IEEE Computer, Volume 22, 1989

Volume 22, Number 1, January 1989

Design Choices / Engineering Trade-Offs: Six Case Studies of Real Machines

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  Yale N. Patt:
  Real Machines: Design Choices / Engineering Trade-Offs - Guest Editor's Introduction. 8-10
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  B. Ramakrishna Rau, David W. L. Yen, Wei C. Yen, Ross A. Towle:
  The Cydra 5 Departmental Supercomputer: Design Philosophies, Decisions, and Trade-offs. 12-35
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  Tom Jones:
  Engineering Design of the Convex C2. 36-44
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  Melvin C. August, Gerald M. Brost, Christopher C. Hsiung, Alan J. Schiffleger:
  Cray X-MP: The Birth of a Supercomputer. 45-52
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  Harvey G. Cragon, W. Joe Watson:
  A Retrospective Analysis: The TI Advanced Scientific Computer. 55-64
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  Benjamin Maytal, Sorin Iacobovici, Donald B. Alpert, Dan Biran, Jonathan Levy II, Sidi Yom Tov:
  Design Considerations for a General-Pupose Microprocessor (NS32532). 66-76
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  Ruby B. Lee:
  Precision Architecture. 78-91

Special Report

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  Ware Myers:
  Software Pivotal to Strategic Defense. 92-97

The Open Channel

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  Edward A. Parrish:
  Breaking into Computers is a Crime, Pure and Simple. 98
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  Behrooz Parhami:
  The Opposite of Common Sense. Computer 22(1): 98 (1989)

Standards

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  Sunii Mehta:
  Technical Background on the X Window System. 110-111
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  Sunii Mehta:
  Computer Society Windowing Standards Group Forming. Computer 22(1): 110-111 (1989)

Volume 22, Number 2, February 1989

Articles

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  Mark A. Linton, John M. Vlissides, Paul R. Calder:
  Composing User Interfaces with InterViews. 8-22
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  Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Qing Yang, Dharma P. Agrawal:
  Performance of Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks. 25-37
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  Stephen Richardson, Mahadevan Ganapathi:
  Code Optimization Across Procedures. 42-50
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  Mahadevan Ganapathi, Geoffrey O. Mendal:
  Issues in Ada Compiler Technology. 52-60

Special Reports

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  Peter J. Denning, Douglas Comer, David Gries, Michael C. Mulder, Allen B. Tucker, A. Joe Turner, Paul R. Young:
  Computing as a Discipline. 63-70
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  David Gries, Terry Walker, Paul Young:
  1988 Snowbird Report: A Discipline Matures. 72-75

The Open Channel

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  Kenneth I. Magel:
  Discontinuities in Computer Education. 76
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  Stanley E. Lass:
  What is a Pack Computer? Computer 22(2): 76 (1989)

Volume 22, Number 3, March 1989

Robotics and Automation

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  Gordon T. Wilfong:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Robotics and Automation. 6-7
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  Micha Sharir:
  Algorithmic Motion Planning in Robotics. 9-20
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  Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Joseph L. Jones, Emmanuel Mazer, Patrick A. O'Donnell:
  Task-Level Planning of Pick-and-Place Robot Motions. 21-29
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  Christoph M. Hoffmann:
  The Problems of Accuracy and Robustness in Geometric Computation. 31-41
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  Ingemar J. Cox, Narain H. Gehani:
  Exception Handling in Robotics. 43-49

Current Research in Robotics and Automation

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  Peter K. Allen, Paul Michelman, Kenneth S. Roberts:
  An Intelligent Grasping System. 50-52
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  Patrick J. Eicker, David R. Strip:
  Automated Planning and Programming for Robotic Batch Mechanical Assembly. 53-54
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  John E. Hopcroft:
  Electronic Prototyping. 55-57
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  George A. Bekey:
  Robotics Research at USC. 58-60

Special Feature

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  Thomas F. Keefe, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Wei-Tek Tsai:
  Secure Query-Processing Strategies. 63-70

Volume 22, Number 4, April 1989

Software Tools for Hardware Tests

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  Scott Davidson:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Software Tools for Hardware Tests. 12-14
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  Debashis Bhattacharya, Brian T. Murray, John P. Hayes:
  High-Level Test Generation for VLSI. 16-24
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  Raphael Renous, Gabriel M. Silberman, Ilan Y. Spillinger:
  Whistle: A Workbench for Test Development of Library-Based Designs. 27-41
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  Wu-Tung Cheng, Tapan J. Chakraborty:
  Gentest: An Automatic Test-Generation System for Sequential Circuits. 43-49
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  Mark A. Heap, William A. Rogers:
  Generating Single-Stuck-Fault Coverage from a Collapsed-Fault Set. 51-57
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  Jill J. Hallenbeck, James R. Cybrynski, Nick Kanopoulos, Tassos Markas, Nagesh Vasanthavada:
  The Test Engineer's Assistant: A Support Environment for Hardware Design for Testability. 59-68

