August 1985 - Vol. 28 No. 8
Features
The CIRRUS banking network makes coast-to-coast automatic banking transactions possible. The system will soon be able to handle international currency transactions and…
Report on the microelectronics and computer technology corporation conference
MCC, the consortium of companies headed by Admiral B. R. Inman, that some consider America's reply to Japan's Fifth Generation initiative, invited members and nonmembers…
Recommended curriculum for CS2, 1984: a report of the ACM curriculum task force for CS2
A Report of the ACM Curriculum Task Force for CS2
ALGLIB, a simple symbol-manipulation package
ALGLIB—a library of procedures that perform analytic differentiation and other simple symbolic manipulations—has certain advantages over existing and more…
Database design: composing fully normalized tables from a rigorous dependency diagram
A new simplified methodology for relational-database design overcomes the difficulties associated with nonloss decomposition. It states dependencies between data fields…
Data-flow algorithms for parallel matrix computation
In this article we develop some algorithms and tools for solving matrix problems on parallel processing computers. Operations are synchronized through data-flow alone,…
Efficient optimal pagination of scrolls
Diehr and Faaland developed an algorithm that finds the minimum sum of key length pagination of a scroll of n items, and which uses O(n log n) time, solving a problem…