October 1995 - Vol. 38 No. 10
Features
While international consensus seems assured through the traditional processes of the International Organization of Standardization (ISO), the best known and most powerful…
Net.Speech: desktop audio comes to the net
In the 1940s, the first research computers worked on numeric data. A few years later, the UNIVAC, was designed for both numeric and alphanumeric data. Over time,…
Lessons learned from the OS/400 OO project
This article describes some of the lessons learned when a team of 150 developers with a minimal prior exposure to object-oriented (OO) technology undertook a large…
Using design patterns to develop reusable object-oriented communication software
Despite dramatic increases in network and host performance, it remains difficult to design, implement, and reuse communication software for complex distributed systems.…
Developing an object-oriented software testing and maintenance environment
The object-oriented (OO) paradigm is rapidly gaining acceptance in the software industry. However, the powerful features of this new paradigm also introduce a new set of…
Object-oriented parallel computation for plasma simulation
Object-oriented techniques promise to improve the software design and programming process by providing an application-oriented view of programming while facilitating…
Smalltalk is a single paradigm language with very simple semantics and syntax for specifying elements of a system and for describing system dynamics [1]. When the…
Smalltalk reaches crossroads in the insurance industry
Information systems are critical to the worldwide insurance business, yet few major insurance companies believe they are well served by their current systems.…
Smalltalk in the telecommunications industry
In a world where global partnerships and rapidly shifting business environments will be the norm, the telecommunications industry stands out for the speed with which both…
Ubiquitous applications: embedded systems to mainframe
Over the last 10 years, Smalltalk has moved from the “Parc” to Main Street as a standard object-oriented (OO) fifth generation language (5GL) for enterprise…
Smalltalk training: as innovative as the environment
Smalltalk was originally intended to make the computer more accessible. However, although the language itself is simple, it is becoming common knowledge that becoming…
Projecting the growth of cellular communications
The tremendous success of cellular technology has fundamentally changed the way people communicate and prompted the evolution of a new multibillion dollar wireless…
Risks of social security numbers
The problem with social security numbers today is that some organizations are using these ubiquitous numbers for identification, others are using them for authentication,…