John Lowther's Projects and Research

• Geometric Computing and Graphics

• B.D. Dombek, J. Lowther, and E. Carberry, Computer Program for the Prediction of Mass Spectrum Isotope Peaks,J. Chemical Education, vol. 48, no. 11, p. 729, Nov. 1971.
  • Citations:
  • Dahl et al,Thermal redistribution of hydrido and phosphino groups in phosphinohydridogermanes, Inorganic Chemistry, 1975
  • Dahl et all,Oxidation of trimethylgermylphosphine and bis (phosphino) dimethylgermane ,Inorganic Chemistry, 1975
  • Yu. N. Sukharev, V. F. Sizoi, Yu. S. Nekrasov, The computer processing and interpretation of mass spectral information; computing the isotopic spectrum of assumed composition; Organic Mass Spectrometry, V16, 1, Heyden & Son Ltd, 1981.
  • JD Pulfer, PJ Derrick,Simulation of Isotopic Peak Patterns for High-Mass Oligomers and Polynuclidic Transition-Metal Salts, Aust. J. Chem. 1991, 44, 799.
  • Jingfen Zhang et. al, Predicting Molecular Formulas of Fragment Ions with Isotope Patterns in Tandem Mass Spectra, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) Volume 2 , Issue 3 (July 2005), pp.217 - 230
• B.D. Dombek, J. Lowther, and E. Carberry, IPPKS: The Prediction of Mass Spectrum Isotope Peaks, Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange (QCPE) 11, 294, 1976.

• Janke, Robert A. and Lowther, John L. 1980. Post-fire succession in the boreal forest type of Isle Royale National Park. In: Proceedings, 2nd conference on scientific research in the National Parks; 1979 November 26-30; San Francisco, CA. Volume II. The American Institute of Biological Sciences; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service: 99-135.

• ESPdesign

• J. Lowther, K. Johnson, B. Wood, and B. Yee, "Use of AI Tools and Techniques to Assist Computational Intensive Design and Analysis Software Systems," MTU Computational Research Workshop, May 24,1995.

• J. Lowther, K. Johnson, B. Wood, and B. Yee, "ESPdesign: An Expert System Approach to Optimization," Sixth Annual Ground Target Modeling and Validation Conference, MTU, August 22 - 24, 1995, An abstract of this paper appeared in the "Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Ground Target Modeling and Validation Conference," Volume 1, page 527.

• Sensitivity Analysis

• Lowther, J., "Sensitivity Analysis of Air Quality Assessment Model Predictions for Air Force Operations," Research Reports, 1978 USAF/ASEE SummerFaculty Research Program, Tyndall AFB, Florida, 1978.

• AI: Knowledge Representation

• J. Lowther and A. Puri, Gate-Level Symbolic Simulator for Digital Circuits Based on Frames and Demons, Proceedings of the Third Annual ESD/SMI Expert Systems Conference, April 5, 1989, pp. 227-236.

• AI Machines and Parallelism

• Lowther, J., "AI Machines and Parallelism", an abstract, Applied Math. and Computation, 20 (1-2), Sept., 1986, p. 35.

• Computer Science Education

• Lowther, John, "Computer Science Curriculum Design at a Technological University," an abstract in the Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of Latvian Scientists, Riga, Latvia, August 14 - 15, 2001, The Latvian Academy of Science, (ISBN 9984-9542-0-X), page 576.

• Computational Complexity Theory

• Lowther, J. and Alton, D., "Non-Existence of Program Optimizers in an Abstract Setting," Lecture Notes in Computer Science 19, Springer Verlag, 1974, pp. 253-265.