IEEE Spectrum 1992 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
3-D graphs and more. (Software Review) (Jandel Scientific's SigmaPlot 5.0 computer graphics software)(Software Reviews ) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Brett D. DePaola |
A catalyst for U.S. competitiveness: programs of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration are stressing cooperation with industry and academia. (Analysis/Perspective) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert M. White |
A different spin on an EV batter. (electric vehicle)(Special Report/Electric Vehicles) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
Admiral Hopper, programming trailblazer. (Grace Murray Hopper) (The Institute: A news supplement to IEEE Spectrum) (Obituary) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
A fast path to one memory: a proprietary scheme for a unified memory system covers all design aspects to ensure fast display and quick computation. (Rambus Inc.)(Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Mike Farmwald, David Mooring |
A horse of a different color. (using reaction-diffusion techniques to create patterns and textures) (Graphics) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Glenn Zorpette, Andrew Witkin |
A neural-network-based tool. (AIM 1.1, program development software from AbTech Corp.) (Software Review) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Mark Shewhart |
A new era of fast dynamic RAMs: chip makers are turning to innovative circuit designs to bring inexpensive dynamic memories up to speed. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Frederick McKinley Jones |
Approaching the quantum limit: in devices with features smaller than 0.1 micrometer, electrons behave more like waves in waveguides than like particles. (Advanced Technology/Devices) (includes related article about physicist Richard Feynman) (includes glossary) (Technical) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Karl Hess, Gerald J. Iafrate |
A RAM link for high speed: work on a new, open standard that defines a ring for linking fast memories and processors is well under way. (the P1596.4 working group's RamLink interface)(Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | David V. James, Stein Gjessing, David B. Gustavson, Glen Stone, Hans Wiggers |
Architecting the system. (hardware standardization for electric vehicles) (Special Report/Electric Vehicles)(includes glossary of terms) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
A security roundtable. (includes related article on further data security issues) (Special Report/Data Security)(experts ponder how to ensure security in computerized systems) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John A. Adam, Lance J. Hoffman |
ASIC testing upgraded: the demand for quality parts in short development times is forcing digital ASIC designers to use nontraditional testing methods. (application-specific integrated circuits) (Applications/Test) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Marc E. Levitt |
A visual simulation tool: Visual Solutions Inc. VisSim. (Software Review) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | David W. Barrett |
Awards 92. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (Special Issue: Conversion) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
Bad code. (Special Report/Data Security)(programs meant to harm rather than help users - includes related article on the use of the term 'virus') (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John B. Bowles, Colon E. Pelaez |
Balancing resources. (Supercomputers/National Efforts) (includes glossary) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Charles E. Catlett |
Bright ideas. (Intersource Technologies Inc.'s Electronic lamp)(Innovations) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Trudy E. Bell, Ralph H. Baer, Jacob Rabinow |
Capital C. (capitalizing the names of software languages and operating systems) (Technically Speaking) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
CASE's missing elements: key functions must be added to computer-aided software engineering tools, and thorough training is needed in their use. | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Capers Jones |
Center-tap terminated interface. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Richard C. Foss |
CFI: toward a broad, standard framework. (CAD Framework Initiative)(computer-aided design) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Andrew J. Graham |
Claude E. Shannon. (profile of the "father of information theory") | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John Horgan |
Commitment from the top makes it work. (workforce diversity at Hughes Aircraft Co.) (includes related articles on valuing and accepting diversity as a black engineer and on working with individuals) (Special Report: Diversity in the High-Tech Workplace) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | David Barclay, Louis S. Hureston, Manuel Figueroa |
Companies in profile. (defense contractors) (Special Issue: Conversion) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Michael J. Riezenman, Gadi Kaplan, George F. Watson, Lawrence J. Curran |
Computer-generated metamorphoses evolve. (morphing technologies used in films and music videos) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Dana Norvila |
Computing EM fields. (electromagnetic)(Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Jean-Claude Sabonnadiere, Adalbert Konrad |
Conducting polymers. (processed materials frequently used in batteries and overcurrent protection devices) (Technical) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Karl F. Schoch |
Consolidating European power: synchronous coupling of the power grids on either side of the former iron curtain makes economic sense. (Power/European Grid) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Henri Persoz, Jean Remondeulaz |
Conversion and the defense engineer. (forging technology's capabilities with society's needs) (Special Issue: Conversion) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Martha W. Gilliland, Patricia MacCorquodale, Jeffrey P. Kash |
Cooperating on superconductivity. (AT and T, IBM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory form the Consortium for Superconducting Electronics)(includes related glossary on superconductivity-related terms) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Richard W. Ralston, Marc A. Kastner, William J. Gallagher, Bertram Batlogg |
Data acquisition made simpler. (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert G. Cerchione |
Data communications. (one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Sue J. Lowe |
Delta V = 0.7V = 85,000 irate travelers. (telephone outage and air-traffic tie-up of Sep 17, 1991) (Faults & Failures) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert Thomas, George F. Watson, John Devaney |
