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Volume 1, Number 1, June, 1966
Volume 1, Number 2, July, 1966
Volume 1, Number 3, February, 1967
Volume 2, Number 2, June, 1967
Volume 2, Number 3, December, 1967
Volume 3, Number 1, April, 1968
Volume 3, Number 2, July, 1968
Volume 3, Number 3, July, 1968
Volume 4, Number 1, January, 1969
Volume 4, Number 2, June, 1969
Volume 4, Number 3, October, 1969
Volume 5, Number 1, March, 1970
Volume 5, Number 2, March, 1970
Volume 6, Number 1, January, 1971
Volume 6, Number 2, May, 1971
Volume 6, Number 3, November, 1971
Volume 7, Number 1, April, 1972
Volume 7, Number 2, July, 1972
Volume 7, Number 3, October, 1972
Volume 8, Number 1, January, 1973
Volume 8, Number 2, April, 1973
Volume 8, Number 3, July, 1973
Volume 8, Number 4, October, 1973
Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1974
Volume 9, Number 2, April, 1974
Volume 9, Number 3, July, 1974
Volume 9, Number 4, October, 1974
Volume 10, Number 1, January, 1975
Volume 10, Number 2--3, November, 1975
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 1975
Volume 11, Number 1, May, 1976
Volume 11, Number 2, August, 1976
Volume 11, Number 3, October, 1976
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1976
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 1977
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 1977
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1977
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 1977
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 1978
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 1978
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 1978
Volume 13, Number 4, December, 1978
Volume 14, Number 1, March, 1979
Volume 14, Number 2, June, 1979
Volume 14, Number 3, September, 1979
Volume 14, Number 3S (Special issue), February, 1979
Volume 14, Number 4, December, 1979
Volume 14, Number si-1, February, 1979
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1980
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1980
Volume 15, Number 3, September, 1980
Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1980
Volume 16, Number 1, March, 1981
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 1981
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1981
Volume 16, Number 4, October, 1981
Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1982
Volume 17, Number 2, June, 1982
Volume 17, Number 3, September, 1982
Volume 18, Number 1, January, 1983
Volume 18, Number 2, April, 1983
Volume 18, Number 3, July, 1983
Volume 18, Number 4, October, 1983
Volume 19, Number 1, January, 1984
Volume 19, Number 2, April, 1984
Volume 19, Number 3, July, 1984
Volume 19, Number 4, October, 1984
Volume 20, Number 1, January, 1985
Volume 20, Number 2, April, 1985
Volume 20, Number 3, July, 1985
Volume 20, Number 4, October, 1985
Volume 21, Number 1--2, April, 1986
Volume 21, Number 3, July, 1986
Volume 21, Number 4, 1986
Volume 22, Number 1, January, 1987
Volume 22, Number 2, April, 1987
Volume 22, Number 3, July, 1987
Volume 22, Number 4, October, 1987
Volume 23, Number 1, January, 1988
Volume 23, Number 2, April, 1988
Volume 23, Number 3--4, July / October, 1988
Volume 24, Number 1, January, 1989
Volume 24, Number 2--3, apr # / # jul, 1989
Volume 24, Number 4, October, 1989
Volume 25, Number 1, January, 1990
Volume 25, Number 2, April, 1990
Volume 25, Number 3, July, 1990
Volume 25, Number 4, October, 1990
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 1991
Volume 26, Number 2, April, 1991
Volume 26, Number 3, July, 1991
Volume 26, Number 4, October, 1991
Volume 27, Number 1, January, 1992
Volume 27, Number 2, April, 1992
Volume 27, Number 3, July, 1992
Volume 27, Number 4, October, 1992
Volume 28, Number 1, January, 1993
Volume 28, Number 2, April, 1993
Volume 28, Number 3, July, 1993
Volume 28, Number 4, October, 1993
Volume 29, Number 1, January, 1994
Volume 29, Number 2, April, 1994
Volume 29, Number 3--4, July / October, 1994
Volume 30, Number 1, January, 1995
Volume 30, Number 2, July, 1995
Volume 30, Number 3, July, 1995
Volume 30, Number 4, October, 1995
Volume 31, Number 1, January, 1996
Volume 31, Number 2, April, 1996
Volume 31, Number 3, July, 1996
Volume 31, Number 4, October, 1996
Volume 32, Number 1--2, January / April, 1997
Volume 32, Number 3, July, 1997
Volume 32, Number 4, October, 1997
Volume 33, Number 1, January, 1998
Volume 33, Number 2, April, 1998


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 1, Number 1, June, 1966

                      J. Ortega   Some thoughts on numerical analysis  . . ??

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 1, Number 2, July, 1966

                    J. F. Traub   Ph.D. qualifying examination: numerical
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 1, Number 3, February, 1967

                  B. N. Parlett   Eigenvalues, anyone? . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
                    J. F. Traub   Examination questions: qualifying
                                  examination: numerical analysis  . . . . 9--11
                C. B. Moler and   
                   J. N. Lyness   Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 2, Number 2, June, 1967

                    J. F. Traub   Numerical analysis: approximation or
                                  estimation?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 2, Number 3, December, 1967

                N. A. Clark and   
                 W. J. Cody and   
            K. E. Hillstrom and   
                E. A. Thieleker   Performance statistics of the Fortran IV
                                  (H) library for the IBM System/360 . . . ??
                    J. F. Traub   Ph.D. qualifying examination: numerical
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Bruno F. W. Witte   Comparative tabulations of test problems
                                  and test results for mathematical
                                  computer routines  . . . . . . . . . . . ??


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 3, Number 1, April, 1968

                    Cleve Moler   Ph.D. qualifying examination: numerical
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 3, Number 2, July, 1968

                       W. Kahan   Four aphorisms concerning floating point
                                  hardware design  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   J. N. Lyness   Some interesting quadrature tests  . . . ??
                    Cleve Moler   Purdue University: numerical analysis
                                  qualifying examination . . . . . . . . . ??

