Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 35, 1992

Volume 35, Number 1, January 1992

Electronic Frontier

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  John Perry Barlow:
  The Great Work. 25-28

Practical Programmer

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  Marc Rettig:
  Interface Design When You Don't Know How. 29-34

Articles

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  Bernard J. Haan, Paul Kahn, Victor A. Riley, James H. Coombs, Norman K. Meyrowitz:
  IRIS Hypermedia Services. 36-51
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  James L. Green:
  The Evolution of DVI System Software. 52-67
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  Jeffrey S. Doerschler, Herbert Freeman:
  A Rule-Based System for Dense-Map Name Placement. 68-79
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  Girish H. Subramanian, John T. Nosek, Sankaran P. Raghunathan, Santosh S. Kanitkar:
  A Comparison of the Decision Table and Tree. 89-94
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  Suzanne Bunton, Gaetano Borriello:
  Practical Dictionary Management for Hardware Data Compression. 95-104
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  Edward A. Fox, Lenwood S. Heath, Qi Fan Chen, Amjad M. Daoud:
  Practical Minimal Perfect Hash Functions for Large Databases. 105-121

Computing Practices

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  Guy Lapalme, Jean-Marc Rousseau, Suzanne Chapleau, Michel Cormier, Pierre Cosette, Serge Roy:
  GeoRoute: A Geographic Information System for Transportation Applications. 80-88

Reports

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  Jason L. Frand, Julia A. Britt:
  The Seventh Annual UCLA Survey of Business School Computer Usage. 122-131
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  David Gries, Dorothy Marsh:
  The 1989-90 Taulbee Survey. 132-143

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  What's in a Name? 186

Volume 35, Number 2, February 1992

From Washington

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  Carol Wolinsky, James Sylvester:
  Privacy in the Telecommunications Age. 23-25

Legally Speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Copyright Law and Electronic Compilations of Data. 27-32

Articles

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  Magid Igbaria, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus:
  Determinants of MIS Employees' Turnover Intentions: A Structural Equation Model. 34-49
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  Albert L. Lederer, Jayesh Prasad:
  Nine Management Guidelines for Better Cost Estimating. 51-59
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  Thomas D. Clark Jr.:
  Corporate Systems Management: An Overview and Research Perspective. 60-75
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  Jeffrey K. Liker, Mitchell Fleischer, Mitsuo Nagamachi, Michael S. Zonnevylle:
  Designers and Their Machines: CAD Use and Support in the US and Japan. 76-95
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  David Gelernter, Nicholas Carriero:
  Coordination Languages and Their Significance. 96-107

Computing Practices

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  Joobin Choobineh, Michael V. Mannino, Veronica P. Tseng:
  A Form-Based Approach for Database Analysis and Design. 108-120
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  Robert W. Gray, Steven P. Levi, Vincent P. Heuring, Anthony M. Sloane, William M. Waite:
  ELI: A Complete, Flexible Compiler Construction System. 121-130

Inside Risks

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  Seymour E. Goodman:
  Political Activity and International Computer Networks. 174

Volume 35, Number 3, March 1992

Computing Perspectives

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  Maurice V. Wilkes:
  Charles Babbage - The Great Uncle of Computing? 15-21

Personal Computing

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  Larry Press:
  Dynabook Revisited - Portable Computers Past, Present and Future. 25-32

Logic Programming

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  Jacques Cohen:
  First Specialize, Then Generalize (Indroduction to the Special Section on Logic Programming). 34-39
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  John Alan Robinson:
  Logic and Logic Programming. 40-65
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  John Grant, Jack Minker:
  The Impact of Logic Programming on Databases. 66-81
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  Koichi Furukawa:
  Logic Programming as the Integrator of the Fifth Generation Computer Systems Project. 82-92
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  David Scott Warren:
  Memoing for Logic Programs. 93-111

Comuting Practices

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  Toshinori Munakata:
  Notes on Implementing Sets in Prolog. 112-120

Articles

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  Marcia C. Linn, Michael J. Clancy:
  The Case for Case Studies of Programming Problems. 121-132

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Inside "Risks of Risks". 160

Volume 35, Number 4, April 1992

International Perspectives

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  Renata L. La Rovere, Seymour E. Goodman:
  Computing in the Brazilian Amazon. 21-24

