Communications of the ACM articles from May 1988

Communications of the ACM archives from May 1988

Authors.
May 1, 1988... authors JAMES M. CUPELLO Managing Prototype Knowledge/Expert System Projects James M. Cupello is currently Manager of Expert Systems Development at Morton Thiokol's Wasatch Operations located near Brigham City, Utah. He...

President's letter.
May 1, 1988... president's letter The story is told of an automobile salesman who fell upon hard times and turned to the bottle. One day, as the poor wretch uncorked his solace, a genie emerged and told him that he had a single wich. "I wish to be the...

ACM forum.
May 1, 1988... acm forum MUMPS the Word I was pleased to see Jeffrey Wellman's exposition on the merits of MUMPS (vs. Cobol et al.) in the January 1988 Forum (p. 5). I too chuckle when I read about new or existing languages that are "structured"...

Corrigendum.
May 1, 1988... CORRIGENDUM The following refernece was erroneously omitted from the Computing Practices article, "NPATH: A Measure of Execution Path Complexity and Its Applications," by Brian Nejmeh, which appeared in the February issue of Communications, pp....

1988 ACM election candidates.
May 1, 1988... 1988 ACM Election Candidates David C. Wood ACM has many high quality publications, and our SIGs provide outstanding specialized services through their conferences and newsletters. However, we need to increase the coverage in our...

Calendar of events.
May 1, 1988... Calendar of Events ACM's calendar policy is to list open computer science meetings that are held on a not-for-profit basis. Not included in the calendar are educational seminars, institutes, and courses. Submittals should be substantiated...

Calls for papers.
May 1, 1988... Calls for Papers May 10 3rd International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems, Tokyo, Japan. November 28-December 2. Submit 6c. of 5000-word manuscripts and 250-word abstracts to Hidehiko Tanaka, FGCS 88, Program Chair,...

ACM to offer improved group insurance plans to membership. (ACM News)
May 1, 1988... ACM TO OFFER IMPROVED GROUP INSURANCE PLANS TO MEMBERSHIP ACM is pleased to announce that it has withdrawn from participation in both the Engineering Associations Insurance Trust and the Engineering and Scientific Associations Accident and...

Scholastic programming contest results. (ACM News)
May 1, 1988... Scholastic Programming Contest Results The 12th Annual ACM Scholastic Programming Contest was held in Atlanta on February 24, 1988, in conjunction with CSC '88. Twenty-four teams of four students each and a "celebrity" team of five professors...

Who is the highest paid R & D practitioner? (General News and Notes.)
May 1, 1988... Who is the Highest Paid R & D Practitioner? According to a survey of ver 5,200 R & D employees performing 15 jobs, the highest paid individual is a project director responsible for 100 or more employees trough three or more levels of managers...

Study reveals the highs and lows of MIS salaries. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Study Reveals the Highs and Lows of MIS Salaries A survey of over 27,500 MIS/dp positions in 900 organizations has yieled profiles of those with the highest and lowest salaries. The typical highest-paid individual is male, has an MBA and 15 or...

One-year-old network computing forum membership triples. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... One-Year-Old Network Computing Forum Membership Triples Established just over one year ago by 31 charter companies to develop common technical approaches for computing on networks, the Network Computin Forum now boasts 107 members. More than...

Demand for AI experts up. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Demand for AI Experts Up The demand for AI specialists has doubled since 1984 and is expected to remain robust over the next five years, as corporations and consulting firms play an increasingly pivotal role in the field's development....

U.S. technology lead slipping, scientists name candidates who would promote R & D. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... U.S. Technology Lead Slipping, Scientists Name Candidates Who Would Promote R & D A majority of research scientists believe the United States is losing ground in basic science and that Japan will be the world technology leader by the year...

Video and graphics presentation market to reach $6.5 billion in 1992. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Video and Graphics Presentation Market to Reach $6.5 Billion in 1992 According to a report from Intertec Development Corp., hardware, software and systems for the video and graphics market will grow from $1.2 billion this year to $6.5 billion...

BRIEF users contest. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... BRIEF Users Contest Solutions Systems, a division of Software Developer's Company, Inc. in South Weymouth, Mass., challenges BRIEF users to develop subroutines that significantly increase programming productivity. There are currently 25,000...

Software companies find market niches despite takeovers. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Software Companies Find Market Niches Despite Takeovers Despite acquisition strategies of large software companies like Ashton-Tate and Lotus, small companies are being crowded out of the $7.9 billion microcomputer software market, according to...

DINFOS to celebrate 25th anniversary, compiling alumni list. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... DINFOS to Celebrate 25th Anniversary, Compiling Alumni List The Defense Information School (DINFOS) is compiling an alumni list for its 25th Anniversary observance in June 1989. DINFOS graduates from Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., or any of its...

Educational research foundation surveys software for preschoolers. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Educational Research Information Surveys Software for Preschoolers The High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, in Ypsilanti, Mich., has released its "1988 Survey of Early Childhood Software," a review of 286 packages developed for three- to...

Computer dealer-lessors market grows by 20 percent. (General News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Computer Dealer/Lessors Market Grows 20 Percent A study by the Gartner Group and commissioned by the Computer Dealers and Lessors Association (CDLA) reports that 1987 computer/lessor market revenues increased to $12.0 billion, up 20 percent...

