October 1986 - Vol. 29 No. 10
Features
Computer networks are becoming more numerous and more diverse. Collectively, they constitute a worldwide metanetwork.
Presented here is the Computer Science Board's survey on the production and employment of Ph.D.'s and faculty in computer science and engineering.
Microprocessor architectures: a comparison based on code generation by compiler
By carefully tuning computer and compiler, it is possible to avoid the otherwise inevitable compromises between complex compiling algorithms and less-than-optimal…
Accessing bit fields in FORTRAN-77
By incorporating bit-manipulation routines into Fortran-77, it is now possible to manipulate bits or partial word operands without having to write assembly-coded…
Min-max heaps and generalized priority queues
A simple implementation of double-ended priority queues is presented. The proposed structure, called a min-max heap, can be built in linear time; in contrast to…