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John McLean The Specification and Modeling of
Computer Security . . . . . . . . . . . 9--16
David Lorge Parnas Education for Computing Professionals 17--22
Martha E. Crosby and
Jan Stelovsky How Do We Read Algorithms? A Case Study 25--35
Tassos Markas and
Mark Royals and
Nick Kanopoulos On Distributed Fault Simulation . . . . 40--52
Mengly Chean and
Jose A. B. Fortes A Taxonomy of Reconfiguration Techniques
for Fault-Tolerant Processor Arrays . . 55--69
F. J. Buckley Standards: a standard environment for
software production . . . . . . . . . . 75--77
Ralph Duncan A Survey of Parallel Computer
Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--16
Simon Y. Foo and
Yoshiyasu Takefuji Databases and Cell-Selection Algorithms
for VLSI Cell Libraries . . . . . . . . 18--30
Richard F. Walters Design of a Bitmapped Multilingual
Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
W. Leler Linda Meets Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54
Luping Liang and
Samuel T. Chanson and
Gerald W. Neufeld Process Groups and Group Communications:
Classifications and Requirements . . . . 56--66
Anonymous Applications environment profiles: A
significant tool for simplifying and
coordinating standards efforts . . . . . 69
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Jeffrey J. P. Tsai and
Kwang-Ya Fang and
Horng-Yuan Chen A Noninvasive Architecture to Monitor
Real-Time Distributed Systems . . . . . 11--23
Bogdan Czejdo and
Ramez Elmasri and
Marek Rusinkiewicz and
David W. Embley A Graphical Data Manipulation Language
for an Extended Entity-Relationship
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--36
K. S. Leung and
M. H. Wong An Expert-System Shell Using Structured
Knowledge: An Object-Oriented Approach 38--47
Anthony I. Wasserman and
Peter A. Pircher and
Robert J. Muller The Object-Oriented Structured Design
Notation for Software Design
Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--63
Subrata Dasgupta A Hierarchical Taxonomic System for
Computer Architectures . . . . . . . . . 64--74
Michael C. McFarland Standards: Urgency of ethical standards
intensifies in computer community . . . 77--81
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Randall D. Rettberg and
William R. Crowther and
Philip P. Carvey and
Raymond S. Tomlinson The Monarch Parallel Processor Hardware
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--28, 30
Jaime H. Moreno and
Tomas Lang Matrix Computations on Systolic-Type
Meshes: An Introduction to the Multimesh
Graph Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--51
Lui Sha and
John B. Goodenough Real-Time Scheduling Theory and Ada . . 53--62
Alan Jay Smith The Task of the Referee . . . . . . . . 65--71
Theo Pavlidis and
Jerome Swartz and
Ynjiun P. Wang Fundamentals of Bar Code Information
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--86
Anonymous A standard for extremely low frequency
magnetic fields; Standards for public
key encryption algorithms to be
discussed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Joseph Boykin and
Susan J. LoVerso Guest Editors' Introduction: Recent
Developments in Operating Systems . . . 5--8
Mahadev Satyanarayanan Scalable, Secure, and Highly Available
Distributed File Access . . . . . . . . 9--18, 20--21
Larry L. Peterson and
Norman C. Hutchinson and
Sean W. O'Malley and
Herman C. Rao The X-kernel: A Platform for Accessing
Internet Resources . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33
David L. Black Scheduling Support for Concurrency and
Parallelism in the Mach Operating System 35--43
Sape J. Mullender and
Guido van Rossum and
Andrew S. Tanenbaum and
Robbert van Renesse and
Hans van Staveren Amoeba: A Distributed Operating System
for the 1990s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--53
Michael Stumm and
Songnian Zhou Algorithms Implementing Distributed
Shared Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--64
Dror G. Feitelson and
Larry Rudolph Distributed Hierarchical Control for
Parallel Processing . . . . . . . . . . 65--77
Anonymous How not to write commercial standards 79
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
E. Newman and
M. C. McFarland Comments, with reply, on `Urgency of
ethical standards intensifies in
computer community' (Standards) . . . . 6
U. Schmidt and
S. Dasgupta Comments, with reply on `A hierarchical
taxonomic system for computer
architectures' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Michel Dubois and
Shreekant Thakkar Guest Editors' Introduction: Cache
Architectures in Tightly Coupled
Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--11
Per Stenstrom A Survey of Cache Coherence Schemes for
Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--24
Patricia J. Teller Translation-Lookaside Buffer Consistency 26--36
Hoichi Cheong and
Alexander V. Veidenbaum Compiler-Directed Cache Management in
Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--47
David Chaiken and
Craig Fields and
Kiyoshi Kurihara and
Anant Agarwal Directory-Based Cache Coherence in
Large-Scale Multiprocessors . . . . . . 49--58
Gary Graunke and
Shreekant Thakkar Synchronization Algorithms for
Shared-Memory Multiprocessors . . . . . 60--69
Shreekant Thakkar and
Michel Dubois and
Anthony T. Laundrie and
Gurindar S. Sohi Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessor
Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--74
David V. James and
Anthony T. Laundrie and
Stein Gjessing and
Gurindar S. Sohi Distributed-directory scheme: Scalable
coherent interface . . . . . . . . . . . 74--77
Manu Thapar and
Bruce Delagi Distributed-directory scheme: Stanford
distributed-directory protocol . . . . . 78--80
Michael Carlton and
Alvin Despain Multiple-bus shared-memory system:
Aquarius project . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
F. J. Buckley Standards: Establishing a standard
metrics program . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
R. Ford Comments, with reply, on ``A noninvasive
architecture to monitor real-time
distributed systems'', by J. Tsai et al. 12--13
D. Chaiken and
C. Fields and
K. Kurihara and
A. Agarwal Correction to `Directory-based cache
coherence in large-scale multiprocessor' 13--13
Adit D. Singh and
Singaravel Murugesan Guest Editors' Introduction:
Fault-Tolerant Systems . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Victor P. Nelson Fault-Tolerant Computing: Fundamental
Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--25
Daniel P. Siewiorek Fault Tolerance in Commercial Computers 26--37
Jean-Claude Laprie and
Jean Arlat and
Christian Beounes and
Karama Kanoun Definition and Analysis of Hardware- and
Software-Fault-Tolerant Architectures 39--51
Robert Geist and
Kishor S. Trivedi Reliability Estimation of Fault-Tolerant
Systems: Tools and Techniques . . . . . 52--61
Eiji Fujiwara and
Dhiraj K. Pradhan Error-Control Coding in Computers . . . 63--72
Israel Koren and
Adit D. Singh Fault Tolerance in VLSI Circuits . . . . 73--83
E. J. McCluskey Design Techniques for Testable Embedded
Error Checkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--88
J. Isaak Standards: the history of Posix: a study
in the standards process . . . . . . . . 89--92
Ragui Kamel Guest Editor's Introduction: Voice in
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Carl R. Strathmeyer Voice in Computing: An Overview of
Available Technologies . . . . . . . . . 10--15
Michael H. O'Malley Text-to-Speech Conversion Technology . . 17--23
Richard D. Peacocke and
Daryl H. Graf An Introduction to Speech and Speaker
Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Matthew Lennig Putting Speech Recognition to Work in
the Telephone Network . . . . . . . . . 35--41
Ryohei Nakatsu Anser: An Application of Speech
Technology to the Japanese Banking
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--48
Chris Schmandt and
Mark S. Ackerman and
Debby Hindus Augmenting a Window System with Speech
Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--56
Mark W. Salisbury and
Joseph H. Hendrickson and
Terence L. Lammers and
Caroline Fu and
Scott A. Moody Talk and Draw: Bundling Speech and
Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--65
Lester F. Ludwig and
Natalio Pincever and
Michael Cohen Extending the Notion of a Window System
to Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--72
Ragui Kamel and
Kamyar Emami and
Robert Eckert PX: Supporting Voice in Workstations . . 73--80
Anonymous IEEE Project 802 standards efforts . . . 84
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Jeanette M. Wing A Specifier's Introduction to Formal
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 10--22, 24
John T. Stasko Tango: A Framework and System for
Algorithm Animation . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
George A. Champine and
Daniel E. Geer, Jr. and
William N. Ruh Project Athena as a Distributed Computer
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--51
Chaim Ziegler and
Gerald Weiss Multimedia Conferencing on Local Area
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--61
Alan Mink and
Robert J. Carpenter and
George G. Nacht and
John W. Roberts Multiprocessor Performance-Measurement
Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--75
Anonymous Gigabit Network Testbeds . . . . . . . . 77--80
Anonymous Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Chita R. Das and
Jeffrey T. Kreulen and
Matthew J. Thazhuthaveetil and
Laxmi N. Bhuyan Dependability Modeling for
Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--19
Massimo Ancona and
Gabriella Dodero and
Vittoria Gianuzzi and
Andrea Clematis and
Eduardo B. Fernandez A System Architecture for Fault
Tolerance in Concurrent Software . . . . 23--32
Parameswaran Ramanathan and
Kang G. Shin and
Ricky W. Butler Fault-Tolerant Clock Synchronization in
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
Manoj Franklin and
Kewal K. Saluja Built-in Self-Testing of Random-Access
Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--56
Udi Manber Chain Reactions in Networks . . . . . . 57--63
David Gries and
Dorothy Marsh The 1988--89 Taulbee Survey Report . . . 65--71
Anonymous User interface management systems and
application portability . . . . . . . . 73
T. L. (Frank) Pappas \POSTSCRIPT output on a LaserJet printer 82--88
Ophir Frieder Multiprocessor Algorithms for
Relational-Database Operators on
Hypercube Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 13--28
Marvin V. Zelkowitz A Functional Correctness Model of
Program Verification . . . . . . . . . . 30--39
John J. Darragh and
Ian H. Witten and
Mark L. James The Reactive Keyboard: A Predictive
Typing Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
Yehudah Freundlich Knowledge Bases and Databases:
Converging Technologies, Diverging
Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57
James D. Mooney Strategies for Supporting Application
Portability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70
Brad A. Myers and
Dario A. Giuse and
Roger B. Dannenberg and
Brad Vander Zanden and
David S. Kosbie and
Edward Pervin and
Andrew Mickish and
Philippe Marchal Garnet: Comprehensive Support for
Graphical, Highly Interactive User
Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
Anonymous An American's view of the Japanese
standards system . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Cherri M. Pancake and
Donna Bergmark Do Parallel Languages Respond to the
Needs of Scientific Programmers? . . . . 13--23
Andrew Berlin and
Daniel Weise Compiling Scientific Code Using Partial
Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--37
David B. Skillicorn Architecture-Independent Parallel
Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--50
Harold W. Lawson Philosophies for Engineering
Computer-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . 52--63
Reinhold P. Weicker An Overview of Common Benchmarks . . . . 65--75
Alasdair Kemp Standards: Information technology
standardization is key area of interest
to IEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--78
Yale N. Patt Guest Editor's Introduction:
Experimental Research in Computer
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Daniel Pease and
Arif Ghafoor and
Ishfaq Ahmad and
David L. Andrews and
Kamal Foudil-Bey and
Thomas E. Karpinski and
Mohammad A. Mikki and
Mohamed Zerrouki PAWS: A Performance Evaluation Tool for
Parallel Computing Systems . . . . . . . 18--29
Craig B. Stunkel and
Bob Janssens and
W. Kent Fuchs Address Tracing for Parallel Machines 31--38
William Mangione-Smith and
Santosh G. Abraham and
Edward S. Davidson A performance comparison of the IBM
RS/6000 and the Astronautics ZS-1 . . . 39--46
Thomas M. Conte and
Wen-mei W. Hwu Benchmark Characterization . . . . . . . 48--56
Trevor N. Mudge and
Richard B. Brown and
William P. Birmingham and
Jeffrey A. Dykstra and
Ayman I. Kayssi and
Ronald J. Lomax and
Oyekunle A. Olukotun and
Karem A. Sakallah and
Raymond A. Milano The Design of a Microsupercomputer . . . 57--64
Matthew K. Farrens and
Andrew R. Pleszkun Implementation of the PIPE Processor . . 65--70
Zvonko G. Vranesic and
Michael Stumm and
David M. Lewis and
Ron White Hector: A Hierarchically Structured
Shared-Memory Multiprocessor . . . . . . 72--79
Maya Gokhale and
William Holmes and
Andrew Kopser and
Sara Lucas and
Ronald Minnich and
Douglas Sweely and
Daniel Lopresti Building and Using a Highly Parallel
Programmable Logic Array . . . . . . . . 81--89
Anonymous Do standards cause software productivity
problems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Kencheng Zeng and
Chung-Huang Yang and
Dah-Yea Wei and
T. R. N. Rao Pseudorandom Bit Generators in
Stream-Cipher Cryptography . . . . . . . 8--17
William Mettrey A Comparative Evaluation of Expert
System Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--31
David R. Cheriton and
Hendrik A. Goosen and
Patrick D. Boyle Paradigm: A Highly Scalable
Shared-Memory Multicomputer Architecture 33--46
Biswanath Mukherjee Integrated Voice-Data Communication over
High-Speed Fiber Optic Networks . . . . 49--58
Gianluigi Caldiera and
Victor R. Basili Identifying and Qualifying Reusable
Software Components . . . . . . . . . . 61--71
Michael C. McFarland Standards: Ethics and the safety of
computer systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
Timothy J. Kriewall and
John M. Long Guest Editors' Introduction:
Computer-Based Medical Systems . . . . . 9--13
Glenn A. Myers and
Keith R. Sherman and
Lawrence Stark Eye Monitor: Microcomputer-Based
Instrument Uses an Internal Model to
Track the Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--21
Kenneth W. Fernald and
Todd A. Cook and
Thomas K. Miller, III and
John J. Paulos A Microprocessor-Based Implantable
Telemetry System . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
Elias S. Manolakos and
Haris M. Stellakis and
Dana H. Brooks Parallel Processing for Biomedical
Signal Processing: Higher Order Spectral
Analysis --- An Application . . . . . . 33--43
Don Krieger and
Gerald Burk and
Robert J. Sclabassi Neuronet: A Distributed Real-Time System
for Monitoring Neurophysiologic Function
in the Medical Environment . . . . . . . 45--55
Krzysztof J. Cios and
Inho Shin and
Lucy S. Goodenday Using Fuzzy Sets to Diagnose Coronary
Artery Stenosis . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63
Riccardo Poli and
Stefano Cagnoni and
Riccardo Livi and
Giuseppe Coppini and
Guido Valli A Neural Network Expert System for
Diagnosing and Treating Hypertension . . 64--71
Anonymous Internationalizing software engineering
standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Robert F. Krick and
Apostolos Dollas The Evolution of Instruction Sequencing 5--15
Mongi A. Abidi and
Richard O. Eason and
Rafael C. Gonzalez Autonomous Robotic Inspection and
Manipulation Using Multisensor Feedback 17--31
Elisa Bertino and
Lorenzo Martino Object-Oriented Database Management
Systems: Concepts and Issues . . . . . . 33--47
Andrew L. Reibman and
Malathi Veeraraghavan Reliability Modeling: An Overview for
System Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--57
Jonathan Grudin Interactive Systems: Bridging the Gaps
Between Developers and Users . . . . . . 59--69
Anonymous Preparing for EC 1992 in the US through
quality system registration . . . . . . 70
C. M. Krishna and
Y. H. Lee Guest Editors' Introduction: Real-Time
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Jaynarayan H. Lala and
Richard E. Harper and
Linda S. Alger A Design Approach for Ultrareliable
Real-Time Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 12--22
Kang G. Shin HARTS: A Distributed Real-Time
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--35
Jogesh K. Muppala and
Steven P. Woolet and
Kishor S. Trivedi Real-Time-Systems Performance in the
Presence of Failures . . . . . . . . . . 37--47
Chang Yun Park and
Alan C. Shaw Experiments with a Program Timing Tool
Based on Source-Level Timing Schema . . 48--57
Jane W. S. Liu and
Kwei-Jay Lin and
Wei-Kuan Shih and
Albert Chuang-shi Yu and
Jen-Yao Chung and
Wei Zhao Algorithms for Scheduling Imprecise
Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--68
Kevin B. Kenny and
Kwei-Jay Lin Building Flexible Real-Time Systems
Using the Flex Language . . . . . . . . 70--78
Anonymous Point/Counterpoint: Questions on ethical
standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Kenneth P. Brooks Lilac: A Two-View Document Editor . . . 7--19
Erik DeBenedictis and
Sumit Ghosh and
Meng-Lin Yu A Novel Algorithm for Discrete-Event
Simulation: Asynchronous Distributed
Discrete-Event Simulation Algorithm for
Cyclic Circuits Using a Dataflow Network 21--33
Hiroaki Kitano $\Phi$DM-Dialog: An Experimental
Speech-to-Speech Dialog Translation
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--50
David Cordes and
Marcus Brown The Literate-Programming Paradigm . . . 52--61
Avraham Leff and
Calton Pu A Classification of Transaction
Processing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
T. L. (Frank) Pappas \TeX typesetting with a difference . . . 92--93
Denis L. Baggi Guest Editor's Introduction:
Computer-Generated Music . . . . . . . . 6
David P. Anderson and
Ron Kuivila Formula: A Programming Language for
Expressive Computer Music . . . . . . . 12--21
David Cope Recombinant Music: Using the Computer to
Explore Musical Style . . . . . . . . . 22--28
Margaret L. Johnson Toward an Expert System for Expressive
Musical Performance . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
Roger B. Dannenberg and
Christopher Lee Fraley and
Peter Velikonja Fugue: A Functional Language for Sound
Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--42
Hideyuki Morita and
Shuji Hashimoto and
Sadamu Ohteru A Computer Music System that Follows a
Human Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--53
Stephen W. Smoliar Algorithms for musical composition: A
question of granularity . . . . . . . . 54--56
Stephen W. Smoliar and
Goffredo Haus and
Alberto Sametti and
Denis L. Baggi and
Antonio Camurri and
Corrado Canepa and
Marcello Frixione and
Renato Zaccaria and
Yap Siong Chua and
Robert Keefe Project Overviews: Current Research in
Computer-Generated Music . . . . . . . . 54--75
Goffredo Haus and
Alberto Sametti Scoresynth: A System for the Synthesis
of Music Scores Based on Petri Nets and
a Music Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--60
Denis L. Baggi Neurswing: An Intelligent Workbench for
the Investigation of Swing in Jazz . . . 60--64
Antonio Camurri and
Corrado Canepa and
Marcello Frixione and
Renato Zaccaria HARP: A System for Intelligent
Composer's Assistance . . . . . . . . . 64--67
Yap Siong Chua Composition Based on Pentatonic Scales:
A Computer-Aided Approach . . . . . . . 67--71
Robert Keefe Composing by Musical Analog: A Look at
Planetary Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
Steven R. Newcomb Standards: Standard Music Description
Language complies with hypermedia
standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Mukesh Singhal and
Thomas L. Casavant Guest Editor's Introduction: Distributed
Computing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 12--16
Bruce E. Martin and
Claus H. Pedersen and
James Bedford-Roberts An Object-Bases Taxonomy for Distributed
Computing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 17--27
Colin Fidge Logical Time in Distributed Computing
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--33
Pradeep K. Sinha and
Mamoru Maekawa and
Kentaro Shimizu and
Xiaohua Jia and
Hyo Ashihara and
Naoki Utsunomiya and
Kyu S. Park and
Hirohiko Nakano The Galaxy Distributed Operating System 34--41
Keith Marzullo and
Robert Cooper and
Mark D. Wood and
Kenneth P. Birman Tools for Distributed Application
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--51
Bill Nitzberg and
Virginia Lo Distributed Shared Memory: A Survey of
Issues and Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 52--60
Enrique Mafla and
Bharat Bhargava Communication Facilities for Distributed
Transaction-Processing Systems . . . . . 61--66
M. Tamer Özsu and
Patrick Valduriez Distributed Database Systems: Where Are
We Now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--78
Charles F. Goldfarb Standards: HyTime: a standard for
structured hypermedia interchange . . . 81--84
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Merlin G. Smith IEEE Computer Society: Four Decades of
Service, 1951--1991 . . . . . . . . . . 6--12
James H. Aylor and
Roy L. Russo and
Bruce D. Shriver Guest Editors' Introduction: The Promise
of the Next Decade . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
John L. Hennessy and
Norman P. Jouppi Computer Technology and Architecture: An
Evolving Interaction . . . . . . . . . . 18--29
Harold S. Stone and
John Cocke Computer Architecture in the 1990s . . . 30--38
Jim Gray and
Daniel P. Siewiorek High-Availability Computer Systems . . . 39--48
Aaron Marcus and
Andries van Dam User-Interface Developments for the
Nineties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--57
Gregory M. Nielson Visualization in Scientific and
Engineering Computation . . . . . . . . 58--66
Larry D. Wittie Computer Networks and Distributed
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
Paul E. Green The Future of Fibre-Optic Computer
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--87
Victor R. Basili and
John D. Musa The Future Engineering of Software: A
Management Perspective . . . . . . . . . 90--96
P. Treleaven and
H. Aiso and
M. A. Meth and
A. K. Jones and
R. H. Sprague, Jr. and
T. Van Duzer and
G. E. Moore and
A. C. Weaver and
V. Cerf and
M. R. Mercer and
K. Boykin and
D. Cheriton and
T. G. Lewis and
Luqi and
L. P. Deutsch Viewpoints (computing in the 1990s) . . 98--113
Anonymous Multimedia Information Systems: The
Unfolding of a Reality . . . . . . . . . 6
Edward A. Fox Advances in Interactive Digital
Multimedia Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21
Carlo Meghini and
Fausto Rabitti and
Costantino Thanos Conceptual Modeling of Multimedia
Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
Steven K. Feiner and
Kathleen R. McKeown Automating the Generation of Coordinated
Multimedia Explanations . . . . . . . . 33--41
Thomas D. C. Little and
Arif Ghafoor Spatio-Temporal Composition of
Distributed Multimedia Objects for
Value-Added Networks . . . . . . . . . . 42--50
David P. Anderson and
George Homsy A Continuous Media I/O Server and Its
Synchronization Mechanism . . . . . . . 51--57
Murugappan Palaniappan and
George Fitzmaurice InternetExpress: An Inter-Desktop
Multimedia Data-Transfer Service . . . . 58--67
Herrick M. Vin and
Polle T. Zellweger and
Daniel C. Swinehart and
P. Venkat Rangan Multimedia Conferencing in the
Etherphone Environment . . . . . . . . . 69--79
Eric S. Lander and
Robert Langridge and
Damian M. Saccocio Computing in Molecular Biology: Mapping
and Interpreting Biological Information 6--13
Jean-Jacques Quisquater and
Yvo G. Desmedt Chinese Lotto as an Exhaustive
Code-Breaking Machine . . . . . . . . . 14--22
Eric K. Clemons Corporate Strategies for Information
Technology: A Resource-Based Approach 23--32
Partha Dasgupta and
Richard J. LeBlanc, Jr. and
Mustaque Ahamad and
Umakishore Ramachandran The Clouds Distributed Operating System 34--44
Michael Factor and
David H. Gelernter and
Craig E. Kolb and
Perry L. Miller and
Dean F. Sittig Real-Time Data Fusion in the Intensive
Care Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
Allen B. Tucker and
Bruce H. Barnes Flexible Design: A Summary of Computing
Curricula 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--66
Sudha Ram Guest Editor's Introduction:
Heterogeneous Distributed Database
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Won Kim and
Jungyun Seo Classifying Schematic and Data
Heterogeneity in Multi Database Systems 12--18
Rafi Ahmed and
Philippe De Smedt and
Weimin Du and
William Kent and
Mohammad A. Ketabchi and
Witold A. Litwin and
Abbas Rafii and
Ming-Chien Shan The Pegasus Heterogeneous Multidatabase
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
Nandit Soparkar and
Henry F. Korth and
Abraham Silberschatz Failure-Resilient Transaction Management
in Multidatabases . . . . . . . . . . . 28--36
John Noll and
Walt Scacchi Integrating Diverse Information
Repositories: A Distributed Hypertext
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--45
Marek Rusinkiewicz and
Amit Sheth and
George Karabatis Specifying Interdatabase Dependencies in
a Multidatabase Environment . . . . . . 46--53
Christine Collet and
Michael N. Huhns and
Wei-Min Shen Resource Integration Using a Large
Knowledge Base in Carnot . . . . . . . . 55--62
Calton Pu and
Avraham Leff and
Shu-Wie F. Chen Heterogeneous and Autonomous Transaction
Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--72
D. Arnold and
P. Cannata and
L. A. Glasson and
G. Hallmark and
B. McGuire and
S. Newman and
R. Odegard and
H. Sabharwal SQL Access: an implementation of the ISO
Remote Database Access Standard . . . . 74--78
David Harel Biting the Silver Bullet: Toward a
Brighter Future for System Development 8--20
Yulun Wang and
Amante Mangaser and
Partha Srinivasan and
Steve Jordan and
Steven Butner The 3DP: A Processor Architecture for
Three-Dimensional Applications . . . . . 25--36
Thomas Y. C. Woo and
Simon S. Lam Authentication for Distributed Systems 39--52
Peter Van Roy and
Alvin M. Despain High-Performance Logic Programming with
the Aquarius Prolog Compiler . . . . . . 54--68
Peter Van Roy and
Alvin M. Despain High-performance logic programming with
the Aquarius Prolog compiler . . . . . . 54--68
Robert H. Klenke and
Ronald D. Williams and
James H. Aylor Parallel-Processing Techniques for
Automatic Test Pattern Generation . . . 71--84
Ware Myers Supercomputing 91: Special Report:
High-performance computing as a window
into the future . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
R. W. Hamming Review of \em Mathematical Foundations
of Computer Science, Volume 1 (Fejer, P.
