Peter J. Denning
Pages 1-2

Some practical experience with a software quality assurance program

Within a production programming environment, a software quality assurance program (QAP) was instituted to produce standards, conventions, and methodologies for all phases of the software development process. Software language … G. G. Gustafson, Roberta J. Kerr
Pages 4-12

DIAGRAM: a grammar for dialogues

An explanatory overview is given of DIAGRAM, a large and complex grammar used in an artificial intelligence system for interpreting English dialogue. DIAGRAM is an augmented phrase-structure grammar with rule procedures that … Jane J. Robinson
Pages 27-47

Generating gamma variates by a modified rejection technique

A suitable square root transformation of a gamma random variable with mean a ≥ 1 yields a probability density close to the standard normal density. A modification of the rejection technique then begins by sampling from the normal … J. H. Ahrens, U. Dieter
Pages 47-54

Control flow and data structure documentation: two experiments

Two experiments were carried out to assess the utility of external documentation aids such as macro flowcharts, pseudocode, data structure diagrams, and data structure descriptions. A 223 line Pascal program which manipulates … Ben Shneiderman
Pages 55-63

Communications of the ACM

Table of Contents

President's letter: on spending our time wisely

Some practical experience with a software quality assurance program

DIAGRAM: a grammar for dialogues

Generating gamma variates by a modified rejection technique

Control flow and data structure documentation: two experiments

Approximation algorithms for convex hulls

ACM Forum

NSF meeting on national security controls on science and engineering

The new (1982) Computing Reviews classification system—final version