eprintid: 582 rev_number: 12 eprint_status: archive userid: 205 dir: disk0/00/00/05/82 datestamp: 2009-09-24 22:51:58 lastmod: 2019-10-03 22:52:23 status_changed: 2009-09-24 22:51:58 type: journal_issue metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 title: Engineering and Science, Volume 44:3, February 1981 ispublished: pub subjects: journal_issue full_text_status: public date: 1981-02 publication: Engineering and Science volume: 44 number: 3 publisher: California Institute of Technology place_of_pub: Pasadena, CA id_number: CaltechES:44.3.0 refereed: FALSE issn: 0013-7812 editors_name: Bonner, Jacquelyn editors_id: Bonner-J official_url: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:44.3.0 rights: You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format. collection: CaltechES toc:
VLBI - A New Frontier in Astronomy
by Anthony Readhead
Using a nationwide network of radio telescopes and the technique
called very long baseline interferometry, radio astronomers may
some day be able to see relatively fine detail in objects up to 10
billion light years from earth.
A Report Card for American Education
by Shirley Hufstedler
The first Secretary of Education describes the nature and needs of
the nation's educational system.
Integrated Optoelectronics
by Amnon Yariv
An electrical engineer and his colleagues at Caltech have at last
achieved an integrated optoelectronic circuit on a single layered
crystal- thus signaling the beginning of a new technology.
Frederick C. Lindvall- How It Was
The second of two chapters in the Oral History of Caltech, as
recounted by an emeritus professor of engineering, who was for 24
years chairman of the engineering division.
Ripeness Is All
by Harold McGee
A chapter from a book by a Caltech alumnus on the biology and
chemistry of everyday food materials and culinary techniques.
Jon Mathews, 1932-1979
A tribute by Robert L. Walker.