A. and Simovici D. A; 1991) . . . . . . 134--135
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Ada in Distributed
Real-Time Systems (Nielsen, K; 1990) . . 135--135
Lee Hoevel and
Veljko Milutinovic The Open Channel: Terminology risks with
the RISC concept in the risky RISC arena 136--136
Alok Choudhary and
Sanjay Ranka Guest Editors' Introduction: Parallel
Processing for Computer Vision and Image
Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
Alok Choudhary and
Sanjay Ranka Parallel processing for computer vision
and image understanding (special issue
introduction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
Brian Marsh and
Chris Brown and
Thomas LeBlanc and
Michael Scott and
Tim Becker and
Cesar Quiroz and
Prakash Das and
Jonas Karlsson The Rochester Checkers Player:
Multimodel Parallel Programming for
Animate Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--19
Jon A. Webb Steps Toward Architecture-Independent
Image Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
Isidore Rigoutsos and
Robert Hummel Massively Parallel Model Matching:
Geometric Hashing on the Connection
Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
A. M. Wallace and
G. J. Michaelson and
P. McAndrew and
K. G. Waugh and
W. J. Austin Dynamic Control and Prototyping of
Parallel Algorithms for Intermediate-
and High-Level Vision . . . . . . . . . 43--53
Howard Jay Siegel and
James B. Armstrong and
Daniel W. Watson Mapping Computer-Vision-Related Tasks
onto Reconfigurable Parallel-Processing
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Howard Jay Siegel and
James B. Armstrong and
Daniel W. Watson Mapping computer-vision-related tasks
onto reconfigurable parallel-processing
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Charles C. Weems and
Edward M. Riseman and
Allen R. Hanson and
P. J. Narayanan and
Ling Tony Chen and
Larry S. Davis and
Leah H. Jamieson and
Edward J. Delp and
Wang Chao-Chun and
Juan Li and
others Image understanding architecture:
Exploiting potential parallelism in
machine vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--68
P. J. Narayanan and
Ling Tony Chen and
Larry S. Davis Effective use of SIMD parallelism in
low- and intermediate-level vision . . . 68--73
Leah H. Jamieson and
Edward J. Delp and
Chao-Chun Wang and
Juan Li and
Frank J. Weil A software environment for parallel
computer vision . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Vivienne S. Begg Review of \em A Theory of Computer
Semiotics (Anderson, P. B; 1990) . . . . 118--119
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Temporal Logic for
Real-Time Systems (Ostroff, I J; 1990) 119--119
T. Y. C. Woo and
S. S. Lam `Authentication' revisited (correction
and addendum to `Authentication' for
distributed systems, Jan. 92, 39--52) 10
Thomas Y. C. Woo and
Simon S. Lam Correction: Authentication for
distributed systems . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Jakob Nielsen The Usability Engineering Life Cycle . . 12--22
Jonathan D. Reichbach and
Richard A. Kemmerer SoundWorks: An Object-Oriented
Distributed System for Digital Sound . . 25--37
Gio Wiederhold Mediators in the Architecture of Future
Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . 38--49
M. W. Bright and
A. R. Hurson and
Simin H. Pakzad A Taxonomy and Current Issues in
Multidatabase Systems . . . . . . . . . 50--60
Daniel Lenoski and
James Laudon and
Kourosh Gharachorloo and
Wolf-Dietrich Weber and
Anoop Gupta and
John Hennessy and
Mark Horowitz and
Monica S. Lam The Stanford Dash Multiprocessor . . . . 63--79
Alejandro Teruel Review of \em Object-Oriented Design
(Coed, P. and Yourdon, E.; 1991) . . . . 125--125
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Software Engineering with
Abstractions (Berzins, V, and Luqi) . . 125--126
Richard Marion Stein The Open Channel: How to forestall
electronic mutually assured destruction 128--128
Anonymous January book review: A plea for
McMathematics for engineers . . . . . . 4--4
W. Kent Fuchs and
Earl E. Swartzlander Wafer-Scale Integration: Architectures
and Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
W. Kent Fuchs and
Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr. Wafer-scale integration: Architectures
and algorithms (special issue
introduction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Robert W. Horst Task-Flow Architecture for WSI Parallel
Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--18
Robert W. Horst Task-flow architecture for WST parallel
processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--18
Koichi Yamashita and
Shohei Ikehara A Design and Yield Evaluation Technique
for Wafer-Scale Memory . . . . . . . . . 19--27
Ahmed Boubekeur and
Jean-Luc Patry and
Gabriele Saucier and
Jacques Trilhe Configuring a wafer-scale
two-dimensional array of single-bit
processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--39
Ahmed Boubekeur and
Jean-Luc Patry and
Gabriele Saucier and
Jacques Trilhe Configuring a Wafer-Scale
Two-Dimensional Array of Single-Bit
Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--39
Allan H. Anderson and
Jack I. Raffel and
Peter W. Wyatt Wafer-Scale Integration Using
Restructurable VLSI . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
Allan H. Anderson and
Jack I. Raffel and
Peter W. Wyatt Wafer-scale integration using
restructurable VLSI . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
Glenn H. Chapman and
M. Parameswaran and
Marek Syrzycki Wafer-scale transducer arrays . . . . . 50--56
Glenn H. Chapman and
M. Parameswaran and
Marek Syrzycki Wafer-scale transducer arrays . . . . . 50--56
Wojciech Maly Prospects for WSI: A Manufacturing
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
David L. Landis and
Nitin Nigam and
Joseph W. Yoder and
Vijay K. Jain and
Hiroomi Hikawa and
D. C. Keezer Project Overviews: Wafer-scale
optimization using computational
availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Vijay K. Jain and
Hiroomi Hikawa and
D. C. Keezer An architecture for WSI rapid
prototyping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--75
Anonymous Computer Society News . . . . . . . . . 76--78
Tsai-Chia Peter Chou Review of \em Neural Networks and Fuzzy
Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach to
Machine Intelligence (Kosko, B; 1992) 110--110
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Microcomputer Buses (Cram,
R. M; 1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Rana Ejaz Ahmed Review of \em High-Performance Computer
Architecture Ahmed, 2nd edn. (Stone, H.
S; 1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Paul Eggert The Open Channel: New open channels,
old-fashioned societies . . . . . . . . 112--112
Jayantha Herath Computer architectures for intelligent
systems (special issue introduction) . . 6--9
Alfred A. Rizzi and
Louis L. Whitcomb and
Daniel E. Koditschek Distributed Real-Time Control of a
Spatial Robot Juggler . . . . . . . . . 12--24
David Abramson A Very High Speed Architecture for
Simulated Annealing . . . . . . . . . . 27--36
Dan Moldovan and
Wing Lee and
Changhwa Lin and
Minhwa Chung Snap: Parallel Processing Applied to AI 39--49
Innes A. Ferguson TouringMachines: Autonomous agents with
attitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--55
James S. Albus RCS: A reference model architecture for
intelligent control . . . . . . . . . . 56--59
Claude Le Pape Using constraint propagation in
blackboard systems: A flexible software
architecture for reactive and
distributed systems . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
Ian N. Robinson Hardware to support runtime intelligence 63--66
Tzi-cker Chineh Optimization of fuzzy logic inference
architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
Tzi-cker Chiueh Optimization of fuzzy logic inference
architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
Alastair D. McAulay Optical computer architectures for
supervised learning systems . . . . . . 72--75
Yoh-Han Pao and
Yoshiyasu Takefuji Functional-link net computing: Theory,
system architecture, and functionalities 76--79
August M. Turano Review of \em Hypertext in Context
(McKnight, C., et al; 1991) . . . . . . 110--111
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Concurrent Programming:
Principles and Practice (Andrews, G. R;
1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--111
Seung-Min Yan The Open Channel: Conventional wisdom
for today's computer scientists and
engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
John Turek and
Dennis Shasha The Many Faces of Consensus in
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 8--17
Theo Pavlidis and
Jerome Swartz and
Ynjiun P. Wang Information encoding with
two-dimensional bar codes . . . . . . . 18--28
David G. Garlan and
Gail E. Kaiser and
David Notkin Using Tool Abstraction to Compose
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--38
Helnye Azaria and
Adrian Dvir An optimizing compiler for an SPAP
architecture using AI tools . . . . . . 39--48
Salim Hariri and
Alok Choudhary and
Behcet Sarikaya Architectural Support for Designing
Fault-Tolerant Open Distributed Systems 50--62
Salim Hariri and
Alok Choudhary and
Behcet Sarikaya Architectural support tor designing
fault-tolerant open distributed systems 50--62
D. Vera Edelstein and
Salvatore Mamone Standards: A standard for software
maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Programming Distributed
Systems (Bal, H. E; 1990) . . . . . . . 101--102
Z. Michael Benedek Review of \em Object-Oriented Databases
with Applications to CASE, Networks, and
VLSI CAD (Gupta, R. and Horowitz, E.,
Eds; 1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
James Brakefield The Open Channel: Distributed virtual
society and the economics of sharing . . 104
Lawrence O'Gorman and
Rangachar Kasturi Guest Editor's Introduction: Document
Image Analysis Systems . . . . . . . . . 5--8
George Nagy and
Sharad Seth and
Mahesh Viswanathan A Prototype Document Image Analysis
System for Technical Journals . . . . . 10--22
Luca Boatto and
Vincenzo Consorti and
Monica Del Buono and
Silvano Di Zenzo and
Vincenzo Eramo and
Alessandra Esposito and
Francesco Melcarne and
Marco Meucci and
Andrea Morelli and
Marco Mosciatti and
Stefano Scarci and
Marco Tucci An Interpretation System for Land
Register Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--33
Paul W. Palumbo and
Sargur N. Srihari and
Soh Jung and
Ramalingam Sridhar and
Victor Demjanenko Postal Address Block Location in Real
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--42
Pascal Vaxivi\`ere and
Karl Tombre Celesstin: CAD Conversion of Mechanical
Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--54
Shigeyoshi Shimotsuji and
Osamu Hori and
Mieko Asano and
Kaoru Suzuki and
Fumihiko Hoshino and
Toshiaki Ishii A Robust Recognition System for a
Drawing Superimposed on a Map . . . . . 56--59
Ofer Matan and
Henry S. Baird and
Jane Bromley and
Christopher J. C. Burges and
John S. Denker and
Lawrence D. Jackel and
Le Cun Yann and
Edwin P. D. Pednault and
William D. Satterfield and
Charles E. Stenard and
others Reading Handwritten Digits: A ZIP Code
Recognition System . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
Andreas Dengel and
Rainer Bleisinger and
Rainer Hoch and
Frank Fein and
Frank Hones From Paper to Office Document Standard
Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--67
Tomio Amano and
Akio Yamashita and
Nobuyasu Itoh and
Yoshinao Kobayashi and
Shin Katoh and
Kazuharu Toyokawa and
Hiroyasu Takahashi DRS: A workstation-based document
recognition system for text entry . . . 67--71
Tomio Amano and
Akio Yamashita and
Nobuyasu Itoh and
Yoshinao Kobayashi and
Shin Katoh and
Kazuharu Toyokawa and
Hiroyasu Takahashi DRS: A Workstation-Based Document
Recognition System for Text Entry . . . 67--71
Habib Goraine and
Mike Usher and
Samir Al-Emami Off-line Arabic character recognition 71--74
Habib Goraine and
Mike Usher and
Samir Al-Emami Off-Line Arabic Character Recognition 71--74
Robert P. Futrelle and
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris and
Jeff Alexander and
Catherine M. Carriero and
Nikos Nikolakis and
Joseph M. Futrelle Understanding Diagrams in Technical
Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--78
Anonymous Powerful CASE on the Mac . . . . . . . . 84--87
Ross Alan Stapleton News from the Committee on Public Policy
--- Opening doors in the global village 94--96
Imrich Chlamtac Review of \em Data Networks, 2nd edn.
(Bertsekas, D., and Gallager, R; 1992) 110--110
James W. Berkovec Review of \em Mirror Worlds (Gelernter,
D; 1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Robert G. Estell The Open Channel: Two heads are better
than one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Andrew S. Tanenbaum and
M. Frans Kaashoek and
Henri E. Bal Parallel Programming Using Shared
Objects and Broadcasting . . . . . . . . 10--19
Andrew S. Tannenbaum and
M. Frans Kaashoek and
Henri E. Bal Parallel programming using shared
objects and broadcasting . . . . . . . . 10--19
John T. F. Feddema and
C. S. George Lee and
O. Robert Mitchell Model-based visual feedback control for
a hand-eye coordinated robotic system 21--31
John T. Feddema and
C. S. George Lee and
O. Robert Mitchell Model-Based Visual Feedback Control for
a Hand-Eye Coordinated Robotic System 21--31
Leon Alkalaj and
Tomas Lang and
Milos D. Ercegovac Architectural Support for Goal
Management in Flat Concurrent Prolog . . 34--47
Darrell R. Raymond Flexible Text Display with Lector . . . 49--60
Brad A. Myers Demonstrational Interfaces: A Step
Beyond Direct Manipulation . . . . . . . 61--73
Anonymous Computer Society News . . . . . . . . . 74--76
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous Product Reviews: What light through
yonder Windows 3.1? . . . . . . . . . . 81--86
Al Wegener Review of \em Data Compression, 3rd edn.
(Held, G; 1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Thomas F. Collura and
Ernest C. Jacobs and
Richard C. Burgess and
John P. Turnbull The Epilog system: Automated long-term
EEG monitoring for epilepsy . . . . . . 5--14
Thomas F. Collura and
Ernest C. Jacobs and
Richard C. Burgess and
John P. Turnbull The Epilog system --- automated
long-term EEG monitoring for epilepsy 5--14
Guy A. Story and
Lawrence O'Gorman and
David Fox and
Louise Levy Schaper and
H. V. Jagadish The RightPages image-based electronic
library for alerting and browsing . . . 17--26
Guy A. Story and
Lawrence O'Gorman and
David Fox and
Louise Levy Schaper and
H. V. Jagadish The RightPages Image-Based Electronic
Library for Alerting and Browsing . . . 17--26
Allen L. Ambler and
Margaret M. Burnett and
Betsy A. Zimmerman Operational Versus Definitional: A
Perspective on Programming Paradigms . . 28--43
Erik Hagersten and
Anders Landin and
Seif Haridi DDM --- A Cache-Only Memory Architecture 44--54
Erik H. Hagersten and
Anders Landin and
Seif Haridi DDM --- A cache-only memory architecture 44--54
A. S. M. Sajeev and
A. J. Hurst Programming Persistence in $\chi$ . . . 57--66
J. Robert Ashley and
Fletcher Buckley Standards: Point/counterpoint: Safety
standards for CRT visual display units 68--70
J. R. Ashley and
F. Buckley Standards: Point/counterpoint: safety
standards for CRT visual display units 68--70
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Real-Time Expert Systems
Computer Architecture (Hodson, R. F. and
Kandel, A; 1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Robert C. Birss Review of \em Literate Programming
(Knuth, D. E; 1992) . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
David C. Rine and
Bharat Bhargava Guest Editors' Introduction:
Object-Oriented Computing . . . . . . . 6--10
Peter Wegner Dimensions of Object-Oriented Modeling 12--20
Peter Wegner Dimensions of object-oriented modeling 12--20
Robert G. Fichman and
Chris F. Kemerer Object-Oriented and Conventional
Analysis and Design Methodologies . . . 22--39
Robert G. Fichman and
Chris F. Kemerer Object-oriented and conventional
analysis and design methodologies . . . 22--39
Bertrand Meyer Applying ``Design by Contract'' . . . . 40--51
David Ungar and
Randall B. Smith and
Craig Chambers and
Urs Holzle Object, message, and performance: how
they coexist in Self . . . . . . . . . . 53--64
Yutaka Ishikawa and
Hideyuki Tokuda and
Clifford W. Mercer An object-oriented real-time programming
language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Yutaka Ishikawa and
Hideyuki Tokuda and
Clifford W. Mercer An Object-Oriented Real-Time Programming
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
David L. Wells and
José A. Blakeley and
Craig W. Thompson Architecture of an Open Object-Oriented
Database Management System . . . . . . . 74--82
Parris K. Egbert and
William J. Kubitz Application Graphics Modeling Support
Through Object Orientation . . . . . . . 84--91
Anonymous Computer Society News . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Product Reviews: OS/2 Version 2.0 . . . 97--101
R. W. Hamming Review of \em John von Neumann and the
Origins of Modern Computing (Aspray, W;
1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Michael Conrad Guest Editor's Introduction: Molecular
Computing Paradigms . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Michael Conrad Molecular computing paradigms (special
issue introduction) . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Michael Conrad Molecular Computing: The Lock-Key
Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
Myles H. C. Capstick and
W. P. Liam Marnane and
Ronald Pethig Biologic Computational Building Blocks 22--29
Stuart R. Hameroff and
Judith E. Dayhoff and
Rafael Lahoz-Beltra and
Alexei V. Samsonovich and
Steen Rasmussen Models for Molecular Computation:
Conformational Automata in the
Cytoskeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--39
Takafumi Aoki and
Michitaka Kameyama and
Tatsuo Higuchi Interconnection-Free Biomolecular
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51
Takafumi Aoki and
Michitaka Kameyama and
Tatsuo Higuchi Interconnection-free biomolecular
computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51
Nikolay G. Rambidi An Approach to Computational Complexity:
Nondiscrete Biomolecular Computing . . . 51--54
Robert R. Birge Protein-based optical computing and
memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--67
Robert R. Birge Protein-Based Optical Computing and
Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--67
David Gries and
Dorothy Marsh The 1990--91 Taulbee Survey Report . . . 69--75
Peter M. Todd Hot Topics: Two approaches to machine
intelligence --- The animat path to
intelligent adaptive behavior . . . . . 78, 81
Michael Conrad Hot Topics: Two Approaches to Machine
Intelligence: Toward an Artificial Brain 79--80
Marvin V. Zelkowitz and
Fletcher J. Buckley Standards: Are software engineering
process standards really necessary? . . 82--84
Anonymous Computer Society News . . . . . . . . . 86--90
Suzanne P. Weisband and
Seymour E. Goodman News from the Committee on Public Policy
--- International software piracy . . . 87--90
Wayne. Burleson Review of \em Digital Signal Processing:
Theory and Applications and Hardware
(Haddad, R. A., and Parsons T. W; 1991) 126--126
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Microcontrollers:
Architecture and Implementation and
Programming (Hintz, K. and Tabak, D;
1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Janusz Zalewski Review of \em Verification of Sequential
and Concurrent Programs (Apt, K. R. and
Olderog, E.-R.; 1991) . . . . . . . . . 127--127
Chuck Simmons The Open Channel: The dining
philosophers at Thanksgiving dinner . . 128--128
Robert D. Bliss Open Channel: It's the law . . . . . . . 12
W. Richards Adrion and
Edward D. Lazowska and
Andries Van Dam From discipline in crisis to mature
science: Evolving needs for computing
research infrastructure . . . . . . . . 18--24
Thomas E. Bihari and
Prabha Gopinath Object-oriented real-time systems:
Concepts and examples . . . . . . . . . 25--32
Thomas E. Bihari and
Prabha Gopinath Object-Oriented Real-Time Systems:
Concepts and Examples . . . . . . . . . 25--32
Niranjan G. Shivaratri and
Phillip Krueger and
Mukesh Singhal Load Distributing for Locally
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
Harold S. Stone Copyrights and Author Responsibilities 46--51
Marc H. Brown and
John Hershberger Color and Sound in Algorithm Animation 52--63
D. M. Siefert and
G. E. Stark Standards: Software reliability
handbook: Achieving reliable software 64--66
David M. Siefert and
George E. Stark Standards: Software reliability
handbook: Achieving reliable software 64--66
John W. Balde Hot Topics: Trends in advanced packaging
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Anonymous Computer Society News . . . . . . . . . 71--72
Anonymous 1992 Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . 107--117
Lisa Anneberg Review of \em An Integrated Approach to
Software Engineering (Jalote, P; 1991) 118
Y. V. Ramana Reddy and
Kanakanahalli Srinivas and
V. Jagannathan and
Raghu Karinthi Guest Editors' Introduction: Computer
Support for Concurrent Engineering . . . 12
Prasun Dewan and
John Riedl Toward Computer-Supported Concurrent
Software Engineering . . . . . . . . . . 17--27
Mark R. Cutkosky and
Robert S. Engelmore and
Richard E. Fikes and
Michael R. Genesereth and
Thomas R. Gruber and
W. S. Mark and
J. M. Tenenbaum and
J. C. Weber PACT: An Experiment in Integrating
Concurrent Engineering Systems . . . . . 28--37
Mark Klein Capturing Design Rationale in Concurrent
Engineering Teams . . . . . . . . . . . 39--47
B. Chandrasekaran and
Ashok K. Goel and
Yumi Iwasaki Functional Representation as Design
Rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--56
Satyandra K. Gupta and
Dana S. Nau and
Guangming Zhang Project Overviews: Concurrent Evaluation
of Machinability During Product Design 61--63
Duvvuru Sriram and
Robert Logcher The MIT Dice Project . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
James Bowen and
Dennis Bahler Constraint-Based Software for Concurrent
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--68
Chris Tong and
Andrew Gomory A Knowledge-Based Computer Environment
for the Conceptual Design of Small
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Goopeel Chung and
Kevin Jeffay and
Hussein Abdel-Wahab Accommodating Latecomers in Shared
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Reed Letsinger Automated Concurrent Engineering in
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Alan H. Karp and
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P. A. Subrahmanyam Hot Topics: Hardware-Software Codesign:
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Gerald M. Karam and
Ronald S. Casselman A Cataloging Framework for Software
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Lionel M. Ni and
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G. G. Robertson and
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M. Moshell Hot Topics: Three views of virtual
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Peter M. Athanas and
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Tarek K. Abdel-Hamid Adapting, Correcting, and Perfecting
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Sriram Sankar and
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Richard Staehli and
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Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message . . . . . . . 6
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David P. LaPotin and
Toufie R. Mazzawy and
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Paul D. Franzon and
Robert J. Evans A Multichip Module Design Process for
Notebook Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
Claus M. Habiger and
R. Mike Lea Hybrid-WSI: A Massively Parallel
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Ranga Vemuri and
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Peyman H. Dehkordi and
Donald W. Bouldin Design for Packageability: Early
consideration of Packaging from a VLSI
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N. F. Schneidewind Standards: New software-quality metrics
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Gultekin Ozsoyoglu and
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Andrew S. Grimshaw Easy-to-Use Object-Oriented Parallel
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Anonymous Area Editor's Message . . . . . . . . . 6
Richard F. Freund and
Howard Jay Siegel Guest Editors' Introduction:
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Ashfaq A. Khokhar and
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Martin C. Rinard and
Daniel J. Scales and
Monica S. Lam Jade: A High-Level Machine-Independent
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Gabriel M. Silberman and
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John R. Nicol and
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Frank J. Rinaldo and
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Arif Ghafoor and
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Adam Beguelin and
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T. E. Hutchinson Hot topics; eye gaze computer
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Pamela Zave Feature Interactions and Formal
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Richard Kuhn and
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Ted S. Phillips Improving Public Switched Network
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Alan Fekete Formal Models of Communication Services:
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Hugo Velthuijsen Distributed Artificial Intelligence for
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Omran A. Bukhres and
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Katia Obraczka and
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Michael F. Schwartz Internet Resource Discovery at the
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Arthur Chai and
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Algirdas Pakstas and
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Lui Sha and
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Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 4
Ahmed Sameh and
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Paul R. Woodward Interactive Scientific Visualization of
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Ahmed K. Noor and
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David A. Case Computer Simulations of Protein Dynamics
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Christopher R. Johnson and
Robert S. MacLeod and
Michael A. Matheson Computational Medicine: Bioelectric
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R. C. Bamford and
W. J. Deibler, II Standards: Comparing, contrasting ISO
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Gruia-Catalin Roman and
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Alan S. Wenban and
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Roger Clarke Asimov's Laws of Robotics: Implications
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Larry Press Software Export from Developing Nations 62--67
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Lui Sha Guest Editor's Introduction: Industrial
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Mark H. Klein and
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Nicholas Malcolm and
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David J. Lilja Exploiting the Parallelism Available in
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Kenneth D. Shere and
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Grace Baratta-Perez and
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Yale N. Patt Guest Editor's Introduction: The I/O
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Y. N. Patt The I/O subsystem --- a candidate for
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Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Software Challenges . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Treasurer's Message and Auditor's Report 5
Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 12
M. Cheek Industry Trends: 32-bit computing: road
to confusion? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--14
Arie E. Kaufman Guest Editor's Introduction:
Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Ravi Samtaney and
Deborah Silver and
Norman Zabusky and
Jim Cao Visualizing Features and Tracking Their
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--27
Vishwa Ranjan and
Alain Fournier Volume Models for Volumetric Data . . . 28--36
Vinod Anupam and
Chandrajit Bajaj and
Daniel Schikore and
Matthew Schikore Distributed and Collaborative
Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--43
Jaswinder Pal Singh and
Anoop Gupta and
Marc Levoy Parallel Visualization Algorithms:
Performance and Architectural
Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
William Ribarsky and
Eric Ayers and
John Eble and
Sougata Mukherjea Glyphmaker: Creating Customized
Visualizations of Complex Data . . . . . 57--64
William L. Hibbard and
Brian E. Paul and
David A. Santek and
Charles R. Dyer and
Andre L. Battaiola and
Marie-Françoise Voidrot-Martinez Interactive visualization of Earth and
space science computations . . . . . . . 65--72
Andrew J. Hanson and
Tamara Munzner and
George Francis Interactive Methods for Visualizable
Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--83
Al Globus and
Eric Raible Fourteen Ways to Say Nothing with
Scientific Visualization . . . . . . . . 86--88
T. M. Rhyne Hot Topics: Collaborative modeling and
visualization: an EPA HPCC initiative 92--93
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
J. Alger How to stop worrying and start loving
C++. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
C. Jones Software Challenges: Economics of
software reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Anonymous CS News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Rohit Chandra and
Anoop Gupta and
John L. Hennessy COOL: An object-based language for
parallel programming . . . . . . . . . . 13--26
Ben Lee and
A. R. Hurson Dataflow Architectures and
Multithreading . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
Russ Miller Special Report: The Status of Parallel
Processing Education . . . . . . . . . . 40
Don Coleman and
Dan Ash and
Bruce Lowther and
Paul Oman Using Metrics to Evaluate Software
System Maintainability . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Norman F. Schneidewind Validating metrics for ensuring Space
Shuttle flight software quality . . . . 50--57
Ted G. Lewis Where Is Computing Headed? . . . . . . . 59--63
Anonymous CS News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous Software Challenges . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous Hot Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Product Reveiws . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous President's Message . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Paul Oman Guest Editors' Introduction: Software
Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Robert B. Grady Successfully Applying Software Metrics 18--25
Edward F. Weller Using Metrics to Manage Software
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--33
David L. Lanning and
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Modeling the Relationship Between Source
