IEEE Computer, Volume 28, 1995

Volume 28, Number 1, January 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Movers and Shakers '95. 8

Industry Trends

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  Martin Cheek:
  The Chip Wars: Bloody and Brutal for Intel. 9-10

Feature Articles

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  Hossein Saiedian, Richard Kuzara:
  SEI Capability Maturity Model's Impact on Contractors. 16-26
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  Avigdor Gal, Opher Etzion:
  Maintaining Data-Driven Rules in Databases. 28-38
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  Nicholas Carriero, Eric Freeman, David Gelernter, David Kaminsky:
  Adaptive Parallelism and Piranha. 40-49

Computing Practices

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  T. Mark A. Lomas, Bruce Christianson:
  To Whom am I Speaking? Remote Booting in a Hostile World. 50-54

Cybersquare

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  Robert L. Glass:
  In Search of Self-Belief: The "BOP" Phenomenen. 55-57
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  David J. Musliner, James A. Hendler, Ashok K. Agrawala, Edmund H. Durfee, Jay K. Strosnider, C. J. Paul:
  The Challenges of Real-Time All. 58-66

Special Report

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  Alan H. Karp, Michael T. Heath, Don Heller, Horst D. Simon:
  1994 Gordon Bell Prize Winners: Judges' Summary. 68-74

Software Challenges

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  Capers Jones:
  How Office Space Affects Programming Productivity. 76-77

Hot Topics

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  Ronald J. Vetter:
  Videoconferencing on the Internet. 77-79

Computer Law

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  Irah H. Donner:
  Is the Patent Office Correctly Examining Computer-Related Patent Applications? Part 2. 93-94

Open Channel

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  George McKee:
  A Few (Proposed) Fundamental Laws of Computation. 120

Volume 28, Number 2, February 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Is the Macintosh Dead Meat? 6-7

Industry Trends

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  Erin English:
  Touch-Screen Technology Takes Off. 7-8

Feature Articles

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  Apostolos Dollas, Nick Kanopoulos:
  Reducing the Time to Market Through Rapid Prototyping - Guest Editors' Introduction. 14-15
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  Peter M. Athanas, A. Lynn Abbott:
  Real-Time Image Processing on a Custom Computing Platform. 16-24
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  Luiz André Barroso, Sasan Iman, Jaeheon Jeong, Koray Öner, Michel Dubois:
  RPM: A Rapid Prototyping Engine for Multiprocessor Systems. 26-34
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  Rudy Lauwereins, Marc Engels, Marleen Adé, J. A. Peperstraete:
  Grape-II: A System-Level Prototyping Environment for DSP Applications. 35-43
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  Tarek Ben Ismail, Ahmed Amine Jerraya:
  Synthesis Steps and Design Models for Codesign. 44-52
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  Reid A. Baldwin, Moon-Jung Chung:
  A Formal Approach to Managing Design Processes. 54-63

Cybersquare

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  Niklaus Wirth:
  A Plea for Lean Software. 64-68

Computing Practices

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  David A. Wood, Mark D. Hill:
  Cost-Effective Parallel Computing. 69-72

Software Challenges

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  Capers Jones:
  Determining Software Schedules. 73-75

Hot Topics

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  Mark A. Richards:
  Simulation Libraries for System-Level Design. 76-77

Computer Law

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  Irah H. Donner:
  Computer-Related Inventions: When "Obvious" is Not So Obvious. 78-79

Open Channel

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  John Swartz:
  Can System Integrators Learn From Baggage Crisis? 112

Volume 28, Number 3, March 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Sleeper at Compcon. 6-7

Industry Trends

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  Monica Snell:
  Analysts Predict $3.79 Billion Market for Visual Development Tools by 1999. 8-9

Feature Articles

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  Margaret M. Burnett, David W. McIntyre:
  Visual Programming - Guest Editors' Introduction. 14-16
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  Alexander Repenning, Tamara Sumner:
  Agentsheets: A Medium for Creating Domain-Oriented Languages. 17-25
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  Takayuki Dan Kimura, Ajay Apte, Samudra Sengupta, Julie W. Chan:
  Form/Formula: A Visual Programming Paradigm for User-Definable User Interfaces. 27-35
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  Gabor Karsai:
  A Configurable Visual Programming Environment: A Tool for Domain-Specific Programming. 36-44
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  Margaret M. Burnett, Marla J. Baker, Carisa Bohus, Paul Carlson, Sherry Yang, Pieter van Zee:
  Scaling Up Visual Programming Languages. 45-54
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  Gennaro Costagliola, Genoveffa Tortora, Sergio Orefice, Andrea De Lucia:
  Automatic Generation of Visual Programming Environments. 56-66

