Traditional computer languages such as BASIC, Pascal and C have ways to model data and functionality, but they don’t have any way to model objects, in the “object oriented” sense of that word. Instead ...

Object Oriented Programming was introduced to software development almost half a century ago but should it be banished from embedded, safety-critical development? Object Oriented Programming (OOP) was ...

Embedded objects in Microsoft Word are those inserted directly into a document, such as text boxes, shapes and pictures. Although Word is not a graphics program, it offers basic graphic editing ...

Persistent Java objects simplify the storage and exchange of complex object structures. Poet Software's FastObjects j2 is a pure Java implementation of an object database management system (ODBMS). It ...

The previous section discussed how to obtain and set up Java for both Windows and Linux personal computers. Now, we're going to talk briefly about the Java language itself. Again, we're not trying to ...

Today's sophisticated system-on-chip (SoC) devices implement a variety of specialized microelectronic functions. Those functions, sometimes complete embedded systems in their own right, typically ...

Object detection and recognition are an integral part of computer vision systems. In computer vision, the work begins with a breakdown of the scene into components that a computer can see and analyse.

PowerPoint, Microsoft's presentation and slide software, allows you to create animated presentations featuring text, images, sounds and other media objects. In addition to these custom features, you ...