Higher, Faster, Smarter

Smarter , Faster , Stronger

Today's business pressures require manufacturers to optimize the availability and performance of process systems to stay competitive. Getting higher quality product out the manufacturing door has forced many to rethink process measurement systems. Devices that obtain analytical information from process streams are becoming smaller and more rugged, while providing better connectivity to plant in...

Screen idols: faster, smaller, cheaper and smarter.

The Flynn effect: Smarter not faster

Inspection time (IT) and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores from 75 school children aged 6–13 years in 2001 were compared with the performances of 70 children aged 6–13 years who had attended the same primary school in 1981 [J. Exp. Child Psychol. 40 (1985) 1.]. ITs for the 2001 sample were measured with the same four-field tachistoscope and identical computer-based procedures follow...

Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks: Faster, Closer, Smarter

Peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed hash tables (DHTs) are structured networks with decentralized lookup capabilities. Each node is responsible for a given set of keys (identifiers) and lookup of a key is achieved by routing a request through the network toward the current peer responsible for the desired key. DHT designs are usually compared in terms of degree (number of neighbors) and diameter (le...

Achieving Higher Test Coverage Faster

Test coverage is an important metric of software quality, since it indicates thoroughness of testing. A fundamental problem of software testing is how to achieve higher coverage faster, and it is a difficult problem since it requires testers to cleverly pinpoint test input data to steer execution sooner toward application code that contains more statements. We created a novel fully automatic ap...