Cybersquare

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  Richard M. Adler:
  Emerging Standards for Component Software. 68-77

Computing Practices

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  Ware Myers:
  Taligent's CommonPoint: The Promise of Objects. 78-83

Hot Topics

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  Glen Bull, Roger Geyer, Daniel Arkin, Christine Appert:
  Current Technologies in K-12 Education. 84-85

Software Challenges

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  Capers Jones:
  Patterns of Large Software Systems: Failure and Success. 86-87

Computer Law

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  Irah H. Donner:
  GATT is Gonna Get Ya! 98-99

Open Channel

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  Veljko M. Milutinovic, Zvezdan Petkovic:
  Ten Lessons Learned from a RISC Design. 120

Volume 28, Number 4, April 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Infobusiness Meets Neuromancer. 7-8

Intdustry Trends

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  Brian Riggs, Erin English:
  Unix Transformations. 8-9

Features

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  Richard M. Adler:
  Distributed Coordination Models for Client/Server Computing. 14-22
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  Maya B. Gokhale, William Holmes, Ken Iobst:
  Processing in Memory: The Terasys Massively Parallel PIM Array. 23-31
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  Margaret Martonosi, Anoop Gupta, Thomas E. Anderson:
  Tuning Memory Performance of Sequential and Parallel Programs. 32-40

Computing Practices

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  Alan Wood:
  Predicting Client/Server Availability. 41-48

Cyybersquare

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Where Is Client/Server Software Headed? 49-55
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  Jonathan P. Bowen, Michael G. Hinchey:
  Ten Commandments of Formal Methods. 56-63

Hot Topics

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  Jörg Liebeherr:
  Multimedia Networks: Issues and Challenges. 68-69

Software Challenges

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  Capers Jones:
  Gaps in Programming Educations. 70-71

Computer Law

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  Irah H. Donner:
  Billing Taxes Novell with Novel Patent-Infringement Claim. 72-73

Open Channel

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  Jim Butler:
  Orbiting the Metaworld. 96
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  Will Tracz:
  Confessions of a Used Program Salesman: Going Fishing. Computer 28(4): 96 (1995)

Volume 28, Number 5, May 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Are Telephone Companies Passé? 8-9

Industry Trends

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  Christine Blank:
  The FSN Challenge: Large-Scale Interactive Television. 9-12

Features: Multimedia

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  Arturo A. Rodriguez, Lawrence A. Rowe:
  Multimedia Systems and Applications - Guest Editors' Introduction. 20-22
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  Borko Furht, Devendra Kalra, Frederick L. Kitson, Arturo A. Rodriguez, William E. Wall:
  Design Issues for Interactive Television Systems. 25-39
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  Jim Gemmell, Harrick M. Vin, Dilip D. Kandlur, P. Venkat Rangan, Lawrence A. Rowe:
  Multimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial. 40-49
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  Klara Nahrstedt, Ralf Steinmetz:
  Resource Management in Networked Multimedia Systems. 52-63
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  Robert Simon, Donald Krieger, Taieb Znati, Raymond Lofink, Robert J. Sclabassi:
  Multimedia MedNet: A Medical Collaboration and Consultation System. 65-73
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  Beverly Park Woolf, Wendy Hall:
  Multimedia Pedagogues: Interactive Systems for teaching and Learning. 74-80

Computer Law

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  Irah H. Donner:
  Be Careful about Disclosing your Invention. 83

Internet Kiosk

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  Christoph G. Thomas:
  BASAR: A Framework for Integrating Agents in the World Wide Web. 84-86
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  John Murray:
  Anarchy and Chaos on the Net. 87

Software Challenges

• 
  Capers Jones:
  Legal Status of Software Engineering. 98-99

Open Channel

• 
  Shankar Hemmady:
  VLSI Test Automation: Fact or Fiction? 120

Volume 28, Number 6, June 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Where the Big Money is. 6-7

Industry Trends

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  Martin Cheek:
  Computer Telephony Integration. 8-9

