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[author : Elon Gasper]

If you thought talking heads like Max Headroom were science fiction, guess again. In this article Elon talks about the technology behind HyperAnimator, a Macintosh product that lets you add synchronized animated heads and sound to produce a lifelike effect.

[author : Mike Geary]

Mike talks about SQL and provides an introduction to SQLWindows, an SQL development tool he wrote. Along the way he also talks about developing for the Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh environments.

[author : John W. Ratcliff]

String comparison routines are often limited to finding exact matches. John describes an algorithm (implemented in assembly language) that gives matches as percentages.

[author : Bruce Tonkin]

Heated competition has led to increasingly more powerful Basic compilers. Bruce reports on "the state of Basic" with an examination of Microsoft’s Basic 6.0 and Quick Basic's 3.0 and 4.0, as well as Borland’s Turbo Basic 1.1.

[author : Allen Holub]

This month, Allen takes a look at shell redirection and offers two programs for dealing with shell archives in the Unix system and MS-DOS. He also has some thoughts on the latest book from Kernighan and Ritchie.

[author : Kent Porter]

Back in our November 1987 issue, Kent demonstrated how to code pop-ups, pull downs, and menu bars in Turbo C. Now he’s back with an improved version for Turbo Pascal.

[author : Michael Swaine]

Paradigms in Collision. This month, Mike considers the parallels (so to speak) between the paradigm shifts of cognitive psychology in the 1970s and the growing interest in neural networks.

[author : Tyler Sperry ]

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[author : Michael Swaine]

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