CASE in the '90s

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  Ronald J. Norman, Gene Forte:
  Automating the Software Development Process: CASE in the '90s (Introduction to the Special Section). 27
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  Gene Forte, Ronald J. Norman:
  A Self-Assessment by the Software Engineering Community. 28-32
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  Terry Shepard, Steve Sibbald, Colin Wortley:
  A Visual Software Process Language. 37-44
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  Clifford C. Huff:
  Elements of a Realistic CASE Tool Adoption Budget. 45-54
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  Neil A. M. Maiden, Alistair G. Sutcliffe:
  Exploiting Reusable Specifications Through Analogy. 55-64
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  Graham Tate, June M. Verner, D. Ross Jeffery:
  CASE: A Testbed for Modeling Measurement and Management. 65-72
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  Ira D. Baxter:
  Design Maintenance Systems. 73-89

Computing Practices

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  Iris Vessey, Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, Noam Tractinsky:
  Evaluating of Vendor Products: CASE Tools as Methodology Companions. 90-105
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  Barry G. Silverman:
  Survey of Expert Critiquing Systems: Practical and Theoretical Frontiers. 106-127

Inside Risks

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  Marc Rotenberg:
  Protecting Privacy. 164

Volume 35, Number 5, May 1992

Practical Programmer

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  Marc Rettig:
  A Succotash of Projections and Insights. 25-30

Computers and People with Disabilities

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  Ephraim P. Glinert, Bryant W. York:
  Computers and People with Disabilities - Introduction to the Special Section. 32-35
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  Carl Brown:
  Assistive Technology Computers and Persons with Disabilities. 36-45
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  Norman Alm, John L. Arnott, Alan F. Newell:
  Prediction and Conversational Momentum in an Augmentative Communication System. 46-57
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  Randy F. Pausch, Ronald D. Williams:
  Giving CANDY to Children: User-Tailored Gesture Input Driving an Articulator-Based Speech Synthesizer. 58-66
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  Patrick W. Demasco, Kathleen F. McCoy:
  Generating Text From Compressed Input: An Intelligent Interface for People with Severe Motor Impairments. 68-78
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  Karen Kukich:
  Spelling Correction for Telecommunications Network for the Deaf. 80-90
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  Randy W. Dipner:
  Ada and the ACM. 90
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  Daniel K. Davies, Randy W. Dipner:
  ACM Membership Survey of Disability and Disability Issues. 91-93

Report

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  Ronald E. Anderson:
  ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (Draft). 94-99

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Survivable Systems. 130

Volume 35, Number 6, June 1992

Personal Computing

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  Larry Press:
  Collective Dynabases. 26-32

Legally Speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson, Michel Denber, Robert J. Glushko:
  Developments on the Intellectual Property Front. 33-39

SIGRAPH'92 Showcase

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  John C. Hart:
  Visualization in Networked Environments - Introduction to the Special Section. 42-43
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  Larry Smarr, Charles E. Catlett:
  Metacomputing. 44-52
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  Philip J. Mercurio, T. Todd Elvins, Stephen J. Young, Philip S. Cohen, Kevin R. Fall, Mark H. Ellisman:
  The Distributed Laboratory - An Interactive Visualization Environment for Electron Microscopy and 3D Imaging. 54-63
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  Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Robert V. Kenyon, John C. Hart:
  The Cave - Audio Visual Experience Automatic Virtual Environment. 64-72
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  Ingrid Carlbom, William M. Hsu, Gudrun Klinker, Richard Szeliski, Keith Waters, Michael Doyle, Jim Gettys, Kristen M. Harris, Thoms M. Levergood, Ricky S. Palmer, Lawrence G. Palmer, Marc Picart, Demetri Terzopoulos, David Tonnesen, Michael W. Vannier, Greg Wallace:
  Modeling and Analysis of Empirical Data in Collaborative Environments. 74-84

Articles

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  David J. DeWitt, Jim Gray:
  Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Systems. 85-98
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  Kunihiko Higa, Mike Morrison, Joline Morrison, Olivia R. Liu Sheng:
  An Object-Oriented Methodology for Knowledge Base/Database Coupling. 99-113
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  David E. Ferguson:
  Bit-Tree, A Data Structure for Fast File Processing. 114-120
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  Paul Heckel:
  Debunking the Software Patent Myths. 121-140

