Communications of the ACM

ACM President's Letter: the institute for certification of computer professionals: a call for ACM action

Daniel D. McCracken
Pages 145-146

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FOCUS microcomputer number system

FOCUS is a number system and supporting computational algorithms especially useful for microcomputer control and other signal processing applications. FOCUS has the wide-ranging character of floating-point numbers with a uniformity … Albert D. Edgar, Samuel C. Lee
Pages 166-177

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Experiments with some algorithms that find central solutions for pattern classification

In two-class pattern recognition, it is a standard technique to have an algorithm finding hyperplanes which separates the two classes in a linearly separable training set. The traditional methods find a hyperplane which separates … James Slagle
Pages 178-183

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Logic and semantic networks

An extended form of semantic network is defined, which can be regarded as a syntactic variant of the clausal form of logic. By virtue of its relationship with logic, the extended semantic network is provided with a precise semantics … Amaryllis Deliyanni, Robert A. Kowalski
Pages 184-192

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The use of normal multiplication tables for information storage and retrieval

This paper describes a method for the organization and retrieval of attribute based information systems, using the normal multiplication table as a directory for the information system. Algorithms for the organization and retrieval … Dalia Motzkin
Pages 193-207

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ACM forum

Pages 213-214

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Curriculum '78: recommendations for the undergraduate program in computer science— a report of the ACM curriculum committee on computer science

Contained in this report are the recommendations for the undergraduate degree program in Computer Science of the Curriculum Committee on Computer Science (C3S) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The core curriculum … Richard H. Austing, Bruce H. Barnes, Della T. Bonnette, Gerald L. Engel, Gordon Stokes
Pages 147-166

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