Computing in Science and Engineering, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, January-February 2006

From the Editors

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  Norman Chonacky:
  The Spread Spectrum in Computing. 2-3

News

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  Pam Frost Gorder:
  En Route to Artificial Intelligence, Software Learns Language. 4-7

Technology Reviews

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  Tobias Haist, Marcus Reicherter, Min Wu, Lars Seifert:
  Using Graphics Boards to Compute Holograms. 8-13

Reviewer Thanks

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  Norman Chonacky:
  Special Thanks to CiSE's Peer Reviewers. 14

Special Purpose Computing

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  Steven Gottlieb:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Special-Purpose Computing. 15-17
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  Francesco Belletti, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Raffaele Tripiccione, François Bodin, Philippe Boucaud, Jacques Micheli, Olivier Pène, Nicola Cabibbo, Sergio de Luca, Alessandro Lonardo, Davide Rossetti, Piero Vicini, Maxim Lukyanov, Laurent Morin, Norbert Paschedag, Hubert Simma, Vincent Morenas, Dirk Pleiter, Federico Rapuano:
  Computing for LQCD: apeNEXT. 18-29
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  Junichiro Makino:
  The GRAPE Project. 30-40
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  Francesco Belletti, Filippo Mantovani, Giorgio Poli, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Raffaele Tripiccione, Isabel Campos Plasencia, Andres Cruz Flor, Denis Navarro, Sergio Perez Gaviro, Daniele Sciretti, Alfonso Tarancón, Jose Luis Velasco, Pedro Tellez, Luis Antonio Fernandez, Victor Martin-Mayor, Antonio Munoz Sudupe, Sergio Jimenez, Andrea Maiorano, Enzo Marinari, Juan Jesus Ruiz-Lorenzo:
  Ianus: An Adaptive FPGA Computer. 41-49
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  Feng-Hsiung Hsu:
  Chess Hardware in Deep Blue. 50-60

Computational Biology

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  Roeland Merks, Alfons G. Hoekstra, Jaap A. Kaandorp, Peter M. A. Sloot, Paulien Hogeweg:
  Problem-Solving Environments for Biological Morphogenesis. 61-72

Visualization Corner

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  Raymond G. Jacquot, Cameron H. G. Wright, Thomas V. Edgar, Robert F. Kubichek:
  Visualization of Partial Differential Equation Solutions. 73-77

Your Homework Assignment

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  Dianne P. O'Leary:
  Computational Software: Writing Your Legacy. 78-83

Scientific Programming

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  George K. Thiruvathukal:
  Home Networking. 84-91

Education

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  Denis Donnelly:
  The Fast Fourier Transform for Experimentalists, Part V: Filters. 92-95

The Last Word

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  Francis Sullivan:
  What Is It Like to Be a Bot? 96

Volume 8, Number 2, March-April 2006

The First Word

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  Norman Chonacky:
  And Now... 2

News

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  Sara Robinson:
  Recent Research Provides New Picture of Router-Level Internet. 3-6

Monte Carlo Methods

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  Isabel Beichl, Francis Sullivan:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Monte Carlo Methods. 7-8
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  Jacques G. Amar:
  The Monte Carlo Method in Science and Engineering. 9-19
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  Erik Luijten:
  Fluid Simulation with the Geometric Cluster Monte Carlo Algorithm. 20-29
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  Dana Randall:
  Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains with Applications in Computer Science and Physics. 30-41
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  Isabel Beichl, Francis Sullivan:
  The Other Monte Carlo Method. 42-47

Visualization Corner

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  Ben Shneiderman:
  A Telescope for High-Dimensional Data. 48-53

Computer Simulations

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  Mohammad Reza Rahimi Tabar, Fatemeh Ghasemi, Joachim Peinke, Rudolf Friedrich, Kamran Kaviani, Fatemeh Taghavi, Sara Sadeghi, Golnoosh Bizhani, Muhammad Sahimi:
  New Computational Approaches to the Analysis of Interbeat Intervals in Human Subjects. 54-65

