pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain) (06/17/85)
%A Michael Conrad
%T On Design Principles for a Molecular Computer
%J CACM
%I ACM
%V 28
%N 5
%D May 1985
%P 464-480
%X Are we arbitrarily tying the concept of computing to one model (the
Von Neumann computer), or are more efficient and adaptable modes of
computing possible using emerging technologies and carbon based
materials?
%K learning pattern recognition complexity programmability
%A Jane P. Devlin
%A William P. Lowell
%A Anne E. Alger
%T Self-Assessment Procedure XIV: A Self Assessment Procedure Dealing
with the Legal Issues of Computing
%J CACM
%I ACM
%V 28
%N 5
%D May 1985
%P 481-487
%X A slightly different self assessment format - providing references
to authoritative texts - is used to acquaint readers with the legal
obligations inherent in the fact that they work in organizations
%A John Tartar
%T The 1984 Snowbird Report: Future Issues in Computer Science
%J CACM
%I ACM
%V 28
%N 5
%D May 1985
%P 490-493
%X The sixth biennial Snowbird Conference, held July 1984, identifies
issues that are yet to be addressed
%A Tor Guimaraes
%T A Study of Application Program Development Techniques
%J CACM
%I ACM
%V 28
%N 5
%D May 1985
%P 494-499
%X Application development patterns in 43 organizations are reviewed to
determine
the average age of applications and the factors consistent with a good
match between development approach and application life pattern
%K query language programming application development
%A Jack Gostl
%A Irwin Greenberg
%T An Application of Queueing Theory to the Design of a Message-
Switched Computer System
%J CACM
%I ACM
%V 28
%N 5
%D May 1985
%P 500-505
%X Real world queueing techniques - queueing probabilities and
Tcheycheff's inequality - are used to calculate waiting times and
determine buffer adequacy
%K chebyshev analysis buffer requirements
%A Rodney R. Oldehoeft
%A Stephen J. Allan
%T Adaptive Exact-Fit Storage Management
%J CACM
%I ACM
%V 28
%N 5
%D May 1985
%P 506-511
%X A working-set approach that caches free block sizes yields higher
cache hit ratios than the FIFO approach without incurring the extra
management overhead
%K memory allocation storage
%A Nicholas P. Vitalari
%A Alladi Venkatesh
%A Kjell Gronhaug
%T Computing in the Home: Shifts in the Time Allocation Patterns of
Households
%J CACM
%I ACM
%V 28
%N 5
%D May 1985
%P 512-522
%X Do the reported increases in time spent alone - at least for the
principle user - indicate a long term trend toward social isolation?
%K personal home computing sociology of computer use
%A Thomas J. Sager
%T A Polynomial Time Generator for Minimal Perfect Hashing
%J CACM
%I ACM
%V 28
%N 5
%D May 1985
%P 523-532
%X A minicycle algorithm - whose expected execution time is polynomial
is practical to use for considerably larger sets than previously know
algorithms
%K searching
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