Named by InfoWorld as one of its "Innovators to Watch in 2005," Hideya
Kawahara, Sun Senior Staff Engineer on Project Looking Glass, shared
his insights on the 3D technology on the sun.com Web site.
What's wrong with floating point calculations anyway? Not much, unless
you're concerned with rounding errors that can result in different
answers to the same problem run on parallel machines. Then you're stuck
trying to figure out whether the difference stems from rounding, from a
software error or a hardware flaw. Bill Walster suggests a better
alternative: interval arithmetic.
For years now, television has grappled with the issue of identity and
has come up with little more than a view of itself as an access device
for TV channels. For nearly as many years, Sun Laboratories (Sun Labs) has been working on solutions that will enable television to take a broader view of itself and to become a more resourceful provider of services to its viewers.
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