IEEE Spectrum 1993 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Adaptive fuzzy systems: by reorganizing themselves internally as appropriate, these fuzzy control systems can function within a changing external world. (Advanced Technology/Controls)(includes glossary of terms) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Earl Cox |
Aerospace and military. (Technology 1993)(peace batters defense industry, Third World emerges as nuclear threat, European aerospace, international space program predicted; includes related article on how peace is transforming aerospace and military industries) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Dave Dooling |
'A' for effort: undergraduates in CMU project, singly or in pairs, transferred academic know-how about software technology to industry. (Carnegie Mellon University) (Careers/Education)(includes related article on AWEsom's Casey Jones) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Lawrence J. Curran |
A higher level of synthesis: as logic synthesis tools develop, they are helping the engineer conceptualize IC designs and not just implement them. (Systems/Design Tools)(includes glossary of terms and related articles on special-purpose synthesis systems and hardware description languages) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Jeffrey R. Fox |
A rule-based analytic interface. (Vanguard Software Corp.'s HyperCalc 2.0 mathematics software) (Software Review) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Roland Mercier |
Beware of the cosmetic engineer. (engineers who design for appearance more than substance) (Speakout) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Morgan Johns |
Blue lasers on the horizon. (includes related article on blue light-emitting diodes) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert L. Gunshor, Nobuo Otsuka, Arto V. Nurmikko |
Cleaning up: electronics manufacturers are rethinking their processes to remove toxic threats to workers' health and the environment. (Special Report/Manufacturing) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Tekla S. Perry |
Competitive intelligence. (Japan and the game of technology) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Atsuro Kokubo |
Computers and epidemiology. (includes related articles on the Michelangelo effect and no virus detector being perfect) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Jeffrey O. Kephart, Steve R. White, David M. Chess |
Consumer electronics. (Technology 1993)(includes related article on demand for easy-to-use products) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Ronald K. Jurgen |
Data communications. (Technology 1993)(ATM Forum, image processing, Internet, low-orbit satellites) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Ray Sarch |
Estimating the cost of power quality. (Tutorial) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Jane M. Clemmensen |
Expert opinion: boundaries between communications technologies are blurring. (Technology 1993) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Bennett Z. Kobb |
Expert opinion: imaging and robotics are changing the face of surgery. (Technology 1993) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | James F. Martin |
Expert opinion: mechatronics on the move. (Technology 1993)(the development of industrial electronics) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Fumio Harashima |
Expert opinion: new ideas will fuel real advances. (Technology 1993)(engineers expect more from systems) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Tom Lyon |
Expert opinion: preparing for the nomadic age. (Technology 1993) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Tsugio Makimoto |
Expert opinion: software productivity under the microscope. (Technology 1993) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Capers Jones |
Expert opinion: so many architectures, so much fanfare: what's a user to believe? (Technology 1993) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Helen M. Wood |
Expert opinion: the key to better measurements is software. (Technology 1993) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Johan Schoukens, Marc Vanden Bossche, Rik Pintelon |
Expert opinion: warming trend with turbulence in the lower layers. (Technology 1993)(asynchronous transfer mode switches and industry developments) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Vinton G. Cerf |
Facsimile's false starts: the development of the 150-year-old concept underwent many twists and cost millions of dollars before soaring to success. (Perspective) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Jonathan Coopersmith |
Friendly EM field analysis. (Software Review) (Integrated Engineering Software Inc.'s Electro electromagnetic field analysis software)(Software Reviews) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Kenneth R. Foster |
Graphical analysis in Windows. (Software Review) (Interactive Data Language for Windows, from Research Systems Inc.) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John L. Schmalzel |
Industrial electronics. (Technology 1993)(computerized numerical control, programmable logic controllers, edge detection, X-rays for quality control diagnosis) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Gadi Kaplan |
Interactive, object-oriented Xmath. (Software Review) (Integrated Systems Inc.'s mathematical software package)(Software Reviews) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Mark S. Mirotznik |
Medical electronics. (Technology 1993)(implantable defibrillators, laser sculpt, biosensors and FDA delays) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Joan Stephenson |
