Communications of the ACM articles from October 1995

Communications of the ACM archives from October 1995

Consensus versus speed. (communications standards)
October 1, 1995... While international consensus seems assured through the traditional processes of the International Organization of Standardization (ISO), the best known and most powerful standards body, the long time required to make decisions is a major...

Net speech: desktop audio comes to the Net. (personal computer network)
October 1, 1995... In the 1940s, the first research computers worked on numeric data. A few years later, the UNIVAC,(1) was designed for both numeric and alphanumeric data. Over time, technology advances have made other data types economically feasible - text,...

The promise and the cost of object technology: a five-year forecast.
October 1, 1995... A group of leading experts from industry and academia came together last fall at the invitation of IBM and ACM to ponder the primary areas of needs in software support for object-based applications. Object-oriented techniques for analysis,...

Object-oriented experiences. (includes related article)
October 1, 1995... Authors in this special section describe knowledge gained from applying object-oriented techniques, tools, and environments to a variety of software development projects. The stakes are increasing every day as more companies bet on...

Lessons learned from the OS/400 OO Project. (object-oriented)
October 1, 1995... This article describes some of the lessons learned when a team of 150 developers with minimal prior exposure to object-oriented (OO) technology undertook a large development project. Team members became proficient in OO design, using C++ as an OO...

Using design patterns to develop reusable object-oriented communication software.
October 1, 1995... Despite dramatic increases in network and host performance, it remains difficult to design, implement, and reuse communication software for complex distributed systems. Examples of these systems include global personal communication systems,...

Developing an object-oriented software testing and maintenance environment.
October 1, 1995... The object-oriented (OO) paradigm is rapidly gaining acceptance in the software industry. However, the powerful features of this new paradigm also introduce a new set of OO software testing and maintenance problems. The pioneering work in...

Object-oriented parallel computation for plasma simulation.
October 1, 1995... Object-oriented techniques promise to improve the software design and programming process by providing an application-oriented view of programming while facilitating modification and reuse. Since the software design crisis is particularly acute...

Smalltalk on the rise. (programming language)
October 1, 1995... As the Smalltalk programming language enjoys a steady climb in poputarity, five industry experts explore the philosophies, implements, and misconceptions of its object-oriented potential During the past few years, Smalltalk has become the...

Why Smalltalk? (computer programming language)
October 1, 1995... Smalltalk is a single paradigm language with very simple semantics and syntax for specifying elements of a system and for describing system dynamics [1]. When the language is used to describe an application system, the developer extends...

Smalltalk reaches crossroads in the insurance industry. (computer language)
October 1, 1995... Information systems are critical to the worldwide insurance business, yet few major insurance companies believe they are well served by their current systems. Increasingly, companies are including Smalltalk as a strategic element of their future...

Smalltalk in the telecommunications industry. (computer language)
October 1, 1995... In a world where global partnerships and rapidly shifting business environments will be the norm, the telecommunications industry stands out for the speed with which both its technology and business processes are being transformed. Beginning with...

Ubiquitous applications: embedded systems to mainframe.
October 1, 1995... Over the last 10 years, Smalltalk has moved from the "Parc" to Main Street as a standard object-oriented (OO) fifth generation language (5GL) for enterprise computing. To meet the needs of application developers, Smalltalk environments and tools...

Smalltalk training: as innovative as the environment. (computer language)
October 1, 1995... Smalltalk was originally intended to make the computer more accessible. However, although the language itself is simple, it is becoming common knowledge that becoming truly proficient with the Smalltalk environment is no simple achievement....

Projecting the growth of cellular communications.
October 1, 1995... The tremendous success of cellular technology has fundamentally changed the way people communicate and prompted the evolution of a new multibillion dollar wireless communications industry. Linking service areas, wireless communications has...