Despite the enormous media coverage that the issue of year 2000 (Y2K) readiness has received in recent months, the focus of that coverage has been restricted almost exclusively to technological aspects. Non-technical issues have tended to be either ignored completely or given very little attention. Most importantly, not much is known about the organisational processes of preparing to face this ...

The infamous bug has come and passed. This bug came about because programmers’ thought horizon did not reach into the new millenium. When the clock rolled over into the 21 century, software that thought the date was 1900 could disastrously fail. Fortunately, its impact was less than forecasted. Problem prevention has cost about 100B, which is significantly less than many forecasters predicted. ...

C. A. S. Coelho1, D. B. Stephenson1, F. J. Doblas-Reyes2, M. Balmaseda2, A. Guetter3 and G. J. van Oldenborgh4 1Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, United Kingdom 2European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Shinfield Park, Reading RG2 9AX, United Kingdom 3Instituto Tecnológico SIMEPAR, Centro Politécnico da UFPR, Jardim das Améric...

This document is intended for people who want to “be aware” of some of the mechanisms underlying the JPEG2000 image compression standard [2]. While writing this tutorial my objective was to give to the reader the feeling of what goes on when compressing images with JPEG2000 . Hence, this tutorial should be regarded as introductory material which requires further reading to reach a deeper unders...

In this paper, we investigate the error resilience properties of JPEG2000. Through a careful analysis of the structure of JPEG2000 codestreams, we identify the dependencies among coding passes of a codeblock. In our analysis, we consider the effects of mode variations provided by the standard for low-memory, low-complexity implementations. The proposed methods are derived using the existing dep...

This manual is only partially complete and is a work in progress. A completed manual will be available by January 1,2000. Cluster and TreeView are Y2K Compliant because they are oblivious of date and time.

In 1996, the JPEG committee began to investigate possibilities for a new still image compression standard to serve current and future applications. This initiative, which was named JPEG 2000, has resulted in a comprehensive standard (ISO 154447ITU-T Recommendation T.800) that is being issued in six parts. Part 1, in the same vein as the JPEG baseline system, is aimed at minimal complexity and m...

For the first time, a complete wireless and mobile emergency TeleOrthoPaedics system with field trials and expert opinion is presented. The system enables doctors in a remote area to obtain a second opinion from doctors in the hospital using secured wireless telecommunication networks. Doctors can exchange securely medical images and video as well as other important data, and thus perform remot...