Volume 30, Number 1, January 1997

Open Channel

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  David G. Stork: Happy Birthday, HAL! 24-25

Up Front

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  Sara Reese Hedberg: HP's International Cryptography Framework: Compromise or Threat? 28-30

Industry Trends

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  Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Switching to a Faster Internet. 31-32

Cybersquare

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  Derek Partridge: The Case for Inductive Programming. 36-41

Computing Practices

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  Barry G. Silverman: Computer Reminders and Alerts. 42-49

Cover Feature: Internet

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  Marjory S. Blumenthal: Unpredictable Certainty: The Internet and the Information Infrastructure. 50-56
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  Randall J. Atkinson: Towards a More Secure Internet. 57-61
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  Michael Bieber, Fabio Vitali: Toward Support for Hypermedia on the World Wide Web. 62-70
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  Daniel E. O'Leary: The Internet, Intranets, and the AI Renaissance. 71-78

Special Report

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  Alan H. Karp, Al Geist, David H. Bailey: 1996 Gordon Bell Prize Winners. 80-85

Standards

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  Charles Severance: Taking a High-tech Approach to Standards. 114-116

Management

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  Ken Whitaker: Motivating and Keeping Software Developers. 126-128

Object Technology

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  Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Bertrand Meyer: Design by Contract: The Lessons of Ariane. 129-130

Internet Watch

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  Upkar Varshney: Supporting Mobility with Wireless ATM. 131-133

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis: The Year I Shoot My TV. 134-136

Volume 30, Number 2, February 1997

Cybersquare

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  Steve Mann: Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward Personal Imaging. 25-32

Computing Practices

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  Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Les Hatton: Investigating the Influence of Formal Methods. 33-43

Cover Feature

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  Gary Comparetto, Rafols Ramirez: Trends in Mobile Satellite Technology. 44-52
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  Kenneth R. Wood, Tristan Richardson, Frazer Bennett, Andy Harter, Andy Hopper: Global Teleporting with Java: Toward Ubiquitous Personalized Computing. 53-59
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  Andreas Pfitzmann, Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidner: Trusting Mobile User Devices and Security Modules. 61-68

Research Feature

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  Nayeem Islam: Customizing System Software Using OO Frameworks. 69-78
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  Paul D. Gader, James M. Keller, Raghu Krishnapuram, Jung-Hsien Chiang, Magdi A. Mohamed: Neural and Fuzzy Methods in Handwriting Recognition. 79-86

Standards

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  Charles Severance: Linking Computers and Consumer Electronics. 119-121

Volume 30, Number 3, March 1997

Cybersquare

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  Norris Parker Smith: Computing in Japan: From Cocoon to Competition. 26-33

Computing Practices

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  Eric Wegscheider: Toward Code-Free Business Application Development. 35-43

Cover Feature

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  Robert A. Martin: Dealing with Dates: Solutions for the Year 2000. 44-51
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  Philip Newcomb, Melvin R. Scott: Requirements for Advanced Year 2000 Maintenance Tools. 52-57

Tools Survey

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  Nicholas Zvegintzov: A Resource Guide to Year 2000 Tools. 58-63

Features

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  W. Neville Holmes: Composite Arithmetic: Proposal for a New Standard. 65-73
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  Michael Franz: Dynamic Linking of Software Components. 74-81
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  Sivarama P. Dandamudi: Reducing Run Queue Contention in Shared Memory Multiprocessors. 82-89

Standards

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  James Schoening, Thomas Wheeler: Standards - The Key to Education Reform. 116-117

Volume 30, Number 4, April 1997

Open Channel

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  Dirk Riehle: The Human Side of Architectural Styles. 10

Report to Members

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  Scott Hamilton, Janet Wilson: Andrew Grove's Vision for the Internet. 14-15

Up Front

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  Lee Garber: Students Stumble onto Internet Explorer Flaw. 18-20

Industry Trends

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  Ben Smith: Tomorrow's Internet is Here Today. 22-23

Computing Practices

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  D. Richard Kuhn: Sources of Failure in the Public Switched Telephone Network. 31-36

Cybersquare

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  Muhammad F. Mudawwar: Multicode: A Truly Multilingual Approach to text Encoding. 37-43

