IEEE Spectrum 1991 - Abstracts

IEEE Spectrum 1991
TitleSubjectAuthors
A critique of purely digital HDTV. (high-definition television)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam F. Schreiber
Add-ons for your workstation. (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Aerospace/military. (industry analysis) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn A. Adam, Karl Esch
Aerospace & military: setting targets throughout the region. (Asian aerospace and military industries) (Special Report/ Asiapower)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKarl Esch
Analyzing dynamic systems. (Software Review) (Integrated Systems Inc.'s Xmath mathematical software) (Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRaymond H. Kraft
Anatomy of an X terminal. (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert S. Cooper, Angel E. Socarras, William F. Stonecypher
Asiapower. (introduction to special report on the use of electrotechnology by Japan and other Asian countries to become world economic powers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlfred Balk
A single-electron transistor. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IBM Corp researchers devise new kind of transistor)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Automating software development. (programs for computer-aided software engineering)(one of seven articles on engineering software)(includes table of representative software packages and vendors) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAndrew Topper
Behind the Laplace transform. (Back to Basics) (column) (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul J. Nahin
B-ISDN and how it works: end users will get multimedia transmission by accessing gigabit-per-second public networks on a switched basis. (broadband integrated-services digital network; includes related article on gigabit networks) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDominique Delisle, Lionel Pelamourgues
Computer industry at a troublesome juncture. (the gap between user needs and vendor competition) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrad M. Friedlander
Concurrent engineering: defining terms and techniques. (Concurrent Engineering: Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDonald (American writer Hall poet)
Concurrent engineering. (Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRamana Reddy, Alfred Rosenblatt, George F. Watson, Sammy G. Shina, Donald (American writer Hall poet), Ralph T. Wood, K. Joseph Cleetus, Jon Turino, Roy Wheeler, Robert W. Burnett
Coping with the dual-use dilemma. (1991 Persian Gulf War showed dual-use technology is traded)(Gulf legacy/how peacekeeping may change)(includes related article on a systems approach to global cooperative security) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLucy Reilly
Cutting the high cost of testing. (a new modeling technique for testing analog and mixed-signal devices) (technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesT. Michael Souders, Gerard N. Stenbakken
Data communications, telecommunications converge. (industry analysis) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDipankar Raychaudhuri
Data handling. (one of seven articles on engineering software)(includes table of representative software packages and vendors) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn L. Shmalzel
East Asia's power crescent. (the shift of technology toward the Pacific) (Special Report/ Asiapower)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlfred Balk
EasyPlot. (Spiral Software's scientific plotting and data analysis package) (Software Review) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul G. Elliot
Editing made easy. (Microsoft Corp adds object linking and embedding capabilities to Windows)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Embedding DSP. (programs for digital signal processing)(one of seven articles on engineering software)(includes table of representative software packages and vendors) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBruce C. Mather
Embedding spectral analysis in equipment.Engineering and manufacturing industriesShrirang Jangi, Yogendra Jain
Ericsson bets on a cellular world; Sweden's biggest electronics company succeeds in the fastest-growing market in telecommunications. (company profile)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFred Guterl
For large filter design. (DGS Associates Inc.'s S/Filsyn 2.2 CAE software, digital filter section) (Software Review) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid L. Hench
High-speed local-area networks: fiber-distributed data interface and distributed queue dual bus are typical for the 50-150-Mb/s range. (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMario Gerla, Joseph A. Bannister
How government helps: MITI and its clones. (Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry and how it helped the Japanese electronics industry) (Special Report/Asiapower)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStuart M. Dambrot
How ICs impact workstations. (integrated circuits)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert J. Horning, Mark Forsyth, Jeff Yetter, Larry J. Thayer
How to select tools for microcontroller software. (tutorial)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter S. Gilmour
How US lead in power equipment ended.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJ. Eugene Watson Jr.
