Eric S. Lander, Robert Langridge, Damian M. Saccocio
Pages 32-39
Karen A. Frenkel
Pages 40-51
Cherri M. Pancake
Pages 52-64
After twenty years of traveling from city to city across the United States, the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship came back to the place of its birth, the New York Hilton Hotel, where the competitions began in 1970 …
Monty Newborn, Danny Kopec
Pages 84-92
Over the last 15 years the increased availability of computers and the introduction of the RSA cryptosystem has led to a number of new and remarkable algorithms for finding the prime factors of large integers. Factoring numbers …
Robert D. Silverman
Pages 95-103
Programming parallel machines is very difficult. First, generating an algorithm requires the programmer to assimilate the interactions of multiple threads of control. Second, synchronization and communication among the threads …
James E. Lumpp, Samuel A. Fineberg, Thomas L. Casavant, Wayne G. Nation, Edward C. Bronson, Howard Jay Siegel, Pierre H. Pero, Dan C. Marinescu, Thomas Schwederski
Pages 104-117
I read with interest Peter Pearson's article, “Fast Hashing of Variable-Length Text Strings” (June 1990, pp. 677-680). In it he defines a hash function, given a text C
1 … C
N, by Exclusive OR'ing the bytes and modifying each intermediate …
Diane Crawford
Pages 118-120
In past issues we have discussed various system-related disasters and their causes, both accidental and intentional. In almost all cases it is possible to allocate to people—directly or indirectly—those difficulties allegedly …
Peter G. Neumann
Page 150
Competition, a concept nary whispered in pure science circles, might just have been the catalyst that finally drove the High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) policy over the Hill. It has taken many years, and countless …
Diane Crawford
Pages 25-28
Steven R. Newcomb, Neill A. Kipp, Victoria T. Newcomb
Pages 67-83
