IEEE Spectrum 1989 - Abstracts

IEEE Spectrum 1989
TitleSubjectAuthors
Accelerators speed logic and fault simulation.Engineering and manufacturing industriesVishwani D. Agrawal
Anatomy of a magnet failure. (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
An opening for Open Systems.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMaris Graube
Ballantine's Katzmann measures up. (Ballantine Laboratories Inc., Fred Leonard Katzmann)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Voelker
Broadband communications grow closer.Engineering and manufacturing industriesStephen B. Weinstein
Chasing Japan in the HDTV race. (Europe and the United States lag far behind) (high-definition television)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald K. Jurgen
Computation and engineering prove compelling.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter Freeman
Development of control systems continues.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert W. McKnight
Digital audio tape for data storage.Engineering and manufacturing industriesEng Tan, Bert Vermeulen
Ferroelectrics for nonvolatile RAMs. (high-dielectric-constant thin-film capacitors allow RAMs to endure over 10 trillion read/write cycles) (Advance Technology: Microelectronics)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid Bondurant, Fred Gnadinger
Flash memories: the best of two worlds. (memory chip positioned between EPROMs and EEPROMs; includes glossary)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard D. Pashley, Stefan K. Lai
Flat-panel displays displace large, heavy, power-hungry CRTs. (cathode-ray tubes)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLawrence E. Tannas Jr
Flat polymer electrolytes promise thin-film power. (extra-thin solid-state batteries)Engineering and manufacturing industriesM. Zafar A. Munshi, Boone B. Ownes
From personal appliance to personal agent. (microcomputers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEsther Dyson
HDTV displays in Japan: projection-CRT systems on top. (high-definition television, cathode-ray tube)(includes a related article on how projection CRTs project)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLawrence E. Tannas Jr.
High-speed 32-bit buses for forward-looking computers. (32-bit buses allow for multiprocessing and scalability, but cause some problems) (includes related article on bus-driving) (System Design: Computers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul L. Borrill
Hologram lenses lead to compact scanners. (includes related article on better laser printers for less)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTakefumi Inagaki
How to defeat electrostatic discharge.Engineering and manufacturing industriesWarren Boxleitner
How to select a flat-panel display.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMelvin F. Silverstein
IEEE honors 20 specialists with field awards.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Interactive Laboratory System (ILS) PC. (Software Review) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
It looks like a pc--or is it a workstation?Engineering and manufacturing industries 
It slices, it fills ... the amazing ion beam! (Seiko Instruments' SMI8100)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Logic synthesis speeds ASIC design. (application-specific integrated circuit)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAart J. de Geus
Massive parallelism rivals supercomputers.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteven Wallach
Medical technology burgeoning.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMurray Eden
Microprocessors circa 2000. (a technology forecast)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPatrick P. Gelsinger, Paolo A. Gargini, Gerhard H. Parker, Albert Y.C. Yu
Monarch. (Athena Group Inc.'s Monarch computer-aided design tool) (Software Review) (Software Reviews) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDouglas L. Jones
MSAlines. (Software Review) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSeymour B. Cohn
MSC-pal 2. (Software Review) (MacNeal-Schwendler Corp) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Networking the intelligent home. (the developing Consumer Electronic Bus standard)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGeorge Hanover
New anatomies for semiconductor wafers. (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn C.C. Fan
Optical fibers reach into homes. (includes glossary and related article on the emerging synchronous network)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul W. Shumate Jr.
Optics and electronics are living together. (includes glossary and related article on optoelectronic switching) (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJun Shibata, Takao Kajiwara
Preparing for peace. (includes a related article on arms control negotiations) (Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGadi Kaplan
Resonant-mode power supplies: a primer. (more wattage in smaller packages)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrederick E. Sykes
Sonar array processing borrows from geophysics.Engineering and manufacturing industriesKatherine Chen
Standardizing instruments will increase competitiveness.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn M. Fluke Jr.
TempleGraph. (Software Review) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard Lee
The 1990s take shape.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPallab K. Chatterjee
The dual origins of a bipolar breakthrough. (two teams of researchers independently invented integrated injection logic) (integrated injection logic circuit)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFred Guterl
The fewer engineers per project, the better.Engineering and manufacturing industriesC. Gordon Bell
The space shuttle: a case of subjective engineering. (includes related article on how NASA determined shuttle risk)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTrudy E. Bell, Karl Esch
The specialties. (specialized branches of electrical engineering)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald K. Jurgen
Tools for measuring software reliability. (includes glossary)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn D. Musa
Tough defense procurement.Engineering and manufacturing industriesNorman R. Augustine
Toward a unified theory of managing large networks. (computer network management)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul J. Brusil, Daniel P. Stokesberry
Unlocking the magic of Maxwell's equations. (James Clerk Maxwell) (the development of finite element analysis) (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesZoltan J. Cendes
U.S. must learn to compete better. (commentary on US education)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLawrence P. Grayson
VHDL links design, test, and maintenance. (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald Waxman, Larry Saunders, Harold Carter
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