Theme Feature: Foult Tolerance

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  Arun K. Somani, Nitin H. Vaidya: Understanding Fault Tolerance and Reliability - Guest Editors' Indroduction. 45-46, 50
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  Timothy C. K. Chou: Beyond Fault Tolerance. 47-49
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  Algirdas Avizienis: Toward Systematic Design of Fault-Tolerant Systems. 51-58
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  Silvano Maffeis: Prianha: A CORBA Tool For High Availability. 59-66
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  Rachid Guerraoui, André Schiper: Software-Based Replication for Fault Tolerance. 68-74
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  Mei-Chen Hsueh, Timothy K. Tsai, Ravishankar K. Iyer: Fault Injection Techniques and Tools. 75-82
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  Biao Chen, Sanjay Kamat, Wei Zhao: Fault-Tolerant, Real-Time Communication in FDDI-Based Networks. 83-90

Standards

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  Richard Wiggins: The Top-Level Domain Name Controversy. 105-106

Integrated Engineering

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  Janos Sztipanovits, Gabor Karsai: Model-Integrated Computing. 110-111

Software Realities

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  Cem Kaner: Pitfalls and Strategies in Automated Testing. 114-116

Internet Watch

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  Andrew Kingoff: Comparing Internet Search Engines. 117-118

Binary Critic

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  Ware Myers: Software Reuse: Ostriches Beware. 119-120

Volume 30, Number 5, May 1997

Open Channel

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  W. Neville Holmes: What Can Computers Do? 11

Up Front

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  Stephen Barlas: How Critical I the Shortage of IT Workers? 14-16

Industry Trends

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  George Lawton: Extranets: Next Step for the Internet. 17

Computing Practices

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  Pat Ferguson, Watts S. Humphrey, Soheil Khajenoori, Susan Macke, Annette Matvya: Results of Applying the Personal Software Process. 24-31

Cybersquare

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  Art Gemmer: Risk Management: Moving Beyond Process. 33-43

Cover Feature: Electronic Commerce

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  Scott Hamilton: E-Commerce for the 21st Century. 44-47
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  Jay M. Tenenbaum, Tripatinder S. Chowdhry, Kevin Hughes: Eco System: An Internet Commerce Architecture. 48-55
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  Ajit Kambil: Doing Business in the Wired World. 56-61

Research Feature

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  Danny B. Lange, Yuichi Nakamura: Object-Oriented Program Tracing and Visualization. 63-70
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  Augustus K. Uht, Vijay Sindagi, Sajee Somanathan: Branch Effect Reduction Techniques. 71-81

Standards

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  Geoffrey O. Thompson: Work Progresses on Gigabit Ethernet. 95-96

Object Technology

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  Bertrand Meyer: Practice To Perfect: The Quality First Model. 102-106

Internet Watch

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  William S. Maki, Ruth H. Maki: Learning Without Lectures: A Case Study. 107-108

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis: Absorb and Extend: Resistance is Futile! 109-112

Volume 30, Number 6, June 1997

Open Channel

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  Richard Marlon Stein: On Pyramidal Exploitation and Equal Punishment. 10

Up Front

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  David Clark: PC and TV Makers Battle Over Convergence. 14-16

Industry Trends

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  Lee Goldberg: Software Modems: A New Way to Communicate. 20

Computing Practices

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  Jeffrey M. Voas, Gary McGraw, Lora Kassab, Larry Voas: A 'Crystal Ball' for Software Liability. 29-36

Cybersquare

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  Krithi Ramamritham: Computer Science Research in India. 40-47

Java and Beyond: Executable Content

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  Kankanahalli Srinivas, Vasudevan Jagannathan, Y. V. Ramana Reddy, Raghu Karinthi: Java and Beyond: Executable Content - Guest Editors' Introduction. 49-52
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  James Gosling: The Feel of Java. 53-57
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  Jonathan P. Munson, Prasun Dewan: Sync: A Java Framework for Mobil Collaborative Applications. 59-66
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  Cheng-Hsueh A. Hsieh, Marie T. Conte, Teresa L. Johnson, John C. Gyllenhaal, Wen-mei W. Hwu: Optimizing NET Compilers for Improved Java Performance. 67-75
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  X. Nick Zhang: Secure Code Distribution. 76-79

