IEEE Spectrum 1992 - Abstracts

IEEE Spectrum 1992
TitleSubjectAuthors
3-D graphs and more. (Software Review) (Jandel Scientific's SigmaPlot 5.0 computer graphics software)(Software Reviews ) (Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrett 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 industriesRobert 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 industriesMike Farmwald, David Mooring
A horse of a different color. (using reaction-diffusion techniques to create patterns and textures) (Graphics)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGlenn Zorpette, Andrew Witkin
A neural-network-based tool. (AIM 1.1, program development software from AbTech Corp.) (Software Review) (Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark 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 industriesFrederick 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 industriesKarl 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 industriesDavid 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 industriesJohn 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 industriesMarc E. Levitt
A visual simulation tool: Visual Solutions Inc. VisSim. (Software Review) (Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid 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 industriesJohn B. Bowles, Colon E. Pelaez
Balancing resources. (Supercomputers/National Efforts) (includes glossary)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles E. Catlett
Bright ideas. (Intersource Technologies Inc.'s Electronic lamp)(Innovations)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTrudy 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 industriesCapers Jones
Center-tap terminated interface. (Special Report/Memory)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard C. Foss
CFI: toward a broad, standard framework. (CAD Framework Initiative)(computer-aided design)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAndrew J. Graham
Claude E. Shannon. (profile of the "father of information theory")Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn 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 industriesDavid Barclay, Louis S. Hureston, Manuel Figueroa
Companies in profile. (defense contractors) (Special Issue: Conversion)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael 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 industriesDana Norvila
Computing EM fields. (electromagnetic)(Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJean-Claude Sabonnadiere, Adalbert Konrad
Conducting polymers. (processed materials frequently used in batteries and overcurrent protection devices) (Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKarl 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 industriesHenri Persoz, Jean Remondeulaz
Conversion and the defense engineer. (forging technology's capabilities with society's needs) (Special Issue: Conversion)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMartha 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 industriesRichard W. Ralston, Marc A. Kastner, William J. Gallagher, Bertram Batlogg
Data acquisition made simpler. (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert G. Cerchione
Data communications. (one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSue 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 industriesRobert 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 industriesRamesh 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 industriesThomas 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 industriesGeorge 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 industriesBernard Cole
Dynamic RAM as secondary cache. (Special Report/Memory)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles A. Hart
Enhanced dynamic RAM. (Special Report/Memory)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid Bondurant
Expert opinion: coming soon - adding, modifying services quickly. (telecommunication services)Engineering and manufacturing industriesIsrael 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 industriesThomas 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 industriesLeander 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 industriesWayne 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 industriesFrederick 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 industriesForest Baskett
Expert opinion: solid-state research for defense systems. (one of a series of articles on important technology trends and products)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHarvey 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 industriesVictor 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 industriesDavid 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 industriesRay 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 industriesRoelof 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 industriesBetty 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 industriesThomas 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 industriesEarl Cox
Fuzzy logic flowers in Japan. (Applications/Control) (includes glossary) (Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDaniel G. Schwartz, George J. Klir
Grounds for signal referencing. (electrical grounding) (Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAnthony N. St. John
Gunning transceiver logic. (Special Report/Memory)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard Rodgers
How to succeed in business. (Speakout) (Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn D. Trudel
ICs: the brains of a workstation. (integrated circuits) (Tutorial)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPhilip 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 industriesP. David Fisher
Interactive visualization. (PV-Wave Point and Click, $4,500, from Precision Visuals Inc.) (Software Review) (Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn 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 industriesGeorge 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 industriesDavid 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 industriesJohn R. Hines
Learning new skills. (retraining defense engineers for nondefense work) (Special Issue: Conversion)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHoward Wolff
Low-voltage differential signaling. (the IEEE Computer Society P1596.3)(Special Report/Memory)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid 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 industriesL. Brooks Hickerson, Cheryl S. Pervier
Math and graphics. (mathematical and graphics software) (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKenneth R. Foster
Measuring software reliability. (divergent viewpoints)(includes related article on software testing) (Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesShari Lawrence Pfleeger
Meta-matrices. (the growth of large electronic-mail networks)(Special Report/Electronic Mail)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJ.A.A.
Modeling reality. (Supercomputers/Emerging Applications)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMorris Grossman
More logic synthesis for ASICs. (hardware description languages for application-specific integrated circuits)(Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J.S. Smith
Multichip routing and placement. (Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWayne 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 industriesFred Guterl
Packing density. (AT&T Bell Laboratories' new data storage technique)(Innovations)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTrudy 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 industriesGeorge Likourezos
Perspectives on visualization. (Supercomputers/Emerging Applications)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMatthew 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 industriesGeorge 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 industriesRobert M. Taylor
Spacewars. (the possessiveness and management of work space)(Reflections)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert 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 industriesAvi 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 industriesHarold 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 industriesMarvin 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 industriesH. Scott Hinton
Synchronous dynamic RAM. (Special Report/Memory)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBetty Prince, Joe Hartigan
Teaching systems architecting: science and art. (Perspective/Systems)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEberhardt Rechtin
Technical word processing: Ami Pro 2.0. (Software Review) (Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn 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 industriesColin 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 industriesEberhardt 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 industriesMichael 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 industriesDaniel 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 industriesRobert 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 industriesJames A. Simmons, Prestor A. Saillant, Steven P. Dear
Tools for embedding DSP. (digital signal processors)(Focus Report: Engineering Software) (Buyers Guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert 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 industriesDouglas Hartman
Virtual instruments. (Software Review) (National Instruments Corp.'s LabVIEW for Windows 2.5 program development software)(Software Reviews) (Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKen 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 industriesJoel 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 industriesDennis Bodson, Eleanor Harris
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