- NIST EFFORT AIMS TO MAKE JAVA MORE USEFUL FOR
SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS.
Mathematicians at the federal government's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are aiding the scientific computing community by spearheading an effort to make the popular Java programming language more useful for engineers and scientists. Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java language is widely used on the World Wide Web and in ......
- Maple 8.
Waterloo Maple. c2002. Windows 95/98/ ME/NT 4 (64MB), XP, 2000 (12MB), Linux, Pentium II, 233MHz, 150MB free disk space for single user, 230MB for network CD-ROM disk, user's guide. Student edition, $129.00; teacher edition, $995.00 SA This mathematics program provides powerful capabilities for computation and symbolic manipulation across a broad ......
- An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Success in Mathematics and Visual Programming Courses
HEADNOTE ABSTRACT Many universities do not have prerequisites for the introductory computer visual programming course. Therefore, faculty and students do not have any means of predicting the student's performance in this course. This research addresses this issue. Past research and accepted theory are presented to show the cognitive requirements for ......
- Bond Graphs to the Rescue
What comes to mind when you hear the words "bond graph?" Maybe it's James Bond trying to get out of a jam or get the attention of someone he'd like to bond with. There are similarities. Bond graphs quantify attractive forces in nature — among atoms or among people. They ......
- Computing practices of new engineers
Software tools such as LabView and Matlab, which are heavily used in many engineering colleges, offer considerable potential for enhancing productivity in manufacturing, Tom Kurfess pointed out in this column in February 2004. Further evidence of this industrial-academic software connection is found in a recent study performed by the CACHE ......
- Libraries turn math algorithms into intellectual property
Many communication and graphics applications are computation-intensive, yet no one has paid much attention to optimizing the hardware that implements mathematical functions. Traditional implementation methods use a combination of pipelining, manual gate- or circuit-level design, or automatic synthesis with special constraints. Turning an equation into a numerical implementation is difficult ......
- Saving Stan
Cadavers are often a medical student's first patients. As valuable as they are in teaching lessons on the complexity of human anatomy, they hold one unavoidable drawback: Cadavers are hardly interactive. The first time most interns see shock, hypoxia, or an overdose is on a live patient in extremis—too late ......