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We present an overview of the free GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME). GNOME is a suite of X11 GUI applications that provides joy to users and hackers alike. It has been designed for extensibility and automation by using CORBA and scripting languages throughout the code. GNOME is licensed

Creating high-quality software that runs in any language is a big challenge. By changing our development process to stress early defect detection and by using the World Wide Web as a collaboration tool, we have dramatically improved the quality of our internationalized software. Most software companies want to sell their software in every country in the world. Since users prefer to use software in their native language, it makes good marketing sense to develop software that can run in those languages. After the initial investment has been made to write and test software in English, a software company can make significant profits by reselling the same software to other countries if the cost of conversion into other languages can be kept low. Traditionally, software testing occurs at the end of the development cycle. This kind of testing works against creating high-quality software. When bugs are found late in the cycle, there is little time to fix them. This is especially true in internationalized software development where the developers, testers, and translators are spread all over the world. Our new approach allows a team A software design engineer

We present an AR desktop environment which integrates the standard 2D computer desktop into an augmented 3D space. The underlying physical space is given by the standard office desk used in everyday work. Instead of sitting only in front of a computer screen, the user wears a video-through head

. The analysis has implications for determining the tasks in a personal information environment that natural language is suited for. 1 Introduction In the human-computer communication community, some have touted natural language interaction (NLI) as a critical component of future interfaces. They assume

future, it is likely that desktop environments may be the choice for small to medium sized database applications. We analyze the performance of Decision Support Systems for the desktop environment. We implement the TPC-H DSS benchmark using the SHORE storage manager on the Windows 2000 platform

-chine or a PC cluster. This paper presents an automatic alignment mechanism for arbitrarily tiled displays running a desktop environment so that users can run ordinary ap-plications developed for desktop PCs. The system consists of three primary procedures: detecting projector misalign-ment, calculating

are combined to develop a production model for virtual desktop environments. This virtual model is then studied to determine possible concurrencies when varying desktop operating system and secondary storage input/output performance variables. The potential for concurrency in the production model is based

This paper reports on TaskTracer — a software system being designed to help highly multitasking knowledge workers rapidly locate, discover, and reuse past processes they used to successfully complete tasks. The system monitors users ’ interaction with a computer, collects detailed records of users ’ activities and resources accessed, associates (automatically or with users ’ assistance) each interaction event with a particular task, enables users to access records of past activities and quickly restore task contexts. We present a novel Publisher-Subscriber architecture for collecting and processing users ’ activity data, describe several different user interfaces tried with TaskTracer, and discuss the possibility of applying machine learning techniques to recognize/predict users ’ tasks.