SAP CTO Resigns, Was Key Developer of HANA Database

The German enterprise software maker is revamping its executive lineup in advance of moving to a sole-CEO arrangement. Read more »

Dell Turns 30, Looks to Data Center for Long-term Future

After three decades in business, Dell sees the future as the data center—not of server, storage or networking silos. Read more »

IBM Invents ‘Air Traffic Controllers’ to Make Clouds More Efficient

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 »

WiFi on Airlines: Users Will Find It’s Worth the Trouble

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 »

Cyber-Attackers Have Advantages, but Enterprises Must Fight Back

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 »

Yahoo Backs Away From ‘Do Not Track’ Despite Its Promise

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 »

A Survey on Position-Based Simulation Methods in Computer Graphics

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 »

Modelling Cumulus Cloud Shape from a Single Image

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 »

GEARS: A General and Efficient Algorithm for Rendering Shadows

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 »

Photon Differential Splatting for Rendering Caustics

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 »