February 1988 - Vol. 31 No. 2
Features
The art and science of visualizing data
"I manipulate the laser," the artist said, having exploited laboratory equipment. "This is a parallel pipeline systolic SIMD engine we call the 'Jell-O Engine,'" the…
The 1987 recipient of the Steven A. Coons Award speaks out on the state of the art in computer graphics and what the future can bring the industry under the right…
Ray tracing Jell-O brand gelatin
New technology is presented for imaging a restricted class of dessert foods.
Pattern formation and chaos in networks
Chaos theory involves the study of how complicated behavior can arise in systems that are based on simple rules, and how minute changes in the input of a system can lead…
Connectionist networks can be used as expert system knowledge bases. Furthermore, such networks can be constructed from training examples by machine learning techniques.…
Computing with structured connectionist networks
The design and applications of massively parallel computational models could lead to dramatic advances in the ability to automate complex tasks such as those found in…
NPATH: a measure of execution path complexity and its applications
Software engineering is a discipline in search of objective measures for factors that contribute to software quality. NPATH, which counts the acyclic execution paths…
A comparison of recently proposed parallel text search methods to alternative available search strategies that use serial processing machines suggests parallel methods do…
Binomial random variate generation
Existing binomial random-variate generators are surveyed, and a new generator designed for moderate and large means is developed. The new algorithm, BTPE, has fixed…