Rosalie Steier
Pages 1115-1116
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 1117-1120
Jon Bentley
Pages 1121-1127
Seismology has burgeoned into a modern science—force-fed by federal funding to advance technology for detecting underground nuclear explosions and predicting earthquakes, and by industry to improve tools for gas and oil exploration …
Michael R. Raugh
Pages 1130-1150
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), now being planned at NASA, will require a prodigious amount of highly concurrent signal processing to be done in real time by special-purpose hardware.
D. K. Cullers, Ivan R. Linscott, Bernard M. Oliver
Pages 1151-1163
Sophisticated software tools are becoming increasingly important in helping biologists understand how nature operates. Symbolic pattern-recognition and artificial-intelligence methodologies are contributing to the development …
Peter Friedland, Laurence H. Kedes
Pages 1164-1186
As more and more automation is incorporated in aircraft, the essential question becomes one of autonomy: Should the automated system serve as the human pilot's assistant, or vice versa?
Alan B. Chambers, David C. Nagel
Pages 1187-1199
Growth of distributed systems has attained unstoppable momentum. If we better understood how to think about, analyze, and design distributed systems, we could direct their implementation with more confidence.
Leonard Kleinrock
Pages 1200-1213
Project Athena at MIT is an experiment to explore the potential uses of advanced computer technology in the university curriculum. About 60 different educational development projects, spanning virtually all of MIT's academic
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Edward Balkovich, Steven Lerman, Richard P. Parmelee
Pages 1214-1224
The great challenge for computer science in this decade is to make computers usable by everyone. Computers, long viewed as a dehumanizing force, will become the most powerful means of personal creative expression and communication …
Joel S. Birnbaum
Pages 1225-1235
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