The book is an introduction to the idea of design patterns in software engineering, and a catalog of twenty-three common patterns. The nice thing is, most experienced OOP designers will find out they've known about patterns all along. It's just that they've never considered them as such, or tried to centralize the idea behind a given pattern so that it will be easily reusable.

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.

Intelligent Automated Assistant

A software system for developing interactive scientific visualization applications quickly, with a minimum of programming effort, is described. This application visualization system (AVS) is an application framework targeted at scientists and engineers. The goal of the system is to make applications that combine interactive graphics and high computational requirements easier to develop for both programmers and nonprogrammers. AVS is designed around the concept of software building blocks, or modules, which can be interconnected to form visualization applications. AVS allows flow networks of existing modules to be constructed using a direct-manipulation user interface, and it automatically generates a simple user interface to each module. >

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The application visualization system: a computational environment for scientific visualization

Gesture-Based interfaces offer an alternative to traditional keyboard, menu, and direct manipulation interfaces. The ability to specify objects, an operation, and additional parameters with a single intuitive gesture appeals to both novice and experienced users. Unfortunately, gesture-based interfaces have not been extensively researched, partly because they are difficult to create. This paper describes GRANDMA, a toolkit for rapidly adding gestures to direct manipulation interfaces. The trainable single-stroke gesture recognizer used by GRANDMA is also described.

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Specifying gestures by example

An electronic document delivery system and methods of its use are provided. A document, preferably in a portable format, is forwarded to a remote server (e.g. using HTTP to "push" the document to the server). The server sends a generic notification of the document to an intended recipient, and the recipient can download the document from the server using local protocols. In preferred embodiments, the invention is used for the controlled delivery of portable documents from a sender to a large number of recipients, using a network of servers that route the documents and notifications in a store and forward manner, while providing routing and accounting information back to the sender.

Electronic document delivery system in which notification of said electronic document is sent to a recipient thereof

The Andrew Toolkit - An Overview.

The major problems of modern software involve finding effective techniques and tools for organizing and maintaining large, complex programs. The key concept in modern programming for controlling complexity is abstraction, that is, selective emphasis on detail. This monograph discusses how the Ada programming language provides ways to support and exploit such abstraction techniques.

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Introduction to the First Edition

Since the initial publication of Studies, some parts of the Ada1 language have been changed in response to the ANSI standardization process. The second edition of Studies has been updated to conform to the latest available Ada manual [Department of Defense 82].2 All of our references to the Ada manual come from this document (see page 36).

Introduction to the Second Edition

This paper discusses several hypermedia facilities built on top of the An- drew Toolkit (ATK) and their use in ATK applications. As a general-purpose, multimedia, application-development system, ATK permits many kinds of links, references and other connections to be made within pieces of content and between pieces of content, regardless of the content's medium. We argue that starting with a multimedia architecture facil- itates the construction of all forms of hypermedia. Four specific hypermedia facilities implemented with ATK are discussed: an integrated web and indexing system (Help), a simple multimedia link facility (Link), a cross reference (Textref) capability, and a link- supporting embedded object language (Ness). As a toolkit, ATK is used to build other applications which inherit ATK's hypermedia facilities. Therefore we consider briefly the way that hypermedia facilities are used in conventional applications, such as mall systems.

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Building hypertext on a multimedia toolkit: an overview of Andrew Toolkit hypermedia facilities

to the Second Edition.- to the First Edition.- I The Impact of Abstraction Concerns on Modern Programming Languages.- 1. The Impact of Abstraction Concerns on Modern Programming Languages.- 1.1 Issues of Modern Software.- 1.2 Historical Review of Abstraction Techniques.- 1.2.1 Early Abstraction Techniques.- 1.2.2 Extensible Languages.- 1.2.3 Structured Programming.- 1.2.4 Program Verification.- 1.2.5 Abstract Data Types.- 1.2.6 Interactions Between Abstraction and Specification Techniques.- 1.3 Abstraction Facilities in Modern Programming Languages.- 1.3.1 The New Ideas.- 1.3.2 Language Support for Abstract Data Types.- 1.3.3 Generic Definitions.- 1.4 Practical Realizations.- 1.4.1 A Small Example Program.- 1.4.2 Pascal.- 1.4.3 Ada.- 1.5 Status and Potential.- 1.5.1 How New Ideas Affect Programming.- 1.5.2 Limitations of Current Abstraction Techniques.- 1.5.3 Further Reading.- II Programming In Ada: Examples.- 1. Introduction to Example Programs.- 2. An Implementation of Queues.- 2.1 Description.- 2.2 Implementation.- 2.3 Program Text.- 2.4 Discussion.- 2.4.1 Use of Limited Private Types.- 2.4.2 Initialization and Finalization.- 2.4.3 Passing Discriminants to Tasks.- 2.4.4 Remove as a Procedure.- 3. A Simple Graph Package Providing an Iterator.- 3.1 Description.- 3.2 Specifications.- 3.3 Program Text.- 3.4 Discussion.- 3.4.1 The Algorithm.- 3.4.2 Information Hiding.- 3.4.3 In/In Out Parameters.- 3.4.4 Using the Iterator.- 3.4.5 Iterators Versus Generic Procedures.- 3.4.6 Separate Compilation.- 4. A Console Driver for a PDP-11.- 4.1 Description.- 4.2 Implementation.- 4.3 Program Text.- 4.4 Discussion.- 4.4.1 Use of a Package to Surround the Task.- 4.4.2 Distinction Between Task Types and Tasks.- 4.4.3 Resetting and Terminating the Terminal Driver.- 4.4.4 Interfacing to Devices.- 5. Table Creation and Table Searching.- 5.1 Description.- 5.2 Implementation.- 5.3 Program Text.- 5.4 Discussion.- 5.4.1 Use of The Package.- 5.4.2 Use of the Search Function.- 5.4.3 Use of Packages.- 5.4.4 The Type of the Entries in the Table.- 5.4.5 Use of a Private Type for the Pointers to the Table.- 5.4.6 Nesting a Generic Package Within a Generic Package.- 5.4.7 String Comparisons.- 5.4.8 Use of Integers in Find.- 6. Solution of Laplace's Equation with Several Ada Tasks.- 6.1 Description.- 6.2 Implementation.- 6.3 Program Text.- 6.3.1 A Protected Counter Task Type.- 6.3.2 Parallel.Relaxation Procedure.- 6.4 Discussion.- 6.4.1 Use of Shared Variables.- 6.4.2 Updates of Shared Variables From Registers.- 6.4.3 Generics and Generic Instantiation.- 6.4.4 Scheduling of Ada Tasks Onto Processors.- References.

Mark Sherman

Papers

The Andrew Toolkit - An Overview.

Introduction to the First Edition

Introduction to the Second Edition

Building hypertext on a multimedia toolkit: an overview of Andrew Toolkit hypermedia facilities

Studies in Ada Style