IEEE Spectrum 1999 - Abstracts

IEEE Spectrum 1999
TitleSubjectAuthors
Adaptable 3-D clip-art adorns documents.(Viewpoint Digital bundles Nichimen Graphics' Nendo volume-modeling software with its own LiveArt 3D rendering software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDan Ellis
A digital phosphor oscilloscope (DPO) for Everyman.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Aerospace and military.(includes related articles on space projects of 1998 and on the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa))Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert Braham
A new role for e-beam: electron projection.(new Scalpel lithographic system)(Technology Information)(Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesL. R. Harriott
Beeping wallet helps protect credit cards.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Breezy DSP designs.(digital signal-processing)(Software Review)Engineering and manufacturing industriesReed Packer
Bringing Maxwell's equations to heel.(Remcom's XFDTD 5.0 electro-magnetic simulation software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark S. Mirotznik
Bringing order to the embedded space.(Panel Discussion)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTerri Lazarus-Karaoglan
Calibrating simulation tools for nanometer designs.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMahmoud Shahram
Champagne supercomputer on a beer budget.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Checking up on Y2K.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTekla S. Perry
Communications.(includes related article on opposition to AT&T and TCI merger)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam Sweet, Michael Riezenman
Communications networks simulated.(MIL 3's Opnet Modeler simulation software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRene L. Cruz
Consumer electronics.(includes related article on digital TV broadcasting)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul Miller
Data express: Gigabit junction with the next-generation Internet.(includes related article on history of networking achievements in North Carolina)(Review)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark Johnson, John C. Collins, Joel Dunn, Phil Emer
Differential scope probe spans dc to 900 MHz.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Digital TV in the U.S.(includes related articles on pioneering digital television (DTV) products, formats, DTV outside the US, time zones and politics, and antennas)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStephen A. Booth
Diversifying Internet delivery.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrian E. Carpenter, Dilip D. Kandlur
Down with noise.(system design for audible noise control, aerospace, general aviation, military)(includes related article on acoustic modes in enclosures)(includes list defining terms)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStephen J. Elliott
DSPs court the consumer.(digital signal processors)(includes related article on selection of a processor)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJennifer Eyre, Jeff Bier
Electronic design automation.(includes related article on intellectual property and chip design, large numbers of gates, verification)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLinda Geppert, Beth Martin
Electronic design automation tools made coherent.(SR)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDennis W. Prather
Embedded DRAM technology: opportunities and challenges.((dynamic random access memory)(includes related article on DRAM and a graphics controller on one chip)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSubramanian S. Iyer, Howard L. Kalter
Enhancing Matlab-to-C++ programming.(Software Review)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark S. Mirotznik
EV watch: No-tip three-wheelers come of age.(electric vehicles)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J. Riezenman, Willie D. Jones
Fault injection spot-checks computer system dependability.(the Rifle fault injection system developed at the University of Coimbra in Portugal) (The Practical Engineer)(Technology Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoao Viegas Carreira, Diamantino Costa, Joao Gabriel Silva
Fine-tuning memory macros using variable internal delays.(The Practical Engineer)(Technology Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKen Gray
Free software.(Linux)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert W. Lucky
Fuel cells for homes and hospitals.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald H. Wolk
Helping the Web help the disabled.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoseph J. Lazzaro
Henry Samueli.(Broadcom co-founder and former UCLA electrical engineering professor)(People)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTekla S. Perry
High-resolution frequency analysis with a small data record.(model-based spectral analysis vs. fast Fourier transforms for discrete-time spectral analysis) (The Practical Engineer)(Technology Information)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAbhay Samant, Sam Shearman
How not to forfeit 2K Act protections.(Law)(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
How to be a star engineer.(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert E. Kelley
IDL data visualization broadly upgraded.(Interactive Data Language)(Software Review)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter Fox
Improving grid behavior.(western US electric power grid system, emergencies, simulation)(includes related articles on 1996 outages and resulting oversight and on reactive power)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCarson W. Taylor
Integrating electronic and mechanical design.Engineering and manufacturing industriesChristopher Cavello
Keeping the lights on!(reliable grids in a deregulated power industry)(includes related articles on the nature of power system reliability and on tapping into scarce transmission capacity)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn D. Mountford, Ricardo R. Austria
Lightening the load while on the road.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Making a scope from a PC and cards.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J. Riezenman, Elizabeth A. Bretz, Willie D. Jones
Math and science software.(includes related article on the importance of symbolic programming)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKen Kornbluh, Gadi Kaplan
Matlab acquires data directly.(SR)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark Mirotznik
Medical and prosthetic applications.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard H. Crawford, Joseph J. Beaman
Medical electronics.(includes related article on biomedical engineers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTerri Lazarus-Karaoglan