Mixing 3-V and 5-V ICs: until a full complement of 3-V ICs is available, many systems will have to operate with at least two power supplies. (integrated circuits) (Applications/Circuit Design)(includes glossary of terms) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John (American clergyman) Williams |
Mixing signals & voltages on chip. (rapid development of personal communications and the integration of 3-Volt and 5-Volt digital circuitry on a single chip) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Lauren Brust, Mean-Sea Tsay |
Molding light into solitons: pulses whose shape and spectrum endure over vast distances in optical fibers may simplify transoceanic communications systems. (Advanced Technology/Communications) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Hermann A. Haus |
Neural networks at work. (for pattern recognition in image, speech and forecasting technology) (includes glossary and related article on how neural networks work) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Dan Hammerstrom |
New peripherals increase options. (focus report: engineering workstations and PCs) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John King |
No furled antenna can foil Galileo. (the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's space probe)(Faults & Failures) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | George F. Watson |
Of workstations & supercomputers. (includes related article on the University of California at San Diego's Microscopy and Imaging Resource Supercomputer Center) (focus report: engineering workstations and PCs) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Mark Furtney, George Taylor |
Parting shots. (Donald Christiansen's farewell as IEEE Spectrum Editor and Publisher)(Spectral lines: February 1993, Volume 30, Number 2) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Donald Christiansen |
Personal wireless. (the trends in personal wireless communication) (includes glossary) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Bennett Z. Kobb |
Plotting made easy. (Software Review) (EasyPlot 2.0 software for analysis of scientific data, from Spiral Software)(Software reviews) (Evaluation) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Erik Cheever |
Putting data on a diet. (techniques for data compression can ease problems with storage and transmission of data) (Tutorial) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Jeffrey Weiss, Doug Schremp |
Richard W. Hamming. (inventor of the error-correcting codes for computers) (Interview) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Tekla S. Perry |
Software copyrights: searching for the golden nugget. (Legal Aspects) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Joel Miller |
Solid state. (Technology 1993)(breaking the 200 MHz barrier, multimedia, notebook computers and DRAMs) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Kevin Self |
Storing power for critical loads. (using superconducting magnetic energy storage) (Power/Applications) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Carel DeWinkel, Jeffrey D. Lamoree |
Targeting ASICs and FPGAs. (application-specific integrated circuits, field-programmable gate arrays)(circuit design) (Systems/Design Tools) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Gopal Gupta |
Test and measurement. (Technology 1993)(PC instruments more powerful, virtual instruments, VXI-bus, and open systems consortia) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Morris Grossman |
The cellular phone scare. (cancer-risk debate) (includes glossary) (Special Report/Communications) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Mark Fischetti |
The law on reverse engineering. (Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John G. Rauch |
The performance rating. | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert W. Lucky |
The technology framework: lack of standards and the huge bandwidth appetite of full-motion multimedia are very present obstacles but won't be for long. (Special Report/Multimedia)(includes list of multimedia reference materials) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Bernard Cole |
To probe further. (focus report: engineering workstations and PCs) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | |
Transportation. (Technology 1993)(includes related article on the worldwide reliance on electric transportation) (Cover Story) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Dave Dooling |
Two ways to catch a wave: digital oscilloscopes can compete with the best analog types, abetted by a-d converters that run at 4 gigasamples per second. (Instrumentation/Applications)(includes glossary of terms and related article on the high-speed cathode-ray tubes found in analog oscilloscopes) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Ken Rush, Teri Lucero-Hall |
Unfettered research. (technology research)(Reflections) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Robert W. Lucky |
VHDL - panacea or hype? (very high-speed integrated circuit hardware description language) (includes glossary and related articles on the future of VHDL and the IEEE 1164 specification) (Perspective/Design) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Michael Carroll |
Wiretapping and cryptography. (Speakout) (Column) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Dorothy E. Denning |
Workstation metrics. (focus report: engineering workstations and PCs) (Buyers Guide) | Engineering and manufacturing industries | Joshua Mogal |
World Trade Center blast triggers design debates. | Engineering and manufacturing industries | John F. King |
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