v irtual reality in public entertainment has been called a zero-billion dollar industry. For three or four years, we've read and heard a lot of hype about the potential profits in taking VR technology developed for the military and using it to make people smile. But as yet only a handful of companies have attempted to create systems that can generate profits as well as graphics. Here's a look a...

Organised nonviolent struggle, as an alternative to military methods, can be greatly aided by appropriate scientific research and technological development. The project involves surveying research and development relevant to a number of areas—such as industry, food production and communications—to assess its relevance to nonviolent struggle. The findings will be used to determine how science an...

Six simulation professionals present their views on the directions that they believe that verification, validation, and accreditation research should take. Two of the six are active verification, validation, and accreditation researchers from academia, two develop industry simulation models, and two work in verification, validation, and accreditation of military simulation models. A number of a...

Yesha Y. Sivan is the CEO of the K2K Knowledge Infrastructure Laboratory. He received a B.A. from Tel Aviv University and the M.A. and Ed.D from Harvard. His current research is in knowledge management and the creation of knowledge systems for corporate, hi-tech, and military environments. His publications include From the MTV Age to the LLL Age: The Story of a Knowledge Infrastructure for the ...

No study of otolaryngology is complete without a description of the physiological and pathological conditions which may affect the ears and nasal sinuses in aerospace and underwater. This is borne out by the importance of aviation, both civil and military, in the modern world and by the rapid development of the underwater industry. This view is consolidated by the millions of passengers who fly...

Advanced Biofuels USA, an educational nonprofit organization, advocates for the adoption of advanced biofuels as an energy security, economic development, military flexibility, climate change mitigation/pollution control solution. The key tool to accomplish this mission is our web site, www.AdvancedBiofuelsUSA.org, a one-stopshop library for industry professionals and the general public; from t...

Online and interactive television courses are, and will continue to be, implemented in most college and university settings. When reviewing educational literature, one is inundated with articles on educational technology and electronic instructional models. Articles addressing distance learning around the globe, within the military, in business and industry, the introduction of 'virtual' univer...

Networked Control System (NCS) is fetching researchers' interest from many decades. It's been used in industry which range from manufacturing, automobile, aviation, aerospace to military. This paper gives the general architecture of NCS and its fundamental routes. It also touches to its advantages and disadvantages and some of the popular controller which include PID (Proportional-Int...

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) industry has been rapidly growing over the last decade. New UAV are being developed for military applications and also for civil usage. There is a strong correlation between the mission of a UAV and the avionics necessary to implement it. For this reason, the design, development and verification of UAV avionics, including hardware and software architecture, hav...

The continued growth of wireless communication in both the commercial and defense sectors requires new kinds of enabling technology for antennas and RF circuitry to provide high speed, high reliability performance. The development of this technology requires contributions from industry, the military, and academia to meet the challenges presented by unpredictable and often hostile operating envi...