[net.followup] SDI

shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore) (12/16/85)

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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
> <>Software Aspects of Strategic Defense Systems  is a set of eight
> short papers written by Dr. David L. Parnas, which were submitted
> by him, along with his resignation, to the Panel on Computing in
> Support of Battle Management.

These papers also appear in the December CACM, starting on p. 1326.
They're worth reading.
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bd@peora.UUCP (Bernie Dougan) (12/18/85)

The Parnas article is also reprinted in the December issue
of Communications of the ACM.  It is titled "Software Aspects
of Strategic Defense Systems".
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richw@ada-uts.UUCP (12/19/85)

>> <>Software Aspects of Strategic Defense Systems  is a set of eight
>> short papers written by Dr. David L. Parnas, which were submitted
>> by him, along with his resignation, to the Panel on Computing in
>> Support of Battle Management.
>> 
>>   This article is found in the 1985 Sept.-Oct. (current issue) of
>> American Scientist...
>> --henry schaffer


It also appears in the Dec. 1985 issue of Communications of the ACM,
vol. 28, number 12, pp. 1326-1335.

-- Rich Wagner