June 1992 - SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING COMPUTING


FEATURES

PERSONAL SUPERCOMPUTING
by Ian Hirschsohn

PC/RISC architectures give you the horsepower to run large-scale scientific applications.

FINDING SIGNIFICANCE IN NOISY DATA
by Roy E. Kimbrell

Adaptive filters let you identify significant deviations from expected values.

CONTOURING DATA FIELDS
by Bruce (Bear) Giles

Scientific data is often in gridded data format, and contouring is a way to view it.

SCULPTING ON SILICON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHUCK MOORE
by Jack Woehr

Chuck Moore and others have a wide-ranging discussion about computing's changing landscape.

PORTING UNIX TO THE 386: MISSING PIECES, PART II
by William Frederick Jolitz and Lynne Greer Jolitz

A "bare-bones" execve( ) system call is implemented this month.

DESIGN FOR VISUALIZATION
by Peter D. Varhol

Peter describes how to use a design tool to develop a team project.

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

PROGRAMMING THE 12C INTERFACE
by Mitchell Kahn

The I2C bus is a two-wire synchronous serial interface for intelligent IC devices.

EXAMINING ROOM

ACCESSING LARGE DATA ARRAYS WITH X-ARRAY
by Barr E. Bauer

Barr examines X-arRAY, a Fortran library that manages extended memory and math operations.

PROGRAMMER'S WORKBENCH

FORTEX, A FORTRAN RUNTIME EXECUTIVE
by Harold R. Justice

FORTEX is a Fortran tool with a flexible UI that can be incorporated into applications.

COLUMNS

PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
by Michael Swaine

Michael argues that the way we interact with computers is in the early stages of a paradigm shift.

C PROGRAMMING
by Al Stevens

Al discusses how to implement dialog boxes, and wraps up SD '92.

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
by Jeff Duntemann

Jeff switches from Object Vision to Visual Basic in his look at Windows development tools.

GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING
by Michael Abrash

Wu's method of antialiasing is Michael's focus this month.

PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
by Andrew Schulman

Modern Operating Systems and The Design of OS/2 look inside today's operating systems.

DEPARTMENTS

EDITORIAL
by Jonathan Erickson

LETTERS
by you

SWAINE'S FLAMES
by Michael Swaine

PROGRAMMER'S SERVICES

OF INTEREST
by Tami Zemel


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