March 1985 - Vol. 28 No. 3
Features
Excerpts from: An Information Systems Manifesto
James Martin talks with Leonard Kleinrock about the state of the art in data processing—how corporate and MIS managers should manage the new technology, and how…
Predicting performance in an introductory computer science course
A group of 269 first-semester freshmen was used to predict both performance in an introductory computer science course and first-semester college grade point average by…
Computer science in secondary schools: curriculum and teacher certification
Computer science in secondary schools is an area of increasing interest and concern to educators as well as to computer science professionals. Each of the next two…
A system for interactive viewing of structured documents
An existing typesetting system is tied by bridging software to an existing page-presentation program to effect both hard (typeset) copy and interactive browsing. The…
An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system
An evaluation of a large, operational full-text document-retrieval system (containing roughly 350,000 pages of text) shows the system to be retrieving less than 20…
Designing for usability: key principles and what designers think
This article is both theoretical and empirical. Theoretically, it describes three principles of system design which we believe must be followed to produce a useful and…
Pricing computer services: queueing effects
This article studies the effects of queueing delays, and users' related costs, on the management and control of computing resources. It offers a methodology for setting…