Rosalie Steir
Pages 787-788
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 789-794
The CIRRUS banking network makes coast-to-coast automatic banking transactions possible. The system will soon be able to handle international currency transactions and point-of-sale transactions in stores.
David Gifford, Alfred Spector
Pages 798-807
MCC, the consortium of companies headed by Admiral B. R. Inman, that some consider America's reply to Japan's Fifth Generation initiative, invited members and nonmembers to brainstorm on software design. Also on the agenda was …
Karen A. Frenkel
Pages 808-813
A Report of the ACM Curriculum Task Force for CS2
Elliot B. Koffman, David Stemple, Caroline E. Wardle
Pages 815-818
ALGLIB—a library of procedures that perform analytic differentiation and other simple symbolic manipulations—has certain advantages over existing and more comprehensive packages. It can be implemented in a high-level language …
J. M. Shearer, M. A. Wolfe
Pages 820-825
A new simplified methodology for relational-database design overcomes the difficulties associated with nonloss decomposition. It states dependencies between data fields on a dependency list and then depicts them unambiguously …
Henry C. Smith
Pages 826-838
In this article we develop some algorithms and tools for solving matrix problems on parallel processing computers. Operations are synchronized through data-flow alone, which makes global synchronization unnecessary and enables …
Dianne P. O'Leary, G. W. Stewart
Pages 840-853
Diehr and Faaland developed an algorithm that finds the minimum sum of key length pagination of a scroll of n items, and which uses O(n log n) time, solving a problem posed by McCreight. An improved algorithm is given which uses …
L. L. Larmore, D. S. Hirschberg
Pages 854-856