Designing circuit boards for manufacturability. (Mentor Graphics Corp. introduces Manufacturing Advisor/PCB software)(EES' Tools & Toys, column) (Product Announcement) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
Designing mixed-signal ICs. (integrated circuits)(Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Ramesh Harjani |
Digital storage scopes advance: color display and data storage techniques make for more meaningful signal views and complex statistical measurement. (Application/Instrumentation) (Glossary) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Thomas A. Dye, Erik Teose |
Diversity and performance in R&D. (research and development) (includes related article on surveying diversity) (Special Report: Diversity in the High-Tech Workplace) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | George F. Watson, Nancy DiTomaso, George F. Farris |
DOE labs: models for tech transfer. (Department of Energy) (includes related article on cooperative research and development agreements) (Special Issue: Conversion) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Bernard Cole |
Dynamic RAM as secondary cache. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Charles A. Hart |
Enhanced dynamic RAM. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | David Bondurant |
Expert opinion: coming soon - adding, modifying services quickly. (telecommunication services) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Israel Zibman |
Expert opinion: dramatic changes loom for the defense infrastructure. (one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Thomas L. Fagan Jr. |
Expert opinion: HDTV continues hot. (high-definition television; one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Leander H. Jr. Hoke |
Expert opinion: in search of simpler software integration. (one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Wayne H. Wolf |
Expert opinion: instruments bring users more information than ever. (test and measurement equipment; one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Frederick R. Hume |
Expert opinion: PCs and workstations blend new kinds of applications. (one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Forest Baskett |
Expert opinion: solid-state research for defense systems. (one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Harvey C. Nathanson |
Expert opinion: the barrier to high performance is no longer bandwidth. (communications technologies; one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Victor B. Lawrence |
Expert opinion: traditional mainframes and supercomputers are losing the battle. (one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | David A. Patterson |
Fast computer memories: designers are searching for new DRAM technologies to reduce memory access time and so unleash computer performance. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Ray Ng |
Fast DRAMs for sharper TV: new formats and features for digital television sets require inexpensive dynamic RAMs with extremely high throughput. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Roelof H.W. Salters |
Fast interfaces for DRAMs: the fundamental circuitry between a device's interior logic and its external pins must evolve to meet new speed and power needs. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Betty Prince, Richard C. Foss |
Fitting programmable logic: new synthesis software for user-programmable logic relieves designers of complex design fitting, placement, and routing. (Applications/Solid State) (Glossary) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Thomas R. Clark |
Fuzzy fundamentals: this orderly design procedure can save time and help prevent problems in the development of fuzzy logic systems. (Advanced Technology/Circuits) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Earl Cox |
Fuzzy logic flowers in Japan. (Applications/Control) (includes glossary) (Technical) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Daniel G. Schwartz, George J. Klir |
Grounds for signal referencing. (electrical grounding) (Technical) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Anthony N. St. John |
Gunning transceiver logic. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Richard Rodgers |
How to succeed in business. (Speakout) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John D. Trudel |
ICs: the brains of a workstation. (integrated circuits) (Tutorial) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Philip Jr. Koopman, Daniel Siewiorek |
Improving on police radar: lasers, cameras, and advanced signal processing are poised to help isolate individual offenders on crowded highways. (System Design/Signal Processing) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | P. David Fisher |
Interactive visualization. (PV-Wave Point and Click, $4,500, from Precision Visuals Inc.) (Software Review) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John L. Schmalzel |
Jan. 28, 1958: a laser is born: the use of a diffraction grating for mode selectivity captured the imagination of Arthur L. Schawlow, one of the laser's inventors. (For the Record) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | George Likourezos |
Japan: a competitive assessment. (includes related article on logic programming/data flow and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's emphasis on parallel machines)(Supercomputing/National Efforts) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | David K. Kahaner, Ulrich Wattenberg |
Keeping control: SuperChart 1.0, SuperChart/SPC Charts. (Software Review) (statistical process control software from SuperChart/SPC Charts of Plano, Texas) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John R. Hines |
Learning new skills. (retraining defense engineers for nondefense work) (Special Issue: Conversion) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Howard Wolff |
Low-voltage differential signaling. (the IEEE Computer Society P1596.3)(Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | David V. James, David B. Gustavson, Stephen Kempainen |
Managing networked workstations; standardized network management tools are now a necessity as users mix and match equipment from different vendors. (part of a special section on engineering workstations) (Tutorial) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | L. Brooks Hickerson, Cheryl S. Pervier |
Math and graphics. (mathematical and graphics software) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Kenneth R. Foster |
Measuring software reliability. (divergent viewpoints)(includes related article on software testing) (Technical) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Shari Lawrence Pfleeger |
Meta-matrices. (the growth of large electronic-mail networks)(Special Report/Electronic Mail) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | J.A.A. |
Modeling reality. (Supercomputers/Emerging Applications) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Morris Grossman |