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 3, Number 3, July, 1968

                   Eldon Hansen   An illustrative example in error
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Charles L. Lawson   Survey of computer methods for fitting
                                  curves to discrete data or approximating
                                  continuous functions . . . . . . . . . . ??
                    C. B. Moler   Excerpts from Ph.D. comprehensive
                                  examination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Frank Stenger   A trap in computations . . . . . . . . . 2--2
                    J. F. Traub   State of the art in calculation of
                                  polynomial zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 4, Number 1, January, 1969

                    C. B. Moler   More on the sphere in the corner . . . . 7--7
                    C. B. Moler   Purdue University: numerical analysis
                                  qualifying examination . . . . . . . . . 11--13
           Werner C. Rheinboldt   Nonlinear systems of equations . . . . . 15--21
                 Cleve B. Moler   State of the art in matrix computations  22--28

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 4, Number 2, June, 1969

              William L. Morris   On counting $n$-ary compositions . . . . 7--8
                  B. N. Parlett   Notes on the number of multiplications
                                  required to form the product of two $N
                                  \times N$ matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
                    C. B. Moler   Ph.D. qualifying examination: numerical
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--16

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 4, Number 3, October, 1969

              L. Richard Turner   Difficulty in sin/cos Routine  . . . . . 13--13
               R. L. Ashenhurst   Evaluation and certification project at
                                  Argonne  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
                   Karl H. Usow   SIGNUM subroutine certification
                                  committee  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--18
               Karl H. Usow and   
               Lloyd D. Fosdick   Guidelines for evaluating an algorithm
                                  for publication  . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
              Richard J. Hanson   Certifying linear equation solvers . . . 21--29
               J. Casaletto and   
                 M. Pickett and   
                        J. Rice   A comparison of some numerical
                                  integration programs . . . . . . . . . . 30--40


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 5, Number 1, March, 1970

                   Eldon Hansen   Repeated additions . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 5, Number 2, March, 1970

                     K. H. Usow   Certification Bibliography . . . . . . . 14--15
                 G. E. Forsythe   Stanford exam question . . . . . . . . . 16--16
            A. E. Oldehoeft and   
                    S. D. Conte   Initial experiences with a program to
                                  teach numerical methods  . . . . . . . . 17--20


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 6, Number 1, January, 1971

               K. A. Redish and   
                     W. A. Ward   Environment enquiries for numerical
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--15
                     W. J. Cody   Desirable Hardware Characteristics for
                                  Scientific Computation . . . . . . . . . 16--31

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 6, Number 2, May, 1971

               K. A. Redish and   
                     W. A. Ward   Summary of ``Eigenvalue & Eigenvector
                                  Routines in the McMaster Program
                                  Library''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
                 Paul S. Jensen   A matrix problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
                      Anonymous   Stanford University Computer Science
                                  Department Ph.D. qualifying exam:
                                  numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 6, Number 3, November, 1971

                       W. Kahan   A Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
                  Fred T. Krogh   A plea for tolerance in the evaluation
                                  of numerical methods and mathematical
                                  software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 7, Number 1, April, 1972

                       W. Kahan   In memoriam: Hirondo Kuki: Apr. 25,
                                  1925--Dec. 28, 1971  . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
                 William Knight   A problem by Jensen  . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
                     D. Kershaw   The explicit factorization of two
                                  commonly occurring matrices  . . . . . . 13--13
                  F. N. Fritsch   SIGNUM 1971 nonacademic numerical
                                  mathematics survey: a brief summary of
                                  responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
                  F. N. Fritsch   Toward a definition of the term
                                  numerical mathematician  . . . . . . . . 19--19
              Charles B. Dunham   On hardware for scientific computation   20--20

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 7, Number 2, July, 1972

                    K. K. Gupta   Applications oriented algorithms . . . . 22--23

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 7, Number 3, October, 1972

                    Cleve Moler   A memory of George Forsythe  . . . . . . 8--9
                   C. L. Lawson   A syntax for solving linear equations    14--15
                Paul J. Nikolai   Fast eigenvalue calculations on the CDC
                                  6000--7000 computers . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
                   Garry J. Tee   A simple example of an ill-conditioned
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
           William E. Davis and   
                Hatem M. Khalil   Algorithm and series expansion for the F
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
             L. F. Shampine and   
                   M. K. Gordon   Some numerical experiments with DIFSUB   24--26
                  Fred T. Krogh   Opinions on matters connected with the
                                  evaluation of programs and methods for
                                  integrating ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--48


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 1, January, 1973

                  J. C. Butcher   On step control criteria . . . . . . . . 15--15
                  G. Bjurel and   
                    B. Lindberg   Methods for stiff differential equations 16--17

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 2, April, 1973

                        B. Ford   The Nottingham Algorithms Group (NAG)
                                  project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
                 Gerhard Zielke   A new test matrix for inverting matrices 22--23
               Fred W. Dorr and   
                 Cleve B. Moler   Roundoff error on the CDC 6600/7600
                                  computers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
                   John R. Rice   An educational adaptive quadrature
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--41

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 3, July, 1973

                   C. L. Lawson   From the Editor  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                      Anonymous   Supplementary Election Information . . . 1--2
                 Alan Feldstein   Voting Instructions  . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
                   John Radbill   Local SIGNUMs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
                   Bo Einarsson   IFIP Working Group on Numerical Program
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
                      Anonymous   Conference Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
                M. J. D. Powell   The Mathematical Software Conference at
                                  Loughborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
                      Anonymous   Papers presented at the Loughborough
                                  Mathematical Software Conference . . . . 4--5
                      Anonymous   AMS Symposium on the Complexity of the
                                  Real Computational Process . . . . . . . 5--5
                   Edward W. Ng   AMS Sessions on Special Functions:
                                  Evanston, IL, April 27--28, 1973 . . . . 5--5
                      Anonymous   Papers presented at the ACM Symposium on
                                  Theory of Computing, Austin, Texas,
                                  April 30--May 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
                      Anonymous   Symposium on Complexity of Sequential
                                  and Parallel Numerical Algorithms,
                                  Carnegie-Mellon University, May 16-18,
                                  1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
                      Anonymous   National Computer Conference, New York,
                                  June 4--8, 1973  . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
                      Anonymous   Conference on Computational Problems in
                                  Statistics, Univ. of Essex, England,
                                  July 25--26, 1973  . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
                      Anonymous   ACM 73 National Conference, Atlanta,
                                  August 27--29, 1973  . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
                      Anonymous   8th International Symposium on
                                  Mathematical Programming, Stanford
                                  Univ., August 27--31, 1973 . . . . . . . 8--8
                      Anonymous   Seminar on Generalized Inverses and
                                  Applications, The Mathematics Research
                                  Center University of Wisconsin-Madison,
                                  October 8--10, 1973  . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
                      Anonymous   SIAM Fall Meeting, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa
                                  City, Iowa, October 8--10, 1973  . . . . 9--9
                      Anonymous   Conference on Research in Mathematics,
                                  Univ. of Reading, England, January 7--8,
                                  1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
                      Anonymous   A Symposium on Numerical Methods for
                                  Constrained Optimization, National
                                  Physical Laboratory, Teddington,
                                  England, January 10--11, 1974  . . . . . 9--9
                      Anonymous   Computer Science Conference, Detroit
                                  Hilton, February 12--14, 1974  . . . . . 9--9
                      Anonymous   International Conference on
                                  Computational Methods in Nonlinear
                                  Mechanics, Univ. of Texas, Austin,
                                  September 23--25, 1973 . . . . . . . . . 9--9
                      Anonymous   IFIP Congress 74 --- Call for Papers . . 10--10
                      Anonymous   Swedish Mathematical Software
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
                Herman Burstein   Subroutines for Probability Functions    11--11
                  O. P. Roberts   Errata: SIGNUM Newsletter 8(2) 32 April
                                  (1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 4, October, 1973