Missiles for all: the new global threat.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames Oberg
MPEG-4: Multimedia for our time.(includes related articles on security of intellectual property and standardizing metadata, descriptions of multimedia material)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRob Koenen
NIST's support of rapid prototyping standards.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKevin K. Jerrens
Old rivalries, new arsenals: Should the United States worry?Engineering and manufacturing industriesDov S. Zakheim
One highly adaptable software package.(Software Review)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles G. Masi
Photovoltaics: gaining greater visibility.(combining photovoltaic arrays with other power sources in consumer-sited electric generation systems)(Technology Information)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn P. Benner, Lawrence Kazmerski
Poison Java: antidotes to malicious code are required above and beyond Java's own antigens if the programming language is to be immunized against security breaches.(Technology Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEva Chen
Power to the package.(ball-grid array technology)(includes related article on gigahertz processors)(Technology Information)(Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDennis Herell
Quality visualization for the hierarchical data format.(Fortner Software's Noesys technical data management software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid Pensak
Rapid prototyping of geometric sculptures.Engineering and manufacturing industriesCarlo Sequin
Reduced time-to-market and higher quality.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJerry D. Jackson
Rolling across Europe's vanishing frontiers.(includes related articles on technological advances in locomotives of several European countries)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHeinz Kurz
Software for the 'testability police'.(SR)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLondon Jin
Software smartens up data manipulation.(includes related article on device driver software standards)Engineering and manufacturing industriesC.G. Masi
Sold freeform fabrication: a new manufacturing paradigm.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard H. Crawford, Joseph J. Beaman
Squeeze plays - DTV compression and scaling.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
State of the Internet: Roundtable 5.0.(IEEE Spectrum's annual State of the Internet Roundtable)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Panel Discussion)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Swift justice.(Includes related article on the Minitel information system of France)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
System tests many cellphone types.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Test and measurement.(includes related articles on customization in instrumentation and leveraging PC tehcnology)Engineering and manufacturing industriesC.G. Masi
Testing big chips becomes an internal affair.(Update on Engineering Software)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStan Runyon
Testing the monster chip.(Technology Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesYervant Zorian
The 1999 IEEE medalists.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The defensive design of printed-circuit boards.(The Practical Engineer)(Technology Information)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Berrie
The DSP Workshop -- a compelling CASE.(the MathWorks' CASE software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles Constantine Gumas
The dynamic digital disk.(the DVD standard)(Technology Information)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlan E. Bell
The emerging knowledge-based economy.(excerpt from 'Engines of Prosperity: Templates for the Information Age')Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn D. Trudel, Gerardo R. Ungson
The environment.(includes related article on product takeback, disposal)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKellyn S. Betts, Alfred Rosenblatt
The ethics of intellectual property and the new information technologies.(the third in a series of roundtable discussions on engineering ethics)(Industry Trend or Event)(Panel Discussion)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The fine art of IC design.(Technology Information)(Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBarbara Chappell
The incredible shrinking transistor.(Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesYuan Taur
The Internet.(includes related article on embedded wireless connecting users to the 'Net)Engineering and manufacturing industriesElizabeth Bretz, Larry Lange
The mobile phone meets the Internet.(third-generation cellular telephony) (includes related articles on the history of mobile telephony and the advent of digital cellular)(Technology Information)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMalcolm W. Oliphant
The next threat to grid reliability--data security.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid A. Jones, Ronald L. Skelton
The practical engineer.(manufacturability of electronic designs)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDan Stoneking
The revolution in systems engineering.(systems-on-silicon design) (includes related articles on co-design electronic design automation and the virtual processor model in Vast Systems Technologies' CoMET system-level design software)(Technology Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGraham R. Hellestrand
The via squeeze.(microvias)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles L. Lassen, Mark V. Christensen
Transportation.(includes related articles on safer air transportation and the SwissAir 111 crash )(and on transportation timing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesElizabeth Bretz
Ultralight lithography.(use of extreme ultraviolet light sources)(Technology Information)(Technical)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNoreen Harned
User-friendly design for testing.(SR)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTimothy J. Wood
Viewpoint: ATM vs. Gigabit Ethernet.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter Rauch
Washington watch: Government databases if linked would be more efficient: NSF.(National Science Fdtn.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Waverunner scopes out the mid-range market.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
What's on and how?(digital television broadcasts)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStephen A. Booth
Wireless Andrew: bringing mobile computing to a university community of 10 000.(Carnegie Mellon University)(includes related article on IEEE 802.11 standard)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlex Hills
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