Features

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  John A. Stankovic, Marco Spuri, Marco Di Natale, Giorgio C. Buttazzo:
  Implications of Classical Scheduling Results for Real-Time Systems. 16-25
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  Oryal Tanir, Vinod K. Agarwal, P. C. P. Bhatt:
  A Specification-Driven Architectural Design Environment. 26-35
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  Wade Walker, Harvey G. Cragon:
  Interrupt Processing in Concurrent Processors. 36-46
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  Jeffrey A. Clark, Dhiraj K. Pradhan:
  Fault Injection: A Method for Validating Computer-System Dependability. 47-56

Cybersquare

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  Duane K. Boman:
  International Survey: Virtual-Environment Research. 57-65
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  Larry Press:
  Resources for Networks in Less-Industrialized Nations. 66-71

Computing Practices

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  Beth A. Schroeder:
  On-Line Monitoring: A Tutorial. 72-78

Special Report

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  Scott Hamilton:
  Evolving the HPCCI: Recommendations from the NRC/CSTB 1995 Report. 79-81

Internet Kiosk

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  Prabhu Ram, Douglas K. Rand:
  Satan: Double-Edged Sword. 82-83

Computer Law

• 
  Irah H. Donner:
  Patent or Perish. 84-85

Software Challenges

• 
  Capers Jones:
  Why Is Technology Transfer so Hard? 86-87

Open Channel

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  Gianluca Marcellino:
  The Virtual and the Paperless Office. 120
• 
  Behrooz Parhami:
  The Right Acronym at the Right Time. Computer 28(6): 120 (1995)

Volume 28, Number 7, July 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  The End of Work As We Know It. 10-11

Industry Trends

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  Cynthia Bournellis:
  CD-ROM Technology Takes Off. 11-12

Theme Features: Virtual Environments

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  David R. Pratt, Michael Zyda, Kristen M. Kelleher:
  Virtual Reality: In the Mind of the Beholder - Guest Editors' Introduction. 17-19
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  John C. Goble, Ken Hinckley, Randy F. Pausch, John W. Snell, Neal F. Kassell:
  Two-Handed Spatial Interface Tools for Neurosurgial Planning. 20-26
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  Larry F. Hodges, Rob Kooper, Thomas C. Meyer, Barbara O. Rothbaum, Dan Opdyke, Johannes J. de Graaff, James S. Williford, Max M. North:
  Virtual Environments for Treating the Fear of Heights. 27-34
• 
  Jon G. Kuhl, Douglas Evans, Yiannis E. Papelis, Richard Romano, Ginger S. Watson:
  The Iowa Driving Simulator: An Immersive Research Environment. 35-41
• 
  Wolfgang Krüger, Christian-A. Bohn, Bernd Fröhlich, Heinrich Schüth, Wolfgang Strauss, Gerold Wesche:
  The Responsive Workbench: A Virtual Work Environment. 42-48
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  Thomas W. Mastaglio, Robert Callaahan:
  A Large-Scale Complex Virtual Environment for Team Training. 49-56
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  Michael F. Polis, Stephen J. Gifford, David M. McKeown Jr.:
  Automating the Construction of Large-Scale Virtual Worlds. 57-65

Special Feature

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  Ralph E. Gomory:
  National Productivity and Computers: HICSS 96 Plenary Address. 66-72

Hot Topics

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  Mark T. Bolas, Ian McDowall, Russell Mead:
  Applications Drive VR Interface Selection. 72-75

Computer Law

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  Irah H. Donner:
  Intellectual Property Protection for Multimedia Applications, Part 1: So Many Flavors, So Little Time. 92-93

Internet Kiosk

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  Theresa-Marie Rhyne:
  Scientific Visualization and Technology Transfer: An EPA Case Study. 94-96

Standards

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  Charles R. Severance:
  A New Vision for Standards. 97

Open Channel

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  John Murray:
  Creationism and Evolution in Software. 104

Volume 28, Number 8, August 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Windows 95: Next Step to Desktop NT? 8-9

Industry Trends

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  Erin English:
  Two New Standards Square Off. 12-13

Special Feature

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  Ted G. Lewis, Dave Power, Bertrand Meyer, Jack Grimes, Mike Potel, Ronald J. Vetter, Phillip A. Laplante, Wolfgang Pree, Gustav Pomberger, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, David A. Wood, Hesham El-Rewini, Bruce W. Weide:
  Where Is Software Headed? A Virtual Roundtable. 20-32

