werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (11/25/85)
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1128 INTRODUCTION: Peter J Denning and Michael C. Mulder
Computing in the Frontiers of Science
1130 MODELING CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKES AND EARTH STRUCTURES. Michael R Raugh
The two most extensive seismic systems in California illustrate the
complex interplay of computers, instrumentation, telemetry, and data
reduction - the catalysts behind the rapid growth of modern seismology.
1151 SIGNAL PROCESSING IN SETI. D K Cullers, Ivan R Linscott, Bernard Oliver
The Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence (SETI) through the
automatic detection of interstellar signals will require highly
concurrent processing: on the order of 100 or more microprocessors -
each serving 100kHz of spectrum or less - to service 10 MHz of
bandwidth spectrum.
1164 DISCOVERING THE SECRETS OF DNA. Peter Friedland and Laurence H Kedes
Symbolic Pattern Recognition and the AI methodologies model building
and theory formation will be critical to the next stage of discovery
in regulatory molecular genetics.
1187 PILOTS OF THE FUTURE: HUMAN OR COMPUTER? Alan B Chambers
and David C Nagel.
As new kinds and degrees of flight-deck automation alter the quality
and nature of pilot error, will the role of the pilot itself change?
1200 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS. Leonard Kleinrock
Failure to fully comprehend and incorporate distributed-systems
behavior - as it exists throughout the natural world - will leave
our systems as they are today: highly constrained and rigid in both
construction and behavior.
1214 COMPUTING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ATHENA EXPERIENCE. Edward Balkovich,
Steven Lermann, and Richard P Parmelee.
Educational areas, particularly where present methods have observable
deficiencies, can benefit from an appropriate use of computerization
provided there exists an overall sustaining model.
1225 TOWARD THE DOMESTICATION OF MICROELECTRONICS. Joel S Birnbaum
Amidst computerization's inevitable march towards a truly pervasive
technology, it is time for selective breeding to begin in earnest:
Are our priorities really checkbook balancing, home recipe filing, and
word processing?
DEPARTMENTS
1115 AUTHORS
1117 ACM Forum: "Strategic Computing at DARPA", "On Systemic Awareness",
"C Rating for Style", "RISC vs. Reward?"
1121 PROGRAMMING PEARLS: "Selection" [selecting the Kth-smallest member in
a set of N elements]
1236 TECHNICAL CORRESPONDENCE: "More on a Large Font Virtual Terminal
Interface: A Software Prosthesis for the Visually Impaired",
"Again: Is ADA Too Big?", "An Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness
for a Full-Text Document-Retrieval System", "Optimal Paths in Graphs
with Stochastic or Multidimensional Weights"
1244 ABSTRACTS FROM OTHER ACM PUBLICATIONS
1246 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1249 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
1256 CALLS FOR PAPERS
1258 GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES