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Table of Contents

President's letter

Adele Goldberg
Pages 1079-1081

ACM Forum: letters

Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 1082-1086

Programming pearls: perspective on performance

Jon Bentley
Pages 1087-1092

Predicting the success of freshmen in a computer science major

Patricia F. Campbell, George P. McCabe
Pages 1108-1113

The computer in cartoons: a retrospective from the Saturday Review

Walter M. Mathews, Kaye Reifers
Pages 1114-1119

A software maintenance workshop

Robert S. Arnold, Norman F. Schneidewind, Nicholas Zvegintzov
Pages 1120-1121

An interactive decision support system for energy policy analysis

Larry R. Medsker
Pages 1122-1128

A relational approach to decision support for EDP auditing

James V. Hansen, William F. Messier
Pages 1129-1133

A theory of the learnable

L. G. Valiant
Pages 1134-1142

Performance analysis of on-the-fly garbage collection

Tim Hickey, Jacques Cohen
Pages 1143-1154