AFIPS NCC 1982: Houston, Texas, USA

Hardware/computer architecture

• Helmut K. Berg, Prakash Rao, Bruce D. Shriver:
  Firmware quality assurance. 3-10
  
• Don M. Minami:
  The 5.25-inch fixed/removable disk drive. 11-17
  
• Bill Huston:
  Practical CMOS microprocessor systems. 19-28
  
• John F. Stockton:
  The MC68000 family and distributed processing. 29-35
  
• David R. Vincent:
  Using operational standards to enhance system performance. 37-52
  
• Richard Mateosian, Janak Pathak:
  Distributed processing with the Z8000 family. 53-57
  
• Tony Zingale:
  Distributed processing with iAPX 186 microprocessor systems. 59-65
  
• Ed Peatrowsky:
  High-performance, high-capacity single-chip microcomputers. 67-71
  
• Randy M. Dumse:
  Expanded single-chip principles in practical application. 73-79
  
• Jerry L. Corbin:
  Making the most of VLSI in microcomputers. 81-84
  
• Bill Huston:
  Single-chip microcomputers can be easy to program. 85-93
  
• Michael Shapiro:
  Speak software and carry a strip chip. 95-101
  
• Steven I. Kartashev, Svetlana P. Kartashev:
  A distributed operating system for a powerful system with dynamic architecture. 103-116
  
• M. Annaratone, M. G. Sami:
  Software testing techniques for universal building blocks of multimicrosystems. 117-124
  
• Raymond A. Liuzzi, P. Bruce Berra:
  A methodology for the development of special-purpose function architectures. 125-134
  
• Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Dharma P. Agrawal:
  Applications of SIMD computers in signal processing. 135-142
  
• Makoto Amamiya, Ryuzo Hasegawa, Osamu Nakamura, Hirohide Mikami:
  A list-processing-oriented data flow machine architecture. 143-151
  
• G. Jack Lipovski, Ambuj Goyal, Miroslaw Malek:
  Lookahead networks. 153-165
  
• Carl Davis, Svetlana P. Kartashev, Steven I. Kartashev:
  Reconfigurable multicomputer networks for very fast real-time applications. 167-184
  
• Kenneth E. Batcher:
  MPP: a supersystem for satellite image processing. 185-191
  
• David F. Palmer, James P. Ignizio, Catherine M. Murphy:
  Optimal design of a distributed supersystem. 193-198
  
• Leslie Kohn:
  Distributed processing with the NS16000 family. 199-204
  

Software engineering

• David J. DeWitt, Dina Friedland:
  Exploiting parallelism for the performance enhancement of non-numeric applications. 207-216
  
• Connie U. Smith, James C. Browne:
  Performance engineering of software systems: a case study. 217-224
  
• G. A. Frank, E. M. Greenawalt, A. V. Kulkarni:
  A systolic processor for signal processing. 225-231
  
• Robert Hiromoto:
  Parallel-processing a large scientific problem. 233-237
  
• Terrence R. Mckelvey, Dharma P. Agrawal:
  Design of software for distributed/multiprocessor systems. 239-249
  
• K. Mani Chandy, Jayadev Misra, R. Berry, Doug Neuse:
  The use of performance models in systematic design. 251-256
  
• William Alexander, Richard S. Brice:
  Performance modeling in the design process. 257-262
  
• Eric Le Mer:
  MEDOC: a methodology for designing and evaluating large-scale real-time systems. 263-271
  
• Charles H. Sauer, Edward A. MacNair, James F. Kurose:
  The research queueing package: past, present, and future. 273-280
  
• Janis G. Raymond:
  Audience identification for end user documentation. 281-285
  
• Saul Rosenberg:
  Computer-aided documentation. 287-291
  
• Walter P. Warner, Richard E. Nance:
  The development of software engineers: a view from a user. 293-300
  
• Michael S. Deutsch:
  An industrial software engineering methodology supported by an automated environment. 301-307
  
• James F. Elwell:
  An approach to the definition and implementation of a software development environment. 309-318
  
• Edith M. McMahon:
  A JOVIAL programming support environment. 319-325
  
• Kenneth L. Bowles:
  The impact of Ada on software engineering. 327-332
  
• Thomas A. Standish:
  The importance of Ada programming support environments. 333-339
  
• Alfonso F. Cardenas, William P. Grafton:
  Challenges and requirements for new application generators. 341-349
  
• Richard L. Roth:
  Program generators and their effect on programmer productivity. 351-358
  
• Aaron M. Goodman:
  Application generators at IBM. 359-362
  
• James H. Waldrop:
  Application generators: a case study. 363-368
  
• James W. Winchester, Gerald Estrin:
  Requirements definition and its interface to the SARA design methodology for computer-based systems. 369-379
  
• Yuzo Yamamoto, Richard V. Morris, Christopher Hartsough, E. David Callender:
  The role of requirements analysis in the system life cycle. 381-387
  
• Jerrold M. Grochow:
  Application generators: an introduction. 389-392
  
• John R. Ryan:
  Software product quality assurance. 393-398
  
• John W. Center:
  A quality assurance program for software maintenance. 399-407
  
