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THE MAIN IMPEDIMENT TO THE USE OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IS THE LACK OF PROPER HIGH-LEVEL PARALLEL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT. THE POTENTIAL OF PARALLEL MACHINES WILL NEVER BE TAPPED IF THEY CNANOT BE PROGRAMMED EFFECTIVELY AND EASILY. FORTRAN-LINDA IS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR BUILDING DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL PROGRAMS. IT COMBINES A STANDARD SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (FORTRAN)WIT ...

IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, THE PERFORMANCE OF MICROPROCESSORS USED IN WORKSTATIONS HAS INCREASED DRAMATICLLY, AND ADVANCESIN VLSI TECHNOLOGY ASSURE CONTINUING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN THE FUTURE. SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATES, INC. HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LINDA COORDINATION LANGUAGE ALLOWING PARALLEL PROGRAMS TO BE RUN ON A NETWORK OF ...

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GUIDING DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR THE OPERATION OF QUANTUM CONFINED DEVICES IS NECESSARY FOR MAKING ULTRA-SMALL DEVICES AND FOR PRODUCING MORE FUNCTIONALITY PER UNIT AREA OF CHIP WHEN THE DEVICE SIZE IS UNCHANGED. SUCH GUIDING PRINCIPLES REQUIRE A QUANTUM MECHANICALLY BASED SET OF EQUATIONS THAT INCORPORATE MANY PARTICLE STATISTICS. A MAJOR OPPORTUNITY EXISTS FOR INTRODUCING INTO ...

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WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY DESIGNED AN INSPECTION STATION IMPLEMENTING INFRARED DETECTED THERMAL SIGNATURES FOR THE MONITORINGOF MECHANICAL INTEGRITY OF TAPE AUTOMATED BONDED (TAB) INTERCONNECTIONS. IN THIS RESEARCH WE WISH TO APPLY VARIOUS SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES TO THIS DESIGN IN ORDER TO EVALUATE THE FEASIBLITY OF USING THISMODIFIED WORK STATION TO MONITOR THE TRANSMISSION LINE CHARACTERISTICS OF ...

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