LabVIEW的未来之路

引言 1986年，NI工程师们受到电子制表软件为金融领域带来的革命性影响的启发，也决定着手发明一种同样高效的工具，帮助工程师与科学家们简化测试测量自动化项目开发的复杂性。他们创造性地将交互式图形用户界面与直观的图形编程方法融合在了一起，LabVIEW应运而生!     

未来的VPN-MPLS-VPN

多协议标签交换MPLS（Multi-Protocol Label Switching)是一新兴的网络技术，不断趋于成熟；而虚拟专用网VPN（Virtual Private Network)作为一个最大的服务领域，正面临网络业务量爆炸性增长所带 来的挑战。在这样的背景下，MPLS与VPN的有机结合具有很高的实用价值。MPLS技术的应用使用户得到了高速、高质量、高安全性的服务，而服务供应商提供这种服务过程也变得相对简单。同时，整个网络结构的弹性与可扩展性也得到了很大的改善。在扼要介绍VPN的一些基本概念及VPN网络结构2种基本模型的基础上，着重描述了MPLS－VPN原理（包括MPLS－VPN所采用的网络结构模型及其转发机制）和MPLS－VPN性能（包括MPLS技术为VPN所提供的安全性保证、QoS（Quality of Service)保障及流量工程功能），最后还指出了MPLS－VPN的优点及现存问题。     

The future of higher education

This article provides an overview of a segment of discussions on this topic and includes: factors responsible for this major transformation in higher education; themes that are needed in the transformed system of higher education and learning; how traditional universities are trying to change; brief view of an alternative higher education structure; core values of the traditional system that need to be retained; and challenge to microwave educators     

The future for fusion

Fusion power has long been recognized as a clean source of energy. Unfortunately, after over 50 years of research, scientists don't expect a demonstration of full-scale fusion power generation in a prototype power plant until after 30 to 35 years. Extensive research, however, has made two significant advances in plasma physics, the discovery of bootstrap current and plasma's ability to organize itself in the edge at certain a pressure so that it is a much better insulator and retains heat much better. These advances have been very helpful in the development of the experimental fusion reactor ITER     

The bright future of organic LEDs

Electro-luminescence is light emission from a solid through which an electric current is passed. Electro-luminescence from organic compounds was discovered in the early '60s, but the subject did not receive much attention until the discovery and development of conductive polymers. Compared to other electro-luminescent technologies (such as inorganic compound semiconductors, porous silicon and liquid crystals), polymer/organic light-emitting diodes (PLEDs/OLEDs) are very attractive. The reasons are their very low operating voltage, high brightness and their tunability to produce the three fundamental colors (red, blue and green). Furthermore, they are lightweight and can be grown on flexible substrates. They are fairly easy and inexpensive to fabricate. Today, PLEDs/OLEDs are suitable for applications such as automotive displays. In the future, they will probably conquer a large portion of the micro display market. Their higher efficiency and lower weight will make them quite competitive with LCD displays, the currently favorite technology. The article concludes that the future of organic light-emitting diodes seems very bright indeed.     

GNSS的现状及其发展方向

介绍了提出全球导航卫星系统（GNSS）的原因,分析了GNSS的现状,并展望了其发展方向。     

面向未来的智能电网

随着电力系统运行环境的日趋复杂与电力体制改革的不断前进,传统电力网络亟待进一步提升,实现向智能电网的转变.智能电网为电网的发展方向,它的内涵是由绩效目标、性能特征、关键技术与功能实现等4个方面及其之间的关系综合体现的,它们分别规定了智能电网的未来期望收益、应具备的特征性能力、为实现此能力而应当采用的关键性技术以及技术与具体业务需求的结合方式.通过对上述内容的详细阐述,描绘出未来智能电网的框架.     

未来的汽车用铅酸蓄电池

燃料经济、生态、性能、安全和舒适等特性将促使许多新型电系统产生.因此,对汽车用蓄电池的要求也将显著提高,例如有关可靠性、浅循环寿命、充电接受和在部分充电状态下高倍率放电(HRPSOC)运行的要求.人们期望铅酸蓄电池技术继续在这种应用中起主要作用.与传统的起动一照明一点火(SLI)蓄电池相比,在改善性能和使用寿命两方面已经取得或即将取得显著的技术进步,开发设计出许多新型蓄电池.车内储能装置的系统集成化将变得越来越重要.超级电容器可延长铅酸电池的寿命,保护负极板免于高倍率放电和充电.蓄电池监测、蓄电池管理等系统会为更主动的蓄电池运行策略创造条件,同时改善供电系统的可靠性.在一只铅酸蓄电池无法单独满足不断提高的要求的情况下,双储能系统有可能提供车辆所需的功率.     

