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WE PURPOSE TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF SPEECH RECOGNITION ON A VLSI NEUROCOMPUTER. THE SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM PERFORMS SPEAKER-INDEPENDENT RECOGNITION OF SPOKEN ENGLISH LETTERS. THE CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM, NOW RUNNING ON A SUN 4 WORKSTATION, CLASSIFIES LETTERS OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET AT 94% ACCURACY - THE BEST REPORTED PERFORMANCE OF ANY SYSTEM ON THIS DIFFICULT TASK. THE HI ...

A FEASIBILITY STUDY IS PROPOSED ON A NOVEL CONCEPT FOR A GENERATION OF A VERY LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGHLY FOCUSED GAMMA RADIATION BEAM USEFUL FOR MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS IN DEFENSE SUCH AS KILL OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS IN LAND WARFARE, AND (AS DESCRIBED HEREIN) DISCRIMINATION OF TARGETS IN SPACE. THE DEVICE IS SMALL ENOUGH TO "PIGGY BACK" ON THE PROPOSED REENTRY VEHICLE (RV) INTERCEPTOR MISSILES, OR BE CARRIED ...

AN ECONOMICAL FRAGMENT LAUNCH SYSTEM IS NEEDED TO DUPLICATE WARHEAD FRAGMENT/AIR TARGET ENCOUNTER CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN AIR TO AIR COMBAT. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO PROVIDE A DETAILED CONCEPTUAL DESIGN, INCLUDING BUILDING AND OPERATING COST ESTIMATES, FOR A LAUNCH SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PROJECTING METALLIC, PARALLELEPIPED FRAGMENTS WITH WEIGHTS IN THE RANGE OF 30-250 GRAINS (1.9-16 ...

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AN ANALYTIC MODEL OF A WIDE FIELD, PHASED ARRAY IMAGING SYSTEM WILL BE DEVELOPED. THE MODEL IS BASED ON A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM CAPABLE OF ERROR MEASUREMENT DIRECTLY WITH RESPECT TO THE FINAL IMAGE PLANE. THE BEAMS FROM INDIVIDUAL SUBAPERTURES WILL BE COMPACTED AND CONFORMALLY MAPPED TO A DEMAGNIFIED PUPIL. WE WILL DEVELOP NONREDUNDANT, CODED APERTURE MASKS TO BE INSERTED AT THIS COMPACT PUPIL WHICH ...

ON-WAFER MICROWAVE PROBE MEASUREMENTS HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR UNIQUE PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY GAINS IN SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES. HOWEVER, DEVICE PERFORMANCE CONTINUES TO OUTPACE OUR ABILITY TO MEASURE AT THE WAFER LEVEL. AS PROBE PERFORMANCE CONTINUES INTO MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS, THE MEASUREMENT CHALLENGE INCREASES. FORMERLY NEGLIGIBLE PROBE CONNECTION PARA ...

EXCESSIVE RATES OF RO (REVERSE OSMOSIS) FOULING MAY REQUIRE FREQUENT RO ELEMENT REPLACEMENT, WHICH IS BOTH EXPENSIVE AND TIME CONSUMING. THE OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF PRETREATMENT PROCESSES TO REMOVE COLLOIDS AND ORGANIC MATERIALS CAN BE MONITORED USING SDI (SILT DENSITY INDEX). THE FIELD ARMY FOR OPERATION OF THEIR ROWPU (REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER PURIFICATION UNITS) WANTS A PRACTICAL MEANS OF SDI ...