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Leap-Year Problems. 162

Volume 35, Number 7, July 1992

Log on Education

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  Elliot Soloway:
  Buying Computers for Your School: A Guide for the Perplexed. 21-24

The Electronic Frontier

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  John Perry Barlow:
  Decrypting the Puzzle Palace. 25-31

Encryption Standards

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  Debating Encryption Standards. 32-34
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  The Digital Signature Standard Proposed by NIST. 36-40
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  Ronald L. Rivest, Martin E. Hellman, John C. Anderson, John W. Lyons:
  Responses to NIST's Proposal. 41-54

Articles

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  Bala R. Vatti:
  A Generic Solution to Polygon Clipping. 56-63
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  Santosh Chokhani:
  Trusted Products Evaluation. 64-76
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  Alok Sinha:
  Client-Server Computing. 77-98

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Aggravation by Computer: Life, Death, and Taxes. 122

Volume 35, Number 8, August 1992

International Perspectives

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  Seymour E. Goodman, Jerrold D. Green:
  Computing in the Middle East. 21-25

Articles

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  Gordon Bell:
  Ultracomputers: A Teraflop Before Its Time. 27-47
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  Robert H. Creecy, Brij M. Masand, Stephen J. Smith, David L. Waltz:
  Trading MIPS and Memory for Knowledge Engineering. 48-64

Supercomputing

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  Ken Kennedy:
  Supercomputing - Introduction to the Special Section. 65
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  Seema Hiranandani, Ken Kennedy, Chau-Wen Tseng:
  Compiling Fortran D for MIMD Distributed Memory Machines. 66-80
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  David C. Cann:
  Retire Fortran? A Debate Rekindled. 81-89
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  Susan Flynn Hummel, Edith Schonberg, Lawrence E. Flynn:
  Factoring: A Method for Scheduling Parallel Loops. 90-101
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  William W. Pugh:
  A Practical Algorithm for Exact Array Dependence Analysis. 102-114
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  Margaret L. Simmons, Harvey J. Wasserman, Olaf M. Lubeck, Christopher Eoyang, Raul Mendez, Hiroo Harada, Misako Ishiguro:
  A Performance Comparison of Four Supercomputers. 116-124

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Fraud by Computer. 154

Volume 35, Number 9, September 1992

Legally Speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Updating the Copyright Look and Feel Lawsuits. 25-31

Analysis and Modeling in Software Development

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  David E. Monarchi, Gretchen I. Puhr:
  A Research Typology for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. 35-47
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  Kenneth S. Rubin, Adele Goldberg:
  Object Behavior Analysis. 48-62
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  Jean-Marc Nerson:
  Applying Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. 63-74
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  Bill Curtis, Marc I. Kellner, Jim Over:
  Process Modeling. 75-90
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  Herb Krasner, Jim Terrel, Adam Linehan, Paul Arnold, William H. Ett:
  Lessons Learned from a Software Process Modeling System. 91-100
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  Timothy D. Korson, Vijay K. Vaishnavi:
  Managing Emerging Software Technology: A Technology Transfer Framework. 101-111
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  Shamkant B. Navathe:
  Evolution of Data Modeling for Databases. 112-123
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  B. Chandrasekaran, Todd R. Johnson, Jack W. Smith:
  Task-Structure Analysis for Knowledge Modeling. 124-137
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  Ramayya Krishnan, Xiaoping Li, David M. Steier:
  A Knowledge-Based Mathematical Model Formulation System. 138-146
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  Meilir Page-Jones:
  Comparing Techniques by Means of Encapsulation and Connascence. 147-151
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  Peter Coad:
  Object-Oriented Patterns. 152-159
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  Oscar Nierstrasz, Simon J. Gibbs, Dennis Tsichritzis:
  Component-Oriented Software Development. 160-165
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  August-Wilhelm Scheer, Alexander Hars:
  Extending Data Modeling to Cover the Whole Enterprise. 166-172

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Accidental Financial Losses. 194

Volume 35, Number 10, October 1992

Practical Programmer

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  Marc Rettig:
  Hat Racks for Understanding. 21-24

