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The Office of Personnel Management is moving statistics about 1.8 million federal civilian workers from a secure intranet to the Internet. OPM posted its first batch of information at www.fedscope.opm.gov […]

ALTHOUGH ULTRASOUND INSTRUMENTS HAVE BEEN A PART OF THE EMBEDDED LANDSCAPE FOR DECADES, DESIGNERS CONTINUE TO REFINE TECHNIQUES AND DEVISE NEW APPLICATIONS. ULTRASOUND MIGHT FIT INTO YOUR NEXT EMBEDDED DESIGN. [...]

Most of the vendors I checked had products that were almost like what I needed, but not quite. There was always a critical difference. I knew the product I wanted […]

Decision Vault is a data warehousing bundle specifically designed for HP 3000 customers who want to build a high-performance and cost-competitive data warehouse in a familiar environment using IMAGE/SQL on […]

The Fox Professional is a well- presented PC masquerading as a business workstation, a task to which it is undeniably suited. Its elegant system unit complements the rather angular design […]

Don't be so blinded by the technology, that you fail to notice the mountain you are heading for All management information directors know that, in trying to avoid the mistakes […]

To improve the performance of your Web server, you could boost the Ram, the processing power or the disk -- but haphazard upgrades could prove a waste of money. Read […]

Two articles are summarized below from the July issue of IIE Transactions (Vol. 39, No. 7), which focuses on operations engineering. The first article explores the effects of pending legislation [...]

OPTIMIZE TRANSFER SPEED IN ASYNCHRONOUS SCSI Asynchronous SCSI systems are regarded as poor relations of synchronous SCSI applications and the newer SCSI-2 standard. In particular, the perception is that asynchronous […]

Discless Program Execution and Virtual Memory Management MANY DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS based on the UNIX operating system offer some form of remote file access capability. However, only a few of them […]

The 88000 Faces of Multibus II RISC processors, such as the Motorola 88000, offer the designer the capability to design board-level products with a magnitude performance increase over their CISC […]

COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING Anyone contemplating computer-aided engineering's future is on firm ground if they say automation will greatly impact the way engineers do their jobs. CAE already plays a key role […]

Pipelined DSP Tackles Frequency Domain Fast Fourier Transforms are widely recognized for their importance in digital signal processing applications. But the complexity of the mathematics involved and the difficulty of […]

Aiding You with Decision Support Capabilities Operating a hospital in today's environment would be virtually impossible without an information system. Medical and business decisions require accurate, timely data. Cash-flow and [...]

Timing analysis improves efficiency of ASIC design You can employ timing analysis to raise both the quality and efficiency of your design-verification process. Timing analysis can pinpoint timing problems in [...]

Uniting ultrasonics and microelectronics reaps a cost-effective ranging system Proximity detection and position measurement are no longer 'contact sports': Techniques that remotely sense the presence of an object are replacing [...]

Fault-tolerant design spans terrestrial and space application Space has been a commercial frontier for more than 20 years, thanks to communications satellites. In the 1990s, a lot more hardware is [...]

Structured Time Let's talk architecture -- not Gothic and not CPU - but data architecture. Architecture is the art or science of designing structures: and structure is essential to database […]

By Joseph Devlin, Emily Berk and Scott Sostack Following are products that provide very different sorts of large-capacity hard drives. Included in this listing is one vendor of Storage Module […]

Faced with exploding use of the internet, skyrocketing demand for more bandwidth and rising costs for ISP access, firewalls and servers, many network managers would like to control Internet use […]

PG&E Corp., the nation's largest publicly owned electric and gas utility, has pulled the plug on a massive $100 million customer information system re-engineering project for which it had hired […]

Bechtel Corp. is deploying a global intranet project that ties together about 20 separate proprietary applications and gives the company better control over the life cycle of large-scale building projects. […]

Most overbooked media professionals accelerate the old-fashioned way--they use more than one machine. After you begin rendering a 3-D image on your Power Mac, you switch to the old Quadra. […]

For sheer havoc in cyberspace, it's hard to top crashing intranet servers. Usually it's the software, but often it's PC servers that can't handle unpredictable spikes in demand. Apart from […]

Heil Co. sought the help of its suppliers, Dana Corp.'s Weatherhead Division and Gresen Hydraulics, to improve the performance of its mobile hydraulic systems and components. A systems design methodology was implemented to achieve longer product life and leakage reduction at less cost and manufacturing time. The end result was a system design for Heil's products in which various hydraulic components are coordinated for better equipment operation., Among the many types of mobile equipment that utilize hydraulics, there are few that provide as many challenges to the system designer as refuse collection vehicles. Besides the myriad functions [...]

The Wide World of the Web Tune into our three-part series to learn how to become a master of the Web. Driving the Web: A guide to best practices for […]

THE PROBLEM Towards the end of the 1980s, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) began to move away from a centralised style of management to a more decentralised approach, in an […]

The first wave of Compaq Computer Corp.'s next-generation multiprocessor enterprise servers will use the Pentium-class K5 chip from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Compaq has already put samples of the K5 […]

American Greetings Corp. will soon celebrate a special occasion: the one-year anniversary of its move to client/server technology. If a card existed, it would have to say: 'Congratulations! You did […]

DESPITE CONTINUED EMPHASIS on systemic approaches to improvement, schools struggle to use data and information in a manner consistent with systems thinking. A holistic approach is required that focuses on [...]

MAYNARD, Mass. - Digital Equipment Corp. has introduced the latest version of its OpenVMS clusters. The new 'multisite clusters' allow nodes on the cluster to be as far as 150 […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala.--With fewer people available to test systems before deployment, the Operations and Research Division at the Air Force Standard Systems Center has turned to modeling and simulation programs. Before […]

Strategic decisions about server operating systems can be tricky business these days. After settling on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1 as an application server to facilitate his downsizing […]

The surge of media interest in infobahns and teleworking is being matched by the arrival of V.34 matched by the arrival much-heralded, a long time in gestation, but here at […]

Fox Broadcasting Co. is making history in more ways than one with its coverage of the National Football League this year. The upstart network's historic coup -- outgunning CBS with […]

forward Spin Talk about evangelizing. Xircom CEO Dirk Gates is so eager to demonstrate the virtues of wireless LANs he often refuses to pick up the phone. Instead, he has […]

For years, mainframe shops have used hierarchical storage-management systems to help slash runaway administration and data-storage costs. Spurred by the economics of off-loading infrequently used files from a server's hard […]

For Solectron, an electronic manufacturing services firm whose principle product is printed circuit boards, a recently introduced system combining ObjectView, Windows NT, and Microsoft/Sybase SQL Server provides up-to-the-second information on […]

Mention a touch-screen and most people will imagine a kiosk in a mall, or a waitress using it to enter an order. But even with the imperfect technologies currently available, […]

GUIs, processor speed, portability, training. You name it, they said it. Speaking with a broad spectrum of PC users, PC Week received a lot of views concerning ease of use. […]

Multilevel secure communications became available to users of the Army's Reserve Component Automation System last week. This means that that 400 Army Reserve and National Guard units using RCAS now […]

* ROCHESTER, Minn.- The performance and power of RISC systems has caused a paradigm shift in the computer industry. Once dominated by CISC systems, major manufacturers have moved to embrace […]

Planning for the Long Haul, the Dallas Federal Reserve Migrated its Token Ring Network to Fiber-Optic Cable As one of 12 Federal Reserve Banks in the United States, the Federal […]