Twelve years ago, PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE devoted a special section to the synchronous languages. This paper discusses the improvements, difficulties, and successes that have occured with the synchronous languages since then. Today, synchronous languages have been established as a technology of choice for modeling, specifying, validating, and implementing real-time embedded applications. The pa...

In order to investigate the shucking technology and design the efficient Sheller, it’s highly significant to study on the mechanical characteristics of walnut. The Pro/E software and finite element method was adopted to build the geometry and finite element model of walnut. Afterwards, the walnut stress distribution with different loads was analyzed to seek the optimum force-applying forms whic...

This paper presents the Talking Guitar, an electric guitar augmented with a system which tracks the position of the headstock in real time and uses that data to control the parameters of a formant-filtering effect which impresses upon the guitar sound a sense of speech. A user study is conducted with the device to establish an indication of the practicality of using headstock tracking to contro...

Historic architecture, whether strictly formal or vernacular in style, can be viewed as building expressed as art, the result of collective skills and knowledge of designers and various crafts engaged in its construction. Education and training in taste and judgment of a designer, combined with enlightened craftsman’s skills, contributes to the functional success and aesthetic appeal of a build...