Volume 22, Number 5, May 1989

Rapid Prototyping in Software Development

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  Murat M. Tanik, Raymond T. Yeh:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Rapid Prototyping in Software Development. 9-10
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  Luqi:
  Software Evolution Through Rapid Prototyping. 13-25
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  Rajiv Gupta, Wesley H. Cheng, Rajesh Gupta, Ido Hardonag, Melvin A. Breuer:
  An Object-Oriented VLSI CAD Framework: A Case Study in Rapid Prototyping. 28-37
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  Pamela W. Jordan, Karl S. Keller, Richard W. Tucker, David Vogel:
  Software Storming: Combining Rapid Prototyping and Knowledge Engineering. 39-48
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  Ted G. Lewis, Fred Handloser III, Sharada Bose, Sherry Yang:
  Prototypes from Standard User Interface Management Systems. 51-60
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  Eugene L. Duke, Randal W. Brumbaugh, James D. Disbrow:
  A Rapid Prototyping Facility for Flight Research in Advanced Systems Concepts. 61-66
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  Randall A. Cieslak, Ayman Fawaz, Sonia Sachs, Pravin Varaiya, Jean C. Walrand, Albert Li:
  The Programmable Network Prototyping System. 67-76

Special Feature

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  William M. McKeeman:
  Graduation Talk at Wang Institute. 78-80

The Open Channel

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  Robert L. Baber:
  "Software Engineering" vs. Software Engineering. 81

Volume 22, Number 6, June 1989

Autonomous Intelligent Machines

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  S. Sitharama Iyengar, Rangasami L. Kashyap:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Autonomous Intelligent Machines. 14-15
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  John Bares, Martial Hebert, Takeo Kanade, Eric Krotkov, Tom M. Mitchell, Reid G. Simmons, William Whittaker:
  Ambler: An Autonomous Rover for Planetary Exploration. 18-26
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  Charles R. Weisbin, Gerard de Saussure, J. Ralph Einstein, François G. Pin, Ewald Heer:
  Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation and Learning. 29-35
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  Nageswara S. V. Rao:
  Algorithmic Framework for Learned Robot Navigation in Unknown Terrains. 37-43
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  Alberto Elfes:
  Using Occupancy Grids for Mobile Robot Perception and Navigation. 46-57
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  Thomas E. Bihari, Thomas M. Walliser, Mark R. Patterson:
  Controlling the Adaptive Suspension Vehicle. 59-65
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  Jacob Barhen, Sandeep Gulati, Michail Zak:
  Neural Learning of Constrained Nonlinear Transformations. 67-76
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  Insup Lee, Robert B. King, Richard P. Paul:
  A Predictable Real-Time Kernel for Distributed Multisensor Systems. 78-83
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  Yuval Roth, Ramesh C. Jain:
  Building an Environment Model Using Depth Information. 85-90
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  Mohan M. Trivedi, ChuXin Chen, Suresh B. Marapane:
  A Vision System for Robotic Inspection and Manipulation. 91-97

Volume 22, Number 7, July 1989

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  Kendall Preston Jr.:
  The Abingdon Cross Benchmark Survey. 9-18
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  James E. Smith:
  Dynamic Instruction Scheduling and the Astronautics ZS-1. 21-35
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  Ted J. Biggerstaff:
  Design Recovery for Maintenance and Reuse. 36-49
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  Lawrence Chisvin, R. James Duckworth:
  Content-Adressable and Associative Memory: Alternatives to the Ubiquitous RAM. 51-64
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  Anne Dinning:
  A Survey of Synchronization Methods for Parallel Computers. 66-77

Volume 22, Number 8, August 1989

Visualization in Scientific Computing

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  Gregory M. Nielson:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Visualization in Scientific Computing. 10-11
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  Thomas A. DeFanti, Maxine D. Brown, Bruce H. McCormick:
  Visualization: Expanding Scientific and Engineering Research Opportunities. 12-25
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  James Helman, Lambertus Hesselink:
  Representation and Display of Vector Field Topology in Fluid Flow Data Sets. 27-36
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  Marshall B. Long, Kevin Lyonns, Joseph K. Lam:
  Acquisition and Representation of 2D and 3D Data from Turbulent Flows and Flames. 39-45
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  Henry Fuchs, Marc Levoy, Stephen M. Pizer:
  Interactive Visualization of 3D Medical Data. 46-51
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  William L. Hibbard, David A. Santek:
  Visualizing Large Data Sets in the Earth Sciences. 53-57
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  Norman C. Kluksdahl, Alfred M. Kriman, David K. Ferry:
  The Role of Visualization in the Simulation of Quantum Electronic Transport in Semiconductors. 60-66

