Rosalie Steier
Pages 99-ff.
Paul Abrahams
Pages 101-102
Brian Reid
Pages 103-105
Peter J. Jenning
Pages 106-109
Peter J. Denning
Pages 110-111
Given the devastating consequences of nuclear war, it is appropriate to look at current and planned uses of computers in nuclear weapons command and control systems, and to examine whether these systems can fulfill their intended …
Alan Borning
Pages 112-131
The ACM SIGOPS Workshop on Accommodating Heterogeneity was conducted in December 1985 in Eastbound, Wash., as a forum for an international group of fifty researchers to discuss the technical issues surrounding heterogeneous computing …
David Notkin, Norman Hutchinson, Jan Sanislo, Michael Schwartz
Pages 132-140
A comparison of Cobol performance on the PC AT Enhanced versus an IBM 370 mainframe suggests that high-quality PC compiler implementations—combined with the new language features of the Cobol 85 Standard—are improving the PC
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Paul J. Jalics
Pages 142-154
An iterative thinning algorithm reduces a two-dimensional pattern of strokes to its skeleton by removing layers of edge elements until each stroke has unit thickness. A parallel solution requires the independent calculation of …
Christopher M. Holt, Alan Stewart, Maurice Clint, Ronald H. Perrott
Pages 156-160
Four methods to solve the all pairs examination problem are presented. The first two methods are based on the fold-over scheme. The remaining two methods are adopted from some parallel sorting algorithms. All of these approaches …
Zen-Cheung Shih, Gen-Huey Chen, R. C. T. Lee
Pages 161-167
CORPORATE Tech Correspondence
Pages 168-171
