January 1980 - Vol. 23 No. 1
Features
Performance statistics of a time sharing network at a small university
The purpose of the study was to characterize the input traffic on the interactive terminal facility (ITF) at Jackson State University by mathematical distributions. Five…
Identifying potential to acquire programming skill
Over several years, a large number of students took the same introductory programming course. The students were drawn from all academic disciplines and academic…
Minimal perfect hash functions made simple
A method is presented for computing machine independent, minimal perfect hash functions of the form: hash value ← key length + the associated value of the key's…
Information transfer and area-time tradeoffs for VLSI multiplication
The need to transfer information between processing elements can be a major factor in determining the performance of a VLSI circuit. We show that communication…
Scan line methods for displaying parametrically defined surfaces
This paper presents three scan line methods for drawing pictures of parametrically defined surfaces. A scan line algorithm is characterized by the order in which it…