LINK TO PAPER The Road Ahead: Using ArcPad Maps in Census Bureau Field Activities Track: Census and Geo-Demographics Author(s): Andrea Johnson The Census Bureau is exploring the feasibility of using handheld census computers in future enumeration activities. Recently, in Sussex Co DE, the Census Bureau tested the feasibility of using maps on hand-held computer and the increases in productivity ...

An important difference exists between the way humans communicate route knowledge and the turn-by-turn route directions provided by the majority of current navigation services. Navigation services present route directions with the same amount of detail regardless the route segment’s significance in the instructions, user’s distance from the destination, and finally the level of user’s familiari...

1 Introduction " Before there were computers, we could distinguish persons from non-persons on the basis of an ability to participate in conversations. But now, we have hybrids operating between person and non persons with whom we can talk in ordinary language. " (Colby 1999). Human machine conversation as a technology integrates different areas where the core is language, and the computational...

STEP-NC (ISO 14649) is becoming a promising standard to replace or supplement the conventional G-code programs based on ISO 6983 due to its feature based machine independent characteristics and its centric role to enable efficient CAD/CAM/CNC interoperability. The re-use of Gcode programs is important for both manufacturing and capitalization of machining knowledge, nevertheless the conversion ...

The Diamond booster and storage ring are equipped with Libera Electron Beam Position Processors with turnby-turn capabilities. We describe here the turn-by-turn data acquisition system and the software used for postprocessing the beam data. The signals from the Libera boxes are acquired and controlled with EPICS and then transferred to the MATLAB environment via the MATLAB Channel Access or Lab...