When designing any agent-based system, it is important to determine how sophisticated the agents' reasoning will be. Reactive agents simply retrieve pre-set behaviors similar to reflexes without ...

Before submitting your stories make sure they are in the standard manuscript format. This is described in many, many "How to Write" books -- and I strongly recommend that you read at least one such ...

The area of approximation algorithms is aimed at giving provable guarantees on the performance of heuristics for hard problems. The course will present general techniques (such as convex ...

As much as Andy loves PostgreSQL, there is one part that is terrible and causes many headaches for people. Learn what it is and why it sucks.

The Acme Project Acme is a simple, generic software architecture description language (ADL) that can be used as a common interchange format for architecture design tools and/or as a foundation for ...

To free wearable tech from the burden of batteries, SCS researchers developed Power-Over-Skin, which allows electricity to travel through the human body and could one day power battery-free devices ...

I see names like 'Qin', 'Xu', 'Zhu', and I am not sure how to say Chinese names like these. What you see is pinyin, literally 'spell out the sound'. It's a system for romanizing Chinese ideograms, ...

Textbook Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Maarten Van Steen Published by Pearson, ISBN 0-13-239227-5, 2nd edition. The lecture notes will be available after each ...

This data set contains WWW-pages collected from computer science departments of various universities in January 1997 by the World Wide Knowledge Base (Web->Kb) project of the CMU text learning group.

The names and naming practices for this handout were primarily taken from a series of books called Catálogo de Pasajeros a Indias (Catalog of passengers to the New World). The books contain lists of ...

Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.

The Quad-Edge data structure is useful for describing the topology and geometry of polyhedra. We will use it when implementing subdivision surfaces (a recent, elegant way to define curved surfaces) ...