Communications of the ACM articles from January 1995

Communications of the ACM archives from January 1995

Computing in Vietnam: an Asian Tiger in the rough.
January 1, 1995... Nguyen Dinh Ngoc and Dang Huu were among the senior technology leaders at the Fourth Informatics Week conference and exhibition held in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in August 1994, an event that swarmed with teenagers, young techies, and businessmen....

Beware, techies bearing gifts.
January 1, 1995... The latest techie panacea for fixing education is to just connect all the students to the Internet; with all that information out there, surely they will learn. In Project Globe, Vice President Gore, the U.S.'s chief techie, proposes to connect...

Women in computing.
January 1, 1995... "It is one of our major follies that, whatever we say, we don't in reality regard women as suitable for scientific careers. We thus neatly divide ourpool of potential talent by two." C.P. SNOW, REDE LECTURES, CAMBRIDGE, 1959 The world is...

Women in computing: where are we now? (Cover Story)
January 1, 1995... Drawing women into the field of computing--and maintaining that momentum--is a challenge that needs to start at a very young age. Educational inroads have surely been made, but current statistics indicate there's much to done. The state of...

Graduate fellowship programs. (tabular data only) (Illustration)
January 1, 1995... There are numerous fellowship programs available to graduate students in computer science and engineering (CS&E). The attached list highlights only those programs targeting women or minorities and women. The targeted fields of study include...

Women and computing in the UK.
January 1, 1995... In the absence of a funding program or substantial support from industry, much research and many initiatives on women and computing in the UK follow a "self-help" style. Women and men who are interested in gender-related issues often find that...

TAP: tapping internet resources for women in computer science. (The Ada Project)
January 1, 1995... The dramatic growth of the World Wide Web (WWW) over the past year indicates its increasing value as a tool for information sharing among networked communities. As the Web has grown, the online availability of information relating to women in...

Pioneering women in computer science. (includes related articles)
January 1, 1995... Although their contributions are not well documented, women have played an important role in the development of computer science. A survey of women pioneers demonstrates their influence in designing and programming the first electronic computers...

Diversity recruiting. (Women in Computing)
January 1, 1995... Due to the higher percentage of men with computing backgrounds, employers often find it difficult to locate qualified female computer professionals, particularly senior professionals. Several resources have recently been made available to help...

Executive mentoring: what makes it work? (includes related article) (Women in Computing)
January 1, 1995... Women and minorities continue to be underrepresented across the several computer science disciplines, despite a host of efforts to attract and keep them in computing. For example, the Taulbee survey of computer science graduates indicates only...

Situations and advancement measures in Germany. (Women in Computing)
January 1, 1995... In modern Germany, women have faced special challenges in advancing their professional careers in computing. The task of reuniting this formerly divided country demonstrates the mixed success women have had in dealing with key issues such as...

Case tools as collaborative support technologies.
January 1, 1995... Since the inception of computers, the software industry has searched for dramatic solutions to its systems development problems. In the latter half of the 1980s and into the 1990s, the search has focused on automated software engineering...

LEDA: a platform for combinatorial and geometric computing. (Library of Efficient Data Types and Algorithms)
January 1, 1995... Combinatorial and geometric computing is a core area of computer science (CS). In fact, most CS curricula contain a course in data structures and algorithms. The area deals with objects such as graphs, sequences, dictionaries, trees, shortest...

Ultra-structure: a design theory for complex systems and processes.
January 1, 1995... business application might cost about $225 million for development and five years' use. The application might then be wholly replaced, starting a new life cycle. Myers uses several approaches to estimate cost and effort for a hypothetical...

Random number generators are chaotic. (Technical Correspondence)
January 1, 1995... The study of highly unstable nonlinear dynamical systems-chaotic systems--has emerged recently as an area of major interest and applicability across the mathematical, physical and social sciences. This interest has been triggered by advances in...

Pseudo-random number generators for a calculator. (Technical Correspondence)
January 1, 1995... The owner's manual for the Hewlett-Packard HP-42S calculator [10] describes function RAN as returning "a number that is part of a uniformly distributed pseudo-random number sequence. This number passes the spectral test" [4]. The manual states...

The info superhighway for the people.
January 1, 1995... The opportunities are attractive, but some pavers of the Information Superhighway (ISH) are too eager to pour concrete. They risk making rough roads that will alienate the very users they seek. These technologically oriented ISH devotees may be...