              Richard J. Hanson   Is the fast Givens transformation really
                                  fast?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
                    T. Aird and   
                  D. Dodson and   
                 E. Houstis and   
                        J. Rice   Statistics on the Use of Mathematical
                                  Subroutines from a Computer Center
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
                Fred N. Fritsch   Profile on the numerical mathematics
                                  section of the Lawrence Livermore
                                  Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10
                   A. R. Curtis   Stiff ordinary differential equation
                                  test problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
               R. Leonard Brown   Recursive calculation of corrector
                                  coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
                     T. E. Hull   Would you believe structured Fortran?    13--16
               R. J. Hanson and   
                F. T. Krogh and   
                   C. L. Lawson   Improving the efficiency of portable
                                  software for linear algebra  . . . . . . 16--16


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1974

           Anthony F. Gangi and   
               James N. Shapiro   A modified Hotelling deflation scheme
                                  for inverting matrices . . . . . . . . . 10--11
                 Gerhard Zielke   Generalization of Tee's matrix . . . . . 11--12

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 9, Number 2, April, 1974

                 Ellis Horowitz   Review of ``Complexity of Sequential and
                                  Parallel Numerical Algorithms by J. F.
                                  Traub''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
                   C. L. Lawson   Proposed standard subprograms for basic
                                  linear algebraic operations  . . . . . . 21--22
                   Garry J. Tee   The eigenvectors of Zielke's matrices    23--23
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Technical communications . . . . . . . . ??

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 9, Number 3, July, 1974

                  Byron L. Ehle   Step control criteria for stiff
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 9, Number 4, October, 1974

                 David G. Carta   Help!!: The Lost Reference: (A Modified
                                  Newton Method for Square Roots)  . . . . 9--9
               Frank Engel, Jr.   Correspondence on Fortran
                                  standardization  . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10
                      I. Farkas   A conjecture in numerical linear algebra 10--11
             Thomas J. Aird and   
         Edward L. Battiste and   
            Nancy E. Bosten and   
           Henry L. Darilek and   
              Walton C. Gregory   Name standardization and value
                                  specification for machine dependent
                                  constants  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
                    Cleve Moler   Cramer's rule on 2-by-2 systems  . . . . 13--14


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 10, Number 1, January, 1975

                    Imre Farkas   Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
                A. Tweedale and   
                        C. Chan   On the design of a user interface to
                                  large FORTRAN subroutine packages under
                                  IBM 360/370 OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
                 E. L. Battiste   Mathematical software patterns . . . . . 17--20
              S. Charmonman and   
                  J. L. Wagener   On structured programming in FORTRAN . . 21--23

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 10, Number 2--3, November, 1975

                   John Bolstad   A proposed classification scheme for
                                  computer program libraries . . . . . . . 32--39
                  G. W. Stewart   An inverse perturbation theorem for the
                                  linear least squares problem . . . . . . 39--40
                 James M. Boyle   Note on ``The design of a user interface
                                  to large Fortran subroutine packages
                                  under IBM 360/370 OS'' . . . . . . . . . 40--40
               M. K. Gordon and   
                 L. F. Shampine   Typical problems for stiff differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
                C. A. Oster and   
               R. L. Richardson   Two dimensional Newton--Raphson and a
                                  zero Jacobian  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
                        I. Tang   An algorithm for a system of linear
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 1975

              Larry D. Bertholf   Numerical methods for nonlinear stress
                                  wave propagation (abstract)  . . . . . . 4--4
                 Niel K. Madsen   The method of lines for the numerical
                                  solution of partial differential
                                  equations (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
                 Hans M. Ruppel   Recent developments in numerical
                                  techniques for treating material
                                  interfaces (abstract)  . . . . . . . . . 8--10
              L. L. Edwards and   
              R. B. Hickman and   
               J. K. Hobson and   
                  T. C. Michels   CHAMP code calculations of surface and
                                  subsurface explosions (abstract) . . . . 11--12
         Charles E. Needham and   
         Richard E. Durrett and   
              Daniel A. Matuska   AFWL hydrocode development parallel
                                  techniques: fluid dynamics (abstract)    13--14
          Daniel A. Matuska and   
         Charles E. Needham and   
             Richard E. Durrett   The AFWL HULL code-codes for large
                                  problems in fluid dynamics . . . . . . . 15--17
             L. F. Shampine and   
                 R. J. Thompson   An efficient method for the numerical
                                  solution of one-phase Stefan problems
                                  (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
        Björn Engquist and   
                   Tom Smedsaas   DCG: a system for automatic code
                                  generation for hyperbolic problems
                                  (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
                  W. E. Johnson   The splitting concept applied to the OIL
                                  family of codes (abstract) . . . . . . . 23--23
                Harvey S. Price   Application of finite element methods to
                                  solving immiscible displacement problems
                                  with sharp fronts (abstract) . . . . . . 24--24
                   H. Lomax and   
                     K. Stevens   Software for computers with parallel or
                                  pipeline architecture (abstract) . . . . 25--25
       Stanley C. Eisenstat and   
              Andrew H. Sherman   Efficient implementation of sparse
                                  nonsymmetric Gaussian elimination
                                  without pivoting (abstract)  . . . . . . 26--29
          Paul Swarztrauber and   
                   Roland Sweet   Efficient FORTRAN subprograms for the
                                  solution of elliptic partial
                                  differential equations (abstract)  . . . 30--30
               Rondall E. Jones   The QMESH mesh generation package
                                  (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34
         James C. Cavendish and   
                 James A. Wixom   Finite element mesh generation for
                                  planar and shell type structures
                                  (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
        Arne Sundström and   
                Lars Westerling   ENEP: an interactive program for solving
                                  one-dimensional continuum mechanical
                                  problems using a graphic terminal
                                  (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39
                S. J. Polak and   
                  N. V. Philips   TEDDY2: a program package for $2$D
                                  parabolic composite region problems
                                  (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
                      Anonymous   Proceedings of the SIGNUM Meeting on
                                  Software for Partial Differential
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 11, Number 1, May, 1976

