Rosalie Steier
Pages 937-ff.

ACM Press Database and Electronics Products: New services for the Information Age

Edward A. Fox
Pages 948-951

Computer science education in the People's Republic of China in the late 1980s

Last year a delegation of international computer professionals with interests in computer science education participated in an information exchange with colleagues in the People's Republic of China. The delegation's experiences … J. D. Wilson, E. S. Adams, H. P. Baouendi, W. A. Marion, G. J. Yaverbaum
Pages 956-964

An empirical study of computer capacity planning in Japan

Capacity planners in Japan rely heavily on intuitive and judgmental approaches in their computer capacity planning functions, even more so than their U.S. counterparts, according to the following survey. The emphasis in large … S. F. Lam
Pages 965-976

A Chinese-English microcomputer system

Computing in the People's Republic of China has recently begun to gain momentum. Because of China's large population, its computing requirements are of worldwide interest. This article discusses the background of Chinese computing … N. P. Archer, M. W. L. Chan, S. J. Huang, R. T. Liu
Pages 977-982

The 1986-1987 Taulbee survey

The Computing Research Board's 1986-87 Taulbee Survey includes the latest statistics on production and employment of Ph.D.'s and faculty in computer science and engineering. For the first time, departments offering Ph.D.'s in … D. Gries, D. Marsh
Pages 984-991

Results of ACM's eighteenth computer chess championship

M. Newborn, D. Kopec
Pages 992-995

Application of splay trees to data compression

The splay-prefix algorithm is one of the simplest and fastest adaptive data compression algorithms based on the use of a prefix code. The data structures used in the splay-prefix algorithm can also be applied to arithmetic data … D. W. Jones
Pages 996-1007

Computation of cyclic redundancy checks via table look-up

Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) codes provide a simple yet powerful method of error detection during digital data transmission. Use of a table look-up in computing the CRC bits will efficiently implement these codes in software … D. V. Sarwate
Pages 1008-1013

Benchmarks for LAN performance evaluation

A technique for quickly benchmarking the performance of local area networks (LANs) is presented. Programs which model both intermittent and constant network activity are given. L. Press
Pages 1014-1017

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