pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain) (10/17/84)
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Here is the TOC from the October Communications of the ACM, V 27, # 10
Reports and Articles:
Ada: Past, Present, and Future: An Interview with Jean Ichbiah,
Principle Designer of Ada
" The quest for reliability and control has imposed new demands on
language design"
Recommended Curriculum for CSI, 1984
E.P. Koffman, P.L. Miller, C.E. Wardle
"A Report of the ACM Curriculum Committee Task Force for CSI"
(computer science instruction(?))
The First Course in Computer Science Needs a Mathematical Corequisite
A. Ralston
"The introductory computer science course should provide not vocational
training but an overall introduction to the discipline"
Computing Practices
Optimization Criteria for Checkpoint Placement
C.M. Krishna, K.G. Shin, Y-H. Lee
"Workable Tradeoff ratio formulas have more practical validity as
performance measures than mean response time and availability"
Dhrystone: A Synthetic Systems Programming Benchmark
R.P. Weicker
"A better founded benchmark (vaialable in Ada, Pascal, and C)
is constructed using current data on the use of language constructs
in systems programming"
Research Contributions
Building a User-Derived Interface
M.D. Good, J.A. Whiteside, D.R. Wixon, S.J. Jones
"An alternate approach is presented: the system can be made to adapt to
human behaviour"
An Application of Artificial Intelligence to Operations Research
R. Marcus
"The heuristic search technique used in artificial intelligence
is applied to a critical scheduling problem"
Programming Pearls will return in November
- peter bain
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