If you were to suggest a library or programming language that had to be reasonably platform agnostic and easy-to-learn-and-install for up-and-coming programmers (let's say, 2nd and 3rd year CS ...

When you want to quickly pull together a combination of media and user interaction, looking to some building blocks for the heavy lifting can be a lifesaver. That’s the idea behind Max, a graphical ...

Graphical programming isn't new. Yet significant improvements in visual architecture, development-tool user interfaces, and compilation to hardware and software targets have moved graphical ...

Ever-increasing numbers of technologies are converging into the simplest of devices, technologies that expand these devices beyond their main function. A good example is Apple’s iPhone, which combines ...

To make FPGAs accessible to DSP engineers without hardware design expertise, FPGA and tool vendors have developed tools that allow FPGAs to be programmed in high-level behavioral languages such as ...

The constant thread that runs through my days as an embedded-processor-applications manager is finding new, effective ways for our customers to reduce time to market. It’s no secret that design cycles ...

There is an argument for a trade school to require Windows, because it is teaching programming as a skill rather than a discipline. There is no argument for making the default at a school turning out ...