The electrifying future of the hybrid automobile

This paper describes the hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) and automotive propulsion technologies. The viability of the hybrid-electric concept and electric propulsion as major ways to improve energy efficiency and reduce the automobile's environmental effects and energy consumption has been demonstrated. The principal features are multiple power sources, an internal combustion engine, an electric motor, an energy storage system and an intelligent control system. This paper also discusses the design of the propulsion systems for automobiles and other transportation products, which is undergoing major changes. The development of EVs and HEVs provide a technology bridge to the electric propulsion technologies needed for the fuel cars (fuel cell hybrid vehicle) of the future.     

铝空气电池的前景

铝空气电池是实际比能量高达 3 0 0～ 40 0Wh/kg且对环境非常友好的优秀电池 ;电池结构和使用的原材料可根据实用环境和要求而变动 ,具有很大的适应性 ;它既可用于陆上又可用于深海 ,既可作动力电池 ,又是长寿命高比能的信号电池。     

The present and future of broadband communications

This paper describes broadband communications, which has the ability to transmit data in the wide band of frequencies. It also supplies multiple channels of data in single communications platform using some form of wave or frequency division multiplexing. Nowadays cable broadband network plays a major role in the present life by connecting more people in times of crisis and thus it creates more jobs and boost the economy significantly. Distance learning applications are being used to teach students by online courses using broadband communication systems.     

The future of electronic power processing and conversion

At a workshop held on the Aeolian Islands in Sicily during May 2004 a group of academic and industry engineers from all over the world discussed the medium- and long-term future of power electronics and its applications in specific areas. The following main issues were identified and discussed: The demand is not for power electronic solutions but for system integration of electronic power processing. A more multidisciplinary approach is needed. We will witness a proliferation of energy storage in systems. The technology is in place and the improvement in system performance makes it worth while. A large penetration of power electronics into power systems will happen within the next 25-30 years. The main transmission grid will not be affected. The power electronics development will be in distributed generation and in the loads. The success of the integrated starter/generator (ISG), hybrid, or electric cars depends on political decisions more than on technological advances. However, the success of a recent Japanese hybrid car and the cost of oil could trigger the critical momentum for large-scale use of power electronics in automotive applications. We are moving toward standardized power supply building blocks for computers and other applications. The main push is for lower cost, and production technology becomes the important issue. Demands for improved performance in a diversity of applications will stimulate R&D in power electronics in the future. Intelligent control and energy management will come easily. Thermal and passive component integration is equally important and will require attention.     

The future of electrical and computer engineering education

The authors will briefly describe how some of today's innovations and advancements might provide potential for improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of contemporary teaching methods. A model curriculum proposed in this paper merges the disciplines of mathematics, science, engineering, and computing. It also addresses the growing need for exposing aspiring engineers to the human, cultural, and professional aspects of their emerging careers.     

The reality behind "future" decisions

Decision theory's goal is to use knowledge coupled with related analytical techniques to help the "decision maker" choose among a set of alternatives based on their possible consequences. Certainty, risk and uncertainty are the three main conditions under which decisions can be made. Certainty means that a given choice leads to one and only one consequence. Risk means each choice has several possible consequences and the probability of occurrence for each consequence is known. Uncertainty means choices are being made without knowing what the consequences for each choice actually will be.     

The future of wireless charging [Microwave Surfing]

Ah, the freedom of walking around with a sleek ultraportable computer, surfing the Web while also chatting with a friend on a mobile phone, all through invisible wireless networks! Unfortunately, sooner or later, the computer and phone batteries run out of juice and one is forced to search for their power adapters and tether them to a power strip. If only we could charge these devices wirelessly!     

The future of command and control for disaster response

We have developed a bioresponse system concept to respond to large-scale medical disasters, including overwhelming, contagious bioagent events such as smallpox, plague, and influenza. This system, called Cybercare, aims to substantially increase the surge capacity of the healthcare system by allowing healthcare systems throughout the country to link together to provide specialists and other resources to augment those available at a disaster site. Key to the concept of Cybercare is the notion of a robust, distributed command and control system that will enable rapid and sustained responses to large-scale medical disasters. The Cybercare information infrastructure can also be utilized to support training and analysis of response procedures as well as a wide range of medical and disaster applications that occur on a frequent basis, such as home healthcare monitoring and rural and remote medical treatment. The purposes of this article are to: 1) define the problem set addressed by the Cybercare concept, 2) provide the reader with a fundamental knowledge of command and control and an emerging paradigm shift in command structure for the medical and disaster management domain, 3) define technologies that can be used to create a command and control system, and 4) illustrate how the technologies can be integrated into a disaster response system using the command and control paradigm