INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS -- paper, fiber, laminates, woven and nonwoven fabrics; polymers; films; printing; paper products; packaging; and related production machinery.
MECHANICAL -- mechanical and electromechanical apparatus; photographic and fiber optic devices; machine tools; heating and cooling systems; power generation systems; building materials; fuel systems; biomechanical devices; aircraft engines; robotics; transport systems; fluid systems.
MATERIALS -- semiconductors; thin films; photoconductors; magnetic media; ceramics; amorphous materials; alloys; liquid crystals.
ELECTRONICS -- analog and digital signal processing; IC circuits; detection systems and sensors; magnetics; optoelectronics; imaging and display devices; medical diagnostic equipment; reprographics, including facsimile machines, printers, scanners, and copiers; communications technology; telecommunications and telemetry systems; audio and video signal processing.
COMPUTERS -- computer systems and hardware; parallel processing; microprocessors; optical processors; neural networks; local area and wide area networks; smartcards; computer-assisted devices; computer-integrated manufacturing; speech and music processors and synthesizers.
SOFTWARE -- operating systems; windowing functions; data storage and database management systems; encoding and encryption; network and Internet systems; audio, video, speech and music processing; imaging; graphic interfaces; interactive TV; computerized translation.
BIOLOGY
& BIOPHYSICS -- neurological, brain, human developmental, and genetic
processes, treatments, and materials; pharmaceuticals; health care products;
genetic mapping; radioisotope labeling; c-DNA cloning; enzyme and protein
isolation; monoclonal antibodies and antigens.