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July/August 98 July/August 1998 Table of Contents

Volume 12, Number 4

TRENDS AND VIEWPOINT

299
FROM THE EDITOR
Scientific Computing on Your Desktop
301
COMMENT
Granada Hosts a World Venture in Computational Science
P. H. Borcherds, J. Marro, and J. Nadrchal
302
INTERVIEW
Sidney Karin: Supercomputing Survivor
David I. Lewin
304
NEWS
Report on DNA Computing; Preview of the Conference on Computational Physics; Report on XML, the New Markup Language; Ten Years Ago: Jul/Aug 1988
312
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Responses to Martin Stift's "Scientific Programming with Ada 95: Object-Oriented, Parallel, and Safe" (CIP 12:2, 1998, p. 150)
313
FROM THE CIP JOURNAL SECTION  OJS entry page
400
INTERACTIVE READER SERVICE

GUIDE TO THE INTERNET

314
WEB MECHANICS
Reusable Java Components for Physics Education
John R. Cary and David A. Alexander
319
CIP WEBSITE
Online Archival Edition of Computers in Physics
320
The Structure, Stability, and Dynamics of Self-Gravitating Systems PDF Version
INTERNET GOLDMINE

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

322
COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION
Distance Learning and the World Wide Web
John F. Wallin
328
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
Simulations of Lipid Membranes with Atomic Resolution
H. Larry Scott, Eric Jakobsson, and Shankar Subramaniam
335
BOOK REVIEWS
Dynamics of Complex Systems (Studies in Nonlinearity), Yaneer Bar-Yam;
Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems, Sadhan K. Adhikari
Susan R. McKay and Roger G. Newton

TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY

338
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING
A Comparison of the Floating-Point Performance of Current Computers
PDF Version
Steven H. Langer
Source Code
346
PRACTICAL VISUALIZATION
Three-Dimensional Visualization for Everyone
Steve Bryson
352
PRODUCT REVIEW
Excel Add-Ons Improve Graphing and Statistical Analyses
Donald L. Shirer
355
NEW PRODUCTS

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL SECTION

Online Access

359
Guidelines for Submissions
360
IMD--Software for modeling the optical properties of multilayer films
David L. Windt
371
Real-time physics data-visualization system using Performer
Chris Mitchell and Walter Gekelman
380
Using projections and correlations to approximate probability distributions
Dean Karlen
385
Four-tap shift-register-sequence random-number generators
Robert M. Ziff
393
A practical algorithm for least-squares spline approximation of data containing noise
Barend J. Thijsse, Mark A. Hollanders, and Jan Hendrikse


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