Code Complexity and Maintenance
Difficulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
George Stark and
Robert C. Durst and
C. W. Vowell Using Metrics in Management Decision
Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--48
Daniel J. Paulish and
Anita D. Carleton Case Studies of
Software-Process-Improvement Measurement 50--57
Joseph R. Horgan and
Saul London and
Michael R. Lyu Achieving Software Quality with Testing
Coverage Measures . . . . . . . . . . . 60--69
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and
Norman Fenton and
Stella Page Evaluating Software Engineering
Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79
Anonymous CS News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
R. Voigt Standards: Evolving buses: backplane
buses mature to keep pace with
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
D. Berleant and
H. Berghel Hot Topics: Customizing information. 1.
Getting what we need, when we need it 96--98
C. Jones Software Challenges: Software metrics:
good, bad and missing . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Alvin R. Lebeck and
David A. Wood Cache Profiling and the SPEC Benchmarks:
A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--26
Ahmed Louri and
Hongki Sung 3D Optical Interconnects for High-Speed
Interchip and Interboard Communications 27--37
Harold W. Thimbleby and
Stuart Inglis and
Ian H. Witten Displaying 3D Images: Algorithms for
Single-Image Random-Dot Stereograms . . 38--48
Ronald J. Vetter and
Chris Spell and
Charles Ward Mosaic and the World Wide Web . . . . . 49--57
Joseph G. Skazinski Porting Ada: A Report From the Field . . 58--64
Nancy G. Leveson High-Pressure Steam Engines and Computer
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Intellectual property
protection: everything you've always
wanted to know . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
D. Berleant and
H. Berghel Hot Topics: Customizing information. 2.
How successful are we so far? . . . . . 76--78
Anonymous Software Challenges . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Editor-in Chief's Message . . . . . . . 5
M. Snell Industry Trends: Supercomputing: same
name, different game . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anargyros Krikelis and
Charles C. Weems Guest Editors' Introduction: Associative
Processing and Processors . . . . . . . 12--17
Jerry Potter and
Johnnie Baker and
Stephen Scott and
Arvind Bansal and
Chokchai Leangsuksun and
Chandra Asthagiri ASC: An Associative-Computing Paradigm 19--25
Kirk Twardowski An Associative Architecture for Genetic
Algorithm-Based Machine Learning . . . . 27--38
Djamshid Tavangarian Flag-Oriented Parallel Associative
Architectures and Applications . . . . . 41--52
Tetsuya Higuchi and
Kennichi Handa and
Naoto Takahashi and
Tatsumi Furuya and
Hitoshi Iida and
E. Sumita and
O. Oi and
H. Kitano The IXM2 Parallel Associative Processor
for AI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--63
Ahmed H. Louri and
James A. Hatch, Jr. An Optical Associative Parallel
Processor for High-Speed Database
Processing. Theoretical Concepts and
Experimental Results . . . . . . . . . . 65--72
Borko Furht Parallel Computing: Glory and Collapse 74--75
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Software Challenges . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
J. E. White Hot Topics: Mobile agents make a network
an open platform for third-party
developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Robo-Mop gets wrung out
(software-related patents) . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous Standards: Streamlining the standards
development process . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Charles Rich and
Richard C. Waters and
Carol Strohecker and
Yves Schabes and
William T. Freeman and
Mark C. Torrance and
Andrew R. Golding and
Michal Roth Demonstration of an Interactive
Multimedia Environment . . . . . . . . . 15--22
Martin W. Sachs and
Avraham Leff and
Denise Sevigny LAN and I/O convergence: A survey of the
issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--32
Thomas Gross and
Susan Hinrichs and
David R. O'Hallaron and
Thomas Stricker and
Atsushi Hasegawa Communication Styles for Parallel
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--44
Al Gore Innovation Delayed Is Innovation Denied 45--47
Gay A. Wood and
Seymour E. Goodman and
Jan Roos Information Technologies in South
Africa: Problems and Prospects . . . . . 48--56
Mark Davies and
Kris Pettersen and
Shankar Srinivasen and
Katherine Kinsman The Challenges of Designing Groupware: A
Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--62
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
S. Berczuk Hot Topics: Finding solutions through
pattern languages . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
C. Jones Software Challenges: Build, buy, or
outsource? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Is the Patent Office
correctly examining computer-related
patent applications? Part 1 . . . . . . 78--79
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous President's Message . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Binary Critic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hossein Saiedian and
Richard Kuzara SEI Capability Maturity Model's Impact
on Contractors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--26
Avigdor Gal and
Opher Etzion Maintaining Data-Driven Rules in
Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--38
Nicholas Carriero and
Eric Freeman and
David Gelernter and
David Kaminsky Adaptive parallelism and Piranha . . . . 40--49
Mark Lomas and
Bruce Christianson Remote booting in a hostile world: to
whom am I speaking? . . . . . . . . . . 50--54
Robert L. Glass In Search of Self-Belief: The ``BOP''
Phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57
David J. Musliner and
James A. Hendler and
Ashok K. Agrawala and
Edmund H. Durfee and
Jay K. Strosnider and
C. J. Paul The Challenges of Real-Time AI . . . . . 58--66
Alan H. Karp and
Michael Heath and
Don Heller and
Horst Simon Special Report: 1994 Gordon Bell Prize
Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Capers Jones Software Challenges: How office space
affects programming productivity . . . . 76--77
Ronald J. Vetter Hot Topics: Videoconferencing on the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Is the Patent Office
correctly examining computer-related
patent applications? 2 . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Binary Critic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Apostolos Dollas and
Nick Kanopoulos Guest Editors' Introduction: Reducing
the Time to Market Through Rapid
Prototyping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Peter M. Athanas and
A. Lynn Abbott Real-Time Image Processing on a Custom
Computing Platform . . . . . . . . . . . 16--24
Luiz Andre Barroso and
Sasan Iman and
Jaeheon Jeong and
Koray Oner and
Michel Dubois and
Krishnan Ramamurthy RPM: A Rapid Prototyping Engine for
Multiprocessor Systems . . . . . . . . . 26--34
Rudy Lauwereins and
Marc Engels and
Marleen Ade and
J. A. Peperstraete Grape-II: a System-Level Prototyping
Environment for DSP Applications . . . . 35--43
Tarek Ben Ismail and
Ahmed Amine Jerraya Synthesis Steps and Design Models for
Codesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--52
Reid A. Baldwin and
Moon Jung Chung A Formal Approach to Managing Design
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Niklaus Wirth A Plea for Lean Software . . . . . . . . 64--68
David A. Wood and
Mark D. Hill Cost-Effective Parallel Computing . . . 69--72
Capers Jones Software Challenges: Determining
software schedules . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
Anonymous Hot Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Mark A. Richards Simulation libraries for system-level
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous Computer Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Binary Critic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Margaret M. Burnett and
David W. McIntyre Guest Editors' Introduction: Visual
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Alexander Repenning and
Tamara Sumner Agentsheets: A Medium for Creating
Domain-Oriented Visual Languages . . . . 17--25
Takayuki Dan Kimura and
Ajay Apte and
Samudra Sengupta and
Julie W. Chan Form/formula: a visual programming
paradigm for user-definable user
interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--35
Gabor Karsai A Configurable Visual Programming
Environment: A Tool for Domain-Specific
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--44
Margaret M. Burnett and
Marla J. Baker and
Carisa Bohus and
Paul Carlson and
Sherry Yang and
Pieter van Zee Scaling Up Visual Programming Languages 45--54
Gennaro Costagliola and
Genoveffa Tortora and
Sergio Orefice and
Andrea De Lucia Automatic Generation of Visual
Programming Environments . . . . . . . . 56--66
Richard M. Adler Emerging Standards for Component
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--77
Ware Myers Taligent's CommonPoint: The Promise of
Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
G. Bull and
R. Geyer and
D. Arkinn and
C. Appert Hot Topics: Current technologies in
K--12 education . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
C. Jones Software Challenges: Patterns of large
software systems: failure and success 86--87
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
I. H. Donner Computer law: GATT is gonna get ya! . . 98--100
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Media Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Binary Critic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Richard M. Adler Distributed Coordination Models for
Client/Server Computing . . . . . . . . 14--22
Maya Gokhale and
Bill Holmes and
Ken Iobst Processing in memory: the Terasys
massively parallel PIM array . . . . . . 23--31
Margaret Martonosi and
Anoop Gupta and
Thomas E. Anderson Tuning Memory Performance of Sequential
and Parallel Programs . . . . . . . . . 32--40
Alan Wood Predicting Client/Server Availability 41--48
Ted G. Lewis Where Is Client/Server Software Headed? 49--55
Jonathan P. Bowen and
Michael G. Hinchey Ten Commandments of Formal Methods . . . 56--63
Fred W. Weingarten Update: Federal research funding:
reading the tea leaves . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Jorg Liebeherr Hot Topics: Multimedia networks: issues
and challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Capers Jones Software Challenges: Gaps in programming
education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Irah H. Donner Computer Law: Billings taxes Novell with
a novel patent-infringement claim . . . 72--73
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
C. Blank The FSN challenge: large-scale
interactive TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
Borko Furht and
Deven Kalra and
Frederick L. Kitson and
Arturo A. Rodriguez and
William E. Wall Design issues for interactive television
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--39
D. James Gemmell and
Harrick M. Vin and
Dilip D. Kandlur and
P. Venkat Rangan and
Lawrence A. Rowe Multimedia storage servers: a tutorial 40--49
Klara Nahrstedt and
Ralf Steinmetz Resource management in networked
multimedia systems . . . . . . . . . . . 52--63
Robert Simon and
Donald Krieger and
Taieb Znati and
Raymond Lofink and
Robert J. Sclabassi Multimedia MedNet: a medical
collaboration and consultation system 65--73
Beverly Park Woolf and
Wendy Hall Multimedia pedagogues: interactive
systems for teaching and learning . . . 74--80
I. H. Donner Be careful about disclosing your
invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
C. G. Thomas BASAR: a framework for integrating
agents in the World Wide Web . . . . . . 84--86
C. Jones Legal status of software engineering . . 98--99
F. W. Weingarten On-line access to government information 100--101
T. Lewis Binary Critic: Where the big money is 6--7
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
John A. Stankovic and
Marco Spuri and
Marco Di Natale and
Giorgio C. Buttazzo Implications of Classical Scheduling
Results for Real-Time Systems . . . . . 16--25
Oryal Tanir and
Vinod K. Agarwal and
P. C. P. Bhatt A Specification-Driven Architectural
Design Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 26--35
Wade Walker and
Harvey G. Cragon Interrupt Processing in Concurrent
Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--46
Jeffrey A. Clark and
Dhiraj K. Pradhan Fault Injection: A Method for Validating
Computer-System Dependability . . . . . 47--56
Duane K. Boman International Survey:
Virtual-Environment Research . . . . . . 57--65
Larry Press Resources for Networks in
Less-Industrialized Nations . . . . . . 66--71
Beth A. Schroeder On-Line Monitoring: A Tutorial . . . . . 72--78
S. Hamilton Special Report: Evolving the HPCCI.
Recommendations from the NRC/CSTB 1995
Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--81
P. Ram and
D. K. Rand Internet Kiosk: Satan: double-edged
sword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Patent or perish: the best
defense is a good offense . . . . . . . 84--85
C. Jones Software Challenges: Why is technology
transfer so hard? . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Technical Activity Forum . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Treasurer's and Auditor's Reports . . . 5
Anonymous Binary Critic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
C. Bournellis Industry Trends: CD-ROM technology takes
off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 15
David R. Pratt and
Michael Zyda and
Kristen Kelleher Guest Editors' Introduction: Virtual
Reality --- In the Mind of the Beholder 17--19
John G. Goble and
Ken Hinckley and
Randy Pausch and
John W. Snell and
Neal F. Kassell Two-Handed Spatial Interface Tools for
Neurosurgical Planning . . . . . . . . . 20--26
Larry F. Hodges and
Rob Kooper and
Thomas C. Meyer and
Barbara O. Rothbaum and
Dan Opdyke and
Johannes J. de Graaff and
James S. Williford and
Max M. North Virtual Environments for Treating the
Fear of Heights . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--34
Jon Kuhl and
Douglas Evans and
Yiannis Papelis and
Richard Romano and
Ginger Watson The Iowa Driving Simulator: an immersive
research environment . . . . . . . . . . 35--41
Wolfgang Kruger and
Christian-A. Bohn and
Bernd Frohlich and
Heinrich Schuth and
Wolfgang Strauss and
Gerold Wesche The Responsive Workbench: A Virtual Work
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--48
Thomas W. Mastaglio and
Robert Callahan A Large-Scale Complex Virtual
Environment for Team Training . . . . . 49--56
Michael F. Polis and
Stephen J. Gifford and
David M. McKeown, Jr. Automating the Construction of
Large-Scale Virtual Worlds . . . . . . . 57--65
Anonymous IEEE-CS Membership Application . . . . . 64A
Ralph E. Gomory National Productivity and Computers . . 66--72
M. T. Bolas and
I. McDowall and
R. Mead Hot Topics: Applications drive VR
interface selection . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
Fred W. Weingarten Update: Sole source for science funding:
Yea or Nay? ENIAC computer co-inventor
J. Presper Eckert dies . . . . . . . . . 76--78
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Software Challenges . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index and Reader
Service Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Product Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Intellectual property
protection for multimedia applications.
1. So many flavors, so little time . . . 92--93
T.-M. Rhyne Internet Kiosk: Scientific visualization
and technology transfer: an EPA case
study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--96
Anonymous Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 98
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Binary Critic --- Windows 95: Next step
to desktop NT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Ted Lewis and
Dave Power and
Bertrand Meyer and
Jack Grimes and
Mike Potel and
Ron Vetter and
Phil Laplante and
Wolfgang Pree and
Gustav Pomberger and
Mark Hill and
James Larus and
David Wood and
Hesham El-Rewini and
Bruce W. Weide Where Is Software Headed? A Virtual
Roundtable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--32
Ran Giladi and
Niv Ahituv SPEC as a Performance Evaluation Measure 33--42
Anneliese von Mayrhauser and
A. Marie Vans Program Comprehension During Software
Maintenance and Evolution . . . . . . . 44--55
Vladimir Estivill-Castro Computer science research in Mexico . . 56--62
Kenneth L. Kraemer and
Jason Dedrick From Nationalism to Pragmatism: IT
Policy in China . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--73
Shahid H. Bokhari The Linux Operating System . . . . . . . 74--79
J. Murray Of deck chairs, suits, and quiz shows
(Internet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
C. Severance Standards: The value of the formal
standards process . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Capers Jones Software Challenges: What goes into an
information warehouse? . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum --- Parallel
Processing TC: Status and activities . . 86
Clint Jurgens Hot Topics: Fibre Channel: a connection
to the future . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--90
Anonymous Product Reviews --- C++ class libraries,
Part 2; virtual Unix for PCs . . . . . . 91
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Intellectual property
protection for multimedia application.
