Computing in Vietnam: an Asian tiger in the rough
January 1995 - Vol. 38 No. 1
Features
Nguyen Dinh Ngoc and Dang Huu were among the senior technology leaders at the Fourth Informatics Week conference and exhibition held in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in August…
The latest techie panacea for fixing education is to just connect all the students to the Internet; with all that information out there, surely they will learn. In…
The world is changing and the demographics of the workforce are changing with it. At one time there was hope that our exciting new field of computer science would not…
CASE tools as collaborative support technologies
Since the inception of computers, the software industry has searched for dramatic solutions to its systems development problems. In the latter half of the 1980s and into…
LEDA: a platform for combinatorial and geometric computing
Combinatorial and geometric computing is a core area of computer science (CS). In fact, most CS curricula contain a course in data structures and algorithms. The area…
Ultra-structure: a design theory for complex systems and processes
The physicist and Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine states that “our understanding of nature is undergoing a radical change toward the multiple, the temporal, and the…
Random number generators are chaotic
The study of highly unstable nonlinear dynamical systems—chaotic systems—has emerged recently as an area of major interest and applicability across the…
The info superhighway: for the people
The opportunities are attractive, but some pavers of the Information Superhighway (ISH) are too eager to pour concrete. They risk making rough roads that will alienate…