ACM

Rosalie Steier
Pages 1041-1042

Literate programming

Christopher J. Van Wyk
Pages 1051-1055

The relationship between business and higher education: a perspective on the 21st century

Apple's Chairman of the Board discusses the future of three core technologies—hypermedia, simulation and artificial intelligence—and the role each will play in education. The following speech was presented to an audience of teachers … John Sculley
Pages 1056-1061

Support for multiprocessing

Pages 1062-1064

Using an architectural knowledge base to generate code for parallel computers

The authors present a reconfigurable compiler for distributed memory parallel computers that performs automatic program partitioning, mapping, and communication code generation under the guidance of directives supplied by the … Anthony E. Terrano, Stanley M. Dunn, Joseph E. Peters
Pages 1065-1072

Automatic determination of grain size for efficient parallel processing

The authors propose a method for automatic determination and scheduling of modules from a sequential program. Carolyn McCreary, Helen Gill
Pages 1073-1078

DEBL: a knowledge-based language for specifying and debugging distributed programs

DEBL provides a uniform, rigorous, and programming-language-independent environment for distributed program specification and debugging. Wan-Hong S. Cheng, Virgil E. Wallentine
Pages 1079-1084

Using a global name space for parallel execution of UNIX tools

A parallel make utility that executes on multiple workstations and achieves a significant real-time speedup makes work with distributed computing easy to conduct. Charles J. Fleckenstein, David Hemmendinger
Pages 1085-1090

The future of high performance computers in science and engineering

A vast array of new, highly parallel machines are opening up new opportunities for new applications and new ways of computing. C. Gordon Bell
Pages 1091-1101

CASE productivity perceptions of software engineering professionals

Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) is moving into the problem-solving domain of the systems analyst. The authors undertook a study to investigate the various functional and behavioral aspects of CASE and determine the … Ronald J. Norman, Jay F. Nunamaker
Pages 1102-1108

A technique for two-dimensional pattern matching

By reducing an array matching problem to a string matching problem in a natural way, it is shown that efficient string matching algorithms can be applied to arrays, assuming that a linear preprocessing is made on the text. Rui Feng Zhu, Tadao Takaoka
Pages 1110-1120

Technical correspondence

CORPORATE Tech Correspondence
Pages 1121-1133

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