2. Putting the pieces together . . . . . 99--100
Anonymous Update --- Software engineers surveyed;
mythical man-month . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Irah H. Donner Letters to the Editor: The purpose of
patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Marilyn Potes The \em Computer 100 . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
T. Lewis Living in real time, side A (What is the
Info Age?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Erin English Industry Trends: Groupware makes its
market move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--14
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Venkat N. Gudivada and
Vijay V. Raghavan Guest Editors' Introduction:
Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems 18--22
Myron Flickner and
Harpreet Sawhney and
Wayne Niblack and
Jonathan Ashley and
Qian Huang and
Byron Dom and
Monika Gorkani and
Jim Hafner and
Denis Lee and
Dragutin Petkovic and
David Steele and
Peter Yanker Query by Image and Video Content: The
QBIC System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--32
Anne Brink and
Sherry Marcus and
V. S. Subrahmanian Heterogeneous Multimedia Reasoning . . . 33--39
Virginia E. Ogle and
Michael Stonebraker Chabot: Retrieval from a Relational
Database of Images . . . . . . . . . . . 40--48
Rohini K. Srihari Automatic Indexing and Content-Based
Retrieval of Captioned Images . . . . . 49--56
Rajiv Mehrotra and
James E. Gary Similar-Shape Retrieval In Shape Data
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62
H. Berghel Internet Kiosk: Using the WWW Test
Pattern to check HTML client compliance 63--65
C. Severance Standards: What is a profile? (computer
standards) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
I. H. Donnar Computer Law: Photocopyright
infringement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
C. Jones Software Challenges: End-user
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70
Michael Israel Technical Activities Forum: Design
Automation Technical Committee . . . . . 71--72
Anonymous IEEE Computer Society Election: Nominees
for Computer Society office and Board of
Governors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--82
Fred W. Weingarten Update: Office of Technology Assessment
to be abolished . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--84
Alex Stoyenko Hot Topics: Engineering complex computer
systems: A challenge for computer types
everywhere. Part I: Let's agree on what
these systems are . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Richard Eckhouse Product Reviews: Windows 95: A preview 89--91
David C. Sastry and
Cristian P. Masgras A paperless office? . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
John Cratty Delphi: Visual programming in action . . 93--95
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 100--107
Paul Carpenter The Open Channel: Never mind the
functionality, look at the graphics! A
cautionary tale . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Letters to the Editor: Windows 95 . . . 6
Anonymous Living in real time, side B (Where will
the brain power come from?) . . . . . . 8--10
Anonymous Industry Trends: TCP/IP update . . . . . 12
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Sowmitri Swamy and
Arthur Molin and
Burt Covnot OO-VHDL. Object-oriented extensions to
VHDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--26
Judith D. Ahrens and
Noah S. Prywes Transition to a legacy- and reuse-based
software life cycle . . . . . . . . . . 27--36
Prithviraj Banerjee and
John A. Chandy and
Manish Gupta and
Eugene W. Hodges IV and
John G. Holm and
Antonio Lain and
Daniel J. Palermo and
Shankar Ramaswamy and
Ernesto Su The Paradigm compiler for
distributed-memory multicomputers . . . 37--47
Emdad H. Khan and
Mansoor Al-A'ali and
Moheb R. Girgis Object-Oriented Programming for
Structured Procedural Programmers . . . 48--57
Hesham El-Rewini and
Scott Hamilton Object Technology: A Virtual Roundtable 58--59
Yen-Ping Shan and
Ralph Earle and
Skip McGaughey Distributed Objects: Rounding out the
Picture: Objects Across the
Client-Server Spectrum . . . . . . . . . 60--60
Abdelsalam Helal and
Ran Badrachalam Distributed Objects: COM versus CORBA:
Will Microsoft Come Out on Top? . . . . 61--62
Andrew A. Chien Parallelism and Objects: Scalable
Parallel Systems $?=?$ Scalable Object
Request Brokers . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Andrew Grimshaw Parallelism and Objects: Parallel
Processing and OT . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Byung S. Lee Object Databases: Object-Oriented
Databases: Systems and Standards . . . . 64--65
Andrew E. Wade Object Databases: Where are Object
Databases Headed? . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
Dave Morse Object Databases: OODBSs and the
Marriage of Network and Relational
Database Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Ahmed Elmagarmid and
Evaggelia Pitoura Object Databases: Using Object
Technology for Database System
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Robert Binder Software Quality and Object Orientation:
Trends in Testing Object-Oriented
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Peter Wegner Theoretical Foundations: Interactive
Foundations of Object-Based Programming 70--72
Judith Gal-Ezer and
Catriel Beeri and
David Harel and
Amiram Yehudai A High School Program in Computer
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80
Anonymous IEEE-CS Membership Application . . . . . 80A
Anonymous Intel's teraflop computer . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous TV standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Ground rules for software
maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum: Computer
Architecture TC . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous OOAD tools, part III . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Perl on the Net . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Product Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index and Reader
Service Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
J. L. Hill Standards: Publicly available
specification. A new paradigm for
developing international standards . . . 97--98
R. Oppliger Internet Kiosk: Internet security enters
the Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
C. Jones Software Challenges: Software
benchmarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Open Channel: Miss Manners looks at
netiquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Letters to the Editor: Where Is Software
Headed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
T. Lewis Binary Critic: HP means high-powered:
FutureBusiness, side A . . . . . . . . . 6--8
Anonymous Industry Trends: Security still lacking
in SNMP upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Cherri M. Pancake and
Margaret L. Simmons and
Jerry C. Yan Guest Editors' Introduction: Performance
Evaluation Tools for Parallel and
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Michael T. Heath and
Allen D. Malony and
Diane T. Rover The Visual Display of Parallel
Performance Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28
Hank Jakiela Performance Visualization of a
Distributed System: A Case Study . . . . 30--36
Barton P. Miller and
Mark D. Callaghan and
Jonathan M. Cargille and
Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth and
R. Bruce Irvin and
Karen L. Karavanic and
Krishna Kunchithapadam and
Tia Newhall The Paradyn Parallel Performance
Measurement Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
Thomas Fahringer Estimating and Optimizing Performance
for Parallel Programs . . . . . . . . . 47--56
Daniel A. Reed and
Keith A. Shields and
Will H. Scullin and
Luis F. Tavera and
Christopher L. Elford Virtual Reality and Parallel Systems
Performance Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 57--67
Anonymous IEEE-CS Membership Application . . . . . 64A
Thomas T. Kwan and
Robert E. McGrath and
Daniel A. Reed NCSA's World Wide Web Server: Design and
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Anonymous Product Reviews: QNX operating system 75
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index and Reader
Service Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Bob Carlson Update: A jolt of Java could shake up
the computing community . . . . . . . . 81--82
D. Berleant and
B. Liu Internet Kiosk: Robert's rules of order
for e-mail meetings . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Anonymous Computer Law: Hazards in Internet
software exchange . . . . . . . . . . . 86
C. Jones Software Challenges: Backfiring:
converting lines of code to function
points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
R. Singh The Software Life Cycle Processes
standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum:
Computer-generated music . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Open Channel: Candidates for change? . . 112
Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message: The real
world of computing . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous IEEE-CS Membership Application . . . . . 6
Anonymous Binary Critic: The Nethead Gang . . . . 8
Anonymous Industry Trends: The dawning of the
single-chip age . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Germinal Boloix and
Pierre N. Robillard A Software System Evaluation Framework 17--26
Hesham El-Rewini and
Hesham H. Ali and
Ted Lewis Task Scheduling in Multiprocessing
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--37
Philip K. McKinley and
Yih-jia Tsai and
David F. Robinson Collective Communication in
Wormhole-Routed Massively Parallel
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--50
Christopher H. Nevison Parallel Computing in the Undergraduate
Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
Trung A. Diep and
John Paul Shen VMW: A Visualization-Based
Microarchitecture Workbench . . . . . . 57--64
Anonymous Internet Kiosk: Computer-controlled
devices reach the Internet . . . . . . . 66
Ilija Ekmeci\'c and
Igor Tartalja and
Veljko Milutinovi\'c EM$^3$: a taxonomy of heterogeneous
computing systems . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70
Mehbub Ali Product Reviews: A Better way to state
it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--74
Cristian P. Masgras Product Reviews: TimingDesigner Version
3.0, Professional Edition . . . . . . . 74--76
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index and Reader
Service Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Election results . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Update: Supercomputer Centers . . . . . 81
I. H. Donner Computer Law: The Info Age law firm . . 86--87
Anonymous Software Challenges: How software
personnel learn new skills . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous PAMITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum:
Fault-tolerant computing TC . . . . . . 90
T. Wright Standards: A case for symmetrical
bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous 1995 Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . 124--135
Anonymous Open Channel: Computer science or simply
`computics'? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Anonymous President's Message: On the importance
of turning 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Looking back: Yearlong celebration
begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Computer business or
monopoly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
Anonymous Industry Trends: Enterprise management
on NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Michael L. Rhodes and
Douglas D. Robertson Guest Editors' Introduction: Computers
in Surgery and Therapeutic Procedures 20--23
K. H. Höhne and
Bernhard Pflesser and
Andreas Pommert and
Martin Riemer and
Thomas Schiemann and
Rainer Schubert and
Ulf Tiede A `Virtual Body' Model for Surgical
Education and Rehearsal . . . . . . . . 25--31
Gary E. Christensen and
Michael I. Miller and
Michael W. Vannier and
Ulf Grenander Individualizing neuro-anatomical atlases
using a massively parallel computer . . 32--38
Richard A. Robb and
Dennis P. Hanson and
Jon J. Camp Computer-Aided Surgery Planning and
Rehearsal at Mayo Clinic . . . . . . . . 39--47
Ludwig Adams and
Achim Knepper and
Dietrich Meyer-Ebrecht and
Rainer Ruger and
Willem van der Brug An Optical Navigator for Brain Surgery 48--54
Meiyappan Solaiyappan and
Tim Poston and
Pheng Ann Heng and
Elliot R. McVeigh and
Michael A. Guttman and
Elias A. Zerhouni Interactive Visualization for Rapid
Noninvasive Cardiac Assessment . . . . . 55--62
Elliot K. Fishman and
Brian S. Kuszyk and
David G. Heath and
Luomin Gao and
Brian Cabral Surgical Planning for Liver Resection 64--72
Anonymous IEEE-CS Membership Application . . . . . 72
Gregory A. Hansen Simulating Software Development
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Alan H. Karp and
Michael Heath and
Al Geist 1995 Gordon Bell Prize Winners . . . . . 79--85
Bertrand Meyer Object Technology: The conceptual
perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Anonymous Update: IEEE fellows; HPCC . . . . . . . 88
David A. Koester and
Karen W. Markus and
Mark D. Walters Hot Topics: MEMS: small machines for the
microelectronics age . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Capers Jones Software Challenges: The economics of
process improvement . . . . . . . . . . 95--97
Anonymous Product Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Product Reviews: IMSL C Numerical
Libraries; DT3155 frame grabber . . . . 100
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index and Reader
Service Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
J. Isaak Standards: Standards for the information
infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
T. M. Ciolek Internet Kiosk: Today's WWW ---
Tomorrow's MMM? The specter of
multi-media mediocrity . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum: Simulation
TC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
W. Galkin Names on the Net, e-mail in court, and
trade secrets for hire . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Anonymous Computer Law: Electronic Computer Law
Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous Open Channel: Wheelchairs for the brain 136
Anonymous looking.back: February in computing
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Binary Critic: The network computer
phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Gigabit Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Industry Trends: Immigration issue . . . 10
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Cristiana Amza and
Alan L. Cox and
Sandhya Dwarkadas and
Pete Keleher and
Honghui Lu and
Ramakrishnan Rajamony and
Weimin Yu and
Willy Zwaenepoel TreadMarks: shared memory computing on
networks of workstations . . . . . . . . 18--28
Jakob Nielsen and
Jan Maurits Faber Improving System Usability Through
Parallel Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--35
Ravi S. Sandhu and
Edward J. Coyne and
Hal L. Feinstein and
Charles E. Youman Role-Based Access Control Models . . . . 38--47
Michel Raynal and
Mukesh Singhal Logical Time: Capturing Causality in
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
David Lorge Parnas Why Software Jewels Are Rare . . . . . . 57--60
Philippe Desfray Automated Object Design: The
Client-Server Case . . . . . . . . . . . 62--66
Anonymous CS election schedules and awards . . . . 68
Anonymous Mills, Zuse die . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Update: Indecency on the Net . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum: TC on
Operating Systems and Application
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Bertrand Meyer Object Technology: The reusability
challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--78
Algirdas Pakstas and
Sonata Pakstiene Standards: NSK: A Norwegian cryptochip
for supersafe communications . . . . . . 78--79
Capers Jones Software Challenges: Software change
management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
Anonymous Product Reviews: ObjectSystems 1.1.0;
Boca Office Communicator . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Internet Kiosk: Community nets . . . . . 92
Anonymous Computer Law: For whom the Bomb tolls 94
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Open Channel: A consultant's Ten
Commandments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous looking.back: March in computing history 6
Anonymous Editor-in-Chief's Message . . . . . . . 8
T. Lewis Binary Critic: The big software chill 12--14
Anonymous Industry Trends: Virtual reality and the
Internet; PC cluster specification . . . 16
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous IEEE-CS Membership Application . . . . . 22
Sankar K. Pal and
Pradip K. Srimani Guest Editors' Introduction:
Neurocomputing: Motivation, Models, and
Hybridization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
Anil K. Jain and
Jianchang Mao and
K. M. Mohiuddin Artificial Neural Networks: A Tutorial 31--44
Yi Shang and
Benjamin W. Wah Global Optimization for Neural Network
Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
Nikola B. Serbedzija Simulating Artificial Neural Networks on
Parallel Architectures . . . . . . . . . 56--63
Chew Lim Tan and
Tong Seng Quah and
Hoon Heng Teh An Artificial Neural Network that Models
Human Decision Making . . . . . . . . . 64--70
Rudy Setiono and
Huan Liu Symbolic Representation of Neural
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
John Wawrzynek and
Krste Asanovic and
Brian Kingsbury and
David Johnson and
James Beck and
Nelson Morgan Spert-II: A Vector Microprocessor System 79--86
James Do and
Phan Dinh Dieu and
Seymour E. Goodman Vietnam: Information Technology for the
Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--94
Erin English and
Scott Hamilton Network Security Under Siege: The Timing
Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--97
Anonymous Update: Ship named for Grace Hopper;
microprocessor history . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Standards: Standards' role in technology
transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index and Reader
Service Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Product Reviews: DSPCard-C31; Norton
Utilities for Windows 95 . . . . . . . . 105
James C. McKim, Jr. Object Technology: Programming by
contract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
D. M. Nicol Internet Kiosk: Conference program
management using the Internet . . . . . 112--113
K. W. Bowyer and
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Practicing ``safe''
engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Capers Jones Software Challenges: By popular demand:
Software estimating rules of thumb . . . 116--118
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum: Security and
Privacy TC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 121
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Open Channel: A few (proposed)
fundamental laws of programming . . . . 136
Anonymous Looking back: April in computing history 6
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: The limits of innovation 7--9
Erin English Industry Trends: Users don't want to get
burned in red-hot firewall market . . . 10--12
Hossein Saiedian An Invitation to Formal Methods . . . . 16--17
Michael G. Hinchey and
Jonathan P. Bowen Formal Methods: Point-Counterpoint: To
Formalize or Not To Formalize? . . . . . 18--19
Robert L. Glass Formal Methods: Point-Counterpoint:
Formal Methods are a Surrogate for a
More Serios Software Concern . . . . . . 19--19
Cliff B. Jones Formal Methods Light: A Rigorous
Approach to Formal Methods . . . . . . . 20--21
Daniel Jackson and
Jeannette Wing Formal Methods Light: Lightweight Formal
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Anthony Hall Industrial Practice: What is the Formal
Methods Debate Anyway? . . . . . . . . . 22--23
David L. Dill and
John Rushby Industrial Practice: Acceptance of
Formal Methods: Lessons from Hardware
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
C. Michael Holloway and
Ricky W. Butler Industrial Practice: Impediments to
Industrial Use of Formal Methods . . . . 25--26
Pamela Zave Industrial Practice: Formal Methods are
Research, Not Development . . . . . . . 26--27
Michael J. Lutz Engineering Mathematics: Consumable
Mathematics for Software Engineers . . . 27--28
David L. Parnas Engineering Mathematics: Mathematical
Methods: What We Need and Don't Need . . 28--29
David Gries Education: The Need for Education in
Useful Formal Logic . . . . . . . . . . 29--30
Thomas Ball and
Stephen G. Eick Software Visualization in the Large . . 33--43
Ranga Vemuri and
Ram Mandayam and
Vijay Meduri Performance Modeling Using PDL . . . . . 44--53
Fritz H. Grupe Computoons: The Evolving Image of
Computers in Cartoons . . . . . . . . . 55--62
Ted Lewis The Next $10,000_2$ Years: Part I . . . 64--70
Ware Myers On the Road to the Information
Superhighway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Update: Universal service in the
Information Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Product Reviews: System Commander and
Partition Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Brian Henderson-Sellers and
Ian Graham Object Technology: OPEN: toward method
convergence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--89
Anonymous Computer Law: Copyrighted materials on
bulletin boards . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
C. Neumann Internet Kiosk: Enabling commerce on the
Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
C. Jones Software Challenges: Software
defect-removal efficiency . . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Standards: New standards-development
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum: Youth Forum
in Computer Science and Engineering . . 97
Anonymous Open Channel: New solutions for new
technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Looking.back: May in computing history 6
Anonymous Binary Critic: Is it too late for Apple
Computer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 10--12
Anonymous Industry Trends: Looking into the
PowerPC's future . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 16--17
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Bruce Schatz and
Hsinchun Chen Guest Editors' Introduction: Building
Large-Scale Digital Libraries . . . . . 22--26
Bruce Schatz and
William H. Mischo and
Timothy W. Cole and
Joseph B. Hardin and
Ann P. Bishop and
Hsinchun Chen Federating Diverse Collections of
Scientific Literature . . . . . . . . . 28--36
Robert Wilensky Toward Work-Centered Digital Information
Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--44
Howard D. Wactlar and
Takeo Kanade and
Michael A. Smith and
Scott M. Stevens Intelligent access to digital video:
Informedia project . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Terence R. Smith and
Dan Andresen and
Larry Carver and
Ron Dolin and
Christoph Frisher and
James Frew and
Michael Goodchild and
Oscar Ibarra and
Randall B. Kemp and
Ravi Kothuri and
Mary Larsgaard and
Bangalore S. Manjunath and
Doug Nebert and
Jason Simpson and
Alex Wells and
Tao Yang and
Qi Zheng A Digital Library for Geographically
Referenced Materials . . . . . . . . . . 54--60
Andreas Paepcke and
Steve B. Cousins and
Hector Garcia-Molina and
Scott W. Hassan and
Steven P. Ketchpel and
Martin Roscheisen and
Terry Winograd Using Distributed Objects for Digital
Library Interoperability . . . . . . . . 61--68
Daniel E. Atkins and
William P. Birmingham and
Edmund H. Durfee and
Eric J. Glover and
Tracy Mullen and
Elke A. Rundensteiner and
Elliot Soloway and
Jose M. Vidal and
Raven Wallace and
Michael P. Wellman Toward Inquiry-Based Education Through
Interacting Software Agents . . . . . . 69--76
Ted Lewis The Next $10,000_2$ Years: Part II . . . 78--86
John Keaton and
Scott Hamilton Employment 2005: Boom or Bust for
Computer Professionals? . . . . . . . . 87--98
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Capers Jones Software Challenges: Activity based
software costing . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Bertrand Meyer Object Technology: The many faces of
inheritance: a taxonomy of taxonomy . . 105--108
Steven G. Tepper and
Irah H. Donner Computer Law: IPOs, part I: preparation
is the key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Matthew Ferrens Technical Activities Forum:
Microprogramming and microarchitecture 111
Terry Krile and
Paul Juell and
Ron Vetter Internet Kiosk: Pioneering on the new
frontiers of education . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Anonymous Looking back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Ken Roberts What's wrong with Java? (discussion of
the February 1996 article, The NC
phenomena: scenes from your living room) 8--9
Anonymous Binary Critic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Donald R. Gentner and
Jonathan Grudin Design Models for Computer-Human
Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--35
Mark S. Ackerman and
Brian Starr Social Activity Indicators for Groupware 37--42
Günter Böckle and
Hermann Hellwagner and
Roland Lepold and
Gerd Sandweg and
Burghardt Schallenberger and
Raimar Thudt and
Stefan Wallstab Structured Evaluation of Computer
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--51
Richard R. Brooks and
S. Sitharama Iyengar Robust Distributed Computing and Sensing
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--60
Gary M. Rader Creating Printed Music Automatically . . 61--68
Rajeev Thakur and
Alok Choudhary and
Rajesh Bordawekar and
Sachin More and
Sivaramakrishna Kuditipudi Passion: optimized I/O for parallel
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--78
Patricia J. Douglas and
George M. Alliger and
Robert Goldberg Computing Practices: Refining the
Curriculum: Client-server and
object-oriented training . . . . . . . . 80--84
R. Jain Update: From content-based retrieval to
invisible telepresence . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Jim Isaak A call for standards for portable Web
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
S. G. Tepper and
I. H. Donner Computer Law: IPOs. II. Getting the
corporate house in order . . . . . . . . 90--91
C. Jones Software Challenges: Strategies for
managing requirements creep . . . . . . 92--94
Anonymous Object Technology . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum . . . . . . . 99
S. L. Garfinkel Internet Kiosk: Public key cryptography 101--104
Anonymous New Products: UML and Java go Platinum 104--106
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Looking back: July in computing history 6
Anonymous Treasurer's and Auditor's Report . . . . 8
T. Lewis Binary Critic: Alice in Wired World:
wonderland or wasteland? . . . . . . . . 17--19
Thomas Kaneshige Industry Trends: Cyberwar; Clipper chip;
Network Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Bill Z. Manaris and
Brian M. Slator Interactive Natural Language Processing:
Building on Success . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
Paul Martin and
Frederick Crabbe and
Stuart Adams and
Eric Baatz and
Nicole Yankelovich SpeechActs: A Spoken-Language Framework 33--40
Alex Waibel Interactive Translation of
Conversational Speech . . . . . . . . . 41--48
Cecile Paris and
Keith Vander Linden An Interactive Support Tool for Writing
Multilingual Manuals . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
Svetlana Sheremetyeva and
Sergei Nirenburg Knowledge Elicitation for Authoring
Patent Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63
Stefan Wermter and
Volker Weber Interactive Spoken-Language Processing
in a Hybrid Connectionist System . . . . 65--74
Johanna D. Moore and
Vibhu O. Mittal Dynamically Generated Follow-up
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--86
Ware Myers On Trial at the Summer Olympic Games:
Smart Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--91
Anonymous Update: Computer Society Elections . . . 92
A. Geraci Standards: The Computer Dictionary
Project: an update . . . . . . . . . . . 95
B. Meyer Object Technology: Reality: a cousin
twice removed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
I. H. Donner Computer Law: Will your IP protection
provide the protection you expect . . . 98
R. A. Onvural and
V. Srinivasan Technical Activities Forum: Computer
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
H. Berghel and
L. O'Gorman Internet Kiosk: Protecting ownership
rights through digital watermarking . . 101--103
Dileep Krishna Product Reviews: Café: the Right Place
for Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--108
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous Open Channel: Are comparative analyses
worthwhile? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Anonymous looking.back: August in computing
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Editor's Message . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Craig Cleaveland and
Ted Lewis Letters to the Editor: What's Wrong with
the Binary Critic? . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Software architectures:
Divine plan of digital Darwinism? . . . 13--15
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Edward Yourdon Java, the Web, and Software Development 25--30
Marc A. Hamilton Java and the Shift to Net-Centric
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--39
Richard T. Kouzes and
James D. Myers and
William A. Wulf Collaboratories: Doing Science on the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--46
Mark Atkins and
Ramesh Subramaniam PC Software Performance Tuning . . . . . 47--54
Lubomir F. Bic and
Munehiro Fukuda and
Michael B. Dillencourt Distributed Computing Using Autonomous
Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61
Hsinchun Chen and
Andrea Houston and
Jay Nunamaker and
Jerome Yen Toward Intelligent Meeting Agents . . . 62--69
Jean-Francis Balaguer and
Enrico Gobbetti 3D User Interfaces for General-Purpose
3D Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78
Anonymous Update: WW II Colossus computer is
restored to operation . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Update: Cash prize offered for major
advances in molecular nanotechnology . . 79--80
Irah H. Donner Computer Law: Doing business on the Net 85--86
Michael B. Spring Standards: Reference model for data
interchange standards . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Nabil R. Adam and
Richard Holowczak and
Milton Halem and
Nand Lal and
Yelena Yesha Technical Activities Forum: Digital
Library Task Force . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
Steve Hitchcock Internet Kiosk: Web publishing: Speed
changes everything . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
T. L. Pappas Product Reviews: Microsoft Visual C++
goes interactive and remote . . . . . . 94--98
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Open Channel: Heresy: A poem . . . . . . 120
Anonymous Industry Trends: Palmtop wireless
communications; TI superchip . . . . . . 163
Anonymous Looking.back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Will tiny beans conquer
the world again? . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--14
Anonymous Industry Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous IEEE-CS Membership Application . . . . . 24
Mohamed E. Fayad and
Marshall Cline Guest Editors' Introduction: Managing
Object-Oriented Software Development . . 26--31
Babak Sadr and
Patricia J. Dousette An OO Project Management Strategy . . . 33--38
John D. Williams Managing Iteration in OO Projects . . . 39--43
Simon Moser and
Oscar Nierstrasz The Effect of Object-Oriented Frameworks
on Developer Productivity . . . . . . . 45--51
Steve Sparks and
Kevin Benner and
Chris Faris Managing Object-Oriented Framework Reuse 52--61
Jean-Pierre Corriveau Traceability Process for Large OO
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--68
Kevin Shaw and
Maria Cobb and
Miyi Chung and
David Arctur Managing the US Navy's First OO Digital
Mapping Project . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74
Anonymous IEEE and CS Elections . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Computer Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum . . . . . . . 88
Franklin D. Reynolds Internet Kiosk: Evolving an operating
system for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Anonymous Object Technology: Reversibility in
software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
Anonymous Product Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 101
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 107
Anonymous Open Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Looking back: October in computing
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Industry Trends: Internet telephony; Web
server benchmark . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Stephen S. Yau Guest Editor's Introduction: Essays on
Fifty Years of Computing . . . . . . . . 24
Nick Tredennick Microprocessor-Based Computers . . . . . 27--37
Jim Gray Evolution of Data Management . . . . . . 38--46
C. V. Ramamoorthy and
Wei-tek Tsai Advances in Software Engineering . . . . 47--58
Hanafy Meleis Toward the Information Network . . . . . 59--67
Tim Berners-Lee WWW: Past, Present, and Future . . . . . 69--77
Gary S. Robinson and
Carl Cargill History and Impact of Computer Standards 79--85
Raj Reddy The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence 86--96
Paul R. Woodward Perspective on Supercomputing: Three
Decades of Change . . . . . . . . . . . 99--111
Anonymous Update: Fletcher Buckley dies . . . . . 112
Anonymous Computer Law: Software licensing: A new
era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Anonymous Standards: A fast-track standards
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum: Technical
Council on Software Engineering . . . . 117
Anonymous Object Technology: Schema evolution . . 119
Anonymous Internet Kiosk: Choosing a connectivity
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 130
Anonymous Open Channel: Twenty-fifth anniversary
of microprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Anonymous Looking back: November in computing
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous President's Message . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Binary Critic: Netstorms: The crash of
'96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Industry Trends: Telecommunications Act
of 1996; Panix attacks . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Rohit Kapur and
Thomas W. Williams and
Edward F. Miller Guest Editors' Introduction: System Test
and Reliability Techniques for Avoiding
Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Brian T. Murray and
John P. Hayes Testing ICs: Getting to the Core of the
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--38
Bernd Könemann and
Ben Bennetts and
Najmi Jarwala and
Benoit Nadeau-Dostie Built-in self-test: assuring system
integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--45
Deborah T. Marr and
Subramanian Natarajan and
Shreekant Thakkar and
Richard Zucker Multiprocessor Validation of the Pentium
Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53
Joseph A. Profeta III and
Nikos P. Andrianos and
Bing Yu and
Barry W. Johnson and
Todd A. DeLong and
David Guaspari and
Damir Jamsek Safety-Critical Systems Built with COTS 54--60
John D. Musa Software-Reliability-Engineered Testing 61--68
Alan Wood Predicting Software Reliability . . . . 69--77
Thomas Drake Measuring Software Quality: A Case Study 78--87
Anonymous Update: Seymour Cray legacy . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Computer Law: Patents in Israel . . . . 90
Anonymous Standards: Secure Electronic Transaction
standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Internet Kiosk: Education and Internet
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum: Computer
Graphics Technical Committee . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Object Technology: Modal testing
strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Product Reviews: Personal Digital
Assistants: Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Call for Papers/Calendar . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous Open Channel: Attaining success is an
NP-complete problem . . . . . . . . . . 136
Anonymous Looking-back --- December in computing
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Industry trends --- In search of speed
and bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
True Seaborn Reflections on 23 years of publishing
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Per Stenstrom and
Frederik Dahlgren Guest editors' introduction:
Applications for shared memory
multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Alexander V. Kozlov and
Jaswinder Pal Singh Parallel implementations of
probabilistic inference . . . . . . . . 33
Shashi Shekhar and
Sivakumar Ravada and
Vipin Kumar and
Douglas Chubb and
Greg Turner Parallelizing a GIS on a shared address
space architecture . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Thomas Sterling and
Phillip Merkey and
Daniel Savarese Improving application performance on the
HP\slash convex exemplar . . . . . . . . 50
Frederic T. Chong and
Beng-Hong Lim and
Ricardo Bianchini and
John Kubiatowicz and
Anant Agarwal Application performance on the MIT
alewife machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Sarita V. Adve and
Kourosh Gharachorloo Shared memory consistency models: A
tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
William Blume and
Ramon Doallo and
Rudolf Eigenmann and
John Grout and
Jay Hoeflinger and
Thomas Lawrence and
Jaejin Lee and
David Padua and
Yunheung Paek and
Bill Pottenger and
Lawrence Rauchwerger and
Peng Tu Parallel programming with polaris . . . 78
Mary W. Hall and
Jennifer M. Anderson and
Saman p. Amarasinghe and
Brian R. Murphy and
Shih-Wei Liao and
Edouard Bugnion and
Monica S. Lam Maximizing multiprocessor performance
with the SUIF compiler . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Update --- CS election; Gordon Bell
prize winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Computer law --- Copyright in shareware
on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Standards: IP next-generation . . . . . 112
Anonymous Internet kiosk --- For a greener
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous Technical activities forum --- Technical
activities strategic planning . . . . . 115
Anonymous Object technology --- Techniques for
teaching object technology . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Open Channel --- Parallel processors:
The future again? . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Edward A. Parrish Editor's Message: Welcome to the New
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 10--12
Anonymous Report to Members: The Next 50 Years of
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21
Sara Reese Hedberg Up Front: HP's International
Cryptography Framework: compromise or
threat? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Industry Trends: Switching to a Faster
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
Anonymous RBOCs vs. ISPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Anonymous Set-Top Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Anonymous USB Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Derek Partridge The Case for Inductive Programming . . . 36--41
Barry G. Silverman Computer Reminders and Alerts . . . . . 42--49
Marjory S. Blumenthal Unpredictable Certainty: The Internet
and the Information Infrastructure . . . 50--56
Randall J. Atkinson Toward a More Secure Internet . . . . . 57--61
Michael Bieber and
Fabio Vitali Toward Support for Hypermedia on the
World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--70
Daniel E. O'Leary The Internet, Intranets, and the AI
Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78
Alan H. Karp and
Al Geist and
David Bailey 1996 Gordon Bell Prize Winners . . . . . 80--85
Anonymous Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Engineering of Computer-Based Systems TC 86
Anonymous Fellow Nominations . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Charles Severance Standards: Taking a High-Tech Approach
to Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114, 116
Bala Gopakumaran Product Reviews: Gate-Array IC Design
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Ken Whitaker Management: Motivating and Keeping
Software Developers . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Jean-Marc Jézéquel and
Bertrand Meyer Object Technology: Design by Contract:
The Lessons of Ariane . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Upkar Varshney Internet Watch: Supporting Mobility with
Wireless ATM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: The Year I Shoot My TV 136, 134--135
M. V. Wilkes Challenges for Processor Designers . . . 10
David Clark Up Front: Breaking the Teraflops Barrier 12--14
Lee Goldberg Industry Trends: The Internet in Space:
Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Lee Garber News Briefs: Crucial Compromise Launches
Digital TV. US Encryption Agreement in
Jeopardy. Warning Issued about UNIX
Flaw. WIPO Discusses Cyberspace
Copyrights. IT Issues Could Threaten
European Monetary Union. COBOL
Programmers in Demand Again. Chip
Alliance Formed. Semiconductor Film
Grown in Space. Survey Reveals Security
Fears and Vulnerability. Taxing the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19, 22
Steve Mann Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward
Personal Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and
Les Hatton Investigating the Influence of Formal
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43
Gary Comparetto and
Rafols Ramirez Trends in Mobile Satellite Technology 44--52
Kenneth R. Wood and
Tristan Richardson and
Frazer Bennett and
Andy Harter and
Andy Hopper Global Teleporting with Java: Toward
Ubiquitous Personalized Computing . . . 53--59
Andreas Pfitzmann and
Birgit Pfitzmann and
Michael Waidner Trusting Mobile User Devices and
Security Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--68
Nayeem Islam Customizing system software using OO
frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--78
Paul D. Gader and
James M. Keller and
Raghu Krishnapuram and
Jung-Hsien Chiang and
Magdi Mohamed Neural and Fuzzy Methods in Handwriting
Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86
Anonymous CS Update: CS Members Become IEEE
Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--91
Anonymous 1997 Election Timetable, Call for
Nominess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
P. A. Subrahmanyam Technical Activities Forum: Embedded
Networked Systems for an Interactive
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Charles Severance Standards: Linking Computers and
Consumer Electronics . . . . . . . . . . 119, 121
Anonymous Software: Visual Java . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Interpreting Our Internet
Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Jerzy W. Rozenblit and
Sanjaya Kumar Integrated Engineering: Toward
Synergistic Engineering of Computer
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
James Bach Software Realities: The Hard Road from
Method to Practice . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Dwaine Maltais Internet Watch: Conducting a job search
on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
Sorel Reisman Binary Critic: Report from the Comdex
Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136, 134, 135
Robert Melford Up Front: Intel Defies Predictions, Sets
Earnings Record . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Paul Korzeniowski Industry Trends --- Lowering the Cost of
PC Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Anonymous News Briefs --- ETrust Web Security:
Apple at the Crossroads: New Domain
Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Norris Parker Smith Computing in Japan: From Cocoon to
Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33
Eric Wegscheider Toward Code-Free Business Application
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
Robert A. Martin Dealing With Dates: Solutions for the
Year 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51
Philip H. Newcomb and
Melvin Scott Requirements for Advanced Year 2000
Maintenance tools . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Nicholas Zvegintzov A resource guide to Year 2000 tools . . 58--63
W. Neville Holmes Composite Arithmetic: Proposal for a New
Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73
Michael Franz Dynamic Linking of Software Components 74--81
Sivarama P. Dandamudi Reducing Run Queue Contention in Shared
Memory Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . 82--89
James Schoening and
Thomas Wheeler Standards: Standards --- The Key to
Education Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Bill Curtis and
William E. Hefley and
Sally Miller and
Michael Konrad Management: Developing organizational
competence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Edmund C. Arranga and
Frank P. Coyle Object Technology: Cobol: Perception and
Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Ronald J. Vetter Internet Watch --- Web Publishing: No
HTML Expertise Needed . . . . . . . . . 129--131
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: If Java Is the Answer,
What Was the Question? . . . . . . . . . 136, 133--135
Nicholas Zvegintzov and
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and
Les Hatton Letter to the Editor: Changes versus
Faults in Formal Methods . . . . . . . . 6--6
Thomas M. Breuel and
Ted Lewis Letter to the Editor: Java as Universal
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
Jihong Kim and
Ted Lewis Letter to the Editor: Deadlocking
Embrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
John W. M. McCormick Letter to the Editor: No Language for
Beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Tom Woytaszek and
Ted Lewis Letter to the Editor: Questions Java
Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Mehmet Bulent Ozcan and
Ken Whitaker Letter to the Editor: Rewarding
Privately . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
John Bast Letter to the Editor: Rewards Work,
Incentives Don't . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
J. A. N. Lee Celebrating Fortran's Fortieth . . . . . 8--8
Dirk Riehle Open Channel: The Human Side of
Architectural Styles . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
Scott Hamilton and
Janet Wilson Report to Members: Andrew Grove's Vision
for the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Lee Garber Up Front: Students Stumble onto Internet
Explorer Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Ben Smith Industry Trends: Tomorrow's Internet is
Here Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Lee Garber News Briefs: Binary Version Could Bring
VRML into the Mainstream. FCC Jumps Into
Internet Fray. Java and Floating-Point
Math. Intel to Design NDRAM. Battle over
Net Telephony. Vendors Seek Fast Modems.