                     J. C. Nash   Numerical software for minicomputers . . 40--41
                   W. R. Knight   Draft proposed ANS FORTRAN . . . . . . . 41--43
              William R. Knight   A letter to the editor concerning draft
                                  proposed ANS FORTRAN . . . . . . . . . . 41--43
               Robert B. Kelman   Factors limiting academic participation
                                  in the development of large mathematical
                                  software packages  . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43
            James W. Daniel and   
               Andrew J. Martin   Code available for boundary-value
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44
              Charles B. Dunham   Background of users of scientific
                                  computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
              Charles B. Dunham   Chebyshev approximation with
                                  non-continuous weight functions  . . . . 44--44
                      W. Gander   Transfer of numerical programs . . . . . 45--45
                  Karl Strehmel   A new class of multistep methods for
                                  systems of first order differential
                                  equations with exponential adaptation    46--47
                      I. Farkas   ``A conjecture in numerical linear
                                  algebra''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 11, Number 2, August, 1976

                  E. Edberg and   
                   J. Johansson   An annotated bibliography on
                                  mathematical software and related topics 9--16

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 11, Number 3, October, 1976

                Frederic N. Ris   A Unified Decimal Floating-Point
                                  Architecture for the Support of
                                  High-Level Languages . . . . . . . . . . 18--23
            A. C. Hindmarsh and   
                    G. D. Byrne   On the use of rank-one updates in the
                                  solution of stiff systems of ordinary
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 23--27
                   D. D. Warner   A note on variable order strategies for
                                  differential equation solvers  . . . . . 27--28
                     J. R. Rice   Some data and observations on research
                                  publication in the areas of numerical
                                  computation and programming languages
                                  and systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1976

               J. E. Dennis and   
                    R. A. Tapia   Supplementary terminology for nonlinear
                                  iterative methods  . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
                   John R. Rice   Algorithmic progress in solving partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 6--10
                    C. P. Huang   Note on the pre-conditioning of matrices 11--12
                A. C. Hindmarsh   Note on the startup of ODE solvers . . . 12--13


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 1977

                    B. Ford and   
                 J. K. Reid and   
                    B. T. Smith   Three proposed amendments to the draft
                                  proposed ANS FORTRAN Standard  . . . . . 18--20

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 1977

              Charles B. Dunham   Publication of numerical algorithms  . . 8--8

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1977

              William R. Knight   A disquieting output error . . . . . . . 15--15
                D. J. Evans and   
                 M. Hatzopoulos   A note on the construction of test
                                  matrices with equal eigenvalues  . . . . 15--16

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 1977

              Richard J. Hanson   TIPS for organizing a local ACM-SIGNUM
                                  group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
                  Karl Strehmel   A new algorithm for the numerical
                                  solution of ordinary stiff differential
                                  equations of the $n$-th order  . . . . . 20--22
                 Brian Ford and   
                  Janet Bentley   The NAG Library ``machine''  . . . . . . 23--24, 3


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 1978

             John A. Wisniewski   Some experiments with computing the
                                  complex absolute value . . . . . . . . . 11--12
            Marvin J. Goldstein   Further decomposition of the
                                  pseudoinverse and eigensystem of a
                                  Hermitian persymmetric matrix  . . . . . 12--13
                 Phyllis A. Fox   PORT: a portable subroutine library  . . 14--15

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 1978

               Elise de Doncker   An adaptive extrapolation algorithm for
                                  automatic integration  . . . . . . . . . 12--18
                 Virginia Klema   ROSEPACK: RObust Statistics Estimation
                                  PACKage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
                     Brian Ford   Parameterization of the environment for
                                  transportable numerical software . . . . 20--23

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 1978

          Elizabeth Cuthill and   
                   Kenton Meals   MACSYMA, a resource for the Navy
                                  Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
                    C. P. Huang   On the triangularization of arbitrary
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
                   Bo Einarsson   Survey of Scandinavian activities in
                                  numerical software . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 13, Number 4, December, 1978

                     J. Y. Wang   The Evaluation of Periodic Functions
                                  with Large Input Arguments . . . . . . . 7--8
                 Gerhard Zielke   Iterative refinement of generalized
                                  matrix inverses now practicable  . . . . 9--10
                 Gerhard Zielke   Test matrices for generalized inverses   10--12


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 14, Number 1, March, 1979

           Christian H. Reinsch   Principles and Preferences for Computer
                                  Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--27
                      Anonymous   Proceedings of the SIGNUM conference on
                                  the programming environment for
                                  development of numerical software  . . . 28--117
                  N. L. Schryer   UNIX\TM as an Environment for Producing
                                  Numerical Software . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 14, Number 2, June, 1979

                  S. I. Feldman   Comments on the IFIP working group 2.5
                                  proposal on ``Parameterization of the
                                  Environment for Transportable Numerical
                                  Software'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
                D. J. Evans and   
                 M. Hatzopoulos   A comparison of optimal scaling and
                                  preconditioning  . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
                    R. D. Skeel   An incomplete list of better FORTRAN
                                  codes for IVPS in ODES . . . . . . . . . 22--24

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 14, Number 3, September, 1979

            Robert Todd Gregory   Error-free computation with finite
                                  number systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--16
              R. F. Warming and   
                Richard M. Beam   Factored, $A$-stable, linear multistep
                                  methods --- an alternative to the method
                                  of lines for multidimensions . . . . . . 17--19

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 14, Number 3S (Special issue), February, 1979

                 J. R. Rice and   
                 C. W. Gear and   
                  J. Ortega and   
                 B. Parlett and   
                 M. Schultz and   
             L. F. Shampine and   
                   P. Wolfe and   
                    J. F. Traub   Numerical computation: its nature and
                                  research directions  . . . . . . . . . . 1--48
              Jerome Coonen and   
              William Kahan and   
                John Palmer and   
                Tom Pittman and   
                David Stevenson   A Proposed Standard for Binary Floating
                                  Point Arithmetic: Draft 5.11 . . . . . . 4--12
                   W. Kahan and   
                      J. Palmer   On a Proposed Floating-Point Standard    13--21
                 Bob Fraley and   
                  Steve Walther   Proposal to Eliminate Denormalized
                                  Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
                 Mary Payne and   
               William Strecker   Draft Proposal for a Binary Normalized
                                  Floating Point Standard  . . . . . . . . 24--28
                     W. J. Cody   Impact of The Proposed IEEE Floating
                                  Point Standard on Numerical Software . . 29--30
              Stuart I. Feldman   The Impact of the Proposed Standard for
                                  Floating Point Arithmetic on Languages
                                  and Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 14, Number 4, December, 1979

                      John Reid   Functions for Manipulating
                                  Floating-Point Numbers . . . . . . . . . 11--13

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 14, Number si-1, February, 1979

                 C. W. Gear and   
               J. M. Ortega and   
                 B. Parlett and   
                 J. R. Rice and   
                 M. Schultz and   
             L. F. Shampine and   
                       P. Wolfe   Numerical Computation: A Report on Past,
                                  Present, and Future Research . . . . . . 1--48


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1980

                      G. J. Tee   Khachian's efficient algorithm for
                                  linear inequalities and linear
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
                      John Reid   Complex double precision in association
                                  with Fortran 77  . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1980

