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Present	Professor of Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, Fairfield University ‐ School of Engineering
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Articles (59)

Project Initium and the Minimal Configuration Problem

Journal of Modern Technology and Engineering (2018)

Douglas A. Lyon

We are given a fully-quali ed class name that contains amainmethod for launching an application,in addition to a directory containing ...

The Java tree withers

Computer (2012)

Douglas A. Lyon

One of Java's key strengths is its portability. The Java virtual machine (JVM) is a high-performance, portable, and successful substrate. ...

Semantic Annotation for Java

Journal of Object Technology (2010)

Douglas A. Lyon

Semantic annotation enables consistency in GUI construction. Consistency can have both positive and negative side effects. On the positive side, ...

The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 6: Cross-Correlation

Journal of Object Technology (2010)

Douglas A. Lyon

The cross correlation has uses in many fields of scientific endeavor (music, identification of blood flow, astronomical event processing, speech ...

The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 5: Spectrogram

Journal of Object Technology (2010)

Douglas A. Lyon

There are several methods available for improving our ability to identify guitar notes. For example, each note has a unique ...

The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 4: Spectral Leakage

Journal of Object Technology (2009)

Douglas A. Lyon

Windowing modulates the input signal so that the spectral leakage is evened out (spreading on-bucket signals more and off- bucket ...

The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 3: The PSD

Journal of Object Technology (2009)

Douglas A. Lyon

The basic idea of providing a noise filter is that you take a signal, with added noise, perform an FFT ...

The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 2: Radix 2 FFT

Journal of Object Technology (2009)

Douglas A. Lyon

The Danielson-Lancoz lemma shows that a sequence must be divided up into its odd and even subsets. That these subsets ...

The Discrete Fourier Transform, Part 1

Journal of Object Technology (2009)

Douglas A. Lyon

The DFT is typically held as too slow for direct computation. However, for small windows of time, on even modest ...

Creating Servlets with Intellij V8

Journal of Object Technology (2009)

Douglas A. Lyon

The primary role of the application server is to take care of the business logic. Java applications servers also enable ...

INTERACTIVE Embedded FACE RECOGNITION

Journal of Object Technology (2009)

Douglas A. Lyon and Nishanth Vincent

Face detection locates and segments face regions in cluttered images. It has numerous applications in areas like surveillance and security ...

The μ-law CODEC

Journal of Object Technology (2008)

Douglas A. Lyon

The μ-law CODEC has several constructors, each has, as it main goal, to construct a μ-law encoded byte array in ...

Mining Edgar Tender Offers

Journal of Object Technology (2008)

Douglas A. Lyon

A new set of problems appears when attempting to parse unstructured financial narratives (even in a domain restricted area). The ...

The Stock Statistics Parser

Journal of Object Technology (2008)

Douglas A. Lyon

The focus is on making use of the web to get information about companies, using their stock symbols and YAHOO ...

I Resign! Resigning Jar Files with Initium

Journal of Object Technology (2008)

Douglas A. Lyon

Every year the number of Jar files that we have to deploy grows. Some of the Jar files are primary ...

Fixing Apples' Broken Clipboard, with Java

Journal of Object Technology (2008)

Douglas A. Lyon

The Mac OS X clipboard is infamous for changing the format of bit-mapped images that are pasted to it. These ...

A Data Mining Address Book

Journal of Object Technology (2008)

Douglas A. Lyon

Web-based data is generally available in an HTML format. Given a web-based source of an HTML formatted database, we would ...

Data Mining Historic Stock Quotes in Java

Journal of Object Technology (2007)

Douglas A. Lyon

Historic stock price data is generally available on the web (using a browser to format the HTML data). Given an ...

Displaying Updated Stock Quotes

Journal of Object Technology (2007)

Douglas A. Lyon

As a part of the architecture of the program for providing dynamic updates of stock prices, we make use of ...

Diffraction Rangefinding in Java

Journal of Object Technology (2007)

Douglas A. Lyon

Embedded machine vision applications of Java are still rare. Java's support for video digitization and serial port I/O is poor. ...

Observer-Conditioned-Observable Design Pattern

Journal of Object Technology (2007)

Douglas A. Lyon and Carl Weiman

Interactive programs use multiple viewers and controllers to alter an underlying numeric model. These can update each other in an ...

The Parametric Singleton Design Pattern

Journal of Object Technology (2007)

Douglas A. Lyon and Francisco Castellanos

The parametric singleton design pattern combines the singleton design pattern with a parameter that enables unique creation of instances of ...

The Saverbeans Screensaver and Initium RJS System Integration: Part 5

Journal of Object Technology (2007)

Douglas A. Lyon and Francisco Castellanos

We describe the process followed to integrate the IRJS screensaver with the IRJS grid computing middleware. Our goal is to ...

The Initium RJS Screensaver: Part 4, Automatic Deployment

Journal of Object Technology (2006)

Douglas A. Lyon and Francisco Castellanos

The Intium RJS System makes use of screensavers to perform CPU scavenging for grid computing. A Java Web Start application ...

Initium RJS: A Macintosh Screensaver in Java, Part 3

Journal of Object Technology (2006)

Douglas A. Lyon, Francisco Castellanos and Pawel Krepsztul

We show how to create a screensaver using a custom framework. Our past work described an existing framework, called the ...