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March/April 1998
Volume 4, Number 1
Features
Speech recognition:
Humanizing the interface
Speech recognition systems provide a more natural user interface
and are expected to revolutionize the way people use computers.
Speeds and RAM capacities are now sufficient to handle the enormous
amount of processing power required to make these systems commercially
viable – Jennifer Ouellette
News
Optical data storage
looks beyond CDs
Emerging alternative devices such as near-field optical memories
and holographic data storage could increase capacities beyond
the industry projection of 4.7 gigabytes per disk by the year
2000 – Jennifer Ouellette
Briefs Higher R&D
spending forecast in 1998 and 1999; biosensors to the rescue;
updates – David Pope
Departments
Editorial: Creating
a new link – Ken McNaughton
Letters
Technology: A
laser-based thin-film growth monitor – Charles Taylor, Darryl
Barlett, Eric Chason, and Jerry Floro
Industry/Academia:
Take physics local – P. W. "Bo" Hammer
Forum: LA story
– Galen Fisher and Nancy Forbes
Corporate Associates:
An industrial booster – Angela Putney
Hidden Physicists:
Speaking out
Opinion: A sound
guide to product acceptance – Richard Lyon
Career Opportunities
New Products
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