Your Homework Assignment

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  Dianne P. O'Leary:
  Updating and Downdating Matrix Factorizations: A Change in Plans. 66-71

Education

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  Denis Donnelly:
  The Fast Fourier Transform for Experimentalists, Part VI: Chirp of a Bat. 72-78

Scientific Programming

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  Konstantin Läufer:
  A Hike through Post-EJB J2EE Web Application Architecture, Part II. 79-87

The Last Word

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  Charles Day:
  Engineering in Computing and Science. 88

Volume 8, Number 3, May-June 2006

The First Word

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  Norman Chonacky:
  Evolution: It's not Just for Biology. 2

News

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  Pam Frost Gorder:
  Not Just for the Birds: Archiving Massive Data Sets. 3-7

Noise and Signal Interaction

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  Rachel Kuske:
  Noise and Signal Interaction. 8-9
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  Grant Lythe, Salman Habib:
  Kink Stochastics. 10-15
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  Gilles Hennenfent, Felix J. Herrmann:
  Seismic Denoising with Nonuniformly Sampled Curvelets. 16-25
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  Edwin Kreuzer, Wolfgang Sichermann:
  The Effect of Sea Irregularities on Ship Rolling. 26-34
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  Rachel Kuske:
  Multiple-Scales Approximation of a Coherence Resonance Route to Chatter. 35-43

Book Reviews

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  James Brown:
  Seeing into the Quantum World. 44-45

Technology Reviews

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  Norman Chonacky, David Winch:
  We're Listening to You! Results from Our Recent Reader Survey. 46-53

Your Homework Assignment

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  Dianne P. O'Leary:
  Computer Memory and Arithmetic: A Look under the Hood. 54-59

Computer Simulations

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  Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer:
  Recent Developments in Computer Simulations of Language Competition. 60-67

Visualization Corner

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  Hua Zhang, Changqian Zhu, Qiang Peng, Jim X. Chen:
  Using Geometric Algebra for 3D Linear Transformations. 68-75

Education

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  Osman Yasar, Jose Maliekal, Leigh J. Little, Dawn Jones:
  A Computational Technology Approach to Education. 76-81

Scientific Programming

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  Paul Gray, Thomas Murphy:
  Something Wonderful this Way Comes. 82-87

The Last Word

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  Charles Day:
  Turn on Your Computer and Simulate the Future! 88

Volume 8, Number 4, July-August 2006

The First Word

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  Norman Chonacky:
  A Change of Landscape and a Broadened Scope. 4-5

News

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  Pam Frost Gorder:
  Computing in Biological Time: The Design of an Anticocaine Molecule. 6-9

Technical Note

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  Aasim Azooz:
  Analog Data Acquisition for Obtaining I-V Characteristics Using Sound Cards. 10-15

CSE Education

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  Martin Bernreuther, Hans-Joachim Bungartz:
  First Experiences with Group Projects in CSE Education. 16-25

Spectral Analysis

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  Mensur Omerbashich:
  Gauss-Vanícek Spectral Analysis of the Sepkoski Compendium: No New Life Cycles. 26-30

Schrödinger Equation

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  Curt A. Moyer:
  Numerical Solution of the Stationary State Schrödinger Equation Using Transparent Boundary Conditions. 32-40

Neural Networks

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  Zeng Zhe-Zhao, Yaonan Wang, Wen Hui:
  Numerical Integration Based on a Neural Network Algorithm. 42-48

Scientific Programming

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  Gregory R. Watson, Nathan DeBardeleben:
  Developing Scientific Applications Using Eclipse. 50-61

Education

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  Bruce Mason:
  Digital Libraries in Support of Science Education: A Case for Computational Physics. 62-65

Visualization Corner

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  Robert J. Moorhead, Chris R. Johnson, Tamara Munzner, Hanspeter Pfister, Penny Rheingans, Terry S. Yoo:
  Visualization Research Challenges: A Report Summary. 66-73

