In 1989 the Cray YMP-8, Fujitsu VP-400E, Hitachi 5-820, and Page 89 .. 95 99 Slow Dynamics in Condensed Matter. The article reports on the first meeting on "Slow Dynamics in Materials Science First International Conference on Intelligent Materials The article reports on the First International Conference on Electronic Materials Research in the Peoples Republic of China Victor Rehn This article reviews the progress of several research institutions and Page 105 109 115 Ocean Science National Defense Academy of Japan: Undergraduate and Ocean Index Pat Wilde This report focuses on the Ocean Sciences program. The research Page 131 135 SIBRIEFS Scientific Information Briefs Interpolation and fitting Hidden surface and Hidden - Computer Aided Geometric Design Tools and Programming Because of this large number of topics, very few papers were presented in many of these topics. In addition, there was an invited talk on Holographic Video and two invited talks about the title theme of the conference; "Integrating Computer Graphics with Computer Vision". The first of these talks was by professor A. Rosenfeld of the University of Maryland, who presented his qualitative views that the link between the Computer Graphics and Computer Vision is the advanced data structure or the models they use. The second talk was given by Professor Encarnacao who described the experience and on-going programs at the Technical University of Darmshtadt in cooperation with other European countries in using multimedia, visualization, and computer graphics techniques in distant education and industrial training. The Conference keynote address was by Mr. I Wasaki (the senior vice president of NTT, Japan) who presented the Japanese interest and determination to develop the telecommunication in the 21st Century to become more visual, intelligent and personal. The paper outlined the research and development activities carried out by NTT to bring the VI&P concepts to reality by the early years of the 21st Century. The plans are to complete the development of high-speed optical fiber, broad band (B-ISDN) early in the 2000s for all business users, and by the 2015 for all households throughout Japan. This trend is very similar to that in the United States and Europe; although, I am not aware of as clear a plan in the United States as this talk lead me to believe exists in Japan. The volume visualization session consisted of four papers, one from the West (Norway) and three from the East. The four papers aim at speeding up the computation processes. The paper by Giertsen (IBM, Norway) describes the use of a scan plane buffer associated with each scan line. This buffer maintains the individual contributions to the pixel values of the scan line. Further, the geometric primitives are scan converted and the results inserted into a single scan single scan line multiple layer Z-Buffer. Final pixel values for the scan line are determined by merging the two buffers. The second paper by Shu and Chui (Singapore) suggests an incremental approach to approximate the trilinear interpolation in a ray casting technique for volume rendering that is twice as fast as the usual trilinear interpolation process to determine the densities of the sample points along a ray for the same image quality. Another efficiency improvement in the cost of volume reading was presented by Koyamoda (IBM, |