                 Paul E. Saylor   Numerical methods, large codes, and
                                  programmers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
                     W. J. Cody   Software basics for computational
                                  mathematics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--29
                    R. E. Moore   Microprogrammed interval arithmetic  . . 30--30

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 15, Number 3, September, 1980

             Robert C. Ward and   
                  Gene H. Golub   Numerical linear algebra . . . . . . . . 9--26
                   Kris Stewart   The microcomputer as a tool in numerical
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
                    D. J. Evans   An implicit matrix inversion process . . 28--30

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1980

              Charles B. Dunham   Cramer's rule reconsidered or
                                  equilibration desirable  . . . . . . . . 9--9
              Alan C. Hindmarsh   LSODE and LSODI, two new initial value
                                  ordinary differential equation solvers   10--11
                    J. Seehusen   Algorithm for generating a step matrix
                                  by permutation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15
              Jorge J. More and   
           Richard A. Tapia and   
             Margaret H. Wright   Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--26


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 16, Number 1, March, 1981

                  G. W. Stewart   Matrix calculations on hand-held
                                  calculators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
                     J. C. Nash   Function minimization on special
                                  computers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
                 E. L. Battiste   Scientific computations using
                                  micro-computers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22
                   John R. Rice   Is mathematical software a legitimate
                                  research area? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--25
                  M. D. Francis   Error control in the numerical inversion
                                  of the eigenvector matrix  . . . . . . . 26--26

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 1981

                  Roy L. Streit   Solution of large Hermitian
                                  eigenproblems on virtual and cache
                                  memory computers . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
              Danny C. Sorensen   An example concerning quasi-Newton
                                  estimation of a sparse Hessian . . . . . 8--10
               Seppo Linnainmaa   Combatting the effects of underflow and
                                  overflow in determining real roots of
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16
                Alan George and   
                      Esmond Ng   A brief description of SPARSPAK Waterloo
                                  sparse linear equations package  . . . . 17--20
               David K. Kahaner   BASIC for numerical quadrature . . . . . 21--24

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1981

                 Gerhard Zielke   Generalizations of a Rutishauser test
                                  matrix with exact Moore--Penrose
                                  inverses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
            S. C. Eisenstat and   
                    J. W. Lewis   Band arrays in Fortran: an elegant
                                  representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--11
                Robert G. Voigt   Summary of research activity at ICASE    12--13
                   John R. Rice   Survey on programming language
                                  facilities for numerical computation . . 14--20

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 16, Number 4, October, 1981

                       W. Kahan   The Programming Environment's
                                  Contribution to Program Robustness . . . 10
                       S. McKee   University Consortium for Industrial
                                  Numerical Analysis (UCINA) . . . . . . . 16--19
               Clifford Addison   Summary of the Illinois--Toronto
                                  OlympiODE test results . . . . . . . . . 19--22


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1982

                    A. K. Cline   A course on mathematical software  . . . 19--23

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 17, Number 2, June, 1982

             L. F. Shampine and   
                     L. S. Baca   Automatic recognition of non-stiffness   20--21
                  Iain Duff and   
               Roger Grimes and   
                 John Lewis and   
                     Bill Poole   Sparse matrix test problems  . . . . . . 22--22
                     Bush Jones   A note on Aitken's $\delta^2$ technique  23--23
               Kenneth W. Dritz   Six language extensions to enhance the
                                  portability of mathematical software
                                  written in PL/I: background and
                                  justification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 17, Number 3, September, 1982

          W. H. Vandevender and   
                  K. H. Haskell   The SLATEC mathematical subroutine
                                  library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
             J. L. Phillips and   
                    W. G. Poole   Numerical mathematics at Boeing computer
                                  services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 18, Number 1, January, 1983

         Ronald F. Boisvert and   
              Sally E. Howe and   
               David K. Kahaner   The GAMS classification scheme for
                                  mathematical and statistical software    10--18
              Mary H. Payne and   
                Robert N. Hanek   Radian Reduction for Trigonometric
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
            Robert Paul Corbett   Enhanced arithmetic for Fortran  . . . . 24--28

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 18, Number 2, April, 1983

              Mary H. Payne and   
                Robert N. Hanek   Degree Reduction for Trigonometric
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
                Clive Temperton   Cray 1 v. Cyber 205: some comparisons    20--21
                W. S. Brown and   
                 K. W. Fong and   
                        B. Ford   Issues in license agreements for
                                  numerical program libraries  . . . . . . 21--23
              R. M. Corless and   
                  R. B. Simpson   An ``off-the-shelf'' dynamic mesh
                                  capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 18, Number 3, July, 1983

               John Gregg Lewis   Numerical experiments with SPARSPAK  . . 12--22

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 18, Number 4, October, 1983

                    B. T. Smith   Tools, methods and languages for
                                  scientific and engineering computation   9--11
                    B. T. Smith   EISPACK 3: announcement of availability  18
                    B. T. Smith   Status report on FORTRAN 8x as of August
                                  1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--21
                R. Pyzalski and   
                        M. Vala   Single-valued conversion of decimal
                                  numbers to rational fractions  . . . . . 22
                R. Pyzalski and   
                        M. Vala   Single-valued conversion of decimal
                                  numbers to rational fractions  . . . . . 22--22


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 19, Number 1, January, 1984

               Jack J. Dongarra   Performance of various computers using
                                  standard linear equations software in a
                                  Fortran environment  . . . . . . . . . . 23--26

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 19, Number 2, April, 1984

              F. N. Fritsch and   
                  R. E. Carlson   Availability of software for monotone
                                  interpolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 19, Number 3, July, 1984

             Jerrold L. Wagener   Status of work toward revision of
                                  programming language Fortran . . . . . . 1--42

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 19, Number 4, October, 1984

              Michael Clemmesen   Interval arithmetic implementations:
                                  using floating point arithmetic  . . . . 2--8
                Alan George and   
                      Esmond Ng   A new release of SPARSPAK: the Waterloo
                                  sparse matrix package  . . . . . . . . . 9--13


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 20, Number 1, January, 1985

           Jack J. Dongarra and   
             Jeremy Du Croz and   
            Sven Hammarling and   
              Richard J. Hanson   A proposal for an extended set of
                                  Fortran Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms 2--18
            David S. Dodson and   
                  John G. Lewis   Issues relating to extension of the
                                  Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms . . . . 19--22
            David S. Dodson and   
                  John G. Lewis   Proposed sparse extensions to the Basic
                                  Linear Algebra Subprograms . . . . . . . 22--25
                 W. J. Cody and   
               J. T. Coonen and   
                  D. M. Gay and   
                  K. Hanson and   
                   D. Hough and   
                   W. Kahan and   
               R. Karpinski and   
                  J. Palmer and   
                  F. N. Ris and   
                   D. Stevenson   A Proposed Radix- and
                                  Word-length-independent Standard for
                                  Floating-point Arithmetic  . . . . . . . 37--51