• Barbara J. Taute:
  The independent role: verification and validation, and compliance testing. 409-414
  
• C. W. Lybrook:
  Quality assurance in a large commercial data processing installation. 415-426
  

Personal computing

• Fred J. Maryanski:
  Data-server design issues. 429-438
  

Social and organizational implications

• William Neugent:
  Acceptance criteria for computer security. 441-448
  
• Rein Turn:
  Private sector needs for trusted/secure computer systems. 449-460
  
• Lance J. Hoffman:
  Impacts of information system vulnerabilities on society. 461-467
  
• Philip J. Hayes:
  Uniform help facilities for a cooperative user interface. 469-474
  
• William Mark:
  Natural-language help in the Consul system. 475-479
  
• Elaine Rich:
  Programs as data for their help systems. 481-485
  
• Christian Müller-Schloer, Neal R. Wagner:
  The implementation of a cryptography-based secure office system. 487-492
  
• David Beech:
  Criteria for a standard command language based on data abstraction. 493-499
  
• Sargur N. Srihari, Jonathan J. Hull, Ramesh Choudhari:
  Integration of bottom-up and top-down contextual knowledge in text error correction. 501-508
  
• David Vaskevitch:
  DIALOGUE: providing total terminal independence. 509-514
  
• David Canfield Smith, Charles H. Irby, Ralph Kimball, Eric Harslem:
  The star user interface: an overview. 515-528
  
• James D. Mooney:
  MFS: a modular text formatting system. 529-535
  

Management issues/decision science support systems

• Naomi Lee Bloom:
  Complex business systems: a strategy for success. 539-547
  
• James E. Jackson:
  The role of the user at standard oil company (Indiana) in the development of large-scale business systems. 549-553
  
• David A. Cox:
  The role of data center personnel in the development of a large-scale business system. 555-560
  
• Nicholas Zvegintzov:
  What life? What cycle? 561-568
  

Language and database processing

• Matthew B. Koll, W. Terry Hardgrave, Sandra B. Salazar:
  Data model processing. 571-578
  
• Ben Shneiderman, Glenn Thomas:
  Automatic database system conversion: schema revision, data translation, and source-to-source program transformation. 579-587
  
• Said K. Rahimi, William R. Franta:
  Fair timestamp allocation in distributed systems. 589-594
  
• Viswanathan Santhanam, John R. Potochnik:
  Data abstraction for Pascal programmers. 595-603
  
• Noriyuki Kamibayashi, Kazuo Seo:
  Spirit-III: an advanced relational database machine introducing a novel data-staging architecture with Tuple Stream Filters to preprocess relational algebra. 605-616
  
• Dawei Luo, Daozhong Xia, S. Bing Yao:
  Data language requirements of database machines. 617-626
  
• Fu Tong, S. Bing Yao:
  Performance analysis of database join processors. 627-638
  
• Edward S. Davidson:
  Evaluating database management systems. 639-648
  
• M. Seetha Lakshmi, Tom W. Keller:
  Performance study of a dual CDC Cyber 170/750 system. 649-655
  
• Robert A. Amsler:
  Computational lexicology: a research program. 657-663
  
• James L. Peterson:
  Use of Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary to construct a master hyphenation list. 665-670
  
• Robert E. Filman, Daniel P. Friedman:
  Models, languages, and heuristics for distributed computing. 671-677
  
• Zhou Chaochen:
  Weakest environment of communicating processes. 679-690
  
• K. Dan Levin:
  Adaptive structuring of distributed databases. 691-696
  
• Benjamin W. Wah, Anthony Hicks:
  Distributed scheduling of resources on interconnection networks. 697-709
  

Applications of computing

• Yoshikuni Okawa:
  A microcomputer system for color video picture processing. 713-718
  
• Anders Vinberg:
  The importance and futility of device independence in computer graphics. 719-726
  
• Ching-Fang Lin, Khai Li Hsu:
  Optimal three-dimensional flight control of a supersonic fighter. 727-734
  
• C. Jinshong Hwang:
  Structured D-chart: a diagrammatic methodology in structured programming. 735-748
  
• Pierre N. Robillard, Réjean Plamondon:
  Planning for software tool implementation: experience with Schemacode. 749-757
  
• Robert C. Gammill, Lynn Thorp:
  Distributed processing of problem-solving applications for farmers. 759-766
  
• Koji Yada, Masanori Honda, Seiji Fujino:
  RIPS net: the impact of an optical communication network. 767-774
  
• Ray Cheng, J. W. S. Liu:
  A coherent scheme to support location-independent references in internetwork environment. 775-784
  
• Maurice Blackman, Hugh Ryan:
  Issues and methods for practical distributed data processing applications: I. 785-791
  
• Maurice Blackman, Hugh Ryan:
  Issues and methods for practical distributed data processing applications: II. 793-802
  

Pioneer day

• Frances E. Allen:
  A technological review of the FORTRAN I compiler. 805-809
  
• Robert W. Bemer:
  Computing prior to FORTRAN. 811-816
  
• Martin N. Greenfield:
  History of FORTRAN standardization. 817-824
  
• James M. Sakoda:
  DYSTAL: nonnumeric applications of FORTRAN. 825-830