Sophie's raison d'être is to enable people to create robust, elegant rich-media, networked documents without recourse to programming, it promises to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of creative people.
provides a software development platform that allows developers to take advantage of a new generation of high performance processors. These new processors, including GPUs, the IBM Cell, and other multi-core processors
Portable PRECISE tracing collector for C++ (as oposed to popular Hans Boehm CONSERVATIVE collector). It should not mess other data with collected pointers ! And thats a feat! Smieciuch defines smart pointer classes which behave like normal C/C++ pointers
concerning "Lock-Free" and "Wait-Free" algorithms and data structures. These techniques allow concurrent update of shared data structures without resorting to critical sections protected by operating system managed locks.
by Richard Walters ("For the People" magazine) "Physicist Bruce DePalma has a 100 kilowatt generator, which he invented, sitting in his garage. It could power his whole house, but if he turns it on, the government may confiscate it. "
lists potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations. Click on the object designation to go to a page with full details on that object.
online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Unlike PayPal, Dwolla doesn't take a percentage of the transaction. It only asks for $0.25 whether it's moving $1 or $1,000.
a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and natural-language-processing toolkit which supports many practical textual-reasoning tasks over real-world documents right out-of-the-box (without additional statistical training)
a tool that automatically converts existing Java-language code into Microsoft Visual C# for developers who want to move existing applications to the .NET Framework.
"Have you had the privilege of sitting on pins and needles with information that has the potential to revolutionize all genre of PC gaming" (to late see CELL)
a Framework written in Java (plattform independent). It helps developers to find bugs or designerrors by showing the Objectreferences in an easy way. For Example during deep-Cloning of Objects in Java its very hard to test and proof the functionality of t
The WIPO Online Forum is open to participation by all interested persons – you are invited to join in online discussions over a period of two weeks from June 1, 2005.
a tool for providing the 'atomic' keyword for C/C++ (gcc, x86, Linux only yet). With TARIFA you may replace hard-to-understand lock (mutex) constructs or improve coarse-grained locking solutions by employing regions of code that appear to be executed atom
Window Switch is a tool which allows you to display running applications on other computers than the one you start them on, programs can be imitated remotely Once an application has been started via a winswitch server, it can be displayed on other machines running winswitch client, as required. Interestingly they seem to support server service with a pay option (security may be a concern)
an graphical alternative to writing scripts - Scripting for the GUI guys. A user can assemble a data processing 'machine' from 'gears' using drag-and-drop; select a data source; and run the machine to produce output.
distributed filesystem - "we have some Linux-isms in our code, at least in the HTTP transport code. Our plan is to scrap that and make it portable, though."
The Starflight III project is composed of fans and several of the SF/SF2 authors. We are making no profit from this game, as we are distributing it for free and creating it in our own spare time.
a modular, plugin-driven peer-to-peer client framework which is designed with true multi-network downloads in mind. It can be used directly via the built-in shell functionality, or via external user interfaces.
a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence.
The KDE-Windows port an ongoing progress in native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows. Currently the Windows versions starting with Windows XP are supported.
Natural Interaction will let computer tools capture and understand ideas that are today captured in pencil on scraps of paper. This capability can introduce design capture into the earliest stages of the design process and radically shorten the design cyc
a ruby on rails platform, a completely web-based rails development and deployment environment, and hosted on Amazon's EC2, so it's also completely virtual.
a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. 30-second movies using your pictures and music.
concept created by lone developer (Eskil Steenberg) bent on creating an entire massively multiplayer online world single-handedly, using procedural generation techniques that cause the game to build itself by starting with clever rules and exploring them
aims to build scalable, robust distributed systems using peer-to-peer ideas. The basis for much of our work is the Chord distributed hash lookup primitive.
open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages (build and tested on Windows XP SP3, (K)Ubuntu 8.04, and Mac OSX 10.5.2). CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the GPL license.
«I have taught an undergraduate compilers course for over a decade. In the last several years, I have used my own textbook "Basics of Compiler Design". I have now decided to make this available online.». "Extended edition" += chapter about analysis and optimization
Eric Weisstein's World of Science is written and maintained by the author as a public service for scientific knowledge and education. Although it is often difficult to find explanations for technical subjects that are both clear and accessible, this web s
Drivey is an NPR [Non Photo Realistic] driving simulator, which exists mostly in my mind right now. In a nutshell, it is [to be] an attempt to re-capture the essence of old-time video games in the context of fast, ubiquitous computers.
library for writing cross-platform network applications. libpnet6 facilitates the writing of professional quality client/server applications in the TCP, UDP, and UNIX domain protocols, offering full support for the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet protocols.
real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II released under GPL. Graphics and Textures created from shots of real models made out of plasticine! developed as a project at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, Prague by 6 students
an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster, local cache, prefetching, data compression. Currently a Google Labs product. (probably good for very slow connections and as a general proxy)
it is possible to execute Python code at speeds approaching that of fully compiled languages, by "specialization". The current prototype operates on i386-compatible processors and shows 2 to 100 times speed-ups, depending on code.
a 'virtual machine' for several classic graphical point-and-click adventure games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system.
Initial group consisted of a cooperation of 4 people: a biologist from Great Falls, Montana; a Cree Nations elder representing the First Nations People; the skeptic Todd Standing; and a paramedic fire fighter from Calgary, Alberta. Our ultimate goal is to ethically introduce civilization to the most man-like primate on the planet.
a free multiplayer online game with 3d graphics. Become part of an epic adventure in an ever-growing universe, complete with high-tech quests, enemy factions, and explosive space battles.
"a small Ruby book. It won’t crush you. It’s light as a feather (because I haven’t finished it yet—hehe). And there’s a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn."
Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning.
is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is a practical self-copying. Complete open-source instructions and plans are published on this website for zero cost and available to everyone so, if you want to make one yourself
a comprehensive free tutorial to the Ruby language. Eventually it will form a book of more than 400 pages in 20 chapters. It is being provided in the form of PDF chapters, each of which is accompanied by ready-to-run source code for all the examples in ea
a research and learning project about flowering plants. The research component is aimed at creating a language for discussing the bloom times of wildflowers and other plants that is neutral in respect to climate, region, and hemisphere.
a library for functional programming in C++. Functional programming is a programming paradigm in which functions are treated as regular values. Thus, we can have functions that take other functions as parameters.
a free Ruby-based environment aiming to make programming easily available to beginners, especially children. Its driving force was an essay titled The Little Coder's Predicament written in 2003 by why the lucky stiff (AKA why)
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