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 20, Number 2, April, 1985

                Eleanor Chu and   
                    Alan George   A note on estimating the error in
                                  Gaussian elimination without pivoting    2--7
              A. D. Solomon and   
               V. Alexiades and   
                   D. G. Wilson   Moving boundary problems in phase change
                                  models current research questions  . . . 8--12
             Philip E. Gill and   
              Walter Murray and   
        Michael A. Saunders and   
             Margaret H. Wright   Some issues in implementing a sequential
                                  quadratic programming algorithm  . . . . 13--19
                    J. Fr. Hake   Mathematical software at KFA . . . . . . 20--30

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 20, Number 3, July, 1985

                Sven Hammarling   The singular value decomposition in
                                  multivariate statistics  . . . . . . . . 2--25
                 T. E. Hull and   
                  A. Abrham and   
                M. S. Cohen and   
            A. F. X. Curley and   
                 C. B. Hall and   
                D. A. Penny and   
               J. T. M. Sawchuk   Numerical Turing . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--34
                    I. Gladwell   The NAG library ordinary differential
                                  equations chapter and short term plans
                                  for its extension  . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
                  R. M. J. Iles   Toolpack/1 distribution service  . . . . 41--44
           Jack J. Dongarra and   
                    Eric Grosse   Distribution of mathematical software
                                  via electronic mail  . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
                   G. Aharonian   Multi-language BLAS: a proposal  . . . . 48--49
                   H. Lipps and   
                  G. A. Erskine   Programming tools for linear algebra . . 50--53

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 20, Number 4, October, 1985

             Lloyd N. Trefethen   Three mysteries of Gaussian elimination  2--5
              E. D. Chikhliwala   Design and implementation of a Fast
                                  Poisson solver for microcomputers  . . . 6--12
                        A. Karp   A parallel processing challenge  . . . . 12--13


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 21, Number 1--2, April, 1986

                   Bo Einarsson   Mixed language programming realization
                                  and the provision of data types  . . . . 2--9
            Leonidas S. Xanthis   A pseudo-ODE modelling trick for the
                                  direct method of lines computation of
                                  important fracture mechanics parameters  10--16

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 21, Number 3, July, 1986

             Donald L. Williams   A mathematical software environment  . . 2--12
             T. F. Higginbotham   Another factor of $(10^{31} -1)/9$ . . . 12--12
              P. W. Gaffney and   
              C. A. Addison and   
                B. Andersen and   
       S. Bjòrnestad and   
              R. E. England and   
               P. M. Hanson and   
               R. Pickering and   
                 M. G. Thomason   NEXUS: towards a problem solving
                                  environment (PSE) for scientific
                                  computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24
                      Anonymous   Martin Beale memorial symposium  . . . . 24--24
                  Mary H. Payne   Proposal for the transfer of floating
                                  point data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
              Charles B. Dunham   Test for (in)equality, subtraction,
                                  proof of correctness . . . . . . . . . . 27--30
                Joseph S. Fulda   Numerical methods disguised  . . . . . . 31--32

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 21, Number 4, 1986

                J. Dongarra and   
                  J. DuCroz and   
              S. Hammarling and   
                      R. Hanson   An Update Notice on the Extended BLAS    2--4
             Timothy J. Gardner   DPUP: a distributed processing utilities
                                  package  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--19
                 Yi Ling Chiang   Use of mathematical switches to solve
                                  differential equation problems . . . . . 20--33
              Charles B. Dunham   The challenge of parallel function
                                  evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 22, Number 1, January, 1987

                 F. W. Pfeiffer   Automatic differentiation in PROSE . . . 2--8
                 George C. Bush   Saving time and space in spline
                                  calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10
                  Fred T. Krogh   Making hard constraints soft . . . . . . 11--11
                W. Govaerts and   
                    J. D. Pryce   An alternative to Chan's deflation for
                                  bordered systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
        Richard L. Branham, Jr.   Are orthogonal transformations
                                  worthwhile for least squares problems?   14--19

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 22, Number 2, April, 1987

                 Peter Thompson   Implementing an elementary function
                                  library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--5
              Charles B. Dunham   Provably monotone approximations . . . . 6--11
                Sandra J. Cynar   Using Gaussian elimination for
                                  computation of the central difference
                                  equation coefficients  . . . . . . . . . 12--19

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 22, Number 3, July, 1987

              Jack Dongarra and   
             Jeremy Du Croz and   
                  Iain Duff and   
                Sven Hammarling   A proposal for a set of level 3 basic
                                  linear algebra subprograms . . . . . . . 2--14
                 John de Pillis   Symbolic packages in the development of
                                  numerical algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 15--18
                   Tony F. Chan   Obstacles which split computer science
                                  and numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . 19--26
                D. J. Evans and   
                   B. B. Sanugi   A nonlinear Runge--Kutta formula for
                                  initial value problems . . . . . . . . . 27--30
              Charles B. Dunham   Provably monotone approximations, II . . 30--31

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 22, Number 4, October, 1987

                James Fullerton   Note on a pseudorandom number generator  3--5
               Timothy J. Rolfe   On a fast integer square root algorithm  6--11
                 William Knight   Another alternative for bordered systems 12--12


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 23, Number 1, January, 1988

                 Brian T. Smith   Fortran 8x --- its public review . . . . 2--6
              Charles L. Lawson   Series reversion as the reversed chain
                                  rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9
              Charles B. Dunham   Provably monotone approximations, III    10--10
       Wlodzimierz Proskurowski   Decomposing a sequence of matrices that
                                  differ only in one submatrix . . . . . . 12--17

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 23, Number 2, April, 1988

                 I. S. Duff and   
              A. M. Erisman and   
                 C. W. Gear and   
                     J. K. Reid   Sparsity structure and Gaussian
                                  elimination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--8
                Alan George and   
                      Esmond Ng   Some shared memory is desirable in
                                  parallel sparse matrix computation . . . 9--13
                  C. Dunham and   
                         Z. Zhu   Approximation with exact Lagrange-type
                                  interpolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
                 M. Berzins and   
              R. W. Brankin and   
                    I. Gladwell   The stiff integrators in the NAG library 16--23
                    T. J. Rolfe   Generations of permutations with
                                  non-unique elements  . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
                 Brian T. Smith   A review and analysis of Fortran 8x  . . 29--60

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 23, Number 3--4, July / October, 1988

          Charles B. Dunham and   
                      C. Z. Zhu   Solving equations nonlinear in only one
                                  of $N + 1$ variables . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
                Sandra J. Cynar   The use of forward difference equations
                                  in animation of physical phenomena . . . 4--8
                     W. J. Cody   New version of MACHAR available  . . . . 9--10
              Anthony Brook and   
             David Kendrick and   
              Alexander Meeraus   GAMS, a user's guide . . . . . . . . . . 10--11