Project Reports

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  Kuhanandha Mahalingam, Michael N. Huhns: A Tool for Organizing Web Information. 80-83
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  Mika Leppinen, Pekka Pulkkinen, Aapo Rautiainen: Java- and CORBA-Based Network Management. 83-87
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  Siddhartha Chatterjee, M. Paramasivam, William J. Yakowenko: Architecture for a Web-Accessible Simulation Environment. 88-91

Standards

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  Joan Sullivan: SQL Test Suite Goes Online. 103-105

Integrated Engineering

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  William Fornaciari, Donatella Sciuto: A Two-Level Cosimulation Environment. 109-111

Software Realities

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  Judy Bamberger: Essence of the Capability Maturity Model. 112-114

Internet Watch

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  Prabhu Ram, Robert M. Abarbanel: Enterprise Computing: The Java Factor. 115-117

Binary Critic

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  Francis McInerney, Sean White: The Internet's Sustainable Advantage. 118-120

Volume 30, Number 7, July 1997

Open Channel

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  W. Neville Holmes: The Myth of the Intelligent Computer. 8

Up Front

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  Lee Garber, Paul Korzeniowski: Internet Splits over Domain Name Controversy. 12-14

Industry Trends

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  Udo Flohr: Interactive Online 3D's Future. 15-16

Computing Practices

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  Steven P. Vanderwiel, David J. Lilja: When Caches Aren't Enough: Data Prefetching Techniques. 23-30

Features

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  David Harel, Eran Gery: Executable Object Modeling with Statecharts. 31-42
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  Richard W. Conners, D. Earl Kline, Philip A. Araman, Thomas H. Drayer: Machine Vision Technology for the Forest Products Industry. 43-48
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  Massimo Bertozzi, Alberto Broggi: Vision-Based Vehicle Guidance. 49-54
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  Bahram Parvin, John R. Taylor, Daniel E. Callahan, William E. Johnston, Ulrich Dahmen: Visual Servoing for Online Facilities. 56-62
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  Per Stenström, Mats Brorsson, Fredrik Dahlgren, Håkan Grahn, Michel Dubois: Boosting the Performance of Shared Memory Multiprocessors. 63-70
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  Eric van der Deijl, Gerco Kanbier, Olivier Temam, Elana D. Granston: A Cache Visualization Tool. 71-78

Standards

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  Dave Crocker: Domain Name Expansion Plan Deserves Support. 104-105

Management

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  David W. Oliver: Optimizing the Organization's Structure. 110-112

Object Technology

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  Bertrand Meyer: The Next Software Breakthrough. 113-114

Internet Watch

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  Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton: Imprudent Linking Weaves a Tangled Web. 115-117

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis: Emergent Behavior, Emergent Profits. 118-120

Volume 30, Number 8, August 1997

Open Channel

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  Carlo Pescio: Seven Aphorisms of Software Development. 9

Up Front

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  John Edwards: Voice-Based Interfaces Make PCs Better Listeners. 14-16

Industry Trends

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  Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Making the PC Easier to Use. 17-25

Computing Practices

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  Gail C. Murphy, David Notkin: Reengineering with Reflection Models: A Case Study. 29-36

Cybersquare

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  Diane M. Strong, Yang W. Lee, Richard Y. Wang: 10 Potholes in the Road to Information Quality. 38-46

Fighting Complexity in Computer Systems

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  Alexander D. Stoyen: Fighting Complexity in Computer Systems - Guest Editor's Introduction. 47-48
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  David Dikel, David Kane, Steve Ornburn, William Loftus, Jim Wilson: Applying Software Product-Line Architecture. 49-55
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  King-Tim Ko, Kit-Sang Tang, Cheung-Yau Chan, Kim-Fung Man, Sam Kwong: Using Genetic Algorithms to Design Mesh Networks. 56-61
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  K. H. Kim: Object Structures for Real-Time Systems and Simulators. 62-70

Standards

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  Charles Severance: Could LDAP Be the Next Killer DAP? 88-89

Integrated Engineering

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  Michael Mrva: Reuse Factors in Embedded Systems Design. 93-95

Software Realities

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  James Bach: Good Enough Quality: Beyond the Buzzword. 96-98

Internet Watch

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  Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Donald P. Brutzman, Michael R. Macedonia: Internetworked Graphics and the Web. 99-101

Binary Critic

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  Mark E. Sampson: The Allegory of the Humidifier: POI for Systems Engineering. 102-104

Volume 30, Number 9, September 1997

Open Channel

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  Victor J. Duvanenko: Two Writes Make a Read. 8

