Speech recognition software appeared in about 1952 but the first widely available example was the system developed by IBM and incorporated, in 1996, into its personal computer operating system OS/2 Warp. The following year, Dragon Systems released its first version of NaturallySpeaking for Microsoft Windows. At about the same time, IBM released a Windows version of its recognition software, Vi...

AMOS is a newly developed computer code that is finding application in the design of accelerator cavities. The program simulates the temporal evolution of electromagnetic fields in rotationally symmetric structures. An explicit Fourier series expansion is assumed in the azimuthal coordinate, which allows different multipole modes to be simulated independently. Nonuniform electrical properties (...

This paper evaluates and compares several stream ciphers that use 256-bit keys: counter-mode AES, CryptMT, DICING, Dragon, Fubuki, HC-256, Phelix, Py, Py6, Salsa20, SOSEMANUK, VEST, and YAMB.

The knowledge-based Toxtree expert system (SAR approach) was integrated with the statistically based counter propagation artificial neural network (CP ANN) model (QSAR approach) to contribute to a better mechanistic understanding of a carcinogenicity model for non-congeneric chemicals using Dragon descriptors and carcinogenic potency for rats as a response. The transparency of the CP ANN algori...

This study investigated the use of the speech recognition system Dragon Dictate as an augmentative method of computer access for two individuals with cerebral palsy, including severe motor dysfunction and dysarthria. Single subject design was used and measures of computer access system effectiveness and speech production were used before, during and after intervention. The users' original switc...

In this paper, we report on the DRAGON (Database Replication on Group Communication) project and the results obtained so far at ETH Zürich. The goal of DRAGON is to improve database replication strategies by using group communication primitives. As a first step in this direction, we have developed a suite of protocols implementing database replication based on broadcast primitives. We are curre...

Astrocytes orchestrate neuronal synchrony stroctyes are known to modulate synaptic communication between neurons. Now, colleagues report that astrocytes can elicit slow inward currents outside of synapses and thus activate synchronous responses in multiple neurons. During periods of intense neural activity, calcium oscillations are triggered in astrocytes, inducing the cells to release glutamat...