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 24, Number 1, January, 1989

                 Max E. Jerrell   Automatic Differentiation Using Almost
                                  Any Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--9
              Jack Dongarra and   
                  Iain Duff and   
             Jeremy Du Croz and   
                Sven Hammarling   An update notice on the level 3 BLAS . . 9--10
                    D. J. Evans   A comparison of sequential and parallel
                                  elimination methods for tridiagonal
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
                   C. B. Dunham   Summation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 24, Number 2--3, apr # / # jul, 1989

        W. M. Coughran, Jr. and   
                      E. Grosse   A philosophy for scientific computing
                                  tools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--7
                   C. B. Dunham   Perturbation Analysis of Horner's Method
                                  for Nice Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
                  A. J. Macleod   Some statistics on Gaussian elimination
                                  with partial pivoting  . . . . . . . . . 10--14

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 24, Number 4, October, 1989

                   C. B. Dunham   Improvement of complex arithmetic by use
                                  of double elements . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
                    M. S. Zahir   A computational algorithm for $LU$
                                  decomposition of a sequence of matrices
                                  that differ only in one or more elements 8--16


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 25, Number 1, January, 1990

                   M. Payne and   
               C. Schaffert and   
                    B. Wichmann   Proposal for a language compatible
                                  arithmetic standard  . . . . . . . . . . 2--43
             Richard L. Branham   A C program for solving banded,
                                  symmetric, positive definite systems . . 44--55

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 25, Number 2, April, 1990

                   Carl de Boor   An empty exercise  . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7
              Charles B. Dunham   How accurate should numerical routines
                                  be?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
                 Zafar Khan and   
              Sudhir Chawla and   
                    Dinesh Dave   A note on comparison of nonlinear least
                                  squares algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 10--18

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 25, Number 3, July, 1990

                   John C. Nash   A hypertext environment for using
                                  mathematical software: part 1 ---
                                  motivations and design objectives  . . . 2--14
              Charles B. Dunham   Difficulties in fitting scientific data  15--20
                Sandra J. Cynar   Slowing propagation error caused by
                                  finite register sizes in unstable
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 25, Number 4, October, 1990

                   Carl de Boor   An empty exercise  . . . . . . . . . . . 2--6
                 Richard Franke   Topics in computer-aided geometric
                                  design--1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16
               Timothy J. Rolfe   Timing comparisons of the Householder QR
                                  transformations with rank-$1$ and
                                  rank-$2$ updates . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
                   C. B. Dunham   Feasibility of ``perfect'' function
                                  evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 1991

                      Anonymous   MATH77 Library Available from COSMIC . . 5
                   John R. Rice   Performance Evaluation of Numerical
                                  Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 26, Number 2, April, 1991

                 Charles Dunham   Applications of Best Approximation . . . 2--10
                  Alan Genz and   
                 Zongli Lin and   
              Charles Jones and   
                   Dali Luo and   
               Thorsten Prenzel   Fast Givens Goes Slow in MATLAB  . . . . 11--16

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 26, Number 3, July, 1991

                       W. Kahan   Analysis and Refutation of the LCAS  . . 2--15
        M. C. Bartholomew-Biggs   Ada Software for Teaching Modern
                                  Computer Arithmetic  . . . . . . . . . . 17--26

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 26, Number 4, October, 1991

                  G. W. Stewart   FTP --- File Transfer Program  . . . . . 2--3
                    Eric Grosse   Netlib news: big files . . . . . . . . . 4--5
                   Alan Edelman   The First Annual Large Dense Linear
                                  System Survey  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--12
                  Lloyd Fosdick   IFIP Working Conference on Programming
                                  Environments for High-Level Scientific
                                  Problem Solving  . . . . . . . . . . . . 13


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 27, Number 1, January, 1992

IFIP Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software)   Comments on version 3.1 of draft ISO/IEC
                                  10967:1991 Language Compatible
                                  Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
                  Jack Dongarra   LAPACK is Now Available  . . . . . . . . 3--4
                  Mei Kobayashi   Summary of the seminar on wavelets
                                  sponsored by AVIRG . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 27, Number 2, April, 1992

                   John Carroll   The Role of Computer Software in
                                  Numerical Analysis Teaching  . . . . . . 2--31

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 27, Number 3, July, 1992

                    Eric Grosse   Netlib News: Search for Files  . . . . . 2--4

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 27, Number 4, October, 1992

               Craig C. Douglas   MGNet: a multigrid and domain
                                  decomposition network  . . . . . . . . . 2--8
             Jeffrey Dawson and   
                 Mary Payne and   
                Craig Schaffert   The Role of LIA-1 in Software
                                  Portability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 28, Number 1, January, 1993

                      John Reid   Language Independent Arithmetic (LIA)
                                  --- A Draft International Standard (DIS) 2--7
                   Fred Ris and   
               Ed Barkmeyer and   
            Craig Schaffert and   
                   Peter Farkas   When Floating-Point Addition Isn't
                                  Commutative  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 28, Number 2, April, 1993

               Allan J. MacLeod   An Instability Problem in Chebyshev
                                  Expansions for Special Functions . . . . 2--7
                   Ingo Dittmer   Error in Unix commands \tt dc and \tt bc
                                  for multiple-precision-arithmetic  . . . 8--11

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 28, Number 3, July, 1993

                      Anonymous   Abstracts of Ph.D. Theses  . . . . . . . 2
                      Anonymous   Call For Papers: Electronic Transactions
                                  on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) . . . . . . 6
                      Anonymous   Call For Papers: 1994 ACM SIGMetrics
                                  Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 28, Number 4, October, 1993

                Tim Hopkins and   
                    John Slater   A Comment on the Eispack Machine Epsilon
                                  Routine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--6
         IFIP Working Group 2.5   The Enable Construct for Exception
                                  Handling in Fortran 90 . . . . . . . . . 7--16


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 29, Number 1, January, 1994

                   Fred Tydeman   What causes a Trap in IEEE-754
                                  Floating-Point?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--4

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 29, Number 2, April, 1994

                   Keith Briggs   How to Stabilize a Fixed Point . . . . . 2--3
           Craig C. Douglas and   
                Gordon Slishman   Variants of Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
                                  for Fortran-90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 29, Number 3--4, July / October, 1994

                   W. J. Whiten   Determination of parameter relations
                                  within non-linear models . . . . . . . . 2--5


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 30, Number 1, January, 1995

               W. J. Whiten and   
                       L. Kocis   Regarding test functions for
                                  multi-dimensional integration  . . . . . 2--7

