G. Pascal Zachary is a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal. He is also a contributing editor of the newsmagazine In These Times and a columnist for Technology Review. His first technology-related book Showstopper (1994) focused on innovation at Microsoft. His second book, Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century, follows the life and career of a highly controversi...

Abstruct : UNIX, as an operating system (OS>, has enlarged it’s scope of activity, it is applied to not only R& D field, but also OA and FA fields. Accordingly, the necessity of DBMS which perform on UNIX, also getting more and more. But it is difficult to use same type of DBMS for many different kind of businesses. PFU Ltd. & Fujitsu Ltd. supplies the A-series (SVR3base UNIX machine), targetti...

We present an approach to wearable sensor-based assessment of functional ability (FA) of individuals post stroke. We make use of one on-body inertial measurement unit (IMU) to automate the FA scoring of the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT). WMFT is an assessment instrument used to determine the functional capabilities of individuals post stroke. It comprises of 17 tasks15 of which are rated acco...

Orthokeratology practice in children in a university clinic in Hong Kong Clin Exp Optom, 2008. 91(5): p. 453-60. PURPOSES: The aim of this study was to analyse clinical data of children undergoing orthokeratology (ortho-k) and to investigate patients'/parents' perspective on ortho-k via telephone interviews. METHODS: Clinical records of children undergoing ortho-k from a university optometry cl...

FA equipment's such as Numerical Control [3,4] machine tools, industrial robots, aiid other automated machinery are used to save energy and promote automation , which allow for high productivity and also produces quality products . The aforementioned FA equipment's is becoming more technical with the application of servo motor and motion control technologies [5 ,6,7] . Rolf Johansoon presents a...

Distributed environments such as federated databases, wireless and sensor networks, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are becoming increasingly popular and wellsuited for machine learning since they can store large quantities of data on a network. The distributed setting is complex in part because network topologies are often dynamic and data available to algorithms changes frequently. Furthermore, i...

A virtual duplex system can be used to increase safety without the use of structural redundancy on a single machine. If a program P is calculating a given function f, then a virtual duplex system contains two variants Pa and Pb of P which are calculating the diverse functions fa and fb , respectively. If no error occurs in the process of designing and executing Pa and Pb then f = fa = fb holds....