As I began preparing the talk on which this article is based its subject matter began to evolve, moving from the original topic of computer display tools for optics education toward the more general topic of personal computers in higher education, especially in science and engineering; and so this article will be directed more broadly to that topic. The starting point for this discussion is that modern personal computers or desktop computers have unparalleled capacities for:

Date Published: 1 March 1992
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 1603, Education in Optics, (1 March 1992); doi: 10.1117/12.57857

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1603:
Education in Optics
Gregory B. Altshuler; Brian J. Thompson, Editor(s)