Rosalie Steier
Pages 705-706
Paul Abrahams
Pages 707-708
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 709-710
Jon Bentley
Pages 711-721
Ada's importance goes far beyond its initial limited goals. The worldwide interest in the usage of Ada is one of many reasons for its uniqueness.
Jean E. Sammet
Pages 722-732
A self-assessment procedure dealing with file processing
Martin K. Solomon, Riva Wenig Bickel
Pages 745-751
Two radically different parallel computers prompt a debate about the best parallel architectures and may mark the commercial viability of parallelism on the supercomputer scale.
Karen A. Frenkel
Pages 752-758
Benchmarks are developed to measure the Ada notion of time, the Ada features believed important to real-time performance, and other time-related features that are not part of the language, but are part of the run-time system; …
Russell M. Clapp, Louis Duchesneau, Richard A. Volz, Trevor N. Mudge, Timothy Schultze
Pages 760-778
Taking Ein-Dor's recent reevaluation of Grosch's law one step further, the authors find evidence of different slopes for different classes of computers and the utility of an additional variable: the IBM or IBM-compatible factor …
Young Moo Kang, Robert B. Miller, Roger Alan Pick
Pages 779-781
An exploratory study of computerized performance monitoring and control systems reveals both positive and negative effects. Responses of 50 clerical workers from 2 organizations with computerized monitoring were compared to 94 …
R. H. Irving, C. A. Higgins, F. R. Safayeni
Pages 794-801
The orders of equidistribution of subsequences of every nth
term of the asymptotically random sequence given by Tootill, Robinson, and Eagle [5], and of six other asymptotically random sequences, were determined for various values …
Raymond F. Koopman
Pages 802-806
The Initiative is a comprehensive effort to address major software engineering issues in both the military and private industry.
Edward Lieblein
Pages 734-744
The authors describe a system that makes it easy and convenient to describe graphs and to include them as an integral part of the document formatting process.
Jon L. Bentley, Brian W. Kernighan
Pages 782-792
