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Understanding your skills and priorities is essential to the career decision-making process. Because your career decisions will probably determine the quality of your life for years to come, preparing and planning for your career is one of the most ...

This tutorial focuses on the problems of enabling computers to communicate with humans in natural languages, such as English and French, as distinguished from formal languages, such as BASIC and FORTRAN. Understanding the computational mechanisms that ...

Local networks have garnered ever-increasing attention during the past several years. Local networks have been the subject of numerous conferences, of standardization activities, and of a proliferation of vendor offerings. The purpose of this tutorial ...

The cost of the hardware components that make up modern day digital computers continues to drop at a rapid rate. Along with this cost reduction there exists a simultaneous increase in the number of components that one can place on an integrated circuit ...

Business systems analysts and university faculty or in-house DP trainers who teach courses which involve information systems analysis and development. Familiarity with the basic concepts of structured program design is assumed. The tutorial will ...

A major aspect of the proposed Fortran 8x is a flexible framework for providing and accommodating application-specific facilities for software development. One form of such facilities is application-specific languages, and one cost-effective way of ...

The European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems, together with the International Purdue Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems, has developed a comprehensive tasking model for multi-tasking systems. A realization of this model has been implemented ...

The X3J3 Fortran committee has begun preparing the next draft proposed standard for Fortran. This paper summarizes the committee's progress on two enhancements to Fortran that will aid in the preparation of numerical software; namely, an environmental ...

Few computing techniques have been as successful for software development as Fortran's external procedure facilities. These may be viewed as a practical way to provide libraries of abstract operators for manipulating numeric and boolean, and in Fortran ...

The dominant features of software for distributed computer systems are communication between processes, potential parallel execution of processes, and non-determinism. This paper examines how a software architecture can be expected to use a distributed ...

The design of a distributed kernel for a multi-processor machine is described that combines the advantages of a shared centralized kernel with the efficiency of separate kernels per processor. The base machine architecture is a star network of ...

A statistical database (SDB) is an ordinary database that returns statistical information to user queries. The security problem for the SDB is to control the use of the SDB so that only statistical information is available and no sequence of queries is ...

A number of parallel, MIMD architectures for continuous system simulation have been proposed, some designed and a few implemented [Korn,72], [Cyre et.al.,77], [Halin,et.al. 80] over the past few years. While these architectures vary in several aspects ...

Consideration of the database design process highlights specific problems in requirements determination, development of the overall conceptual schema, and the Data Base Administrator bottleneck. An alternative design strategy is described which first ...

In recent years there has been significant progress in developing computer programs that can perform technical tasks normally thought to require the knowledge, experience and judgment of human specialists. Known as expert systems or knowledge-based ...

The concept of “NETWORKING” has traditionally been equated to the technical task of connecting equipment via some communications facility to provide the User with access to Data Processing files and equipment. Although this task has always required ...

The most important features of Ada are covered briefly in this paper. As with many aspects of programming languages, what is most important is subjective. Therefore the subjects selected for this introduction are the result ofthe author's experience in ...

For hospitals as well as for other complex organizations, the growth of integrated computer systems beyond traditional applications areas, such as financial processing, has led to a dilemma. Either the new applications are developed (or purchased) with ...

Writing with a computer text editor can simplify and enhance the writing process and product. This paper discusses how some recent research on writing can guide use of the text editor to improve writing and to make it more enjoyable. The context of the ...

A data structure is defined to be a 4-tuple <D, F, S, A>. D and F are Domain and Function definitions which define the externally observable behavior; S and A are a Storage Structure and Algorithms which implement the functions. It is shown that this ...

The techniques of Structured Systems Analysis are compared with the Problem Statement Language (PSL) and a method of teaching which involves the best features of both is proposed and discussed. The development work being carried out at Bradford in ...

In this paper we will develop a new point of view on the educational use of computers, stressing its possibility for interactive use and the intellectual implications of the programming activity. After giving a rather detailed analysis of programming ...

Two papers will be presented and a general discussion period will then follow. The panel members are all members of the ACM Computer Chess Committee.

The first paper, which appears elsewhere in the Proceedings, is the work of Tony Marsland. It is ...

Current game-playing programs have developed numerous move ordering and search reduction techniques in order to improve the effectiveness of the alpha-beta algorithm. A critical review of these search modifications is provided, and a recursive formula ...