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Milestones Get Their Due
IEEE recently commemorated three noteworthy advances in technology with ceremonies recognizing them as IEEE Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing.
A ceremonial plaque was unveiled on 14 April at Hewlett-Packard’s laboratories in Palo Alto, California, USA, to commemorate the development and commercial introduction in 1972 of the HP-35, the world’s first full-function scientific calculator small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. But perhaps a ceremonial chalk outline in the shape of a slide rule also should have been drawn nearby to indicate that the labs were the place where the death knell was sounded for that centuries-old device.
Within a year of the HP-35’s March 1972 introduction, engineers and students had bought more than 100,000 of the $395 devices. The handwriting was on the wall, and in another couple of years or so the scientific calculator had replaced the venerable slide rule.
The IEEE Milestone plaque will be displayed in the lobby of the building where much of the design work for the electronic slide rule was carried out.
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In Brief: Now Available in IEEE Xplore
More than 100 journal issues, conference proceedings and standards have been added to the IEEE Xplore® digital library in May. Some of the highlights include:

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, May 2009 Features articles on convex matrix inequalities versus linear matrix inequalities; POD-based model predictive controllers; stability analysis of time-delay systems; and scalar gauss-markov systems.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, July–Aug 2009
Looks at surface mapping using consistent pants decomposition; vectorizing cartoon animations; photorealistic large-scale urban city model reconstruction; and space time cube representation of spatiotemporal patterns.

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, June 2009
Highlights adaptive fuzzy filtering for artifact reduction; self-similarity driven color demosaicking; electronic noise modeling in statistical iterative reconstruction; and 3D articulated human motion tracking.

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Reference Sources in Computer Science

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Online Reference Sources

Hutchinson dictionary of computing and the internet.
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Berkshire encyclopedia of human-computer interaction
English dictionary of computing.