Your Homework Assignment

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  Dianne P. O'Leary:
  Iterative Methods for Linear Systems: Following the Meandering Way. 74-80

Computer Simulations

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  Leonardo Costa Ribeiro, Ricardo Machado Ruiz, Eduardo Motta Albuquerque, Américo Tristão Bernardes:
  Science in the Developing World: Running Twice as Fast? 81-87

The Last Word

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  Francis Sullivan:
  Born to Compute. 88

Volume 8, Number 5, September-October 2006

The First Word

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  Norman Chonacky:
  Has Computing Changed Physics Courses? 4-5

News

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  Pam Frost Gorder:
  Digital Libraries Come of Age. 6-10

Computation in Physics Courses

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  David Winch:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Computation in Physics Courses. 11-15
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  Robert G. Fuller:
  Numerical Computations in US Undergraduate Physics Courses. 16-21
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  Rubin H. Landau:
  Computational Physics: A Better Model for Physics Education? 22-30
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  Marty Johnston:
  Implementing Curricular Change. 32-37
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  Jaime R. Taylor, B. Alex King III:
  Using Computational Methods to Reinvigorate an Undergraduate Physics Curriculum. 38-43
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  Kelly R. Roos:
  An Incremental Approach to Computational Physics Education. 44-50
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  Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, Douglas Brown:
  An Open-Source XML Framework for Authoring Curricular Material. 51-58

Data Compression

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  Mendel Schmiedekamp, Aparna Subbu, Shashi Phoha:
  The Clustered Causal State Algorithm: Efficient Pattern Discovery for Lossy Data-Compression Applications. 59-67

Cafe Dubois

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  Paul F. Dubois:
  He's Baaack! 68-69

Scientific Programming

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  Sudarshan Raghunathan:
  Making a Supercomputer Do What You Want: High-Level Tools for Parallel Programming. 70-80

Visualization Corner

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  Shengjun Liu, Xiaogang Jin, Charlie C. L. Wang, Jim X. Chen:
  Water Wave Animation on Mesh Surfaces. 81-87

Computer Simulations

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  Pau Amengual, Raúl Toral:
  Truels, or Survival of the Weakest. 88-95

Your Homework Assignment

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  Dianne P. O'Leary:
  Multigrid Methods: Managing Massive Meshes. 96-103

The Last Word

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  Charles Day:
  My Computational Education. 104

Volume 8, Number 6, November-December 2006

The First Word

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  Norman Chonacky:
  Novelty, Utility, ... and More. 3

News

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  Pam Frost Gorder:
  Neural Networks Show New Promise for Machine Vision. 4-8

Multigrid Computing

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  Stephen F. McCormick, Ulrich Rüde:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Multigrid Computing. 10-11
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  Irad Yavneh:
  Why Multigrid Methods Are So Efficient. 12-22
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  Robert D. Falgout:
  An Introduction to Algebraic Multigrid. 24-33
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  Cornelis W. Oosterlee, Francisco José Gaspar Lorenz:
  Multigrid Methods for the Stokes System. 34-43
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  Peter Bastian, Christian Wieners:
  Multigrid Methods on Adaptively Refined Grids. 44-54
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  Benjamin Karl Bergen, Tobias Gradl, Frank Hülsemann, Ulrich Rüde:
  A Massively Parallel Multigrid Method for Finite Elements. 56-62

Cafe Dubois

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  Paul F. Dubois:
  Software Carpentry. 64-65

Technologies

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  Greg Wilson:
  Software Carpentry: Getting Scientists to Write Better Code by Making Them More Productive. 66-69

Your Homework Assignment

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  Dianne P. O'Leary:
  Sensitivity Analysis: When a Little Means a Lot. 70-75

Scientific Programming

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  George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer, Benjamin Gonzalez:
  Unit Testing Considered Useful. 76-87

Computer Simulations

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  Thomas Fent:
  Counting (on) an Aging Population. 88-96

The Last Word

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  Francis Sullivan:
  Is Numerical Analysis Boring? 104