In many computational systems, tasks comprising numerical or symbolic data arrive at a processor periodically. Processing of the $i\sp{th}$ task has to stop before processing of the ($i$ + 1)$\sp{th}$ task begins, causing ...

This thesis presents a systolic algorithm for the SVD of arbitrary complex matrices, based on the cyclic Jacobi method with "parallel ordering". As a basic step in the algorithm, a two-step, two-sided unitary transformation ...

Since the I/O subsystem is the bottleneck in external mergesort, I/O parallelism can result in substantial performance improvements. Concurrency can be introduced by overlapping I/O requests at different disks, and the ...

The focus of this thesis is the remote control of a six degree-of-freedom mid-range industrial robot arm through the use of speech recognition. The robot arm is controlled through speaker-dependent, isolated-word speech ...