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 30, Number 2, July, 1995

                      Anonymous   Institutional Reports  . . . . . . . . . 3
                      Anonymous   IFIP TC 2 Working Conference:
                                  Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
                      Anonymous   ISSAC '95: Announcement  . . . . . . . . 12

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 30, Number 3, July, 1995

              Chris Bischof and   
                    Fred Dilley   A Compilation of Automatic
                                  Differentiation Tools presented at the
                                  1995 International Convention on
                                  Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
                                  Hamburg  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--20
             Samuel A. Figueroa   When is Double Rounding Innocuous? . . . 21--26
              Per Brinch Hansen   The SuperPascal Software . . . . . . . . 27--27
                      Anonymous   Institutional Reports  . . . . . . . . . 29
                      Anonymous   International Linear Algebra Year ---
                                  Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 30, Number 4, October, 1995

              Vladik Kreinovich   Interval Rational $=$ Algebraic  . . . . 2--13
        Richard L. Branham, Jr.   Algorithms for Julian Dates  . . . . . . 14--18
                    H. K. Hodge   Achieving a Full Deck  . . . . . . . . . 19--26
              Jack Dongarra and   
               Jerzy Wasniewski   Report on the Second Workshop on Applied
                                  Parallel Computing, PARA95 . . . . . . . 28
                      Anonymous   Institutional Reports  . . . . . . . . . 30


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 31, Number 1, January, 1996

                 Misha Koshelev   Computationally Complicated Problems of
                                  Numerical Computations (in Particular,
                                  Interval Computations), Biofeedback,
                                  Computer Games, and Gulf War: An Idea    2--7
               James A. Delaney   An Example of Error Propagation
                                  Reinterpreted as Subtractive
                                  Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13
         Anatoly V. Lakeyev and   
              Vladik Kreinovich   ``Interval Rational $=$ Algebraic''
                                  Revisited: A More Computer Realistic
                                  Result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
                    H. K. Hodge   More Interesting . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
                      Anonymous   Institutional Reports  . . . . . . . . . 20

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 31, Number 2, April, 1996

                  Hiroshi Akima   Note on Local Methods of Univariate
                                  Interpolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--5
         G. William Walster and   
              Vladik Kreinovich   For Unknown-But-Bounded Errors, Interval
                                  Estimates are often better than
                                  Averaging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--19
          James S. Dukelow, Jr.   An Example of Error Propagation
                                  Reinterpreted as Subtractive
                                  Cancellation --- Revisited . . . . . . . 20--23
                    V. Drygalla   Remark on ``An example of error
                                  propagation reinterpreted as subtractive
                                  cancellation'' by J. A. Delaney (SIGNUM
                                  Newsletter 1/96) . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
        Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui   A Class of Numerical Integration Rules
                                  With First Order Derivatives . . . . . . 25--44
                      Anonymous   Institutional Reports  . . . . . . . . . 46

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 31, Number 3, July, 1996

                Hans J. Stetter   Numerical Computer Algebra . . . . . . . 2
             Misha Koshelev and   
              Vladik Kreinovich   Why Monotonicity in Interval
                                  Computations? A Remark . . . . . . . . . 4--8
      Andrei M. Finkelstein and   
                 Misha Koshelev   Case Studies of Choosing a Numerical
                                  Differentiation Method Under
                                  Uncertainty: Computer-Aided Design and
                                  Radiotelescope Network Design  . . . . . 9--26
                      Anonymous   Ph.D. Theses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
              Jack Dongarra and   
               Jerzy Wasniewski   Denmark hosts Workshop on Applied
                                  Parallel Computing (PARA96)  . . . . . . 28
                      Anonymous   Institutional Reports  . . . . . . . . . 30

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 31, Number 4, October, 1996

                Hans J. Stetter   Symbolic Numeric Algebra for Polynomials 2
         Andrei Finkelstein and   
             Olga Kosheleva and   
              Vladik Kreinovich   Astrogeometry, Error Estimation, and
                                  Other Applications of Set-Valued
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--25
              Vladik Kreinovich   With What Accuracy Can We Measure Masses
                                  If We Have An (Approximately Known) Mass
                                  Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--34
                      John Rice   Problem Solving Environments --- Web
                                  Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
                      Anonymous   Worldwide Mathematica Conference . . . . 36
                      Anonymous   Institutional Reports  . . . . . . . . . 37


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 32, Number 1--2, January / April, 1997

Raúl Antonio Trejo Ramírez and   
              Vladik Kreinovich   How to rate numerical packages?
                                  Foundations of ratings, and their
                                  possible use in numerical mathematics,
                                  in education, and in military design . . 2--10
              Yi-Ling F. Chiang   Some Suggestions on the Implementation
                                  of Reliable Simulations  . . . . . . . . 11--16
             Hung T. Nguyen and   
              Vladik Kreinovich   Intelligent Control in Space
                                  Exploration: Interval Computations are
                                  Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--36
                   Roy Rada and   
                James Schoening   New Standards for Educational Technology
                                  Relevant to Multiple ACM SIGs  . . . . . 37--39
                  Tien Chi Chen   Symmetry and Nonconvergence in Iterative
                                  Polynomial Zero-Finding  . . . . . . . . 40--43
                      Anonymous   Mission Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . 44

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 32, Number 3, July, 1997

               Bart Maerten and   
                   Ronald Cools   An interactive program to approximate
                                  double integrals: an easy to use
                                  interface for Cubpack++  . . . . . . . . 2--8
             Misha Koshelev and   
                   Scott Starks   Energy from Space: A New Potential
                                  Application of Interval Computations . . 9--13

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 32, Number 4, October, 1997

                    Tim Hopkins   Restructuring the BLAS Level 1 Routine
                                  For Computing the Modified Givens
                                  Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--14
               Timothy J. Rolfe   Analytic Derivation of Comparisons in
                                  Binary Search  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--19


ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 33, Number 1, January, 1998

                      Anonymous   Editorial Remarks  . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                      Anonymous   Letter From the Chair  . . . . . . . . . 5
                 Barry F. Smith   The Transition of Numerical Software:
                                  From Nuts-and-Bolts to Abstraction . . . 7--15
                David H. Bailey   Finding New Mathematical Identities via
                                  Numerical Computations . . . . . . . . . 17--22
                      Anonymous   Current Institutional Reports  . . . . . 23
                      Anonymous   Recent Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
Volume 33, Number 2, April, 1998

                      Anonymous   Letters: Editorial Remarks . . . . . . . 3
              Wolfgang K. Giloi   Konrad Zuse: Reflections on the 80th
                                  Birthday of the German Computing Pioneer 11--16
           John Michael McNamee   A Comparison of Methods for Accelerating
                                  Convergence of Newton's Method for
                                  Multiple Polynomial Roots  . . . . . . . 17--22
                      Anonymous   Departments: Current Institutional
                                  Reports  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
                      Anonymous   Departments: Recent Books  . . . . . . . 29