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ARITH
2005
IEEE
16 years 8 days ago
A Fast-Start Method for Computing the Inverse Tangent
In a search for an algorithm to compute atan(x) which has both low latency and few floating point instructions, an interesting variant of familiar trigonometry formulas was disco...
Peter W. Markstein
PERVASIVE
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Ubiquitous Chip: A Rule-Based I/O Control Device for Ubiquitous Computing
In this paper, we propose a new framework for ubiquitous computing by rule-based, event-driven I/O (input/output) control devices. Our approach is flexible and autonomous because ...
Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Keisuke Hayaka...
ICCSA
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Camera Models and Optical Systems Used in Computer Graphics: Part II, Image-Based Techniques
Abstract. In our companion paper [5], we described the optics underlying camera models that have been used in computer graphics, and presented object space techniques for rendering...
Brian A. Barsky, Daniel R. Horn, Stanley A. Klein,...
CRITICAL
2005
15 years 8 months ago
From useful idiocy to activism: a Marxist interpretation of computer development
Baran and Sweezy’s 1966 study of U.S. capitalism [2] argued that its fundamental problem is not “diminishing returns” but “the tendency of surplus to rise” – from whic...
Bob Hughes
COMGEO
2006
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A new algorithmic approach to the computation of Minkowski functionals of polyconvex sets
An algorithm is proposed for the simultaneous computation of all Minkowski functionals (except for the volume) of sets from the convex ring in Rd discretized with respect to a give...
Simone Klenk, Volker Schmidt, Evgueni Spodarev