Information systems-data communications: ANSI calls for comment by May 10, 1988. (Standards News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Information Systems--Data Communication BSR/EIA SP-1393-B (if approved, ANSI/EIA 511-1 and 511-2), Manufacturing Message Specification--Service Definition and Manufacturing Message Specification--Protocol Specification (new standard)....

Information systems-languages: ANSI calls for comment by July 10, 1988. (Standards News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Information Systems--Languages BSR X3.168, Embedding of SQL Statements into Programming Languages (new standard). Specifies embedded syntax for including SQL data manipulation language statements in an application program. Such embedded...

Information systems-computer graphics: final actions-ANSI. (Standards News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... Information Systems--Computer Graphics ANSI X3.124.1-1988, PASCAL Language Binding of the Graphical Kernal System (GKS) (new standard). Approval date: February 18, 1988.

Newly published standards. (Standards News and Notes )
May 1, 1988... Newly Published Standards ANSI X3.1-1987, Information Systems-Data Transmission-Synchronous Signaling Rates, $8.00 ISO and IEC Draft Standards Calls for Comment by June 11, 1988 ISO/IEC/DIS 7498-4, Information...

Software life cycle processes standard (P1074) status report. (Standards News and Notes)
May 1, 1988... SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE PROCESS STANDARD (P1074) STATUS REPORT The project to write an IEEE "Standard for Software Life Cycle Processes" (Project P1074) was initiated in August, 1984. The purpose of this standard is to define the processes that...

ACM council meeting February 25 and 27, 1988 minutes summary. (Official ACM News)
May 1, 1988... ACM Council Meeting February 25 and 27, 1988 Minutes Summary The ACM Council met during CSC '88 on Thursday, February 25, and Saturday, February 27, 1988. All Council members were in attendance with the exception of Herve Gallaire, who was...

Chapter news.
May 1, 1988... Chapter News ACM Charters Hong Kong Chapter and Thirteen New Student Chapters! The Hong Kong Chapter was chartered by the Chapters Board during the Computer Science Conference in Atlanta on February 24, 1988. ACM...

Stalking the wily hacker. (includes related articles on the definition of hackers, Intruder versus Tracker, legal constraints and ethics, and computer security resources)
May 1, 1988... An astronomer-turned-sleuth traces a German trespasser on our military networks, who slipped through operating system security holes and browsed through sensitive databases. Was it espionage? In August 1986 a persistent computer intruder...

Information technology and dataveillance.
May 1, 1988... INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DATAVEILLANCE Concern about freedom from tyranny is a trademark of democracy. Between 1920 and 1950, the anti-utopian novels of Zamyatin [78], Kafka, Huxley [21], and Orwell [45] unleashed a visionary, yet paranoiac...

On visual formalisms.
May 1, 1988... ON VISUAL FORMALISMS Visualizing information, especially information of complex and intricate nature, has for many years been the subject of considerable work by many people. The information that interests us here is nonquantitative, but...

Reevaluating Amdahl's law. (technical)
May 1, 1988... REEVALUATING AMDAHL'S LAW At Sandia National Laboratories, we are currently engaged in research involving massively parallel processing. There is considerable skepticism regarding the viability of massive parallelism; the skepticism centers...

Managing prototype knowledge-expert system projects.
May 1, 1988... MANAGING PROTOTYPE KNOWLEDGE/EXPERT SYSTEM PROJECTS As guidance to those who are investigating knowledge/expert systems (K/ES) technology for the first time, we propose that the most efficient way to investigate this technology is to build a...

Growth stages of end user computing.
May 1, 1988... GROWTH STAGES OF END USER COMPUTING In 1973, Richard L. Nolan proposed a model for the stages of growth of computer usage in organizations [21]. The model was subsequently elaborated upon in a series of articles in which the original four...

Factors of success for end-user computing.
May 1, 1988... Factors of Success for End-User Computing 1. INTRODUCTION End-user computing is a relatively new phenomenon that is receiving much attention in the MIS field, both from practitioners [5, 6, 15, 17] and researchers [3, 20, 25, 32,...

An experimental evaluation of the impact of data display format on recall performance.
May 1, 1988... An Experimental Evaluation of the Impact of Data Display Format on Recall Performance 1. INTRODUCTION While psychologists have studied the memory functions of recall, recognition, and forgetting since the turn of the century [7, 8,...

The world's fastest Scrabble program. (technical)
May 1, 1988... The World's Fastest Scrabble Program 1. INTRODUCTION The SCRABBLE Brand Crossword Game (hereafter referred to as "Scrabble") is ill-suited to the adversary search techniques typically used by computer game-players. The elements of...

An insertion algorithm for a minimal internal path length binary search tree. (technical)
May 1, 1988... An Insertion Algorithm for a Minimal Internal Path Length Binary Search Tree 1. INTRODUCTION Methods that maintain balance in binary search trees have received considerable attention in computer science literature. Since a binary...

MIS careers-a theoretical perspective.
May 1, 1988... MIS Careers-- A Theoretical Perspective 1. INTRODUCTION In their paper about the work of MIS managers, Ives & Olson [21] noted that the largest portion of these managers' time is spent dealing with personnel issues--recruiting,...