Rosalie Steier
Pages 577-579
Most computer scientists know that the Department of Defense (DOD) supplies most of the funds for academic research, but few know how profoundly the funding situation has changed over the last decade. In 1976 most basic research …
Clark Thompson
Pages 583-585
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 586-592
What makes computer users happy? Can systems help humans to use them? Does programming sharpen other thinking skills? Is computer anxiety important? Will programmers use Ada packages? How do students learn programming concepts …
Henry Ledgard
Page 593
The results of a user questionnaire are used to determine the effects of 17 different independent variables on user satisfaction.
Avi Rushinek, Sara F. Rushinek
Pages 594-598
Appropriate mnemonic feedback built into a natural-language interface can act as a teacher to help users acquire formal-language skills as they work, without a large initial investment of effort in a learning period.
Brian M. Slator, Matthew P. Anderson, Walt Conley
Pages 599-604
Focusing on thinking skills that are cognitive components of programming—rather than on intellectual ability—can illuminate the relationship between learning a programming language and learning more about thinking processes.
Richard E. Mayer, Jennifer L. Dyck, William Vilberg
Pages 605-610
Although many informal surveys in the business press have contended that computer anxiety has a significant adverse impact on managers' willingness to use microcomputers, the problem is neither as extensive nor as severe as once …
Geoffry S. Howard, Robert D. Smith
Pages 611-615
Many novel features of Ada present programmers with a formidable learning task. The study of four first-time Ada programmers suggests that a background in the software engineering practices supported by Ada is necessary to learn …
J. D. Gannon, E. E. Katz, V. R. Basili
Pages 616-623
An evaluation of two folk wisdoms serves to elucidate the underlying or "deep-structure" reasons for novice errors.
James C. Spohrer, Elliot Soloway
Pages 624-632
Although human proofreading is still necessary, small, topic-specific word lists in spelling programs will minimize the occurrence of undetected typing errors.
James L. Peterson
Pages 633-637
Three measures of operator mental work load were tested with a large, interactive computer system. Two—operator rating of time stress, and the ratio of the time required to time allowed for each subtask—proved to be significant …
Moira LeMay, Eric Hird
Pages 638-642
The elimination of unused instruction sets would encourage more uniform programming practices and could allow the inclusion of more useful instructions.
Neal S. Coulter, Norman H. Kelly
Pages 643-647
Evidence from available studies comparing manual and automatic text-retrieval systems does not support the conclusion that intellectual content analysis produces better results than comparable automatic systems.
Gerard Salton
Pages 648-656
Concentrating on those aspects of software development peculiar to real-time systems, this collection of development methods and tools emphasizes incremental development; the testing of tusk interfaces during integration testing …
Hassan Gomaa
Pages 657-668
A classical problem in computational geometry is the planar point location problem. This problem calls for preprocessing a polygonal subdivision of the plane defined by n line segments so that, given a sequence of points, the …
Neil Sarnak, Robert E. Tarjan
Pages 669-679
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