Corporate websites face numerous problems due to their large size and complexity, and the nonscalability of the underlying Web infrastructure. Current solutions to these problems generally rely on traditional scaling techniques such as caching and replication. These are usually too restrictive, h...

The virtual computers VC paradigm enables the in corporation of predictability and choice into the de sign of an operating system Predictability refers to the ability of the system to provide each user with a computing environment whose performance is inde pendent of the behavior of other users Choice refers to the ability of a user to select a computer system that meets that user s speci catio...

Immunogold labeling is similar to conventional immunofluorescence techniques, generally used for light microscopy. However, immunogold electron microscopy provides investigators with an added dimension over the usual fluorescence assays, as the localization and distribution of macromolecules can be clearly observed at an ultrastructural level, at high magnifications, with high resolution. In ad...