On July 12 and 13, 1980, the biennial meeting of Computer Science Department chairmen was held at Snowbird, Utah. This meeting, which is organized by the Computer Science Board (CSB), is a forum for the heads of the 83 departments …
Peter J. Denning
Pages 341-343
The concept that three process functions—initialization, production, and completion—and a separate supervisory control function are sufficient to describe the execution of a program is the basis for Triform Program design. Triform …
Dan W. Crockett
Pages 344-350
A panel discussion was held during the third biennial meeting of chairmen of Ph.D.-granting computer science departments in June, 1978 at Snowbird, Utah, a meeting sponsored by the Computer Science Board. Invitees from industry …
J. F. Traub
Pages 351-369
Peter J. Denning, Edward Feigenbaum, Paul Gilmore, Anthony Hearn, Robert W. Ritchie, Joseph Traub
Pages 370-374
In December 1978, the Federal Trade Commission issued a notice of intention of rulemaking in regard to the matter of Standards and Certification. In cooperation with the American National Standards Institute, of which ACM is
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John A. N. Lee
Pages 375-380
A new paradigm, Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC), for fitting a model to experimental data is introduced. RANSAC is capable of interpreting/smoothing data containing a significant percentage of gross errors, and is thus ideally …
Martin A. Fischler, Robert C. Bolles
Pages 381-395
Pages 402-406
