Anthony Ralston
Pages 137-138
The ACM Subcommittee on Small College Programs of the Committee on Curriculum in Computer Science (C
3S) was appointed in 1969 to consider the unique problems of small colleges and universities, and to make recommendations regarding …
Gerald L. Engel
Pages 139-147
A method for saving storage space for text strings, such as compiler diagnostic messages, is described. The method relies on hand selection of a set of text strings which are common to one or more messages. These phrases are
…
Robert A. Wagner
Pages 148-152
The use of a front-end minicomputer to provide varied remote terminal access to a large scale computer is considered. The problems of embedding telecommunications I/O within an operating system are discussed, and it is shown
…
Y. Feinroth, E. Franceschini, M. Goldstein
Pages 153-160
A study is made of the way in which asynchronous time division multiplexing changes the stochastic nature of the arrival process from a user to the computer and, consequently, affects the performance of a time-shared computer …
Charles D. Pack
Pages 161-168
PL/C is a compiler for a dialect for PL/I. The design objective was to provide a maximum degree of diagnostic assistance in a batch processing environment. For the most part this assistance is implicit and is provided automatically …
Richard W. Conway, Thomas R. Wilcox
Pages 169-179
This note comments on a technique by Malcolm Harrison [1] that tests whether a given string of characters,
S1, is a substring of another string of characters,
S2. This technique first transforms
S2 into the set consisting of
k …
Abraham Bookstein
Pages 180-181
[Two years ago the author was elected by the Washington State University faculty to a three-year term as a faculty representative to a Graduate Studies Committee charged “to examine and evaluate proposed changes in the policy …
W. H. Payne
Pages 181-182
R. A. Wagner
Pages 183-185
Shi-Kuo Chang
Pages 185-186
Robert B. Forest
Page 194
A previous note gives a rule for determining the sequence of + and - signs to obtain the
ith largest value of +ƒ(±ƒ(±ƒ(··· ±ƒ(
x)···))) when ƒ(
x) is positive and monotonic [1, p. 46, §2]. Shortly after publication the writer received …
Herbert E. Salzer
Page 180
