The German enterprise software maker is revamping its executive lineup in advance of moving to a sole-CEO arrangement. Read more »
After three decades in business, Dell sees the future as the data center—not of server, storage or networking silos. Read more »
IBM aims to make cloud environments more efficient and scalable with a new job scheduling system that the company refers to as "air traffic controllers." Read more »
NEWS ANALYSIS: Airlines in the U.S. and elsewhere are outfitting their aircraft with on-board WiFi, but it's one thing to have working WiFi and another to have a WiFi service that works... Read more »
NEWS ANALYSIS: Most security pros believe attackers are able to dodge defenses. Companies can better protect themselves by sharing threat intel within their industries. Read more »
NEWS ANALYSIS: The irony of Yahoo's abandoning "do not track" is that it is closer than ever to being a standard. Other tools can limit tracking, but DNT makes it easier. Read more »
The dynamic simulation of mechanical effects has a long history in computer graphics. The classical methods in this field discretize Newton's second law in a variety of Lagrangian or Eulerian ways, and... Read more »
Clouds are important components of the fascinating natural images. However, extracting cloud shapes from images remains a challenging task. This paper presents a calculation method for estimating the shape of a cumulus... Read more »
We present a soft shadow rendering algorithm that is general, efficient and accurate. The algorithm supports fully dynamic scenes, with moving and deforming blockers and receivers, and with changing area light source... Read more »
We present a photon splatting technique which reduces noise and blur in the rendering of caustics. Blurring of illumination edges is an inherent problem in photon splatting, as each photon is unaware... Read more »