More logic synthesis for ASICs. (hardware description languages for application-specific integrated circuits)(Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Michael J.S. Smith |
Multichip routing and placement. (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Wayne Wei-Ming Dai |
Nokia's rising star flickers: made over from a supplier of rubber, paper, and cable to a key European high-tech player, Nokia saw its sales slide into a loss last year. (includes related article about Nokia Corp.'s trade relations with Russia) (Company Profile) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Fred Guterl |
Packing density. (AT&T Bell Laboratories' new data storage technique)(Innovations) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Trudy E. Bell, Jacob Rabinow, Ralph Baer |
Pen PCs to be sold in multimillions. (pen-based notebook computers)(Technology) (The Institute: A news supplement to IEEE Spectrum) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | George Likourezos |
Perspectives on visualization. (Supercomputers/Emerging Applications) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Matthew Arrott, Sara Latta |
Pursuing efficiency: given the limitations of EV batteries, success will depend on making the vehicles themselves highly efficient. (electric vehicles)(Special Report/Electric Vehicles) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
Revolution or evolution? (Supercomputers/Reinventing the Machine) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | George Cybenko, David J. Kuck |
Space Communications: adequate spectrum must be allocated for future space communications and the development of as yet unforeseen technologies. (a related article discusses problems involving attenuation in satellite communications at frequencies of 20 GHz to 30 GHz; another related article discusses multipurpose satellite allocations) (Special Report/Telecommunications) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert M. Taylor |
Spacewars. (the possessiveness and management of work space)(Reflections) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert W. Lucky |
Specifying a human-machine interface. (Software Review) (Software reviews)(Rapid 1.0 software for systems designers, from Emultek Ltd of Israel) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Avi Zahavi |
Superchips for supercomputing. (includes related article on Cray Research Inc.'s use of emitter coupled logic (ECL) integrated circuits) (Supercomputers/Future Technologies) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Harold Dozier |
Surviving hell and high water: electronic equipment can often be rehabilitated after a fire or flood, but it helps to design it to minimize damage in the first place. (Systems/Reclamation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Marvin Kurland |
Switching to photonics: voice, video, and data will eventually be switched by hardware that exploits the interplay of photons and electronics. (Advanced Technology/Communications) (Glossary) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | H. Scott Hinton |
Synchronous dynamic RAM. (Special Report/Memory) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Betty Prince, Joe Hartigan |
Teaching systems architecting: science and art. (Perspective/Systems) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Eberhardt Rechtin |
Technical word processing: Ami Pro 2.0. (Software Review) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John R. Hines |
Testability on TAP: testing loaded digital logic boards becomes much easier with a standard test access port, or TAP, meant for boundary-scan tests. (Application/Solid State) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Colin M. Maunder |
The art of systems architecting: the design of complex systems must blend the art of architecture with the science of engineering. (Perspective/Systems) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Eberhardt Rechtin |
The courage to convert. (various views on the fate of defense engineers) (includes related article on resources and contacts) (Special Issue: Conversion) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Michael J. Riezenman, Donald L. Schilling, Thomas F. Rogers, Jacques Gansler, John J. Guarrera, Helen Gracon, George E. Brown Jr., Edmund B. Woollen, Robert J. Polutchko |
The future is in the PC cards. (integrated circuit memory cards) (includes related article on other memory card standards) (Technical) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Daniel Stenglass |
The great battery barrier. (providing sufficient battery power for electronic vehicles) (Special Report/Electric Vehicles)(includes glossary of terms and related article on the differences between electric and conventional vehicles) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
Three little bits breed a big, bad bug. (telephone outages) (Faults & failures) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert Thomas, George F. Watson, John Devaney |
Through a bat's ear: the bat's sonar performance is encouraging researchers to disregard conventional distinctions between time and frequency domains. (Applications/Communications) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | James A. Simmons, Prestor A. Saillant, Steven P. Dear |
Tools for embedding DSP. (digital signal processors)(Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert W. Robison |
Unclogging distributed computing: once new software is in place, thousands of dispersed computers of various brands will be able to talk to (and understand) each other. (the Distributed Computing Environment permits secure, reliable applications for multivendor networks) (Advanced Technologies/Software) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Douglas Hartman |
Virtual instruments. (Software Review) (National Instruments Corp.'s LabVIEW for Windows 2.5 program development software)(Software Reviews) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Ken Johnson |
WARC's last act? At 1992's World Administrative Radio Conference, telecommunications delegates from around the world will allocate spectrum to old and new types of radio communications, some of which may eventually displace existing services. (includes related article that described the structure and activities of the International Telecommunication Union) (Special Report/Telecommunications) (Glossary) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Joel Miller, Edward E. Reinhart, Robert M. Taylor, Ann O. Heyward |
When the lines go down: in a national emergency in the United States, organizations in affected areas will unite to repair or, at least, minimize damage. (Systems/Communication) (includes related article about maintaining power supplies during emergencies) (Glossary) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Dennis Bodson, Eleanor Harris |
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