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Home/Magazine Archive/December 1984 (Vol. 27, No. 12)

Table of Contents

Secretary's letter: the role of ACM in standards

David C. Wood
Pages 1173-1174

ACM forum

Pages 1175-1176

From Washington: optics is a public policy issue

Rosalie Steier
Pages 1177-1178

Programming pearls: little program, a lot of fun

Jon L. Bentley
Pages 1179-1182

Special section on management of information systems

Gordon B. Davis
Page 1183

Computing and organizations: what we know and what we don't know

Paul Attewell, James Rule
Pages 1184-1192

The information system as a competitive weapon

Blake Ives, Gerard P. Learmonth
Pages 1193-1201

An investigation of user-led system design: rational and political perspectives

Charles R. Franz, Daniel Robey
Pages 1202-1209

Computer mediated work: the interplay between technology and structured jobs

Jon A. Turner
Pages 1210-1217

The control of information systems developments after implementation

Rob Kling, Suzanne Iacono
Pages 1218-1226

An improved solution to the traveling salesman problem with thousands of nodes

John D. Litke
Pages 1227-1236

Foreign keys decrease adaptability of database designs

Richard B. Wilmot
Pages 1237-1243