IEEE's Posix: making progress. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; portable operating system interface standard)Engineering and manufacturing industriesD. Richard Kuhn
Ingredients for a booming start-up: collaboration, communications, consensus. (Cisco Systems Inc.'s use of concurrent engineering) (Concurrent Engineering: Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert W. Burnett
Innovative genius: the innovative mind at work. (this special report includes related articles separately profiling eight innovative engineers) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael Maccoby
Instrumentation for nonscientists. (instrumentation systems must be made less complex) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard D. Thornton
Interconnecting LANs: bridges, routers, and gateways tie together LANs spread over areas. (local area networks; includes related article on wide area networks) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRoshan L. Sharma
Large-scale projects: developing Patriot missiles and other big systems. (Raytheon Inc.'s use of concurrent engineering) (Concurrent Engineering: Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Linear control analysis on a PC. (Caplin Software's Caplin linear control analysis software) (Software Review) (evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSergio Aguirre
Logic synthesis for ASICs. (application-specific integrated circuits)(includes table of representative software packages and their vendors)(one of seven articles on engineering software) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert Damiano
Magnetism without magnets. (Back to basics)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn D. Ryder
Making it work calls for input from everyone. (applying concurrent engineering requires organizational changes) (Concurrent Engineering: Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJon Turino
Mathematica update. (Software Review) (Wolfram Research Inc.'s mathematical software for numerical, symbolic and graphical computation)(Software reviews) (Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKenneth R. Foster
Mobile communications promise personal freedom. (industry analysis) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLaurence B. Milstein
New rules for world-class companies. (ways manufacturers make sure new products work right the first time) (Concurrent Engineering: Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSammy G. Shina
Nurturing the open mind. (the nature of the innovator) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDonald Christiansen
Optical lithography stalls X-rays. (includes related article on lithography without light) (Advanced technology/solid state)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBruce Kirkpatrick, Gary E. Flores
Plastic-packaged ICs in military equipment. (the military is reconsidering allowing plastic-packaged integrated circuits)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Power consumers in the dark. (Hurricane Bob turns New York utilities to emergency plans) (Spectral lines)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDonald Christiansen
Prepackaged math. (programs for mathematical problems and manipulating matrices)(one of seven articles on engineering software)(includes table of representative software packages and vendors) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKenneth R. Foster
Pushing the limits of standard CMOS: circuit refinements helped by computer-aided design raise clock rates by an order of magnitude.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJiren Yuan, Christer Svensson
Quality of life takes the spotlight. (medical electronics industry analysis) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles J. Robinson
R and D engineers lack a voice. (Speakout) (research and development engineers need money to develop promising technologies) (Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDwight Duston
Revising the script after Patriot. (Patriot guided missile in the 1991 Persian Gulf War)(Gulf legacy/how warfare may change) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael Riezenman
Science parks: intellectual talents create exports. (research and development centers in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore) (Special Report/Asiapower)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter Gwynne
Selecting math coprocessors. (Applications/Computers) (buyers guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWarren E. Ferguson Jr.
Simulating EM fields. (electromagnetic fields)(one of seven articles on engineering software)(includes table on representative software packages and vendors) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDaniel G. Swanson Jr.
Small-work projects: teamwork counts more than computer-based tools. (Hewlett-Packard Co.'s use of concurrent engineering) (Concurrent Engineering: Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRoy Wheeler
Smart cars and highways go global. (Special report on transportation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald K. Kurgen
Software. (industry analysis) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
TCAS sees ghosts. (new US air traffic alert and collision avoidance system sees phantom aircraft because of software error)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert Thomas, George F. Watson
Teaching information networking. (Carnegie-Mellon University information networking master's program) (Education/telecommunications) (includes a related article on a graduate's view of information networking)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlex Hills
The case for object-oriented databases. (tutorial)Engineering and manufacturing industriesThomas M. Atwood
The challenge of post-Gulf conflicts. (International critics evaluate challenges of high tech warfare after 1991 Persian Gulf War)(Gulf legacy/how warfare may change) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn M. Collins, George F. Watson, Ronald W. Yates, Pierre M. Sprey, Malcolm R. Currie, Donald J. Atwood, Gordon Adams, Mahmoud Karem, Jean-Paul Gillyboeuf, Gerald M. Steinberg, Janet Morris, Leonard S. Spector
The Darpa initiative: encouraging new industrial practices. (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Initiative in Concurrent Engineering) (Concurrent Engineering: Special Report) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRamana Reddy, Ralph T. Wood, K. Joseph Cleetus
Tips on setting up your workstation. (tutorial)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Transportation. (industry analysis) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKatherine T. Chen
Transportation: maglev rail, subways. (transportation technology development in Asia) (magnetic levitation) (Special Report/Asiapower)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDennis L. DiMaria
Using workstations efficiently: distributing computing power with workstations paves the way for concurrent engineering with high productivity. (Grumman Aerospace Corp's Aircraft Systems Div. provides a case study in integration)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBernard I. Rachowitz, Richard K. Maue, Nicholas P. Angrisano, Bill Abramson
Video compression makes big gains. (Applications/computers) (Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeng H. Ang, Peter A. Ruetz, David Auld
What 'peace dividend'? (political and financial pressures on the aerospace and defense industry in 1990) (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert S. Cooper
Why Unix will win on the desktop. (Technology 1991)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEric E. Schmidt
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