ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (05/19/84)
"Abacus", spring 1984 EDITORIAL "Is it two minutes to midnight or 11:58?" - computer perception by the public LETTER Who owned the ENIAC/UNIVAC interest in the 1950s? ARTICLES "Computer Crime: Science Fiction and Science Fact" [cover] Mainly a survey of computer crime in science fiction "Abacus: The word and the device" Some facts about the first "computer", and its name "Howard Aiken's Children: The Harvard Computation Laboratory and its Students" A reminiscence by Aiken's last PhD student. Aiken (1900?-1973) among other things was the designer of the ASCC Mk I computer of 1944 "Trapped in the USSR: Alexander Lerner at Seventy" The story of a famous "refusenik" computer scientist DEPARTMENTS Book Reviews "The Art of Computer Programming" and "Surreal Numbers", by Knuth (it says Knuth intends to resume work on volume 4 in 1987) Computers and the Law Apple vs. Franklin, a landmark case: ROMs can be copyrighted Personal Computing Language processors for small computers Problems and Puzzles Mutations of the Towers of Hanoi problem REPORTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS from New York The World Computer Chess Championship: Cray Blitz wins, Belle is 6th from Washington Supercomputers; taxation of users groups; government leasing from Europe* The Centre Mondial [World] Informatique from Paris* The 1983 IFIP congress from Japan American exhibitions abroad; software rights *curious combination, eh? Abacus is published quarterly by Springer-Verlag. It is "a journal about computing, computer science, and computing technology, intended not only for professionals in these fields but also for knowledgeable and interested amateurs." This is the third issue. I like it so far. Posted by Mark Brader