October 1987 - Vol. 30 No. 10
Features
From Washington: public policy issues ripen with age
The computerists of 1947, as creative and foresighted as they were, could hardly have imagined that the industry they helped to mold would one day be forcing…
Profiles in computing: Donald E. Knuth: scholar with a passion for the particular
"Age 30 is kind of appropriate because I got the first copy of volume 1 from the publisher nine days after my 30th birthday. So, a large part of the work had been done…
Profiles in computing: Brian K. Reid: a graphics tale of a hacker tracker
"When the Securities Exchange Commission was created by Franklin Roosevelt, he was trying to fix a lot of problems on Wall Street. There were various Ivan Boesky-type…
Profiles in computing: Allan L. Scherr
"Most of the work I've done has been done to break things into existence that didn't exist before. . . . In a sense, my whole career's been about building organizations…
The computing program of the Office of Naval Research, 1946-1953
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) played a vital role in the postwar support of basic research in the sciences at the nation's universities in the years immediately…
The development years of ACM, as recounted in 1962 by founding member and former president Franz L. Alt, depicts the players and progress of an organization committed to…
Commentaries on the past 15 years
A longtime member comments on the trends, happenings, events, and accomplishments of ACM in the period 1972-1987, followed by "Self-Assessment Procedure XVII."