ASM Virtual EduCon 2020

Virtual and Augmented Reality 2020

ith roots going back to Ivan Suther-land's research in the 1960s, virtual reality (VR) reached a plateau in the early 1990s when the promise was demonstrable in universities and research laboratories. Although we all knew we had a long way to go, hype overtook the field, leading to impossible expectations. Fortunately, a few years later the Internet became the latest hot topic, leaving VR resea...

From GPS and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing – 2020

Thanks to today’s relatively high-speed wireless data networks, and location/orientation-aware mobile phones, we are tantalizingly close to realizing a common dream of Augmented Reality (AR) everywhere. But even with appropriate content and concepts of operation, things are not quite right: icons and annotations are misregistered and/or jiggle around. We can get the data to the phone (the last ...

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‘Tuning’ an ASM Metric: Study in Metric ASM Optimization

Wc present an approximate string matching case study. An optimized version of the edit distance algorithm is described which has proven more accurate for a particular commercial application than the existing (benchmark) algorithm. The cvoluhon and nature of the optimization are detailed and test results are presented.

ASM Launches mBio

With this issue, ASM launches a new, interdisciplinary journal designed to accommodate the universe of microbiology and its allied disciplines under one roof. While perusing the pages of this first issue of mBio, one will note that there are articles addressing a myriad of questions in virology, bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, immunology, ecology, and basic cell biology. To have papers fr...