APPENDIX C. COMPUTATIONAL AND COMPUTER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Among 10 research institutes that were visited, 37 different computer software related projects were discussed or demonstrated. A complete listing by institute is given below. See the individual site reports for further details.

Far Eastern State Technical University, Vladivostok

• IBM 486-based CAD laboratory
• Ocean tomography
• Two-layer neural network for measurement processing

Institute of Automation and Control Processes, Vladivostok

• Expert systems
• Expert systems software to develop other expert systems
• Reliability and maintenance software tools
• Silicon-based semiconductor research

Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Novosibirsk

• New information technologies
• Task-oriented computer systems
• X-ray tomography algorithms
• Digital image processing in high noise
• CD diffractive data storage
• Pattern recognition algorithms

Institute of Chemistry, Vladivostok

• Numerical modeling of sorption processes

Institute of Computational Technologies, Novosibirsk

• Computational hydrodynamics
• Computational physics
• Implementing Internet access for all Akademgorodok institutes, then to Moscow via satellite
• Communications and data base of scientific information
• Data reconstruction algorithms, correcting for random errors
• Expert systems
• Production rules
• Non-classical logic
• Decision support in event of natural disasters
• Software support to research institutes (no specific examples given)
• Simulations on 486 PC, fairly detailed
• Tsunami prediction model

Institute of Marine Technology Problems, Vladivostok

• Guidance/navigation and control algorithms development for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Institute of Thermophysics, Novosibirsk

• Good local, HP-equipped, computer network
• Microchip soldering technique, under contract to HP

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Novosibirsk

• Mathematical modeling of explosive performance
• Computer controlled wind tunnels (8); working on LAN to link all facilities

Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Novosibirsk

• Mathematical hydrodynamics modeling
• Underwater explosive effects and performance modeling
• Prediction of safety of initiation and detonation processes

Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok

• Mathematical modeling of hydro-acoustics