US Permits Export of Strong Encryption.
E-commerce Nears \$1 Billion. Chasing
the Blue Light. Personal {E}-mail Use
Will Soar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
D. Richard Kuhn Sources of Failure in the Public
Switched Telephone Network . . . . . . . 31--36
Muhammed F. Mudawwar Multicode: A Truly Multilingual Approach
to Text Encoding: Unicode was designed
to extend ASCII for encoding text in
different languages, but it still have
several important drawbacks. Multicode
overcomes those drawbacks . . . . . . . 37--43
Arun K. Somani and
Nitin H. Vaidya Guest Editors' Introduction:
Understanding Fault Tolerance and
Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46, 50
Timothy C. K. Chou Beyond Fault Tolerance . . . . . . . . . 47--49
Algirdas Avizienis Toward Systematic Design of
Fault-Tolerant Systems . . . . . . . . . 51--58
Silvano Maffeis Piranha: A CORBA Tool for High
Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66
Rachid Guerraoui and
André Schiper Software-Based Replication for Fault
Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Mei-Chen Hsueh and
Timothy K. Tsai and
Ravishankar K. Iyer Fault Injection Techniques and Tools . . 75--82
Biao Chen and
Sanjay Kamat and
Wei Zhao Fault-Tolerant, Real-Time Communication
in FDDI-Based Networks . . . . . . . . . 83--90
Mike Hinchey Technical Activities Forum: TC Strives
to Manage Complexity . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Carl Chang CS Update: Applicants Sought for
Editor-in-Chief of \em IEEE Multimedia 92--92
Richard Wiggins Standards: The Top-Level Domain Name
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Scott Hamilton New Products: Embedded Systems Software:
Real-Time Java. Embedded OADD. Entrus
for PCs. Privasuite . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Weighty Computer Science
Reference. High-level Test Synthesis.
Filling in the Gaps. E-pubs Languages
Explained. Fuzzy Intro.
Internet/Intranet Planning. Controlling
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Janos Sztipanovits and
Gabor Karsai Integrated Engineering: Model-Integrated
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Cem Kaner Software Realities: Pitfalls and
Strategies in Automated Testing . . . . 114--116
Andrew Kingoff Internet Watch: Comparing Internet
search engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
W. Myers Software reuse: ostriches beware . . . . 119--120
Ware Myers Binary Critic: Software Reuse: Ostriches
Beware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120, 119
J. Erik Hemdal Letters: Good Advice for Dealing with
Y2K Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Per Holager and
Jean-Marc Jézéquel and
Bertrand Meyer Letters: Placing the Blame for Ariane 5 6, 8
Sally Spadaros Letters: Thanks for the Y2K Suggestions 6--6
David C. Young and
Jean-Marc Jézéquel and
Bertrand Meyer Letters: After All, It Worked the Last
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Kurt Olsen Letters: Why Java Isn't Watered Down C++ 9--9
David McReynolds Letters: Brooks Said It Ten Years Ago 9--10
Marvine E. Gozum and
Sorel Reisman Letters: Windows CE Success . . . . . . 10--10
Craig A. Struble and
Ted Lewis Letters: Deadlocks, and Java . . . . . . 10--10
Neville Holmes Open Channel: What Can Computers Do? . . 11--11
Stephen Barlas Up Front: How Critical Is the Shortage
of IT Workers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
George Lawton Industry Trends: Extranets: Next Step
for the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Lee Garber News Briefs: Internet Security: Is It in
the Cards? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Pat Ferguson and
Watts S. Humphrey and
Soheil Khajenoori and
Susan Macke and
Annette Matvya Results of Applying the Personal
Software Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--31
Art Gemmer Risk Management: Moving Beyond Process 33--43
Scott Hamilton E-Commerce for the 21st Century . . . . 44--47
Jay M. Tenenbaum and
Tripatinder S. Chowdhry and
Kevin Hughes Eco System: An Internet Commerce
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Ajit Kambil Doing Business in the Wired World . . . 56--61
Danny B. Lange and
Yuichi Nakamura Object-Oriented Program Tracing and
Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Augustus K. Uht and
Vijay Sindagi and
Sajee Somanathan Branch Effect Reduction Techniques . . . 71--81
Bob Carlson CS Update: Andreessen, Bina Receive 1997
McDowell Award. Edward S. Davidson is
1996 Taylor Booth Recipient. Aggarwal
and Das Earn Technical Achievement
Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Michitake Kameyama Technical Activities Forum:
Multiple-Valued Logic TC Stresses
Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--85
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 85--89
Geoffrey O. Thompson Standards: Work Progresses on Gigabit
Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Scott Hamilton New Products: Agent-Based Distributed
Computing in Java: Voyager Agents.
E-Commerce Solutions for the Web:
Concinity and Web Speed. Software
Development: HiProf Code Profiler,
Distributed Applications, Client-Server
to the Web. Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Michael J. Lutz New Books: How to Create Profitable
Businesses on the Net . . . . . . . . . 99--99
I. Mark Haas Management: Hiring the Best . . . . . . 100--101
Bertrand Meyer Object Technology: Practice To Perfect:
The Quality First Model . . . . . . . . 102, 103, 105, 106
William S. Maki and
Ruth H. Maki Internet Watch: Learning Without
Lectures: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Absorb and Extend:
Resistance is Futile! . . . . . . . . . 112, 109--111
James Do and
Muhammed Mudawwar Letters to the Editor: Unicode
Misunderstood . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 9
Kankanahalli Srinivas and
V. ``Juggy'' Jagannathan and
Y. V. Ramana Reddy and
Raghu Karinthi Java and Beyond: Executable Content . . 52
James Gosling The Feel of Java . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--57
Jonathan P. Munson and
Prasun Dewan Sync: A Java Framework for Mobile
Collaborative Applications . . . . . . . 59--66
Cheng-Hsueh A. Hsieh and
Marie T. Conte and
Teresa L. Johnson and
John C. Gyllenhaal and
Wen-mei W. Hwu Optimizing NET Compilers for Improved
Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--75
X. Nick Zhang Secure Code Distribution . . . . . . . . 76--79
Mika Leppinen and
Pekka Pulkkinen and
Aapo Rautiainen Java- and CORBA-Based Network Management 83--87
Anonymous New Products: CodeWizard for Java . . . 106--106
Prabhu Ram and
Robert Abarbanel Internet Watch: Enterprise Computing:
The Java Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--119
Peter Welch Letters to the Editor: Ignore the
Monitor Methods! . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 9
Neville Holmes The Myth of the Intelligent Computer . . 8
Lee Garber and
Paul Korzeniowski Internet Splits over Domain Name
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Udo Flohr Interactive Online $3$D's Future . . . . 15--16
Lee Garber News Briefs: Plans for Java Standards
Draws Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Steven P. VanderWiel and
David J. Lilja When Caches Aren't Enough: Data
Prefetching Techniques . . . . . . . . . 23--30
David Harel and
Eran Gery Executable Object Modeling with
Statecharts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
Richard W. Conners and
D. Earl Kline and
Philip A. Araman and
Thomas H. Drayer Machine Vision Technology for the Forest
Products Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 43--48
Massimo Bertozzi and
Alberto Broggi Vision-Based Vehicle Guidance . . . . . 49--55
Bahram Parvin and
John R. Taylor and
Daniel E. Callahan and
William E. Johnston and
Ulrich Dahmen Visual Servoing for Online Facilities 56--62
Per Stenström and
Mats Brorsson and
Fredrik Dahlgren and
Håkan Grahn and
Michel Dubois Boosting the Performance of Shared
Memory Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Eric van der Deijl and
Gerco Kanbier and
Olivier Temam and
Elena D. Granston A Cache Visualization Tool . . . . . . . 71--78
Anonymous Treasurer's Report . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Anonymous Auditor's Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--85
Anonymous CS Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Leonard L. Tripp Survey Addresses Computer Society's
Scope, Purpose, Values . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 91--95, 97--99
Dave Crocker Domain Name Expansion Plan Deserves
Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Anonymous New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
David W. Oliver Optimizing the Organization's Structure 110--112
Bertrand Meyer The Next Software Breakthrough . . . . . 113--114
Patrick J. Lynch and
Sarah Horton Imprudent Linking Weaves a Tangled Web 115--117
Anonymous Letters: Debunking Metaphors and Objects 8--8
Carlo Pescio Open Channel: Seven Aphorisms of
Software Development . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
Anonymous Report to Members: Computer Society
Debuts Electronic Subscriptions . . . . 10--11
John Edwards Up Front: Voice-Based Interfaces Make
PCs Better Listeners . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Industry Trends: Making the PC Easier to
Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 25
Lee Garber News Briefs: Mars Imager Makes New Use
of Existing Technology; Chip Industry
Litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22, 24
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Gail C. Murphy and
David Notkin Reengineering with Reflexion Models: A
Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Diane M. Strong and
Richard Y. Wang and
Yang W. Lee 10 Potholes in the Road to Information
Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--46
Alex Stoyen Guest Editor's Introduction: Fighting
Complexity in Computer Systems . . . . . 47--48
David Dikel and
David Kane and
Steve Ornburn and
William Loftus and
Jim Wilson Applying Software Product-Line
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
King-Tim Ko and
Kit-Sang Tang and
Cheung-Yau Chan and
Kim-Fung Man and
Sam Kwong Using Genetic Algorithms to Design Mesh
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
K. H. (Kane) Kim Object Structures for Real-Time Systems
and Simulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--70
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum: TC on System
Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
Anonymous CS Update: Computer Society to Use
Electronic Balloting . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 75--79, 81--82
Charles Severance Standards: Could LDAP Be the Next Killer
DAP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous New Products: Intranet Servers Come
Bearing Superlatives . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Candid Conversations with
Giants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Michael Mrva Integrated Engineering: Reuse Factors in
Embedded Systems Design . . . . . . . . 93--95
James Bach Software Realities: Good Enough Quality:
Beyond the Buzzword . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
Theresa-Marie Rhyne and
Don Brutzman and
Michael Macedonia Internet Watch: Internetworked Graphics
and the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
Mark E. Sampson Binary Critic: The Allegory of the
Humidifier: ROI for Systems Engineering 104, 102, 103
Myron Kayton and
Peter Wolstenholme Letters: Back in the Days of Software
``Black Fridays'' . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Victor J. Duvanenko Open Channel: Two Writes Make a Read . . 8--8
David Simms Up Front: Vendors Struggle with Costs,
Benefits of Shrinking Cycle Times . . . 12--14
Joe Mullich Industry Trends: Data Mining: Making
Data Meaningful . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
Lee Garber News Briefs: Agency: Net Use Hasn't Hurt
US Phone System; Apple Unveils
Turnaround Strategy; JTC Rejects Java
Standards Plan; Vendors Plan 300-nm
Wafers; Battle Brews Over Smart Card
Encryption; Countries Lift Internet
Telephone Ban; Motorola Proposes
Satellite System; Vendors Agree on
High-Capacity Disks; ``Wrapping''
Software Sales; Tonga Offers Domain Name
Alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
N. Asokan and
Phillipe A. Janson and
Michael Steiner and
Michael Waidner The State of the Art in Electronic
Payment Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--35
Doug Matzke Will Physical Scalability Sabotage
Performance Gains? . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39
Joseph A. Fisher Walk-Time Techniques: Catalyst for
Architectural Change . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Keith Diefendorff and
Pradeep K. Dubey How Multimedia Workloads Will Change
Processor Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--45
Doug Burger and
James R. Goodman Guest Editors Introduction:
Billion-Transistor Architectures . . . . 46--49
Yale N. Patt and
Sanjay J. Patel and
Marius Evers and
Daniel H. Friendly and
Jared Stark One Billion Transistors, One
Uniprocessor, One Chip . . . . . . . . . 51--57
Mikko H. Lipasti and
John Paul Shen Superspeculative Microarchitecture for
Beyond AD 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66
James E. Smith and
Sriram Vajapeyam Trace Processors: Moving to
Fourth-Generation Microarchitectures . . 68--74
Christoforos E. Kozyrakis and
Stylianos Perissakis and
David Patterson and
Thomas Anderson and
Krste Asanovi\'c and
Neal Cardwell and
Richard Fromm and
Jason Golbus and
Benjamin Gribstad and
Kimberly Keeton and
Randi Thomas and
Noah Treuhaft and
Katherine Yelick Scalable Processors in the
Billion-Transistor Era: IRAM . . . . . . 75--78
Lance Hammond and
Basem A. Nayfeh and
Kunle Olukotun A Single-Chip Multiprocessor . . . . . . 79--85
Elliot Waingold and
Michael Taylor and
Devabhaktuni Srikrishna and
Vivek Sarkar and
Walter Lee and
Victor Lee and
Jang Kim and
Matthew Frank and
Peter Finch and
Rajeev Barua and
Jonathan Babb and
Saman Amarasinghe and
Anant Agarwal Baring It All to Software: Raw Machines 86--93
Chie Okazaki and
Ivan Gimenez and
Juan Noguera-Rodriguez and
Tadao Ichikawa Technical Activities Forum: Students
Take Lead in Yuforic . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous CS Update: IEEE Computer Society
Election: Nominees for Computer Society
office and Board of Governors . . . . . 97--104
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 105--113
Jerry Foley and
Charles Severance Standards: OSI Retrospect and Prospect 123--124
Lee Garber New Products: Networking Tools for the
Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Hamlet on the Holodeck . . . 127--127
Vijay Gurbaxani and
Janet Wilson Management: Bridging IT and Business:
Techno MBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
Carlo Pescio Object Technology: Principles Versus
Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
L. John Mason Internet Watch: Stress and the Ultimate
Luddite Survival Mechanism . . . . . . . 132--133
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Digitopolis Meets
Encalming Technology . . . . . . . . . . 136, 134--135
Dan Gomez Letter: Worth Keeping an Eye One . . . . 6--6
Tim Wooller Letter: Citing URLs: A Matter of Trust? 6--6
Lawrence T. Hardiman Open Channel: Personality Types and
Software Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
David Clark Up Front: Will New Fiber Technology
Quench the Thirst for Bandwidth? . . . . 14--15
George Lawton Industry Trends: Dawn of the Internet
Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 18
Lee Garber News Briefs: Appliance War Could Make
Web Less Open; Microsoft, Netscape Agree
of VRML; CORBA to Stay Independent of
Java; US Runs out of Visas for Foreign
Computer Workers; New Year 2000 Problems
Emerge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 23--25
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Scott Hamilton and
Lee Garber Deep Blue's Hardware-Software Synergy 29--35
Ivar Jacobson and
Martin Griss and
Patrik Jonsson Making the Reuse Business Work . . . . . 36--42
David C. Rine Supporting Reuse with Object Technology 43--45
Robert G. Fichman and
Chris F. Kemerer Object Technology and Reuse: Lessons
from Early Adopters . . . . . . . . . . 47--59
John C. Zubeck Implementing Reuse with RAD Tools'
Native Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Letha H. Etzkorn and
Carl G. Davis Automatically Identifying Reusable OO
Legacy Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Ernesto Damiani and
Maria Grazia Fugini and
Enrico Fusaschi A Descriptor-Based Approach to OO Code
Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80
Dennis Baggi Technical Activities Forum: Addressing
the Evolving Profile of Computer
Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Anonymous CS Update: Awards Recognize Three
Pioneers: Richard F. Clippinger, Francis
Elizabeth Snyder-Holberton, Robert E.
