Volume 8, Number 1, January-February 2006
From the Editors
News
Pam Frost Gorder:
En Route to Artificial Intelligence, Software Learns Language. 4-7
Technology Reviews
Reviewer Thanks
Special Purpose Computing
Steven Gottlieb:
Guest Editor's Introduction: Special-Purpose Computing. 15-17
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
Francesco Belletti,
Filippo Mantovani,
Giorgio Poli,
Sebastiano Fabio Schifano,
Raffaele Tripiccione,
Isabel Campos,
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
Computational Biology
Visualization Corner
Your Homework Assignment
Scientific Programming
Education
Denis Donnelly:
The Fast Fourier Transform for Experimentalists, Part V: Filters. 92-95
The Last Word
Volume 8, Number 2, March-April 2006
The First Word
News
Sara Robinson:
Recent Research Provides New Picture of Router-Level Internet. 3-6
Monte Carlo Methods
Erik Luijten:
Fluid Simulation with the Geometric Cluster Monte Carlo Algorithm. 20-29
Dana Randall:
Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains with Applications in Computer Science and Physics. 30-41
Visualization Corner
Computer Simulations
Your Homework Assignment
Dianne P. O'Leary:
Updating and Downdating Matrix Factorizations: A Change in Plans. 66-71
Education
Denis Donnelly:
The Fast Fourier Transform for Experimentalists, Part VI: Chirp of a Bat. 72-78
Scientific Programming
Konstantin Läufer:
A Hike through Post-EJB J2EE Web Application Architecture, Part II. 79-87
The Last Word
Volume 8, Number 3, May-June 2006
The First Word
News
Noise and Signal Interaction
Rachel Kuske:
Multiple-Scales Approximation of a Coherence Resonance Route to Chatter. 35-43
Book Reviews
Technology Reviews
Your Homework Assignment
Computer Simulations
Visualization Corner
Education
Scientific Programming
The Last Word
Charles Day:
Turn on Your Computer and Simulate the Future! 88
Volume 8, Number 4, July-August 2006
The First Word
News
Pam Frost Gorder:
Computing in Biological Time: The Design of an Anticocaine Molecule. 6-9
Technical Note
Aasim Azooz:
Analog Data Acquisition for Obtaining I-V Characteristics Using Sound Cards. 10-15
CSE Education
Spectral Analysis
Mensur Omerbashich:
Gauss-Vanícek Spectral Analysis of the Sepkoski Compendium: No New Life Cycles. 26-30
Schrödinger Equation
Curt A. Moyer:
Numerical Solution of the Stationary State Schrödinger Equation Using Transparent Boundary Conditions. 32-40
Neural Networks
Scientific Programming
Education
Bruce Mason:
Digital Libraries in Support of Science Education: A Case for Computational Physics. 62-65
Visualization Corner
Your Homework Assignment
Dianne P. O'Leary:
Iterative Methods for Linear Systems: Following the Meandering Way. 74-80
Computer Simulations
The Last Word
Volume 8, Number 5, September-October 2006
The First Word
News
Computation in Physics Courses
David Winch:
Guest Editor's Introduction: Computation in Physics Courses. 11-15
Robert G. Fuller:
Numerical Computations in US Undergraduate Physics Courses. 16-21
Rubin H. Landau:
Computational Physics: A Better Model for Physics Education? 22-30
Kelly R. Roos:
An Incremental Approach to Computational Physics Education. 44-50
Data Compression
Cafe Dubois
Scientific Programming
Sudarshan Raghunathan:
Making a Supercomputer Do What You Want: High-Level Tools for Parallel Programming. 70-80
Visualization Corner
Computer Simulations
Your Homework Assignment
The Last Word
Volume 8, Number 6, November-December 2006
The First Word
News
Multigrid Computing
Irad Yavneh:
Why Multigrid Methods Are So Efficient. 12-22
Cafe Dubois
Technologies
Greg Wilson:
Software Carpentry: Getting Scientists to Write Better Code by Making Them More Productive. 66-69
Your Homework Assignment
Scientific Programming
Computer Simulations
The Last Word