Up Front

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  David Sims: Vendors Struggle with Costs, Benefits of Shrinking Cycle Times. 12-14

Industry Trends

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  Joe Mullich: Data Mining: Making Data Meaningful. 18

Computing Practices

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  N. Asokan, Philippe A. Janson, Michael Steiner, Michael Waidner: The State of the Art in Electronic Payment Systems. 28-35

Cybersquare

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  Doug Matzke: Will Physical Scalability Sabotage Performance Gains? 37-39
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  Joseph A. Fisher: Walk-Time Techniques: Catalyst for Architectural Change. 40-42
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  Keith Diefendorff, Pradeep K. Dubey: How Multimedia Workloads Will Change Processor Design. 43-45

The Future Microprocessors

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  Doug Burger, James R. Goodman: Billion-Transistor Architectures - Guest Editors' Introduction. 46-49
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  Yale N. Patt, Sanjay J. Patel, Marius Evers, Daniel H. Friendly, Jared Stark: One Billion Transistors, One Uniprocessor, One Chip. 51-57
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  Mikko H. Lipasti, John Paul Shen: Superspeculative Microarchitecture for Beyond AD 2000. 59-66
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  James E. Smith, Sriram Vajapeyam: Trace Processors: Moving to Fourth-Generation Microarchitectures. 68-74
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  Christoforos E. Kozyrakis, Stylianos Perissakis, David A. Patterson, Thomas E. Anderson, Krste Asanovic, Neal Cardwell, Richard Fromm, Jason Golbus, Benjamin Gribstad, Kimberly Keeton, Randi Thomas, Noah Treuhaft, Katherine A. Yelick: Scalable Processors in the Billion-Transistor Era: IRAM. 75-78
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  Lance Hammond, Basem A. Nayfeh, Kunle Olukotun: A Single-Chip Multiprocessor. 79-85
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  Elliot Waingold, Michael Bedford Taylor, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Vivek Sarkar, Walter Lee, Victor Lee, Jang Kim, Matthew Frank, Peter Finch, Rajeev Barua, Jonathan Babb, Saman P. Amarasinghe, Anant Agarwal: Baring It All to Software: Raw Machines. 86-93

Standards

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  Jerry Foley, Charles Severance: OSI Retrospect and Prospect. 123-124

Management

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  Vijay Gurbaxani, Janet Wilson: Bridging IT and Business: Techno MBAs. 128-129

Object Technology

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  Carlo Pescio: Principles Versus Patterns. 130-131

Internet Watch

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  L. John Mason: Stress and the Ultimate Luddite Survival Mechanism. 132-133

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis: Digitopolis Meets Encalming Technology. 134-136

Volume 30, Number 10, October 1997

Open Channel

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  Lawrence T. Hardiman: Personality Types and Software Engineers. 10

Up Front

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  David Clark: Will New Fiber Technology Quench the Thrist for Bandwidth? 14-15

Industry Trends

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  George Lawton: Dawn of the Internet Appliance. 16-18

Cybersquare

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  Scott Hamilton, Lee Garber: Deep Blue's Hardware-Software Synergy. 29-35

Computing Practices

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  Ivar Jacobson, Martin L. Griss, Patrik Jonsson: Making the Reuse Business Work. 36-42

Supporting Reuse with Object Technology

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  David C. Rine: Supporting Reuse with Object Technology - Guest Editor's Introduction. 43-45
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  Robert G. Fichman, Chris F. Kemerer: Object Technology and Reuse: Lessons from Early Adopters. 47-59
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  John C. Zubeck: Implementing Reuse with RAD Tools' Native Objects. 60-65
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  Letha H. Etzkorn, Carl G. Davis: Automatically Identifying Reusable OO Legacy Code. 66-71
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  Ernesto Damiani, Maria Grazia Fugini, Enrico Fusaschi: A Descriptor-Based Approach to OO Code Reuse. 73-80

Standards

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  Vir V. Phoha: A Standard for Software Documentation. 97-98

Integrated Engineering

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  William H. Mangione-Smith: Application Design for Configurable Computing. 115-117

Software Realities

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  Luke Hohmann: In Methods We Trust? 119-121

Internet Watch

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  Reed Hundt: The Internet: From Here to Ubiquity. 122-124