Kahn; James T. Cain: Richard E. Merwin
Award; Mike Liu: Richard E. Merwin
Award; Sartaj K. Sahni: Taylor Booth
Award; Thuraisingham and Tsai: Technical
Achievement Awards; Leonard L. Tripp:
Hans Karlsson Award . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
Vir Proha Standards: A Standard for Software
Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 100--110
Kirk L. Kroeker New Products: SDKs, Compilers, and
Component Suites . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Making Beautiful Music with
DSPs; For Hardware Junkies; Smart Tools;
Recognizing Patterns; Keeping Internet
Secrets; SGML for Developers;
Compressing with Fractals; Rapid GUI
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
William H. Mangione-Smith Integrated Engineering: Application
Design for Configurable Computing . . . 115--117
Luke Hohmann Software Realities: In Methods We Trust? 119--121
Reed Hundt Internet Watch: The Internet: From Here
to Ubiquity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Terry Bollinger Binary Critic: The Interplay of Art and
Science in Software . . . . . . . . . . 128, 125--127
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 11
George Lawton Up Front: In Search of Real-Time
Internet Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Sixto Ortiz Jr. Industry Trends: Virtual Private
Networks: Leveraging the Internet . . . 18--20
Lee Garber and
David Clark News Briefs: Judge Rejects US
Restrictions on Export of Encryption;
Intel, HP Unveil Merced Chip; Java Wars
Heat Up; AOL Acquires CompuServe
Subscribers; Confusion in the DVD
Marketplace; `Amazing Grace' Heads to
Sea; PC Firms Back Down on Convergence;
Business Use Will Drive Internet Growth;
Company Offers \$1-Million Prize for
Hackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Huaiqing Wang and
Chen Wang Computing Practices: Intelligent Agents
in the Nuclear Industry . . . . . . . . 28--34
David Maulsby and
Ian H. Witten Cybersquare: Teaching Agents to Learn:
From User Study to Implementation . . . 36--44
Hesham El-Rewini and
Michael C. Mulder and
Peter A. Freeman and
Gordon E. Stokes and
Innes Jelly and
Lillian Cassel and
Doris K. Lidtke and
Stefano Russo and
Bernd J. Krämer and
Jimmie E. Haines and
Joe Turner Keeping Pace with an Information
Society: A Virtual Roundtable . . . . . 46--57
David Garlan and
David P. Gluch and
James E. Tomayko Agents of Change: Educating Software
Engineering Leaders . . . . . . . . . . 59--65
Tony Werner and
Venkatesh Akella Research Feature: Asynchronous Processor
Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
Nabil N. Kamel Research Feature: Predicate Caching for
Data-Intensive Autonomous Systems . . . 77--73
Anonymous Technical Activities Forum:
Supercomputing Applications TC Faces New
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
Anonymous CS Update: Award Recognizes ERMA
Pioneer; Henry Oldfield; Technical
Achievement Award, Luqi; Service Awards
Recognizes Special Efforts . . . . . . . 85--87
Don Gotterbarn and
Keith Miller and
Simon Rogerson Software Engineering Code of Ethics,
Version 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--92
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95, 97--99
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 100--124
Kirk L. Kroeker New Products: Speech Recognition
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
Kirk L. Kroeker New Products: Java and Internet
Development Tools: Borland's Internet
Solutions Program, Magic Software
Enterprise's RADD for Enterprise and
Internet Apps, Symantec's Visual Café for
Java 2.0 Professional Development
Edition, Ahpah Software's SourceAgain
Java Decompiler, KL Group's JClass Chart
2.0 JavaBean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
Anonymous New Books: Envisioning the Endless
Frontier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Roger Howe Standards: ISO 14001: The Green Standard 133--134
Mark Haas Management: Building the Vision: Lessons
for All Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Christopher Creel and
Bertrand Meyer and
Philippe Stephan Object Technology: The Opportunity of a
Millennium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Cars, Phones, and
Tamagotchi Tribes . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 142--143
Anonymous Letters: Software: Design Versus
Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
K. V. K. K. Prasad Open Channel: Matching People and Jobs:
The I-CMM Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
John Edwards Up Front: New Interfaces: Making
Computers More Accessible . . . . . . . 12--14
Chris Herringshaw Industry Trends: Detecting Attacks on
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Lee Gerber and
David Clark News Briefs: Firms to Invest \$250
Million in Next-Generation Processors 18--20
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Niels Ole Bernsen and
Hans Dybkjær and
Laila Dybkjær Computing Practices: What Should Your
Speech System Say? . . . . . . . . . . . 25--31
Yale N. Patt Identifying Obstacles in the Path to \em
More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Thomas M. Conte and
Pradeep K. Dubey and
Matthew D. Jennings and
Ruby B. Lee and
Alex Peleg and
Salliah Rathnam and
Mike Schlansker and
Peter Song and
Andrew Wolfe Theme Feature: Challenges to Combining
General-Purpose and Multimedia
Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--37
William H. Mangione-Smith and
Brad Hutchings and
David Andrews and
André DeHon and
Carl Ebeling and
Reiner Hartenstein and
Oskar Mencer and
John Morris and
Krishna Palem and
Viktor K. Prasanna and
Henk A. E. Spaanenburg Theme Feature: Seeking Solutions in
Configurable Computing . . . . . . . . . 38--43
Per Stenström and
Erik Hagersten and
David J. Lilja and
Margaret Martonosi and
Madan Venugopal Theme Feature: Trends in Shared Memory
Multiprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--50
Sarita V. Adve and
Doug Burger and
Rudolf Eigenmann and
Alasdair Rawsthorne and
Michael D. Smith and
Catherine H. Gebotys and
Mahmut T. Kandemir and
David J. Lilja and
Alok N. Choudhary and
Jesse Z. Fang and
Pen-Chung Yew Theme Feature: Changing Interaction of
Compiler and Architecture . . . . . . . 51--58
Hasan S. Alkhatib and
Chase Bailey and
Mario Gerla and
James McCrae Theme Feature: Wireless Data Networks:
Reaching the Extra Mile . . . . . . . . 59--62
MIchael Schlansker and
Thomas M. Conte and
James Dehnert and
Kemar Ebcio\uglu and
Jesse Z. Fang and
Carol L. Thompson Theme Feature: Compilers for
Instruction-Level Parallelism . . . . . 63--69
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--79, 82--84
Anonymous \em Computer 1998 Editorial Calendar . . 84--84
Anonymous CS Update: Members elect officers and
board members to begin terms in 1998;
Balloting and Participation; Kenneth
Laker wins in balloting for IEEE 1998
president-elect; 1987 Gorden Bell Prize
winners announced at Supercomputing . . 85--86
Anonymous \em Computer Reviewers . . . . . . . . . 87--89
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 90--93
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 94--121
Kirk L. Kroeker New Products: Embedded Systems
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--124
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Living in the Digital Age . . 125--125
Frank Dawson Standards: Emerging Calendaring and
Scheduling Standards . . . . . . . . . . 126--128
Jeffrey Voas Software Realities: Fault Injection for
the Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Ken Magel Internet Watch: Is It Too Late to Put
the User Back into HTML? . . . . . . . . 131--132
Neville Holmes Binary Critic: Converging on Program
Simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136, 134--135
Doris Carver President's Message: Building On
Success: Our 1998 Plan . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
David Clark Industry Trends: New Era for Digital
Signal Processors . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Lee Garber Technology News: Employment in 1998:
Focus on Y2K and the Internet . . . . . 14--18
Lee Garber News Briefs: Sun Gets OK to Propose Java
Standards; Domain Name Plan Delayed;
Encryption Battle Heats Up; Monstor
Processes to Debut in 1998; Work Begins
on API for Digital TV; ISO Approves C++
Standard; New Standard for Parallel
Processing Workstations; IBM Unveils
High-Capacity Disk Technology . . . . . 21--24
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
David D. Clark and
Edward A. Feigenbaum and
Don Greenberg and
Juris Hartmanis and
Robert W. Lucky and
Robert M. Metcalfe and
Raj Reddy and
Mary Shaw and
William Wulf Innovation and Obstacles: The Future of
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--38
Janet Wilson Virtual Roundtable: Challenges and
Trends in Processor Design: Roundtable
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
Marc Tremblay Virtual Roundtable: Challenges and
Trends in Processor Design: Increasing
Work, Pushing the Clock . . . . . . . . 40--41
Greg Grohoski Virtual Roundtable: Challenges and
Trends in Processor Design: Reining in
Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
Brad Burgess Virtual Roundtable: Challenges and
Trends in Processor Design:
Specialization: A Way of Life . . . . . 43--43
Earl Killian Virtual Roundtable: Challenges and
Trends in Processor Design: Challenges,
Not Roadblocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45
Robert Colwell Virtual Roundtable: Challenges and
Trends in Processor Design: Maintaining
a Leading Position . . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
Paul I. Rubinfeld Virtual Roundtable: Challenges and
Trends in Processor Design: Managing
Problems at High Speed . . . . . . . . . 47--48
Wen-mei Hwu Virtual Roundtable: Challenges and
Trends in Processor Design: Technology
Outlook: Introduction to Predicated
Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Scott Hamilton Inside Microsoft Research . . . . . . . 51--58
Ted Lewis Information Appliances: Gadget Netopia 59--68
Akhtar Jameel and
Matthias Stuempfle and
Daniel Jiang and
Axel Fuchs Web on Wheels:Toward Internet-Enabled
Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--76
Edward A. Lee and
David G. Messerschmitt Engineering an Education for the Future 77--85
Alan H. Karp and
Ewing Lusk and
David H. Bailey News: 1997 Gordon Bell Prize Winners . . 86--92
Nabil R. Adam and
Aryya Gangopadhyay Technical Activities Forum:
Content-Based Retrieval in Digital
Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous CS Update: Seymour Cray Award; Pioneer
Award for Svoboda; Golden Core
Memberships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
Anonymous New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--129
Anonymous New Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--135
Charles Severance Standards Conflict and Consensus: The
Role of Standards . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Bertrand Meyer Object Technology The Future of Object
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Ron Vetter and
Kirk L. Kroeker Internet Watch: The Internet in the Year
Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Norman L. Kerth and
Jim Coplien and
Jerry Weinberg Open Channel: Call for the Rational Use
of Personality Indicators . . . . . . . 146--147
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Who's Afraid of Wintel? 152, 149--151
Bob Weeks and
Brian Hackworth and
Roland N. Ibbett and
Paul E. Black Letters: Should the U.S. Nationalize
Microsoft? Deserved Debunking; Earlier
Asynchronous Processors; Edison's
Invention Factory . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
Don Kiely Industry Trends: Are Components the
Future of Software? . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Lee Garber and
Richard Raucci Technology News: Antivirus Technology
Offers New Cures . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--14
Anonymous News Briefs: Open Spec for EDA Tools;
Semiconductor Roadmap; High-Tech Impact
on US Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
H. John Caulfield Perspectives in Optical Computing . . . 22--25
Neil F. Johnson and
Sushil Jajodia Computing Practices: Exploring
Steganography: Seeing the Unseen . . . . 26--34
Leo J. Irakliotis and
Pericles A. Mitkas Optics: A Maturing Technology for Better
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37
James Gourlay and
Tsung-Yi Yang and
Julian A. B. Dines and
John F. Snowdon and
Andrew C. Walker Development of Free-Space Digital Optics
in Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--44
Pericles A. Mitkas and
George A. Betzos and
Leo J. Irakliotis Optical Processing Paradigms for
Electronic Computers . . . . . . . . . . 45--51
Demetri Psaltis and
Geoffrey W. Burr Holographic Data Storage . . . . . . . . 52--60
Masatoshi Ishikawa and
Neil McArdle Optically Interconnected Parallel
Computing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 61--68
Peter S. Guilfoyle and
John M. Hessenbruch and
Richard V. Stone Free-Space Interconnects for
High-Performance Optoelectronic
Switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75
Daniel E. Cooke Technical Activities Forum: Outlook on
Language Research and Practice . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous CS Update: 1998 IEEE Fellows Election
Timetable' 1998 Executive Committee;
Call for Editor-in-Chief Applicants;
1997 Sidney Fernbach Award; Membership
Activities Board Service Award . . . . . 79--83
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 84--87
Michael J. Lutz New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--105
Donald C. Loughry Standards: The IEEE-SA: A New Era for
Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106, 110
Andrew P. Sage Integrated Engineering: Toward Systems
Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110
James Bach Software Realities: Microdynamics of
Process Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Anonymous Internet Watch: URLs In Print: To Cite
or Not to Cite? . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115, 117
Joao Carreira and
Joao Gabriel Silva Open Channel: Computer Science and the
Pygmalion Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Harold W. Lawson Binary Critic: Salvation from System
Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120, 118--119
Rich McCabe and
Ted Lewis and
Patrick Zazcyk and
Brian L. Evans and
Mihai Nadin and
Angela Burgess Letters: When is a Giveaway
Monopolistic? Equal Access to the OS;
DSP Article on Target; Criteria for
Inclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
John Edwards Industry Trends: Changing Database
Market Hurts Major Vendors . . . . . . . 10--11
Tammy Parker Technology News: Mobile Wireless
Internet Technology Faces Hurdles . . . 12--14
Anonymous News Briefs: Microsoft, Sun, and Set-Top
Boxes; Europe's High-Speed Internet;
Microsoft's Court Settlement; New Cable
Modem Spec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
John K. Ousterhout Scripting: Higher-Level Programming for
the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
Adair Dingle and
Thomas H. Hildebrandt Improving C++ Performance Using
Temporaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41
David Krieger and
Richard M. Adler The Emergence of Distributed Component
Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--53
Daniel E. O'Leary Enterprise Knowledge Management . . . . 54--61
Peter Michael Melliar-Smith and
Louise Elizabeth Moser Surviving Network Partitioning . . . . . 62--68
John W. Sheppard and
William R. Simpson Managing Conflict in System Diagnosis 69--76
Noppanunt Utamaphethai and
Sumit Ghosh Dicaf: A Distributed Architecture for
Intelligent Transportation . . . . . . . 78--84
Anonymous CS Update: CS Launches Y2K-Compliant
Standards Effort; Tribute to Richard
Hamming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Goffredo Haus Technical Activities Forum: Rescuing La
Scala's Music Archives . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90, 92, 94--95, 98--99
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 100--105
Anonymous New Books: All About Those Enterprising
JavaBeans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous New Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--113
Charles Severance Standards: IEEE 754: An Interview with
William Kahan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Warren Bennis and
Patricia Ward Biederman Management: None of Us Is As Smart As
All of Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Joseph (Yossi) Gil and
David H. Lorenz Object Technology: Design Patterns and
Language Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120
Hermann Maurer Internet Watch: Web-Based Knowledge
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Richard Marlon Stein Open Channel: Does Determinism Dictate
Dignity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Java Holy War '98 . . . . 128, 126--127
Anonymous Letter: Debunking Cybermyths: The
Stroustrup Interview . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Rudolf Jan Heijink Letter: ISDN available in The
Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Donald Kubler and
Thomas Drake Letter: Quality Metrics Don't Work . . . 4, 5
Jon Steinhart Letter: Electrical-Engineering vs.
Software Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Edward A. Parrish Editor's Message; Evolving a World-Class
Membership Magazine . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
George Lawton Industry Trends: Paving the Information
Superhighway's Last Mile . . . . . . . . 10--12, 14
David Clark Technology News: Developments Shake
Domain-Name Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--17
David Clark News Briefs; W3C Approval Gives XML a
Push; ISO Adopts QuickTime for MPEG-4;
Group Proposes Antipiracy Plan; Delay
for Gbit Ethernet Specs . . . . . . . . 18--19
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Maurice V. Wilkes A Revisionist Account of Early Language
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
Michael J. Flynn Computer Engineering 30 Years After the
IBM Model 91 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
I-Ling Yen and
Raymond Paul and
Kinji Mori Toward Integrated Methods for
High-Assurance Systems . . . . . . . . . 32--34
I-Ling Yen and
Ray Paul Key Applications for High-Assurance
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Leon Alkalai and
Ann T. Tai Long-Life Deep-Space Applications . . . 35--36
Victor L. Winter and
John M. Covan and
Larry J. Dalton Passive Safety in High-Consequence
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
Rick Harper and
Barry Flahive Challenges for Continuously Available
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Wei-Tek Tsai and
Ramin Mojdehbakhsh and
Sanjai Rayadurgam Capturing Safety-Critical Medical
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Kinji Mori Applications in Rapidly Changing
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
Michael R. Lowry Component-Based Reconfigurable Systems 44--45
Mats P. E. Heimdahl and
Jeffrey M. Thompson and
Barbara J. Czerny Specification and Analysis of
Intercomponent Communication . . . . . . 47--54
Myong H. Kang and
Andrew P. Moore and
Ira S. Moskowitz Design and Assurance Strategy for the
NRL Pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--64
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and
Edward B. Allen and
Robert Halstead and
Gary P. Trio and
Ronald M. Flass Using Process History to Predict
Software Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--72
Anonymous CS Update; Draft Software Engineering
Accreditation Criteria; Board of
Governors Approves Reading of Bylaws
Amendment on Staff Titles; Board of
Governors Approves Reading of Bylaws
Amendment on Membership Activities Board 73--75, 77
Douglas W. Westcott Technical Activities Forum; Designs for
the Computers of Tomorrow . . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 78, 80--81, 83
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Building Databases for All
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development,
Hardware Development, Net Development,
Component Technology, Systems Analysis 94--98
John R. Gilbert Integrated Engineering: Integrating CAD
Tools for MEMS Design . . . . . . . . . 99--101
Lewis Gray Software Realities: Gray Rebuts Bach: No
Cowboy Programmers! . . . . . . . . . . 102--103, 105
Nick Tredennick Open Channel: This Cyberfarce Stars
Elvis and the Nerds . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Al Borchers and
Jon Herlocker and
Joseph Konstan and
John Riedl Internet Watch: Ganging Up on
Information Overload . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Ware Myers Binary Critic: Why Software Developers
Refuse to Improve . . . . . . . . . . . 112, 110--111
Dirk Brodine Letters: Too Much Fun with System
Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Sixto Ortiz Jr. Industry Trends: Hardware-Based
Networking Widens the Pipes . . . . . . 8--9
David Clark Technology News: Are ATM and Gigabit
Ethernet Ready for Prime Time? . . . . . 11--13
Lee Garber News Briefs: Auction Sets Stage For New
Broadband Wireless Service Chip; Makers
Delay Move to 300-mm Wafer; Are
Europeans Ready for the Euro?; W3C
Pushes Net Access for the Disabled . . . 14--19
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
Marvin V. Zelkowitz and
Dolores Wallace Computing Practices: Experimental Models
for Validating Technology . . . . . . . 23--31
Walter F. Tichy Cybersquare: Should Computer Scientists
Experiment More? . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--40
Pradip Bose and
Thomas M. Conte Performance Analysis and Its Impact on
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
Matt Reilly and
John Edmondson Performance Simulation of an Alpha
Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Bryan Black and
John Paul Shen Calibration of Microprocessor
Performance Models . . . . . . . . . . . 59--65
Kurt Maly and
Ajay Gupta and
Satish Mynam BTU: A Host Communication Benchmark . . 66--74
Spencer W. Ng News: Advances in Disk Technology:
Performance Issues . . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
Anonymous CS Update; Free Service Links Members
Who Share Interests; Initiative to
Support US Undergraduate Women; 1997
IEEE CS Student Award Winners . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 84--86, 89--94
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Software Architecture Defined 95--95
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development,
Hardware Development . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
Charles Severance Standards: Grab the Chance to Work on
the Leading Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Steve McConnell Management: The Power of Process . . . . 100--102
Robert L. Glass Open Channel: Success? Failure? Or Both? 103--103
Bertrand Meyer and
Christine Mingins and
Heinz Schmidt Object Technology: Providing Trusted
Components to the Industry . . . . . . . 104--105
Volker Turau Internet Watch: What Practices Are Being
Adopted on the Web? . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Why the Economy Is So
Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112, 110--111
Jeffrey A. Rosenwald and
George Heilmeier and
Bill Sneed and
Bruce Walker and
Igore Markov and
Tom Hildebrandt and
Brian O'Hearn and
Alex B. Cannara and
Akhatar Jameel and
Matthias Stuempfle and
Daniel Jiang and
Axel Fuchs and
Frank Preston and
Don Greenberg Letters: Continuing the Productivity
Paradox Debat; Post-2008 Economic
Driver; ``Computer Science'' an
Oxymoron?; Underestimating the Cost of
Experiments; Improving C++ Runtime; Safe
Internet Cars; Dangerous Concept; Not
That Many Transistors . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Lee Garber and
David Sims Industry Trends: In Pursuit of
Hardware-Software Codesign . . . . . . . 12--14
George Lawton Technology News: The Internet's
Challenge to Privacy . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Lee Garber News Briefs: HP Enters the Java Fray:
Toward a More Intelligent Web: Mobile IP
on the Move: Dispute over Reported IT
Worker Shortage . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--21
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Niklaus Wirth Hardware Compilation: Translating
Programs into Circuits . . . . . . . . . 25--31
Bruce Jacob and
Trevor Mudge Virtual Memory: Issues of Implementation 33--43
Jeffrey M. Voas The Challenges of Using COTS Software in
Component-Based Development . . . . . . 44--45
Nancy Talbert Interview with John McDermid: The Cost
of COTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Jeffrey M. Voas Certifying Off-the-Shelf Software
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
Ulf Lindqvist and
Erland Jonsson A Map of Security Risks Associated with
Using COTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--66
Qun Zhong and
Nigel Edwards Security Control for COTS Components . . 67--73
Anonymous CS Update: Computer Society Recognizes
Pioneers in Central and Eastern Europe 79--84
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 84--87, 90--94
John Hurd Standards: Why Does Digital Participate
in Standards? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Making Wavelets in the Real
World; Protecting the OB; Diffie on
Privacy; Digital Design Explained;
E-Commerce du Jour; Seeing Software;
Structures for XML; Smalltalk Patterns 97--97
Anonymous New Tools: Software Development:
Uniscape's Internationalization Library;
Global Technologies' Unix-to-NT
Solution; KAI's Multithreaded Java
Debugging Tool; Price Systems'
Parametric Forecasting Tool . . . . . . 98, 102
Anonymous New Tools: Hardware Development: JTAG's
Flash Memory Tool; Accelerated
Technology's Embedded Development
Environment; Motorola's Reconfigurable
Embedded System Technology . . . . . . . 99, 103
Anonymous New Tools: Net Development: Lotus' Tools
for Intranet/Extranet Development;
Novera Software's Java Application
Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100, 103
Anonymous New Tools: Component Technology:
Rational's Component-Savvy Visual Tool;
ICL's Java-Based ORBs. Systems Analysis:
Network Communication's Network Probe;
Seagate's Server Health Monitor . . . . 101--101
Anonymous New Tools: Systems Analysis: Network
Communication's Network Probe; Seagate's
Server Health Monitor . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Scott Bollig and
Dan Xiao Integrated Engineering: Throwing Off the
Shackles of a Legacy System . . . . . . 104--106
James Bach and
Dave W. Smith Software Realities: Plans, Lies, and
Videotape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--109
Bjarne Stroustrup and
Scott Hamilton Open Channel: The Real Stroustrup
Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--114
Alfred Bork and
David R. Britton Jr. Internet Watch: The Web Is Not Yet
Suitable for Learning . . . . . . . . . 115--116
T. J. Rodgers Binary Critic: Building the US
Workforce, One Engineer at a Time . . . 120, 117
Len Bass and
Robert L. Glass and
Gary A. Hill Letters: Success Differs in Research and
Academia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
Barry Phillips Industry Trends: Have Storage Area
Networks Come of Age? . . . . . . . . . 10--12
George Lawton Technology News: Multicasting: Will It
Transform the Internet? . . . . . . . . 13--15
Lee Garber News Briefs; Moving 3D Beyond VRML; US,
Microsoft Will Square Off on September
8; Satellite Processor Failure Cuts Net,
Pager Service; US Seeks Encryption
Standard; Vendors Unveil Bluetooth
Wireless Technology; The End of MS-DOS 18--21
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Carole Dulong The IA-64 Architecture at Work . . . . . 24--32
Barry Boehm and
Alexander Egyed and
Julie Kwan and
Dan Port and
Archita Shah and
Ray Madachy Using the WinWin Spiral Model: A Case
Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44
Jed Lengyel The Convergence of Graphics and Vision 46--53
Sally A. McKee and
Robert H. Klenke and
Kenneth L. Wright and
William A. Wulf and
Maximo H. Salinas and
James H. Aylor and
Alan P. Batson Smarter Memory: Improving Bandwidth for
Streamed References . . . . . . . . . . 54--63
Hira Agrawal and
James L. Alberi and
Joseph R. Horgan and
J. Jenny Li and
Saul London and
W. Eric Wong and
Sudipto Ghosh and
Norman Wilde Mining System Tests to Aid Software
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--73
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 74--76
Karl Reed Technical Activities Forum: Why the CS
Should Help Chart the Future of IT . . . 77--78
Michel Israel CS Update: Growth and Stability: 1997
Financial Results . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Coopers & Lybrand CS Update: Report of Independent
Accountants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--84
Angela Burgess and
Carl K. Chang CS Update: Board of Governors Approves
Slate for 1998 Election . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Network Management with
Scripts; Ethernet Backbone; Web
Technologies; Total Cache Knowledge;
Putting on the Constraints; Java GUI
Details; Doing Business on the Net;
Programming Netscape . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development:
TakeFive Software's Source Code Tool;
RST's Test Tools; Blue Sky's Help File
Authoring Solution. Hardware
Development: Green Hills Software's
Single-Source Solution for Tools and
RTOS; Tanner ERA's Interconnect Design
Tools; Xynetix Design Systems'
Autorouter. Net Development: Aonix's
Web-to-Legacy Tool; Inktomi's Commercial
Network Cache. Component Technology:
Visual Edge's Enterprise Application
Integration Products; Rogue Wave
Software's Suite of JavaBeans Components 90--93
Charles Severance Standards: Standardizing Real-Time
Streaming Protocols: Interview with Rob
Lanphier, RealNetworks . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Bertrand Meyer Object Technology: Tell Less and Say
More: The Power of Implicitness . . . . 97--98
Paul Bassett Management: Managing for Flexible
Software Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . 100--102
Jukka Korpela Internet Watch: Lurching Toward Babel:
HTML and CSS and XML . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Neville Holmes Open Channel: Mitigating Microsoft with
Virtual Consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Joe Sixpack and Larry
Lemming and Ralph Nader . . . . . . . . 107--109
Dominique S. Black Binary Critic: Behind the Hype About the
IT Labor and ``Shortage'' . . . . . . . 112, 110--111
Ed Parrish and
Tom Clune and
Phil Armour and
Jeffrey A. Rosenwald and
Joachim Feise and
Terry Vaughn and
Frank Preson and
R. G. (Ben) Bennetts and
Jeffrey Van Myers and
Robert A. Rivers and
Ramesh Narayanaswamy and
John Podlasek and
Stig Nilsson and
Giovanni Jaramillo Report to Members; Members See Shades of
Truth in Technology Worker Debate . . . 7--12
Richard Marlon Stein Open Channel: T. J. Rodgers, H-1B Visas,
and Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--8
George Lawton Industry Trends: Biometrics: A New Era
in Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
Sixto Ortiz Jr. Technology News: Active Networks: The
Programmable Pipeline . . . . . . . . . 19--21
Anonymous News Briefs: Private Domain-Name System.