Electronic Frontier

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  John Perry Barlow:
  Will Japan Jack In? 27-29

Articles

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  Anthony C. Stylianou, Gregory R. Madey, Robert D. Smith:
  Selection Criteria for Expert System Shells: A Socio-Technical Framework. 30-48
• 
  David S. Touretzky, Peter Lee:
  Visualizing Evaluation in Applicative Languages. 49-59
• 
  Yosee Feldman, Ehud Shapiro:
  Spatial Machines: A More Realistic Approach to Parallel Computation. 60-73
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  Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Gaston H. Gonnet:
  A New Approach to Text Searching. 74-82
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  Sun Wu, Udi Manber:
  Fast Text Searching Allowing Errors. 83-91
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  Dov Dori:
  Dimensioning Analysis: Towards Automatic Understanding of Engineering Drawings. 92-103
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  Shailendra C. Palvia, Steven R. Gordon:
  Tabeles, Trees, and Formulas in Decision Analysis. 104-113

Inside Risks

• 
  Peter G. Neumann:
  Where to Place Trust. 138

Volume 35, Number 11, November 1992

Computing Perspectives

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  Maurice V. Wilkes:
  The Long-Term Future of Operating Systems. 23-24

International Perspectives

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  G. M. Mesher, Robert O. Briggs, Seymour E. Goodman, Larry Press, Joel M. Snyder:
  Cuba, Communism, and Computing. 27-29

Report

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  Juris Hartmanis:
  Computing the Future - Comittee to Assess the Scope and Direction of Computer Science and Technology of the National Research Council. 30-40

Ada

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  Benjamin M. Brosgol:
  Ada - Preface to the Special Section. Commun. ACM 35(11): 41-42 (1992)
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  Edmond Schonberg, Mark Gerhard, Charlene Hayden:
  A Technical Tour of Ada. 43-52
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  Michael B. Feldman:
  Ada Experience in the Undergraduate Curriculum. 53-67
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  John W. McCormick:
  A Model Railroad for Ada and Software Engineering. 68-70
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  Jean-Pierre Rosen:
  What Orientation Should Ada Objects Take? 71-76
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  S. Tucker Taft:
  Ada 9X: A Technical Summary. 77-82
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  Chris Anderson:
  Ada 9X Project Management. 83-84
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  Erhard Plödereder:
  Building Consensus for Ada 9X. 85-88

Articles

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  Gio Wiederhold, Peter Wegner, Stefano Ceri:
  Toward Megaprogramming. 89-99
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  Danny Kopec, Monty Newborn, Mike Valvo:
  The 22nd Annual ACM International Computer Chess Championship. 100-110

Inside Risks

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  Rebecca Mercuri:
  Voting-Machine Risks. 138

Volume 35, Number 12, December 1992

Personal Computing

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  Larry Press:
  The Net: Progress and Opportunity. 21-25

Information Filtering

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  Shoshana Loeb, Douglas B. Terry:
  Information Filtering - Preface to the Secial Section. 26-28
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  Nicholas J. Belkin, W. Bruce Croft:
  Information Filtering and Information Retrieval: Two Sides of the Same Coin? 29-38
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  Shoshana Loeb:
  Architecting Personal Delivery of Multimedia Information. 39-48
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  Curt Stevens:
  Automating the Creation of Information Filters. 48
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  Irene Stadnyk, Robert Kass:
  Modeling Users' Interests in Information Filters. 49-50
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  Paul E. Baclace:
  Competitive Agents for Information Filtering. 50
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  Peter W. Foltz, Susan T. Dumais:
  Personalized Information Delivery: An Analysis of Information Filtering Methods. 51-60
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  David Goldberg, David A. Nichols, Brian M. Oki, Douglas B. Terry:
  Using Collaborative Filtering to Weave an Information Tapestry. 61-70
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  Thomas F. Bowen, Gita Gopal, Gary E. Herman, Takako M. Hickey, Kuo Chi Lee, William H. Mansfield, John Raitz, Abel Weinrib:
  The Datacycle Architecture. 71-81
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  Ashwin Ram:
  Natural Language Understanding for Information-Filtering Systems. 80-81

Article

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  Peter J. Denning:
  Educating a New Engineer. 82-97

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Avoiding Weak Links. 146