Basic Knowledge for Personal Computers (2)

Personal Computers: A Gateway to Personal Computing

This article is a personal journey, from the early days of batch processing to the modern personal computing era. The journey begins in the early 1970s and starts with the punch cards at the computer centre of the University of Jyväskylä. The use of minicomputers (HP 2100 series) gave a different view – how to collect and process data with a computer. Honeywell timesharing systems made it possi...

Personal computers - risk factors for renal failure.

The Case For Personal Computers As Workstations

using a 32 bit operating system. The authors have developed a set of simple benchmarks that measure integer, floating point, and memory manipulation. The benchmarks were used to measure the performance of a variety of RISC based workstations and Intel CISC based personal computers under several operating systems. On the personal computers based on Intel x86 and Pentium processors, the benchmark...

Spoken Language Understanding For Personal Computers

Automatic speech recognition technology will soon allow users to converse with their computers. This paper describes an approach to improve the human interface through speech recognition; describes how our research benefits the DARPA Spoken Language Research program; and describes some research results in the area of merging Hidden Markov Models (HMM), and Artificial Neural Nets (ANN). We apply...

Personal computers in forensic psychiatry.

Because forensic psychiatry is a relatively small field, there are few computer applications designed particularly for it. Forensic psychiatrists use personal computer in many ways that are similar to other psychiatrists, but certain aspects of forensic practice, such as an emphasis on precise reports, regular interactions with attorneys, use of legal databases and materials, and travel, call f...