Binary Critic

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  Terry Bollinger: The Interplay of Art and Science in Software. 125-128

Volume 30, Number 11, November 1997

Open Channel

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  Dwayne Phillips: Is Your Project a Dilbert Cartoon? 6

Up Front

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  George Lawton: In Search of Real-Time Internet Service. 14-16

Industry Trends

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  Sixto Ortiz Jr.: Virtual Private Networks: Leveraging the Internet. 18-20

Computing Practices

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  Huaiqing Wang, Chen Wang: Intelligent Agents in the Nuclear Industry. 28-34

Cybersquare

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  David Maulsby, Ian H. Witten: Teaching Agents to Learn: From User Study to Implementation. 36-44

Cover Feature

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  Hesham El-Rewini, Michael C. Mulder, Peter Freeman, Gordon E. Stokes, Innes Jelly, Lillian N. Cassel, Doris K. Lidtke, Stefano Russo, Bernd J. Krämer, Jimmie E. Haines, A. Joe Turner: Keeping Pace with an Information Society. 46-57
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  David Garlan, David P. Gluch, James E. Tomayko: Agents of Change: Educating Software Engineering Leaders. 59-65

Research Feature

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  Tony Werner, Venkatesh Akella: Asynchronous Processor Survey. 67-76
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  Nabil N. Kamel: Predicate Caching for Data-Intensive Autonomous Systems. 77-83

Standards

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  Roger Howe: ISO 14001: The Green Standard. 133-134

Management

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  Jerry Porras: Building the Vision: Lessons for All Leaders (interview). 135-136

Object Technology

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  Christopher Creel, Bertrand Meyer, Philippe Stephan: The Opportunity of a Millennium. 137-138

Internet Watch

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  Ronald J. Vetter, Charles Severance: Web-Based Education Experiences. 139-141

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis: Cars, Phones, and Tamagotchi Tribes. 142-144

Volume 30, Number 12, December 1997

Open Channel

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  K. V. K. K. Prasad: Matching People and Jobs: The I-CMM Proposal. 10

Up Front

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  John Edwards: New Interfaces: Making Computers More Accessible. 12-14

Industry Trends

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  Chris Herringshaw: Detecting Attacks on Networks. 16-17

Computing Practices

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  Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjær, Laila Dybkjær: What Should Your Speech System Say? 25-31

Theme Feature: Trends in Architecture

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  Yale N. Patt: Identifiying Obstacles in the Path to More. 32
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  Thomas M. Conte, Pradeep K. Dubey, Matthew D. Jennings, Ruby B. Lee, Alex Peleg, Salliah Rathnam, Michael S. Schlansker, Peter Song, Andrew Wolfe: Challenges to Combining General-Purpose and Multimedia Processors. 33-37
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  William H. Mangione-Smith, Brad Hutchins, David L. Andrews, André DeHon, Carl Ebeling, Reiner W. Hartenstein, Oskar Mencer, John Morris, Krishna V. Palem, Viktor K. Prasanna, Henk A. E. Spaanenburg: Seeking Solutions in Configurable Computing. 38-43
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  Per Stenström, Erik Hagersten, David J. Lilja, Margaret Martonosi, Madan Venugopal: Trends in Shared Memory Multiprocessing. 44-50
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  Sarita V. Adve, Doug Burger, Rudolf Eigenmann, Alasdair Rawsthorne, Michael D. Smith, Catherine H. Gebotys, Mahmut T. Kandemir, David J. Lilja, Alok N. Choudhary, Jesse Zhixi Fang, Pen-Chung Yew: Changing Interaction of Compiler and Architecture. 51-58
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  Hasan Alkhatib, Chase Bailey, Mario Gerla, James McCrae: Wireless Data Networks: Reaching the Extra Mile. 59-62
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  Michael S. Schlansker, Thomas M. Conte, James C. Dehnert, Kemal Ebcioglu, Jesse Zhixi Fang, Carol L. Thompson: Compilers for Instruction-Level Parallelism. 63-69

Standards

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  Frank Dawson: Emerging Calendaring and Scheduling Standards. 126-128

Software Realities

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  Jeffrey M. Voas: Fault Injection for the Masses. 129-130

Internet Watch

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  Kenneth I. Magel: Is It Too Late to Put the User Back into HTML? 131-132

Binary Critic

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  W. Neville Holmes: Converging on Program Simplicity. 134-136