FTC's Intel Case. Microsoft Moves Toward
Object Interoperability . . . . . . . . 22--25
Anonymous Article Summaries: Cybersquare . . . . . 26--27
Mark D. Hill Computing Practices: Multiprocessors
Should Support Simple Memory-Consistency
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--34
Earl Long and
Amit Misra and
Janos Sztipanovits Cover Feature: Increasing Productivity
at Saturn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
Manfred Schlett Trends in Embedded-Microprocessor Design 44--49
Jennifer Eyre and
Jeff Bier DSP Processors Hit the Mainstream . . . 51--59
Stephan Schulz and
Jerzy W. Rozenblit and
Michael Mrva and
Klaus Buchenrieder Research Features: Model-Based Codesign 60--67
Tony Savor and
Rudolph E. Seviora Toward Automatic Detection of Software
Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--74
Hsinchun Chen and
Jay Nunamaker, Jr. and
Richard Orwig and
Olga Titkova News: Information Visualization for
Collaborative Computing . . . . . . . . 75--82
Anonymous CS Update: Awards: Agerwala Receives
1998 McDowell Award. Agrawal Receives
1998 Goode Memorial Award. Wah,
Ichikawa, and Bourbakis Earn Technical
Achievement Awards. TAB Election
Results. Science and Engineering Fair
Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--86
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 86--95
Michael J. Lutz New Books: The Legalities of Inventing
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Michael J. Lutz New Tools; Membership News . . . . . . . 103--107
Neville Holmes Standards: Toward Decent Text Encoding 108--109
Mark T. Smith Integrated Engineering: Smart Cards:
Integrating for Portable Complexity . . 110--112
James Bach Software Realities: The Highs and Lows
of Change Control . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
Janet Wilson Internet Watch: The IETF: Laying the
Net's Asphalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Simon Napper Binary Critic: Embedded-System Design
Plays Catch-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120, 118--119
Michael A. Covington and
Ted Lewis and
Hernan Astudillo and
Jukka Korpela and
Bruce Wilner and
Nigel Edwards and
Qun Zhong Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
Edward A. Parrish Report to Members: Members React to
Privacy and Encryption Survey . . . . . 12--15
Lee Goldberg Technology News: The Advent of `Green'
Computer Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Lee Garber News Briefs: Global Internet Summit:
Home Networking Plan: Hyperlink
Web-Searching Engine . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Patrick W. Dowd and
John T. McHenry Network Security: It's Time to Take It
Seriously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
Bruce Schneier Cryptographic Design Vulnerabilities . . 29--33
Aviel D. Rubin and
Daniel E. Geer Jr. A Survey of Web Security . . . . . . . . 34--42
Rolf Oppliger Security at the Internet Layer . . . . . 43--47
William A. Arbaugh and
James R. Davin and
David J. Farber and
Jonathan M. Smith Security for Virtual Private Intranets 48--56
Thomas D. Tarman and
Robert L. Hutchinson and
Lyndon G. Pierson and
Peter E. Sholander and
Edward L. Witzke Algorithm-Agile Encryption in ATM
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
Claude Petitpierre Synchronous C++: A Language for
Interactive Applications . . . . . . . . 65--72
Diana J. Bendz Technical Activities Forum: Electronics
and the Environment . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Anonymous 1998 CS Election: Candidate Statements
for Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--89
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 90--100
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Peering into the Digital
Crystal Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development:
Rational Software's Ada Development
Environment; Pragmatix Software's
Meta-CASE Tool; Wibu Systems' Copy
Protection Tools. Hardware Development:
Diab Data's Suite of Analysis Tools for
Embedded Applications; Mustang
Software's Message Center Tool; RSI's
AS/400 Client-Server Tool; SES's
Client-Server Simulation Tool; CACI
Products' Network Analysis Tools . . . . 102--104, 106
Mark Resmer Standards: Internet Architectures for
Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Patricia Cravener Internet Watch: Education on the Web: A
Rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: What to Do About
Microsoft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112, 109--111
Charlie Alfred and
Ted Lewis and
John O. Goyo and
Ted Lewis and
Garth Klatt and
George M. Samaras Letters: Lemmings and Software Quality;
US Navy C2 Rating; The Imperfection of
Engineering; Success and Failure
Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
John Edwards Industry Trends: The Changing Face of
Freeware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
Barry Phillips Technology News: Designers: The Browser
War Casualties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
George Lawton News Briefs: Sun Joins Tetherless
Network Fray; Private Doorbells:
Solution to Encryption Controversy; Web
Extensions Promise Distributed
Computing; Wall Street Conducts Major
Y2K Test; Sun Prepares to Submit First
Java Standard; Netscape Loses More
Ground in Browser War . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Barry Phillips Article Summaries: Computing Practices 20--21
Harlan McGhan and
Mike O'Connor Computing Practices: PicoJava: A Direct
Execution Engine For Java Bytecode . . . 22--30
Daniel S. Goldin and
Samuel L. Venneri and
Ahmed K. Noor Cybersquare: Beyond Incremental Change 31--39
David A. Solomon Cover Feature: The Windows NT Kernel
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47
Luis Felipe Cabrera and
Brian Andrew and
Kyle Peltonen and
Norbert Kusters Cover Feature: Advances in Windows NT
Storage Management . . . . . . . . . . . 48--54
Rod Gamache and
Rob Short and
Mike Massa Cover Feature: Windows NT Clustering
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
Stephen G. Eick Research Feature: A Visualization Tool
for Y2K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee and
Mark D. Hill Research Feature: Making Network
Interfaces Less Peripheral . . . . . . . 70--76
Rajive Bagrodia and
Richard Meyer and
Mineo Takai and
Yu-an Chen and
Xiang Zeng and
Jay Martin and
Ha Yoon Song News Research Feature: Parsec: A Parallel
Simulation Environment for Complex
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85
N. Ranganathan Technical Activities Forum: A Forum for
VLSI Practitioners . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 87--108
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Programming for High-End
JavaBeans; Intel Secrets; Ada and
Concurrency; Data-Modeling Primer;
Technology and Economics; Dissecting a
Microprocessor; Real-World ATM; When
Computers Run Amok . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development:
Rational Software's Development Tools
for Ada, Artlandia's Mathematica
Graphics Tool, ISE's EiffelBase Library
Available for Free, Annasoft System's
Windows CE Development Tool. Hardware
Development: White Mountain's DSP Tools,
Analogy's Mixed-Signal IC Simulator,
Dynamic Soft Analysis' Thermal Analysis
Tool; Net Development: Framework
Technologies' Project Management System,
CAI's Message Broker, Gordian's Network
Redirector Software; Component
Technology: Black & White's Usage Control
Software for Multi-ORB CORBA
Implementations, IONA Technologies'
Middleware Development Tools, GreenTree
Technologies' ActiveX Controls, KL
Group's JavaBeans with Automatic Data
Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--114
Nate Zelnick Standards: Nifty Technology and
Nonconformance: The Web in Crisis . . . 115--116
Harold W. Lawson Integrated Engineering: From Busyware to
Stableware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Jon Bosak Internet Watch: Media-Independent
Publishing: Four Myths about XML . . . . 120--122
David Notkin Open Channel: The Lifeblood of Our Field 123--123
James Bach Software Realities: A Framework for Good
Enough Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
Robert N. Britcher Departments Binary Critic: Software Reliability:
Numbers Aren't the Whole Story . . . . . 128, 127
Terry Clinton and
Tom Parsons and
Capers Jones and
William Adams and
Garth Klatt and
Eric Haines and
Ted Lewis and
Philip Machanik and
Stig Nilsson and
Karl Reed and
Howard R. Stearns and
Neville Holmes and
John Brownie Letters: The Benefits of Model-Based
Integration; Documentation is Not Green;
Picking on the Overdog; Buggy, Slow
Windoze; There's No Such Thing as Free
Software; Linus' Law of Open Source
Development; Bug-Free Development? No
Way; Governmental IT Planning and the
Computer Society; Text Encoding
Questions; Encoding the World's
Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 5--7, 11
John Callahan Industry Trends: Moving Toward
Effortless Networking . . . . . . . . . 12--15
Gene Koprowski Technology News: Emerging Uncertainty
over IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17, 20
Lee Garber News Briefs: HTTP Next-Generation;
Faster PCI Bus; Smart-Card Technology
Standard; New Chip Technologies . . . . 18--23
Christoforos E. Kozyrakis and
David A. Patterson Cybersquare: A New Direction for
Computer Architecture Research . . . . . 24--32
Douglas Barry and
Torsten Stanienda Computing Practices: Solving the Java
Object Storage Problem . . . . . . . . . 33--41
Andrew A. Chien and
Mark D. Hill and
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee Cover Feature: Design Challenges for
High-Performance Network Interfaces . . 42--45
Simon Walton and
Anne Hutton and
Joe Touch High-Speed Data Paths in Host-Based
Routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Raoul A. F. Bhoedjang and
Tim Rühl and
Henri E. Bal User-Level Network Interface Protocols 53--60
Thorsten von Eicken and
Werner Vogels Evolution of the Virtual Interface
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--68
Whay Sing Lee and
William J. Dally and
Stephen W. Keckler and
Nicholas P. Carter and
Andrew Chang An Efficient, Protected Message
Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75
Fred Douglis and
Steve Chapin and
Jim Isaak Technical Activities Forum: Internet
Research on Internet Time . . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 78--111
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Doing Business with Use Cases 112--112
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development:
Galorath's Parametric Estimation Tool;
Uniscape's Multilingual API and Runtime
Library; Object International's UML
Modeler; ObjecTime Limited's Real-Time
Code Generation Tool. Hardware
Development: Diab Industry's Java
Compiler for Embedded Systems; Verilog's
Embedded Systems Tool; Intusoft's
Simulation-Based Test Synthesis Tool.
Net Development: Rational Software's
Web-Based Load-Testing Tool; IONA
Technologies' Internet Security Tool;
Sonic Systems' ICSA-Certified Low-Cost
Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--116
Charles Severance Standards: Firewire Finally Comes Home 117--118
Volker Turau Internet Watch: The Fortune 500 Web . . 119--120
Neville Holmes Open Channel: The Myth of the Computer
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Bertrand Meyer Object Technology: The Role of
Object-Oriented Metrics . . . . . . . . 123--125
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: The Legacy Maturity Model 128, 125--127
Vir V. Phoha and
Norman S. Clerman and
William R. Duncan and
Daniele Farnedi and
Bryan Kelly Letters: Limitations of IPv4 Ensure
Future of IPv6; Proprietary Product
Coverage; What Brooks' Law Says;
Upgrading with COTS; NT Storage
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
Anonymous Report to Members: Members Elect
Officers and Board Members for 1999 . . 10--11
Lee Garber Industry Trends: US Will Grant More
High-Tech Visas; Internet Pioneer Jon
Postel Dies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
David Clark Technology News: Heavy Traffic Drives
Networks to IP over Sonet . . . . . . . 17--20
George Lawgon News Briefs: Alliance Wants to Give
Voice to the Net; Intel Pushes for Unix
Standards; Groups Seek to End Browser
Wars; Initiative Hopes to Drive Basic
Chip Research; HTML+TIME Promises Better
Multimedia; Keyword Browsing Promises
Simple Web Access . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Cynthia E. Irvine and
Shiu-Kai Chin and
Deborah Frincke Integrating Security into the Curriculum 25--30
Benjamin Falchuk and
Ahmed Karmouch Visual Modeling for Agent-Based
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
Munindar P. Singh Agent Communication Languages:
Rethinking the Principles . . . . . . . 40--47
Pearl Brereton and
David Budgen and
Geoff Hamilton Hypertext: The Next Maintenance Mountain 49--55
Anonymous Annual Index: Volume 31, 1998 . . . . . 56--67
Janos Sztipanovits Technical Activities Forum: Integrated
Engineering of Computer-Based Systems 68--69
Mary-Louise G. Piner CS Update; WW II Cryptologist [Jack
Good] Receives Pioneer Award; Colossus
Builder Tommy Flowers (1905--1998); DCI
Founder [George Schussel] Receives
Entrepreneur Award; 1998 Bell Prize
Recognizes Advances in Parallel
Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--73
Edward A. Parrish \em Computer Reviewers, 1998 . . . . . . 73--76
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 80--116
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Placing User Needs First,
Technology Last . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development:
Genitor's C/C++ Tools; Distributive Data
Systems' Metric Tool for Enterprise-Wide
Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118, 121
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Hardware Development: Green
Hills' Development Environment for ARM
Processors; Metrowerks' Embedded GUI
Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Net Development: IONA
Technologies' Middleware Messaging
System; Banyan Software's
Directory-Enabled User Management System 120--120
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Component Technology:
4Developers' Tool for Managing ActiveX
and COM files; SoftWired's Java-based
Object Delivery API . . . . . . . . . . 121--121
Todd Carpenter Integrated Engineering: Avionics
Integration for CNS\ldots ATM . . . . . 124--126
Johanna Rothman Software Realities: Of Crazy Numbers and
Release Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Jim Isaak Standards: The Role of Government in IT
Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
Michael Monticino Internet Watch: Web Analysis: Stripping
Away the Hype . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
Will Tracz Open Channel: Changing the Channel . . . 133--133
Brian Halla Binary Critic: How the PC Will Disappear 136, 134--135
James H. Aylor Editor's Message: Computer for the 21st
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
Leonard L. Tripp President's Message: Lengthening Our
Stride: Our 1999 Plan . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Ambrose Li and
Justus Pendelton and
Norman Hines and
Wayne Ding and
Phil Crooker and
Jim Aylor and
Dilip K. Banerji and
Lexis H. Rivera-Rios and
Steve Masticola and
Ted Lewis Letters: When is Software Free and When
Is It Freeware? . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--11
John Charles Industry Trends: Neural Interfaces Link
the Mind and the Machine . . . . . . . . 16--18
John Edwards Technology News: Employment 1999:
Opportunities Amid Challenges . . . . . 19--22
Lee Garber News Briefs: Apple Engineers a Major
Turnaround; Java Battles Brew on Several
Fronts; IBM and SGI Unveil Ultrafast
Supercomputers; Y2K Briefs . . . . . . . 23--25
Greg Goth Y2K in Brief: Concern Rising About Y2KA
(The Y2K Aftermath) . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Krishna Kavi and
James Browne and
Anand Tripathi Computer Systems Research: The Pressure
Is On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--39
Jonathan M. Smith Programmable Networks: Selected
Challenges in Computer Networking . . . 40--42
Scott Hamilton Semiconductor Research Corporation;
Taking Moore's Law Into the Next Century 43--50
Howard Rubin Diary of a Y2K Consultant: Bracing for
the Millennium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56
Mark Billinghurst and
Thad Starner Wearable Devices: New Ways to Manage
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
Bill N. Schilit and
Morgan N. Price and
Gene Golovchinsky and
Kei Tanaka and
Catherine C. Marshall News: As We May Read: The Reading
Appliance Revolution . . . . . . . . . . 65--73
Anonymous IEEE Engineering of Computer Based
Systems Symposium and Workstations
(ECBS99): Advance Tutorial and Technical
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Jeffrey M. Voas Technical Activities Forum: The Future
of Computer Assurance . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection; Activities
and Opportunities: 1999 Outlook;
Volunteer Opportunities; Impact Event;
Bylaws Amendment; Parrish Receives IEEE
Service Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Minding Your Database Manners 124--124
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Today Comdex, Tomorrow the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
Charles Severance Standards; Posix: A Model for Future
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Soon-Tong Choi and
Andrew B. Whinston Internet Watch: The Future of
E-Commerce: Integrate and Customize . . 133--134
Barry Boehm and
Chris Abts Management: COTS Integration: Plug and
Pray? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--138
Bertrand Meyer Component and Object Technology: On to
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
Ted Lewis and
Benjamin C. Fuller Binary Critic: Fast-Lane Browsers Put
the Web on Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 141--143
Warren Montgomery and
Hugh R. Kress and
Hannes Lubich and
Michael Scheffler and
Norman Lorrain Letters: Y2K Lessons for Developers; Y2K
is not the Millennium; What Will Drive
IPv6 Adoption?; Friendly Freeware
Service; Layers of Common Sense . . . . 4, 6
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Sixto Ortiz Jr. Industry Trends: New Chips Move
Networking onto Silicon . . . . . . . . 7--9
George Lawton Technology News: Vendors Battle over
Mobile OS Market . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
Lee Garber News Briefs: Net Access Becomes Key
Factor in Selling PCs; Universal
Networking Language; New Standard for
Expanding IP Telephony; Y2K Report . . . 16--18
Greg Goth Y2K Briefs: UN Takes Y2K Action . . . . 19--19
Howard Rubin and
James Sanders Rubin's Y2K Diary: Mantras, Blacklists,
and Precedents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Savitha Srinivasan Design Patterns in Object-Oriented
Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--32
Thomas P. Hughes and
Jerry R. Sheehan What Has Influenced Computing
Innovation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43
Bruce Schatz and
Hsinchun Chen Digital Libraries: Technological
Advances and Social Impacts . . . . . . 45--50
Bruce Schatz and
William Mischo and
Timothy Cole and
Ann Bishop and
Susan Harum and
Eric Johnson and
Laura Neumann and
Hsinchun Chen and
Dorbin Ng Federated Search of Scientific
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59
Spencer W. Thomas and
Ken Alexander and
Kevin Guthrie Technology Choices for the JSTOR Online
Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65
Howard D. Wactlar and
Michael G. Christel and
Yihong Gong and
Alexander G. Hauptmann Lessons Learned from Building a Terabyte
Digital Video Library . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Ian H. Witten and
Rodger J. McNab and
Steve Jones and
Mark Apperley and
David Bainbridge and
Sally Jo Cunningham Managing Complexity in a Distributed
Digital Library . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
Andreas Paepcke and
Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado and
Chen-Chuan K. Chang and
Steve Cousins and
Hector Garcia-Molina Using Distributed Objects to Build the
Stanford Digital Library Infobus . . . . 80--87
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection:
International Design Competition; 1999
Fellows; Officer Appointments . . . . . 88--93
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 94--97
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 98--109
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Learning From Our Mistakes 110--110
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development; Net
Development; Hardware Development . . . 111--113
Gary C. Kessler and
Ken Rosenblad and
Steven D. Shepard Internet Watch: The Web \em Can Be
Suitable for Learning . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Josef Fleischmann and
Klaus Buchenrieder Integrated Engineering: Prototyping
Networked Embedded Systems . . . . . . . 116--119
James Bach Software Realities: Reframing
Requirements Analysis . . . . . . . . . 120--122
T. W. Williams Open Channel: IEEE-USA and the Issue of
Member Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: The Open Source Acid Test 128, 125--127
Gary Kephart and
David J. Pfaltzgraff and
William B. Adams and
Stephen Blanchette Jr. and
Barry Boehm Letters: Looking Forward Can Hurt Your
Brain; Alone on the Road Less Traveled;
What's New about COTS Headaches? . . . . 4, 6
George Lawton Industry Trends: New Technologies Take
the Network Home . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--14
Neal Leavitt Technology News: Will 1999 Be the Year
of IP Telephony? . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Greg Goth News Briefs: Groups Duel over New I/O
Standards; Oracle, Sun Team Up to Dump
the OS; Bringing the Net to Mobile
Appliances; Irish Girl Invents New
E-Mail Encryption; Group Releases Draft
Biometric-API Specs; Toshiba Announces
Smallest Memory Chip . . . . . . . . . . 18--20
Greg Goth Y2K in Brief: US Corporations' Y2K
Efforts Go Global . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Howard Rubin and
James Sanders Rubin's Y2K Diary: Doing the Y2K Spin:
Is Image Everything? . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26
Marina Krol Cybersquare: Have We Witnessed a
Real-Life Turing Test? . . . . . . . . . 27--30
Hemant K. Bhargava and
Suresh Sridhar and
Craig Herrick Computing Practices: Beyond
Spreadsheets: Tools for Building
Decision Support Systems . . . . . . . . 31--39
Girish Pathak and
Shri K. Goyal Guest Editors' Introduction:
Transforming Business Through
Information Technology . . . . . . . . . 40--41
Krishnamurthy Srinivasan and
Sundaresan Jayaraman The Changing Role of Information
Technology in Manufacturing . . . . . . 42--49
Richard Brandau and
Tony Confrey and
Alin D'Silva and
Christopher Matheus and
Robert Weihmayer Reinventing GTE with Information
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Mark Norris and
Paul Muschamp and
Steve Sim The BT Intranet: Information by Design 59--66
Dawn Jutla and
Peter Bodorik and
Catherine Hajnal and
Charles Davis Making Business Sense of Electronic
Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--75
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection; Society
Activities Attract New Members; Two
Presented Technical Achievement Awards;
Michael C. Mulder Tribute . . . . . . . 76--79
Cem Kaner and
Robert Colwell and
Richard Stern and
Kevin W. Bowyer Your Call: When a Product Doesn't
Measure Up to Its Claims . . . . . . . . 80--82
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84, 86--89
Anonymous Careers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--102
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Are You Listening, Dave?;
Cultural Team Chemistry; Java Image
Processing; Y2K Preparation; Making
Distributed Objects Work for COM-CORBA;
Fuzzy System Use . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development; Net
Development; Hardware Development . . . 104--107
Bruce Schneier Internet Watch: Cryptography: The
Importance of Not Being Different . . . 108--109
Harold W. Lawson Standards: Defining Stakeholder
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Barry Boehm Management: Making RAD Work for Your
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114
Paul F. Dubois Component and Object Technology:
Scientific Components Are Coming . . . . 115--117
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Innovation in the Small 120, 118--119
John Slimick and
T. W. Williams Letters: In Crediting Innovation, Don't
Forget Entrepreneurs . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
Lee Garber Industry Trends: Steve Deering on IP
Next Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
Ilan Greenberg Technology News: Facing Up to New
Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
Greg Goth and
George Lawton News Briefs: XML Specs Duel for
E-Commerce; Pentium III Privacy Flap
Continues; New Chips Promise Speed,
Adaptability; Researchers Work on
Interactive Agents; Groups Work on
Standards for Storage Networks . . . . . 17--19
Greg Goth Y2K Report: Y2K in Brief; Groups Help
Third World Fight Y2K Problem; Lawmakers
Seek Y2K Immunity; Russian Y2K Effort
Hampered by Low Funding . . . . . . . . 20--20
Howard Rubin and
James Sanders Rubin's Y2K Diary: Getting Down and
Dirty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Kenneth Nichols The Age of Software Patents . . . . . . 25--31
Jonathan M. Smith and
Kenneth L. Calvert and
Sandra L. Murphy and
Hilarie K. Orman and
Larry L. Peterson Activating Networks: A Progress Report 32--41
David Wetherall and
John Guttag and
David Tennenhouse ANTS: Network Services Without the Red
Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--48
John J. Hartman and
Peter A. Bigot and
Patrick Bridges and
Brady Montz and
Rob Piltz and
Oliver Spatscheck and
Todd A. Proebsting and
Larry L. Peterson and
Andy Bavier Joust: A Platform for Liquid Software 50--56
Sushil Jajodia and
Paul Ammann and
Catherine D. McCollum Surviving Information Warfare Attacks 57--63
Ming Fan and
Jan Stallaert and
Andrew B. Whinston NEWS A Web-Based Financial Trading System . . 64--70
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: Computer
Society Tool a Finalist for Codie Award;
Program Brings Expert Tutorials to CS
Chapters; Any Member Can Start a
Chapter; Read the Raymond Interview
Online; Computer Society Honors Seven
Outstanding Students; International
Science and Engineering Fair . . . . . . 72--75
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 76--78, 80, 82--84
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 86--92
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Software Engineering Success
Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Component Technology:
Harlequin's OO Environment for
Enterprise Development; Tom Sawyer
Software's Graph Editor Toolkit for
ActiveX. Net Development: GoAhead
Software's Remote Upgrade Software; Blue
Lobster's Legacy-to-Web Application.
