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FEATURES:
16 AI: It’s OK Again!
Over the last half century, AI has had its ups and down. But for now, it’s on the rise again.
by Michael Swaine

22 Visual Cryptography and Bit-Plane Complexity Segmentation
Bit-Plane Complexity Segmentation lets you embed large amounts of data in images.
by Daniel Stoleru

30 Inside the Windows Vista Disk Encryption Algorithm
To protect the confidentiality of data on hard disks, Windows Vista uses Bitlocker Drive Encryption, which is based on the AES-CBC + Elephant diffuser algorithm.
by Mohamed Abo El-Fotouh and Klaus Diepold

34 Memory-Aware Components
In an ideal world, your programs gracefully handle out-of-memory conditions and keep running. But in the real world…
by Kirk J. Krauss

42 Software and the Core Description Process
PSICAT is an open-source, cross-platform Java tool for creating, viewing, and editing geological core description diagrams.
by Josh Reed

50 Logging In C++
Logging is a critical technique for troubleshooting and maintaining software systems. Petru presents a C++ logging framework that is typesafe, thread-safe, and portable.
by Petru Marginean

COLUMNS
57 Effective Concurrency
A "critical section" is a region of code that executes in isolation with respect to some or all other code in the program.
by Herb Sutter

60 The Agile Edge
Scott argues that Agile is a discipline that requires discipline.
by Scott W. Ambler

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