Feature Articles

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  Ran Giladi, Niv Ahituv:
  SPEC as a Performance Evaluation Measure. 33-42
• 
  Anneliese von Mayrhauser, A. Marie Vans:
  Program Comprehension During Software Maintenance and Evolution. 44-55

Cybersqare

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  Vladimir Estivill-Castro:
  Computer Science Research in Mexico. 56-62
• 
  Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason L. Dedrick:
  From Nationalism to Pragmatism: IT Policy in China. 63-73

Computing Practices

• 
  Shahid H. Bokhari:
  The Linux Operating System. 74-79

Internet Kiosk

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  John Murray:
  Of Deck Chairsss, Suitss, and Quiz Shows. 80-81

Standards

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  Charles R. Severance:
  The Value of the Formal Standards Process. 82-83

Software Challenges

• 
  Capers Jones:
  What Goes Into An Information Warehouse? 84-85

Hot Topics

• 
  Clit Jurgens:
  Fibre Channel: A Connection to the Future. 88-90

Computer Law

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  Irah H. Donner:
  Intellectual Property Protection for Multimedia Applications, Part 2: Putting the Pieces Together. 99-100

Open Channel

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  David M. Teleki:
  Carpet Bugs. 120

Volume 28, Number 9, September 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Living in Real Time, Side A (What Is the Info Age?). 8-10

Industry Trends

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  Erin English:
  Groupware Makes Its Market Move. 11-12

Theme Features: Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems

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  Venkat N. Gudivada, Vijay V. Raghavan:
  Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems - Guest Editors' Introduction. 18-22
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  Myron Flickner, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Jonathan Ashley, Qian Huang, Byron Dom, Monika Gorkani, Jim Hafner, Denis Lee, Dragutin Petkovic, David Steele, Peter Yanker:
  Query by Image and Video Content: The QBIC System. 23-32
• 
  Anne Brink, Sherry Marcus, V. S. Subrahmanian:
  Heterogeneous Multimedia Reasoning. 33-39
• 
  Virginia E. Ogle, Michael Stonebraker:
  Chabot: Retrieval from a Relational Database of Images. 40-48
• 
  Rohini K. Srihari:
  Automatic Indexing and Content-Based Retrieval of Captioned Images. 49-56
• 
  Rajiv Mehrotra, James E. Gary:
  Similar-Shape Retrieval in Shape Data Management. 57-62

Internet Kiosk

• 
  Hal Berghel:
  Using the WWW Test Pattern to check HTML Client Compliance. 63-65

Standards

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  Charles R. Severance:
  What is a Profile? 66

Computer Law

• 
  Irah H. Donner:
  Photocopyright Infringement. 67-68

Software Challenges

• 
  Capers Jones:
  End-User Programming. 68-70

Hot Topics

• 
  Alexander D. Stoyenko:
  Engineering Complex Computer Systems: A Challenge for Computer Types Everywhere - Part 1: Let's Agree On What These Systems Are. 85-86

Open Channel

• 
  Paul Carpenter:
  Never Mind the Functionality, Look At the Graphics! A Cautionary Tale. 112

Volume 28, Number 10, October 1995

Binary Critic

• 
  Ted G. Lewis:
  Living in Real Time, Side B (Where Will the Brain Power Come From?). 8-10

Industry Trends

• 
  Erin English:
  TCP/IP Gets a Face-Lift. 12-13

Features

• 
  Sowmitri Swamy, Arthur Molin, Burt Covnot:
  OO-VHDL: Object-Oriented Extensions to VHDL. 18-26
• 
  Judith D. Ahrens, Noah S. Prywes:
  Transition to a Legacy- and Reuse-Based Software Life Cycle. 27-36
• 
  Prithviraj Banerjee, John A. Chandy, Manish Gupta, Eugene W. Hodges IV, John G. Holm, Antonio Lain, Daniel J. Palermo, Shankar Ramaswamy, Ernesto Su:
  The Paradigm Compiler for Distributed-Memory Multicomputers. 37-47

Computing Practices

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  Emdad H. Khan, Mansoor Al-A'Ali, Moheb R. Giris:
  Object-Oriented Programming for Structured Procedural Programmers. 48-57

Cybersquare

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  Hesham El-Rewini, Scott Hamilton, Yen-Ping Shan, Ralph Earle, Skip McGaughey, Abdelsalam Helal, Ravi Badrachalam, Andrew A. Chien, Andrew S. Grimshaw, Byung Suk Lee, Andrew E. Wade, Dave Morse, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Evaggelia Pitoura, Robert V. Binder, Peter Wegner:
  Object Technology: A Virtual Roundtable. 58-72
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  Judith Gal-Ezer, Catriel Beeri, David Harel, Amiram Yehudai:
  A High School Program in Computer Science. 73-80

