IEEE Spectrum 1990 - Abstracts

IEEE Spectrum 1990
TitleSubjectAuthors
A continent bound by wire. (the Pony Express and the transcontinental telegraph)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBernard Finn
A digital prescription for X-ray overload. (picture-archiving and communications systems for diagnostic imaging)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam J. Dallas
Aerospace and defense. (Looking ahead to a single Europe in 1992)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKarl Esch
Affordable analog design. (software that simplifies design of analog circuits) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn R. Hines
Analog is not dead. (there are still more analog than digital communications circuits)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCelia L. Desmond
An instrument that isn't really. (LabVIEW)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael Santori
Are you ready for next-generation dynamic RAM chips? (consider the need to minimize power consumption)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFujio Masuoka
A view from the other side; a former General Electric engineer and manager, who turned to teaching, dispels some common myths about academia.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJerome J. Suran
Big display is all done with mirrors. (Reflection Technology) (product announcement)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Biomedical engineering R&D picks up.Engineering and manufacturing industriesCedric F. Walker
Board tools proliferate. (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Bracing for the geomagnetic storms. (solar activity approaches its 11-year peak and power utilities prepare for magnetic disturbances) (includes related articles on the effects of geomagnetically induced current on power transformers and weathering geomagnetic storms) (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn G. Kappenman, Vernon D. ALbertson, Louis J. Lanzerotti
Canon: more than just cameras. (laser printers, IC wafer-steppers) (company profile)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMack Chrysler
Characterizing high-speed oscilloscopes.Engineering and manufacturing industriesKen Rush, Steve Draving, John Kerley
Communications satellites: orbiting into the '90s.Engineering and manufacturing industriesS. Joseph Campanella
Computer-aided fighter pilots. (development of an expert system that accommodates pilot flying styles) (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam B. Rouse, John M. Hammer
Designing with fuzzy logic. (finding success in commercial and industrial problems in Japan)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKevin Self
Displaying processed data. (data acquisition software) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
EDIF grows up. (Electronic Design Interchange Format) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn P. Eurich, Gene Roth
EM simulators = CAE tools. (electromagnetic) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesZoltan J. Cendes
Evaluating nonlinear models for microwave GaAsFETs. (gallium arsenide metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGeorge D. Vendelin
Expert observers: defining national technology options. (Special Report - Defense: How Much Is Enough?) (panel discussion)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlfred Rosenblatt
From kana to kanji: word processing in Japan.Engineering and manufacturing industriesKenichi Mori, Tsutomu Kawada
'Functional abstraction' anticipates timing glitches. (a new algebraic alternative to simulation for assessing how process variations may affect a digital integrated circuit's timing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard H. Lathrop, Robert J. Hall, Gavan Duffy, K. Mark Alexander, Robert S. Kirk
Gallium arsenide finds a new niche.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRon Cates
How to select a microcontroller. (tutorial)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn J. Vaglica, Peter S. Gilmour
Japan robotics aim for unmanned space exploration.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTakeo Kanade, William Whittaker
Japan telecommunications at the crossroads. (digital technology has changed the industry)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTadao Saito
Keithley's phantom repeater.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Looking over the horizon. (signal processing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames M. Headrick
Magnetic megabits. (magnetic storage)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRoger Wood
Managing to be competitive in a global context.... (R&D Special Issue)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEdward A. Torrero
Matlab. (Software Review) (The MathWorks Inc's interactive numeric computation software) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard L. Santalesa
Metropolitan-area networks.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPatricia A. Morreale, Graham M. Campbell
Microprocessors. (applications of reduced-instruction-set computer - RISC - processors grow, and the SPEC Benchmark Suite provides more objective RISC performance measurement)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrian Santo
Multichip modules: next-generation packages. (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert R. Johnson
Needed DSP software emerges. (digital signal processing) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBruce C. Mather
Negotiating roadblocks. (trends in integrated circuit technology)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCraig R. Barrett
Object-oriented programming a hit. (major programming trends in 1989 also include visualization and increased use of tools in programming)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTed G. Lewis
Part 1: Biological effects. (first of three articles on electromagnetic fields)Engineering and manufacturing industriesM. Granger Morgan, Indira Nair
Part 3: managing the risks. (third part of three-part article on electromagnetic fields)Engineering and manufacturing industriesM. Granger Morgan, Indira Nair
Protecting computer systems against power transients. (tutorial)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrancois Martzloff
Siemens: making marketing as important as technology. (Siemens AG) (company profile)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFred Guterl
Sign and sound. (Japanese word processing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKenichi Mori, Tsutomu Kawada
Silicon micromechanics: sensors and actuators on a chip.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRoger T. Howe, Richard S. Muller, Kaigham J. Gabriel, William S.N. Trimmer
Software workstations: one-stop shopping for utilities.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteve Hoffman, Giora Ben-Yaacov
Solid state. (1989 developments and trends in semiconductor technologies)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKatherine T. Chen, Brian Santo
Spread spectrum goes commercial. (radio communications)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLaurence B. Milstein, Donald L. Schilling, Raymond L. Pickholtz
The case for CASE tools. (computer-aided software engineering) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The expanding world of R&D. (research and development) (R&D Special Issue Part 1)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGadi Kaplan, Alfred Rosenblatt
The faults in CMOS IC fault testing. (integrated circuits)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The great blue box phone frauds. (making long-distance telephone fraud more difficult)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid Flory
The paperless office. (Whatever happened to?) (column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam J. Spencer
The stored program concept. (von Neumann architecture)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam Aspray
The technical ladder gets harder to climb: lean times are affecting the corporate technical ladder, and engineers are learning to take personal initiative to make it work. (includes related article on career ladders)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid B. Youst, Laurence Lipsett
Toward more compatible human-computer interfaces.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRaymond S. Nickerson, Richard W. Pew
Tradeoffs: turf vs. togetherness. (Looking ahead to a single Europe in 1992)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFred Guterl
User-friendly CAE. (computer-aided engineering) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Where Europe is ahead/behind. (Looking ahead to a single Europe in 1992)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Your word is my command. (Innovations; DragonDictate)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
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