Communications of the ACM articles from September 1990

Communications of the ACM archives from September 1990

Editorial pointers. (two forums on object-oriented research and applications combine to create the Object-Oriented Programming: Systems, Languages and Applications - European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Conference) (editorial)
September 1, 1990... EDITORIAL POINTERS This October, two leading forums for object-oriented research and applications will combine as the first joint OOPSLA-ECOOP Conference (Object-Oriented Programming: Systems, Languages, and Applications--European...

Newstrack. (news of the computer industry) (column)
September 1, 1990... NEWSTRACK COPY CADS...A new Senate bill calls for strengthening federal controls over technology that can be used to create counterfeit money. As computers, printers and copiers become more sophisticated, so does the accuracy with which these...

Patent or perish. (Japanese cashing in on US inventions and the different approaches to research in Japan and the US) (editorial)
September 1, 1990... PATENT OR PERISH The May 28, 1990, issue of Newsweek features a two-page article about Professor Lotfi Zadeh of the University of California at Berkeley. According to this article Zadeh's work has benefited the Japanese much more than...

Reflections on Snowbird. (a biannual meeting of computer science department chairs, industrial computer research leaders and government officials in Snowbird, UT) (President's Letter) (column)
September 1, 1990... REFLECTIONS ON SNOWBIRD Biannually the chairs of Ph.D.-granting computer science departments in the U.S. and Canada hold a meeting which includes a handful of industrial computer research leaders and government officials. The meeting,...

EC directives aim for market harmony. (European Community) (From Washington) (column)
September 1, 1990... EC Directives Aim for Market Harmony The 1992 unification plans for the 12-nation European Community (EC) have surely been among the most dissected blueprints of the year. Politicians ponder trade agreements, economists refigure potential...

Compuvision or teleputer? (a home computer that combines computer and communications technology) (Personal Computing)
September 1, 1990... Compuvision or Teleputer? Historically, the computer and communication industries have been separate, although both worked with electronically encoded information and shared similar technology. The regulations that kept computing and...

Object-oriented design. (overview of series of articles on object-oriented programming)
September 1, 1990... Object-oriented Object-oriented, a buzzword of the late 1980s, has evolved into an accepted technology that has recognized benefits for the software development process. In its progression from a purely procedural approach, software...

Understanding object-oriented: a unifying paradigm.
September 1, 1990... UNDERSTANDING OBJECT-ORIENTED: A UNIFYING PARADIGM The need to develop and maintain large complex software system in a competitive and dynamic environment has driven interest in new approaches to software design and development. The problems...

Implementation benefits of C++ language mechanisms.
September 1, 1990... Implementation Benefits of C++ Language Mechanisms C++ was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1980s as an extension to the C language, providing data abstraction and object-oriented programming facilities. C++...

Trellis: turning designs into programs. (the Trellis integrated programming language and object-oriented development environment from DEC)
September 1, 1990... Trellis: Turning Designs into Programs When designing an object-oriented program, there are several goals to achieve: * The program should accurately model the real-world objects to be represented. This leads to a program that is easier to...

Lessons from the design of the Eiffel Libraries: tools for the new culture. (component-based software development in the Eiffel environment using the Basic Eiffel Libraries) (includes related articles on classifying data structures and major Eiffel techniques)
September 1, 1990... LESSONS FROM THE DESIGN OF THE EIFFEL LIBRARIES The nature of programming is changing. Most of the software engineering literature still takes for granted a world of individual projects, where the sole aim is to produce specific software...

Class management for software communities. (object-oriented programming techniques)
September 1, 1990... CLASS MANAGEMENT FOR SOFTWARE COMMUNITIES Object-oriented programming may engender an approach to software development characterized by the large-scale reuse of object classes. Large-scale reuse is the use of a class not just by its...

Surveying current research in object-oriented design.
September 1, 1990... SURVEYING CURRENT RESEARCH IN OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN The state of object-oriented design is evolving rapidly. This survey describes what are currently thought to be the key ideas. Although it is necessarily incomplete, it contains both...

Concurrent object-oriented programming. (includes related article on multicomputers)
September 1, 1990... CONCURRENT OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING Three significant trends have underscored the central role of concurrency in computing. First, there is increased use of interacting processes by individual users, for example, application programs...

The object-oriented systems life cycle.
September 1, 1990... THE OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS LIFE CYCLE In software engineering, the traditional description of the software life cycle is based on an underlying model, commonly referred to as the "waterfall" model (e.g., [4]). This model initially attempts to...

The 1988-89 Taulbee survey report. (the Computing Research Board's survey on the production and employment of Ph.Ds and faculty in computer science and engineering)
September 1, 1990... The 1988-89 Taulbee Survey Report This report describes the results of a survey of the Forsythe list of computing departments (1), completed in December, 1989. The survey concerns the production and employment of Ph.D.s that graduated in...

Calendar of events.
September 1, 1990... CALENDAR OF EVENTS ACM's calendar policy is to list open computer science meetings that are sponsored by ACM, sister societies or other scientific, technical or educational tax-exempt organizations. Educational seminars, institutes, and courses...

Calls for papers.
September 1, 1990... CALLS FOR PAPERS Note: Authors of papers accepted for publication in proceedings of conferences sponsored by ACM or its units will be asked to sign the Association's copyright form. September 15 3d IEEE Conference on computer...

A few old coincidences. (Inside Risks) (column)
September 1, 1990... A FEW OLD COINCIDENCES Computer Puns Considered Harmful: Presented here are two old examples of harmful input sequences that might be called computer puns. Each has a double meaning, depending upon context. Xerox PARC's pioneering WYSIWYG...