Computer Law

• 
  Irah H. Donner:
  Ground Rules for Software Maintenance. 84-85

Standards

• 
  John L. Hill:
  Publicly Available Specification: A new Paradigm for Developing International Standards. 97-98

Internet Kiosk

• 
  Rolf Oppliger:
  Internet Security Enters the Middle Ages. 100-101

Software Challenges

• 
  Capers Jones:
  Software Benchmarking. 102-103

Open Channel

• 
  Judith Martin:
  Miss Manners Looks at Netiquette. Computer 28(10): 120 (1995)

Volume 28, Number 11, November 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  HP Means High-Powered: FutureBusiness, Side A. 6-8

Industry Trends

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  Thomas Kaneshige:
  SNMP Upgrade Lacks Proposed Security Features. 10-11

Parallel and Distributed Processing Tools

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  Cherri M. Pancake, Margaret L. Simmons, Jerry C. Yan:
  Performance Evaluation Tools for Parallel and Distributed Systems - Guest Editors' Introduction. 16-19
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  Michael T. Heath, Allen D. Malony, Diane T. Rover:
  The Visual Display of Parallel Performance Data. 21-28
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  Hank Jakiela:
  Performance Visualization of a Distributed System: A Case Study. 30-36
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  Barton P. Miller, Mark D. Callaghan, Jonathan M. Cargille, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, R. Bruce Irvin, Karen L. Karavanic, Krishna Kunchithapadam, Tia Newhall:
  The Paradyn Parallel Performance Measurement Tool. 37-46
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  Thomas Fahringer:
  Estimating and Optimizing Performance for Parallel Programs. 47-56
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  Daniel A. Reed, Keith A. Shields, Will H. Scullin, Luis F. Tawera, Christopher L. Elford:
  Virtual Reality and Parallel Systems Performance Analysis. 57-67

Computing Practices

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  Thomas T. Kwan, Robert McCrath, Daniel A. Reed:
  NCSA's World Wide Web Server: Design and Performance. 68-74

Internet Kiosk

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  Daniel Berleant, Byron Liu:
  Robert's Rule of Order for E-Mail Meetings. 84-85

Computer Law

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  Irah H. Donner:
  Exchanging Software over the Internet Could be Hazardous. 86-87

Software Challenges

• 
  Capers Jones:
  Backfiring: Converting Lines of Code to Function Points. 87-88

Standards

• 
  Raghu Singh:
  The Software Life Cycle Process Standard. 89-90

Open Channel

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  Eric A. Weiss:
  Candidates for Change? 112

Volume 28, Number 12, December 1995

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  The Nethead Gang. 8-10

Industry Trends

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  Thomas Kaneshige:
  The Dawning of the Single-Chip Age. 10-11

Features

• 
  Germinal Boloix, Pierre N. Robillard:
  A Software System Evaluation Framework. 17-26
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  Hesham El-Rewini, Hesham H. Ali, Ted G. Lewis:
  Task Scheduling in Multiprocessing Systems. 27-37
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  Philip K. McKinley, Yih-jia Tsai, David F. Robinson:
  Collective Communication in Wormhole-Routed Massively Parallel Computers. 39-50

Cyberspace

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  Christopher H. Nevison:
  Parallel Computing in the Undergraduate Curriculum. 51-56

Computing Practices

• 
  Trung A. Diep, John Paul Shen:
  VMW: A Visualization-Based Microarchitecture Workbench. 57-64

Internet Kiosk

• 
  Ronald J. Vetter:
  Computer-Controlled Devices Reach the Internet. 66-67

Hot Topics

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  Ilija Ekmecic, Igor Tartalja, Veljko M. Milutinovic:
  EM³: A Taxonomy of Heterogeneous Computing Systems. 68-70

Computer Law

• 
  Irah H. Donner:
  The Info Age Law Firm. 86-87

Software Challenges

• 
  Capers Jones:
  How Software Personnel Learn New Skills. 88-89

Standards

• 
  Terry Wright:
  A Case for Symmetrical Bandwidth. 93-94

Open Channel

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  George McKee:
  Computer SCience or Simply 'Computics'? 136