A lthough computer and video games have existed for fewer than 40 years, they are already serious business. Entertainment software, the entertainment industry’s fastest growing segment, currently generates sales surpassing the film industry’s gross revenues. Computer games have significantly affected personal computer sales, providing the initial application for CD-ROMs, driving advancements in...

A computer program, coded in QuickBASIC language, is used to make a non-redundant list of references, in alphabetical order, that are found in a scientific manuscript (formatted as a DOS text file). The program can extract either direct or indirect citations as in the following: Byers (1983a, b, 1984) and Miller and Keen, 1960; Byers et al., 1984; Byers 1984) An IBM-compatible personal computer...

Computers looking through a camera at people is a potentially powerful technique to facilitate human-computer interaction. The computer can interpret the userś movements, gestures, and glances. Fundamental visual algorithms include tracking, shape recognition, and motion analysis. We describe several vision algorithms for interactive graphics, and present various vision controlled graphics appl...

Introduction In August of 2011 Hewlett Packard, the world’s largest seller of PCs, confirmed it was looking to sell off its personal computing business—possibly getting out of the hardware game altogether and dropping its tablet and smartphone operations as well. This event along with IBM’s decision in 2004 to sell its PC business line to Lenovo, a China-based firm, is a harbinger that the low-...

This paper describes a reengineering project undertaken by a comprehensive university’s extended education department. The project involved a transition from a decentralized workplace dominated by Macintosh personal computers to an IBM PC/clone-based client/server environment. Lessons learned during the decision making and platform conversion stages of the project are emphasized. These lessons ...

This paper describes Sound Lab (SLAB): a software-based, real-time virtual audio rendering system designed to work in the personal computer environment using a standard signal-processing library. SLAB is being developed as a tool for the study of spatial hearing. The system takes advantage of the low-cost PC platform while providing a flexible, maintainable, and extensible architecture to enabl...

This paper describes the design and construction of a personal computer (PC) based pulsed NMR spectrometer to measure spin-lattice relaxation times in solids. The spectrometer works at 10 MHz and produces d. pulses of amplitude 200 Vp_p' The pulse programmer provides various pulse sequences such as 180°-1"-90°and 90°-1"-180°and inter pulse intervals (1")can be computer programmed. The rise and ...

Distance Education Course (DEC) has been becoming more and more popular in many universities with the fast development of the Internet technology. The communication between the teacher and the students in DEC environment is, however, a more difficult problem than that of conventional courses. This paper proposes a real-time detecting method of students’ attitude to enhance the communications be...

Several PC-based image processing systems developed for experimental measurements in our laboretory are described in this paper. They are a motion measurement system, motion picture analysis systems and color image processing systems for robotics. High quality with low cost image digitizing boards become available to use, and a capacity of RAM boards grows rapidly. So, PC-based automatic measur...