IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine

Currently most air traffic controller decisions are based on the information provided by the ground support tools provided by automation systems, based on a network of surveillance sensors and the associated tracker. To guarantee surveillance integrity, it is clear that performance assessments of the different elements of the surveillance system are necessary. Due to the evolution suffered by the ... View full abstract»

The SKA offers an opportunity for new approaches to the design, development, and construction of radio astronomical instrumentation, building on industry expertise in large-scale manufacturing of high-technology devices. The SKA Organization includes an Industry Participation Manager, and the SKA web site includes an invitation for industry collaboration, a list of opportunities for industry, the ... View full abstract»

The embedded speech-centric interface for handheld wireless devices has been implemented on a commercially available PDA as a part of an application that allows real-time access to stock prices through GPRS. In this article, we have focused mainly in the optimization of the ASR subsystem for minimizing the use of the handheld computational resources. This optimization has been accomplished through... View full abstract»