I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. A. Lynn Abbott, for helping me throughout
my research, Gary Fleming and the rest of the people at NASA Langley who provided all
the flight information and image sequences, and my parents who supported me in my
decision to enter graduate study. Also, thanks to Phichet Trisirisipal and Xiaojin Gong
for helping when I had computer vision questions, and Nathan Herald for his help
creating an illustration.
g a w k或GNU awk是由Alfred V. A h o，Peter J.We i n b e rg e r和Brian W. K e r n i g h a n于1 9 7 7年為U N I X創建的a w k編程語言的較新版本之一。a w k出自創建者姓的首字母。a w k語言（在其所有的版本中）是一種具有很強能力的模式匹配和過程語言。a w k獲取一個文件（或多個文件）來查找匹配特定模式的記錄。當查到匹配后，即執行所指定的動作。作為一個程序員，你不必操心通過文件打開、循環讀每個記錄，控制文件的結束，或執行完后關閉文件。
Yet another mp3 player, but this time using SVGALib under Linux. The idea was to use a 320x240 display which can be used in a vehicle. I wrote this quite a few years ago, before mp3 players were so cheap. It uses mpg123 for the mp3 decoding.
I implement Dijkstra s Single Source Shortest Path, say SSP, algorithm for directed graphs using a simple data structure, say simple scheme, Fibonacci heaps, say F-heap scheme, and Pairing heaps, say P-heap scheme, and measure the relative performance of the three implementations.
