Rosalie Steier
Pages 1263-1264
Adele Goldberg
Pages 1265-1270
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 1271-1274
Rosalie Steier
Pages 1275-1276
In the fall of 1981, a Japanese report officially initiated the quest for fifth-generation computers that would encompass the functions of knowledge processing and artificial intelligence. The conceptual underpinnings behind
…
Alain Colmerauer
Pages 1296-1310
Since its conception, Prolog has followed a developmental course similar to the early evolution of LISP. Although the version of Prolog described here typifies that currently in use, it should be considered within the framework …
Jacques Cohen
Pages 1311-1324
A former member of the SDIO Panel on Computing in Support of Battle Management explains why he believes the “Star Wars” effort will not achieve its stated goals.
David Lorge Parnas
Pages 1326-1335
A general-purpose data-compression routine—implemented on the IMS database system—makes use of context to achieve better compression than Huffman's method applied character by character. It demonstrates that a wide variety of …
Gordon V. Cormack
Pages 1336-1342
Steering committees have recently gained vast acceptance in organizations as the mechanism used to select management information systems (MIS) projects. Because of their widespread adoption and their differences from other selection …
J. D. McKeen, Tor Guimaraes
Pages 1344-1352
