Language run-time systems are routinely used to host potentially buggy or malicious codelets — software modules, agents, applets, etc. — in a secure environment. A number of t...
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In the software industry, designers are forever trying to “improve” their products by adding ever more features to them, producing bloated software systems that are capable of...
Tempus Fugit (“Time Flies”) is the first of a new generation of Personal Information Management (PIM) systems. A PIM system incorporates an electronic calendar, “to-do” li...
Daniel Alexander Ford, Joann Ruvolo, Stefan Edlund...
The MPEG-4 standard specifies a set of low-level animation parameters for body animation, but does not provide any high-level functionality for the control of avatars or embodied...