Communications of the ACM

Authors

Rosalie Steier
Pages 1-ff.

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ACM Presidents's letter

Paul Abrahams
Page 2

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Viewpoint

Daniel D. McCracken
Pages 3-5

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ACM forum

Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 6-12

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Interface design issues for advice-giving expert systems

Advice giving could become the first successful domain for intelligent interfaces. John M. Carroll, Jean McKendree
Pages 14-32

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Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings

Although individual use of computers is fairly widespread, in meetings we tend to leave them behind. At Xerox PARC, an experimental meeting room called the Colab has been created to study computer support of collaborative problem … Mark Stefik, Gregg Foster, Daniel G. Bobrow, Kenneth Kahn, Stan Lanning, Lucy Suchman
Pages 32-47

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A relational information resource dictionary system

A relational implementation of IRDS using SQL demonstrates how the flexibility of the relational environment enhances the extensibility of the IRDS while at the same time providing more powerful dictionary capabilities than are … Daniel R Dolk, Robert A. Kirsch
Pages 48-61

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Update to "data parallel algorithms"

W. Daniel Hillis, Guy L. Steele
Page 78

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MATCH—a new high-level relational operator for pattern matching

Pattern matching is a common and fundamental operation of many applications, such as expert systems (ES). With continued growth the knowledge bases of such systems will need database management systems (DBMS) support. Providing … James P. Held, John V. Carlis
Pages 62-75

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