Software Development: Mozart
Consortium's Development Platform;
InstallShield's Windows CE Installation
Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--96
Hal Burch and
Bill Cheswick Internet Watch: Mapping the Internet . . 97--98
Piotr Czapiewski and
Rajaraman Ganesan and
Dean Volkert and
Bruce Weber Integrated Engineering: Integrated,
Computer-Aided Order Fulfillment . . . . 99--102
Gary McGraw Software Realities: Software Assurance
for Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Paul J. Kostek Open Channel: IEEE-USA and Technical
Professionalism . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Asbestos Pajamas: An Open
Source Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . 112, 108--111
Gideon Gimlan and
Rex Page and
Bruce E. Hayden and
David A. E. Wall Letters: Relax, Not Everyone is Out to
Sue You; Patent Education is in Order;
The Claims Hold the Key; The State of
Software Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--10
Mary-Louise G. Piner Report to Members: With Two New Awards,
We Honor Unix, RISC Innovators . . . . . 11--13
John Edwards Industry Trends: Convergence Reshapes
the Networking Industry . . . . . . . . 14--16
John Charles Technology News: Middleware Moves to the
Forefront . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Lee Garber News Briefs: Linux Support Ranges from
GUI to Big Blue; New XML Standards;
Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
Greg Goth Y2K in Brief: Utilities Say They Are
Ready for Y2K . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Howard Rubin Rubin's Y2K Diary: Just Say YES Corps 24--24
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Andrew Grimshaw and
Adam Ferrari and
Frederick Knabe and
Marty Humphrey Wide-Area Computing: Resource Sharing on
a Large Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
Jerry Z. Gao and
Cris Chen and
Yasufumi Toyoshima and
David K. Leung Engineering on the Internet for Global
Software Production . . . . . . . . . . 38--47
Larry Wall and
David A. Taylor and
Chris Horn and
Paul Bassett and
John K. Ousterhout and
Martin L. Griss and
Richard Mark Soley and
Jim Waldo and
Charles Simonyi Software [R]evolution: A Roundtable . . 48--57
Daniel Cooke and
Joseph Urban and
Scott Hamilton Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken
Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--64
James M. Boyle and
R. Daniel Resler and
Victor L. Winter Do You Trust Your Compiler? . . . . . . 65--73
Sudha Ram and
Jinsoo Park and
George L. Ball Semantic-Model Support for Geographic
Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
Deborah Scherrer Technical Activities Forum: Wearable
Computing Comes of Age . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: Advancing
Software Engineering as a Profession . . 84--87
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 94--101
Michael J. Lutz New Books: No Character: How Apple Lots
Its Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Net Development: Sun's Java
Embedded Server; MetaCreation's
Web-Savvy Graphics Tool; WebCompiler's
HTML Packaging Tool. Component
Technology: ProtoVIew Development's
ActiveX Tools; Avilon Software's Load
Balancing Component System. Software
Development: Verilog's Test Checker; Red
Hat and Metrowerks' Development Tools
for Linux; The Object Factory's
Optimization Tool; Acumen Systems's SDK
for Imaging; Aonix's Process-Oriented
Lifecycle Environment; Baan's Embedded
Software Development Suite . . . . . . . 103--107
Joe Throop Standards: OpenMP: Shared-Memory
Parallelism from the Ashes . . . . . . . 108--109
Ware Myers Management: Early Communication Key to
Software Project Success . . . . . . . . 110--111
Ron Vetter Internet Watch: Web-Based Enterprise
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Jon Siegel Component and Object Technology: A
Preview of CORBA 3 . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Darren Dalcher Open Channel: Simplicity and Power: When
More Means Less . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Something for Nothing . . 120, 118--119
Leonard L. Tripp and
Thomas J. Plevyak Presidents' Message . . . . . . . . . . 4, 9
Bob Frankston and
Alec Effrat and
Fred L. Schneider and
Ed Viguerie and
William D. Jackson and
Jim Geringer and
Kenneth Nichols and
Alexander Fronk and
Pearl Brereton and
David Budgen and
Geoff Hamilton Letters: The Home Network Will Be an IP
Network; Pining for the Perfect Job;
What the Dickens Make Thompson Fault
Linux?; UNIX Systems Laboratory; Presto!
A True Test of AI; Are Software Patents
Really Different?; Support for Hypertext
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
Sixto Ortiz Jr. Industry Trends: The Battle over
Real-Time Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
Lee Garber Technology News: Melissa Virus Creates a
New Type of Threat . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
George Lawton News Briefs: Battle Begins for Device
Network Supremacy; VXML Forum Is
Created; Advanced Internet Center Opens 20--21
Anne Lear Y2K Report: Y2K in Brief: Latin America
Faces Y2K Difficulties; Federal Agencies
Redefine ``Mission Critical''; Y2K
Market Adapting for Small Business . . . 22--22
Howard Rubin Rubin's Y2K Diary: Lashing Down the
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
John A. Stankovic and
Sang Hyuk Son and
Jorgen Hansson Misconceptions About Real-Time Databases 29--36
Anonymous Vying for the Lead in High-Performance
Processors: An interview with Gary
Lauterbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Mark Birnbaum and
Howard Sachs How VSIA Answers the SOC Dilemma . . . . 42--50
Yervant Zorian and
Erik Jan Marinissen and
Sujit Dey Testing Embedded-Core-Based System Chips 52--60
Gary Silcott and
Janet Wilson and
Neil Peterson and
William Peisel and
Kirk L. Kroeker SOCs Drive New Product Development: SOC
Challenges for Wireless Handsets; Thin
Clients Benefit form SOC; Networking the
Office with SOCs; MEMS Technology
Emerges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--66
Steve Lawrence and
C. Lee Giles and
Kurt Bollacker Digital Libraries and Autonomous
Citation Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
Fredrik Dahlgren and
Josep Torrellas Cache-Only Memory Architectures . . . . 72--79
Shlomo Weiss and
Ehud Finkelstein Extending PCI Performance Beyond the
Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--87
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: Fall
Conference Preview; Computer Architect
Prize Awarded to Smith; Past Computer
Society President Receives Service Award 88--92
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Towrad Software You Can
Depend On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Net Development: Entrust's
Open Toolkits; IBM's Parallel Enterprise
Server; Talarian's Message-Queueing
Product; SGI's Open Source SAN
Management Software. Software
Development: ParaSoft's Automatic
Error-Detection Tool; Aonix's GUI
Management System for Solaris 7.
Component Technology: IONA Technologies'
EJB Toolkit; ProtoView's Diagramming
Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110
Brian E. Carpenter Internet Watch: What's All the Fuss
About Differentiated Services? . . . . . 111--112
James Bach Software Realities: Risk and
Requirements-Based Testing . . . . . . . 113--114
Marco A. Figueiredo and
Patrick H. Stakem and
Thomas P. Flatley and
Tonjua M. Hines Integrated Engineering: Extending NASA's
Data Processing to Spacecraft . . . . . 115--118
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Jump-Starting the Global
Vending Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 120, 118--119
Neal Leavitt Technology News: Online 3D: Still
Waiting After All These Years . . . . . 4, 6--7
George Lawton News Briefs: Standard to Bring Order to
IP Traffic; European Parliament Wants
Surveillance of Net Traffic; ATM Forum
Seeks to Make ATM More IP-Friendly;
Chatterbots: The Web Gets Help from AI 11--13
Anne C. Lear Y2K Report: Y2K in Brief: Y2K Command
Centers Focus on Containment . . . . . . 14--14
Howard Rubin Rubin's Y2K Diary: The Declaration of
Interdependence . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Moshe Sipper The Emergence of Cellular Computing . . 18--26
Matt Reilly Designing an Alpha Microprocessor . . . 27--34
Bertrand Meyer and
Christine Mingins Component-Based Development: From Buzz
to Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37
Antoine Beugnard and
Jean-Marc Jézéquel and
Noël Plouzeau and
Damien Watkins Making Components Contract Aware . . . . 38--45
Cynthia Della Torre Cicalese and
Shmuel Rotenstreich Behavioral Specification of Distributed
Software Component Interfaces . . . . . 46--53
Robert J. Stets and
Galen C. Hunt and
Michael L. Scott Component-Based APIs for Versioning and
Distributed Applications . . . . . . . . 54--61
Priya Narasimhan and
Louise E. Moser and
P. M. Melliar-Smith Using Interceptors to Enhance CORBA . . 62--68
Anonymous Call for Participation: 1999
International Conference on Parallel
Processing (ICPP-99), The University of
Aizu, Aizu, Fukushima, Japan, September
21--24, 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69
Anonymous Call for Papers: International Symposium
on Information Technology: Coding and
Computing, March 27--29, 2000, Las
Vegas, NV, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
Guijun Wang and
Liz Ungar and
Dan Klawitter Component Assembly for OO Distributed
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78
Mark Baker and
Rajkumar Buyya and
Dan Hyde Technical Activities Forum: Cluster
Computing: A High-Performance Contender 79--80
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: Teacher and
Innovator Receives Award; Board Approves
Ballot for Computer Society Offices . . 81--83
Michel Israel Financial Report: Computer Society
Financially Strong: 1998 Financial
Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 90--93
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 94--98
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Case-Driven Object Modelling
with UML; Virtual-Human Integration;
Genetic Programming; Java Image
Processing; WAP Programming . . . . . . 99--99
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Net Development: SoftQuad
Software's XML Tool; Rebol's Internet
Messaging Language. Component
Technology: Dart Communications'
Terminal Emulation Component; Artisoft's
Telephony Components; Digital Design's
Controls for Creating OLAP Apps.
Hardware Development: Hewlett--Packard's
Circuit Synthesis Tool; SGI's MIPS
Compiler; Applied Microsystems' Tools
for Motorola Processors . . . . . . . . 100--102
Stefan Knight Internet Watch: The Role of ADSL in
Internet Access . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Guy Eddon Component and Object Technology: COM+:
The Evolution of Component Services . . 104--106
Lynn Carrier Management: Managing at Light Speed . . 107--109
Michael Macedonia and
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Sony Versus Wintel:
Mortal Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112, 109--111
Ilan Greenberg and
Lee Garber Industry Trends: Searching for New
Search Technologies . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6--7, 11
David Clark Technology News: Preparing for a New
Generation of Wireless Data . . . . . . 8--11
Anonymous IEEE CS Membership Application . . . . . 12--14
Anne C. Lear News Briefs: Explorer Worm Targets
Networks; H-1B Visa Cap Reached; Higher
Limit Proposed; Encryption Industry
Grows Outside US; Software Design Flaw
Spurs Lawsuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
Anne C. Lear Y2K Report: Y2K in Brief: Global Banking
Simulation Is Successful . . . . . . . . 18--18
Howard Rubin Rubin's Y2K Diary: Paying the Price for
Ubiquitous Connectivity . . . . . . . . 19--19
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Robert D. Silverman Exposing the Mythical MIPS Year . . . . 22--26
John Hennessy The Future of Systems Research . . . . . 27--33
Naren Ramakrishnan and
Ananth Y. Grama Guest Editors' Introduction: Data
Mining: From Serendipity to Science . . 34--37
Venkatesh Ganti and
Johannes Gehrke and
Raghu Ramakrishnan Mining Very Large Databases . . . . . . 38--45
Jiawei Han and
Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and
Raymond T. Ng Constraint-Based, Multidimensional Data
Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--50
Joseph M. Hellerstein and
Ron Avnur and
Andy Chou and
Christian Hidber and
Chris Olston and
Vijayshankar Raman and
Tali Roth and
Peter J. Haas Interactive Data Analysis: The Control
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59
Soumen Chakrabarti and
Byron E. Dom and
S. Ravi Kumar and
Prabhakar Raghavan and
Sridhar Rajagopalan and
Andrew Tomkins and
David Gibson and
Jon Kleinberg Mining the Web's Link Structure . . . . 60--67
George Karypis and
Eui-Hong (Sam) Han and
Vipin Kumar NEWS Chameleon: Hierarchical Clustering Using
Dynamic Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: Computer
Society Recognizes Intel ISEF High
School Achievers; Goode Award Presented
to Purdue Scholar; Lecture Series Shares
Members' Expertise; Board Approves
Reading of Bylaws Amendment on Press
Activities Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--80
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 81--85
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index . . . . . . . . 89--89
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Software Development from the
Outside In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development:
Premia's Editing System; Diab Data's
Compiler Suites for Coldfire; Borland's
Visual Development Tools for Java 2; Sun
Outlines Java 2 at JavaOne. Net
Development: InfoAccess' HTML Production
Tool; GoAhead Software's Free Embedded
Web Server; Planetweb and Paradise
Innovations Produce Next-Gen Set-Top Box 91--93
Terry Ritter Internet Watch: Cryptography: Is Staying
with the Herd Really Best? . . . . . . . 94--95
Oz Levia Integrated Engineering: Programming
System Architectures with Java . . . . . 96--98
Jonathan Bach Software Realities: Playing the Expert
Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--103
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Mainframes Are Dead, Long
Live Mainframes . . . . . . . . . . . . 104, 102--103
Peter M. Maurer and
Mark K. Gardner and
Darren Dalcher and
Mordechai Ben-Menachem and
Ted Lewis and
A. B. Cannara and
Ken Nichols Letters: Components are the
Revolutionary Legacy of VBX; Focus on
Answers, Not Features; Startups Can Pop
Up Anywhere; Genetics and Software
Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
Sixto Ortiz Jr. Industry Trends: Appliances Challenge
the Server Market . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
John Charles Technology News: Interplanetary Network
Aims for the Stars . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18, 21
Anne C. Lear News Briefs: Will XML Plans Compete or
Cooperate?; Speech Technology Advances
Demonstrated; Networking Processors
Drive Chip Market; HP Pitches Net
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Anne C. Lear Y2K Report: Y2K in Brief: UN Conference
Highlights Concerns, Progress . . . . . 22--22
Howard Rubin Rubin's Y2K Diary: Are the Media Crying
``Sheep''? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Pierfrancesco Bellini and
Fabrizio Fioravanti and
Paolo Nesi Cybersquare Computing Practices: Managing Music in
Orchestras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--35
W. Neville Holmes The Myth of the Educational Computer . . 36--42
Linda Harasim A Framework for Online Learning: The
Virtual-U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
Jeremy Roschelle and
Chris DiGiano and
Manolis Koutlis and
Alexander Repenning and
Jonathan Phillips and
Nicholas Jackiw and
Dan Suthers Developing Educational Software
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58
Junichi Suzuki and
Yoshikazu Yamamoto Leveraging Distributed Software
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--65
Jay F. Nunamaker Collaborative Computing: The Next
Millennium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71
Anonymous Computer Society Election . . . . . . . 72--79
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: IEEE
President-Elect Candidates Answer Key
Computer Society Questions; Curriculum
2001: Bringing the Future to the
Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--85
Guylaine M. Lollock Computer Society Board Endorses Parrish
for IEEE President-Elect . . . . . . . . 84--84
Carl K. Chang and
Gerald Engel and
Willis King and
Eric Roberts and
Russ Shackelford and
Robert H. Sloan and
Pradip K. Srimani Curriculum 2001: Bringing the Future to
the Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 89--94
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 96--104
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Take A Stroll Down IT Memory
Lane; Computers in Society; Software
Development; Function in Programming;
Verilog Design; Taking the Web to the
Workplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development:
SoftQuest Systems' Project Management
Software; Metrowerks' Java Development
Tool for Mac OS; CAD-UL's
Embedded-Centric C/C++ Toolkit; KL
Group's Java Components . . . . . . . . 106--107
Andrew P. Snow Internet Watch: Internet Implications of
Telephone Access . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Barry Boehm Management: Managing Software
Productivity and Reuse . . . . . . . . . 111--113
Diomidis Spinellis Component and Object Technology:
Explore, Excogitate, Exploit: Component
Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Fast, Expensive, and
Horribly Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . 120, 118--119
Anonymous Correction: Internet Applications of
Telephone Access . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6--7
R. P. C. Rodgers and
W. Lowell Morgan and
Ware Myers and
Bob Schuchman and
Todd Martin and
Charles C. Philipp and
Ted Lewis and
Jean-François Colonna and
Rich Babcock and
James Boyle Letters: Little Place for Computers in a
Rigorous Curriculum; A Welcome Reality
Check on Copying with Overload; How to
Cope When You Are a Few Neurons Short of
Infinity; To Be an Expert: Just listen;
How a Good Index Can Make an Expert;
Technologists Care About Privacy; Errors
in Program Transformation Table;
Problems with Theorems . . . . . . . . . 4, 6--7
Neal Leavitt Industry Trends: Domain Name Solution
Causes New Problems . . . . . . . . . . 11--15
Anne C. Lear News Briefs: Agreement Reached on New
I/O Architecture; CORBA Component Model
Approved; Student Develops Smallest Web
Server; Membership News . . . . . . . . 16--18
Anne C. Lear Y2K in Brief: Contingency Plans Should
Extend into 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Howard Rubin Rubin's Y2K Diary: Uncovering Weak Links
in the Readiness Chain . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Karen W. Markus and
Kaigham J. Gabriel Cybersquare MEMS: The Systems Function Revolution 25--31
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger Albert Einstein and Empirical Software
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
Deependra Moitra Software Engineering in the Small:
Practical Software Engineering and
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Declan P. Kelly and
Bill Culleton Process Improvement for Small
Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47
Stuart Woodward Evolutionary Project Management . . . . 49--57
Michael A. Cusumano and
David B. Yoffie Software Development on Internet Time 60--69
Kent Beck Embracing Change with Extreme
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--77
James D. Arthur and
Markus K. Gröner and
Kelly J. Hayhurst and
C. Michael Holloway Evaluating the Effectiveness of
Independent Verification and Validation 79--83
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: Computer
Society and ACM Approve Software;
Engineering Code of Ethics;
Opportunities Available for Professional
and Student Chapters; Student Awards
Programs Seek Entrants by 31 October . . 84--90
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
Anonymous Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--111
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Net Development: Macromedia's
Web Application and E-Commerce
Development Family; Anark Interactive
Media's $3$D Web Tool. Embedded
Development: Force Computer's
Single-Board Computer for Embedded
Applications; CAD-UL's Toolkit for
Embedded Processors; AMC's Embedded
Software Visibility Tools . . . . . . . 113--115
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Creating a Virtual Window to
the World; Optical Networks in Layered
Multiwavelength; Automated Software
Testing; Software Improvement Through
Refactoring; Getting a Feel for Java . . 116--116
Network Maturity Model Development Team Internet Watch: The Network Maturity
Model for Internet Development . . . . . 117--118
James Bullock Software Realities: Improving the
Development System Model . . . . . . . . 119--120
Sung-Hee Do and
Nam P. Suh Integrated Engineering: Systematic OO
Programming with Axiomatic Design . . . 121--124
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: UbiNet: The Ubiquitous
Internet Will Be Wireless . . . . . . . 128, 126--127
Mike Pelley and
Ted Lewis Letters: Ask Intel: Price and Cost
Aren't Related . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
George Lawton Industry Trends: Storage Technology
Takes Center Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Lee H. Goldberg Technology News: Vendors Are Counting on
Appliance-on-Chip Technology . . . . . . 13--16
Anne C. Lear News Briefs: Tentative Domain-Name
Agreement Reached; Chip Makers Stake out
High-Performance Ground; Lip-reading for
Better Speech Recognition . . . . . . . 17--18
Anne C. Lear Y2K in Brief: US Issues Y2K Travel
Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
Howard Rubin Rubin's Y2K Diary: A Crisis of Arrogance 20--21
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23
Dennis Sylvester and
Kurt Keutzer Cybersquare: Rethinking Deep-Submicron
Circuit Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--33
Bruce Shriver and
Peter Capek Just Curious: An Interview with John
Cocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
Bruce Shriver and
Peter Capek The Seymour Cray Computer Science and
Engineering Award . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
Werner Buchholz Project Stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--36
Ed Sussenguth IBM's ACS-1 Machine . . . . . . . . . . 38--38
Rohit Kapur and
Thomas W. Williams Guest Editors' Introduction: Tough
Challenges as Design and Test Go
Nanometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Robert C. Aitken Nanometer Technology Effects on Fault
Models for IC Testing . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Wayne M. Needham Nanometer Technology Challenges for Test
and Test Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 52--57
Kwang-Ting Cheng and
Angela Krstic Current Directions in Automatic
Test-Pattern Generation . . . . . . . . 58--64
Kenneth D. Wagner Robust Scan-Based Logic Test in VDSM
Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--74
Kevin Bowyer Your Call: `Big Brother' --- or Proper
Vigilence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: Society
Competition Offers US\$25,000 for Top
Student Designs; Innovator in Consumer
Computing Receives Entrepreneur Award 76--77
Anonymous Computer Society Notes: Computer
Editor-in-Chief Named Rader Professor 78--78
Charles Rosenthal and
Joseph Damore Technical Activities Forum: Hot Topics
in Electronic Design Automation . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 84--118
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Folding All Things Virtual
into Urban Life; Performance Modeling in
Network Design; Practical Automated
Software Testing; Java Patterns; Testing
Software Step by Step; Working with UNIX
Shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Software Development: Monash
University's Free Java Development
Environment; ParaSoft's Error Prevention
Tool; Technosoft's C++ Development Kit;
VideoSoft's Spell-Checking and Thesaurus
Controls. Network Development: Network
Security's Security Management Tool;
Fluke's Network Inspector;
MetaCreation's Web-Oriented Painting
Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Philip M. Marden, Jr. and
Ethan V. Munson Internet Watch: Today's Style Sheet
Standards: The Great Vision Blinded . . 123--125
Charles Severance Standards: IEEE 802.11: Wireless Is
Coming Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
Donald J. Reifer Management: A Tale of Three Developers 128--130
Bertrand Meyer Component and Object Technology: Every
Little Bit Counts: Toward More Reliable
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Where the Smart Money Is? 136, 134--135
John Gustafson and
Rajat Todi and
Robert Silverman and
Collin Park and
Ted Lewis and
Ken Zuhr and
Ted Lewis Letters: Operations are Free: Data
Motion Isn't; Déj\`a Vu Processor
Complexities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
Mary-Louise G. Piner Report to Members: New Society
Leadership for 2000 . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Reed Hellman Industry Trends: A Semantic Approach
Adds Meaning to the Web . . . . . . . . 13--16
David Clark Technology News: Toward a New Generation
of Simpler PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Anne C. Lear News Briefs: IETF Rejects Net Wiretap
Proposal; New Plans Ease Net Congestion;
Standard API to Simplify Network Chip
Development; Group Releases Real-Time
Java Specification . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21
Anne C. Lear Y2K in Brief: Y2K Failures Could Occur
Throughout 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--22
Howard Rubin Rubin's Y2K Diary: Will Fast Food
Accelerate Y2K Collapse? . . . . . . . . 23--23
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 24--25
Shreekant (Ticky) Thakkar and
Tom Huff Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions . . . 26--34
Ian Foster and
Joseph Insley and
Gregor von Laszewski and
Carl Kesselman and
Marcus Thiebaux Distance Visualization: Data Exploration
on the Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--43
Eric Shaffer and
Daniel A. Reed and
Shannon Whitmore and
Benjamin Schaeffer Virtue: Performance Visualization of
Parallel and Distributed Applications 44--51
Gabrielle Allen and
Tom Goodale and
Gerd Lanfermann and
Thomas Radke and
Edward Seidel and
Werner Benger and
Hans-Christian Hege and
Andre Merzky and
Joan Massó and
John Shalf Solving Einstein's Equations on
Supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--58
Christopher Johnson and
Steven G. Parker and
Charles Hansen and
Gordon L. Kindlmann and
Yarden Livnat Interactive Simulation and Visualization 59--65
Jason Leigh and
Andrew E. Johnson and
Maxine Brown and
Daniel J. Sandin and
Thomas A. DeFanti Visualization in Teleimmersive
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--73
Anonymous Annual Index: Volume 32, 1999 . . . . . 74--85
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Notes: David Huffman
(1925--1999) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Mary-Louise G. Piner Computer Society Connection: Inaugural
Cray Award Presented in a November
Ceremony; Meritorious Service and
Outstanding Contribution Awards Show;
Appreciation of Volunteer Efforts; \em
Computer Recognizes Reviewers' Expertise 86--90
Anonymous Call and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
Anonymous Advertiser/Product Index . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 96--136
Michael J. Lutz New Books: Where Teamwork and Software
Meet; Mapping out Software with Logic;
Time Traveling; Putting COM and CORBA
Together; Using OO for the Network;
History of Artificial Intelligence . . . 137--137
Kirk L. Kroeker New Tools: Hardware Development:
Transim's Internet-Based IC Simulation
Tool; 3DSP's Development Tools for
System-on-Chip Designs; International
Test Technologies' Tool for PowerPC
Testing. Software Development: Indigo
Rose's Setup Factory 5.0: The
Next-Generation Installation Builder;
SRC's Tool for Converting 4GL Code to
COBOL; Sorokin's Tools to Manage DLLs
and OLE Links. Network Development:
Network Security's Security Management
Tool; Microtest's Fiber-optic Tester; US
Software's Distributed Operating
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
David Chadwick Internet Watch: Smart Cards Aren't
Always the Smart Choice . . . . . . . . 142--143
Bertrand Meyer Component and Object Technology: A
Really Good Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--147
James Bach Software Realities: What Software
Reality Is Really About . . . . . . . . 148--149
Ted Lewis Binary Critic: Directories Don't Get No
Respect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152, 150--151
Anonymous Correction: New Tools . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Anonymous Correction: A Really Good Idea . . . . . 7--7