Research Overviews: Scientific Visualization at Research Laboratories

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  Lawrence J. Rosenblum:
  Scientific Visualization at Research Laboratories (Editor's Introduction). 68-70
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  Richard L. Phillips:
  Distributed Visualization at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 70-77
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  Brian Cabral, Carol L. Hunter:
  Visualization Tools at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 77-84
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  Robert B. Haber:
  Scientific Visualization and the Rivers Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. 84-89
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  Gordon V. Bancroft, Todd Plessel, Fergus Merritt, Pamela P. Walatka:
  Scientific Visualization in Computational Aerodynamics at NASA Ames Research Center. 89-95
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  Lawrence J. Rosenblum:
  Visualization of Experimental Data at the Naval Research Laboratory. 95-101

The Open Channel

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  Dwayne Phillips:
  Stop Revising, Start Finishing. 104
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  Daniel Tabak:
  Definition of RISC. Computer 22(8): 105 (1989)

Standards

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  Fletcher J. Buckley:
  Transnationalization of IEEE Standards. 105-106

Volume 22, Number 9, September 1989

Articles

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  Jeff A. Johnson, Teresa L. Roberts, William Verplank, David Canfield Smith, Charles H. Irby, Marian Beard, Kevin Mackey:
  The Xerox Star: A Retrospective. 11-29
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  Hui Cheng:
  Vector Pipelining, Chaining, and Speed on the IBM 3090 and Cray X-MP. 31-46
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  Yeshayahu Artsy, Raphael A. Finkel:
  Designing a Process Migration Facility: The Charlotte Experience. 47-56
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  Gary A. Ford, Norman E. Gibbs:
  A Master of Software Engineering Curriculum: Recommendations from the Software Engineering Institute. 59-71

Standards

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  Fletcher J. Buckley:
  Do Standards Cause Software Problems? 72-73

Volume 22, Number 10, October 1989

Articles

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  Allen L. Ambler, Margaret M. Burnett:
  Influence of Visual Technology on the Evolution of Language Environments. 9-22
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  Gruia-Catalin Roman, Kenneth C. Cox:
  A Declarative Approach to Visualizing Concurrent Computations. 25-36
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  Ted Lehr, Zary Segall, Dalibor F. Vrsalovic, Eddie Caplan, Alan L. Chung, Charles E. Fineman:
  Visualizing Performance Debugging. 38-51
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  Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Keng Ng:
  Graphical Configuration Programming: The Structural Description, Construction and Evolution of Software Systems Using Graphics. 53-65

Standards

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  Helen M. Wood:
  Information Technology Standards: What Determines Success? 67-68

Volume 22, Number 11, November 1989

Articles

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  Jun Gu, Kent F. Smith:
  A Structured Approach for VLSI Circuit Design. 9-22
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  Anna Hac, Hasan B. Mutlu:
  Synchronous Optical Network and Broadband ISDN Protocols. 26-34
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  Mukesh Singhal:
  Deadlock Detection in Distributed Systems. 37-48

Special Reports

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  David Gries, Dorothy Marsh:
  The 1987-88 Taulbee Survey Report. 49-56
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  IEEE Scientific Supercomputing Subcommitee: The Computer Spectrum: A Perspective on the Evolution of Computing. 57-63
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  IEEE Scientific Supercomputing Subcommitee: Supercomputer Hardware: An Update of the 1983 Report's Summary and Tables. Computer 22(11): 63-68 (1989)

Standards

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  Fletcher J. Buckley:
  Some Standards for Software Maintenance. 69-70

Volume 22, Number 12, December 1989

Image Database Management

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  William I. Grosky, Rajiv Mehrotra:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Image Database Management. 7-8
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  Rangachar Kasturi, Rodney Fernandez, Mukesh L. Amlani, Wu-chun Feng:
  Map Data Processing in Geographic Information Systems. 10-21
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  John Brolio, Bruce A. Draper, J. Ross Beveridge, Allen R. Hanson:
  ISR: A Database for Symbolic Processing in Computer Vision. 22-30
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  H. V. Jagadish, Lawrence O'Gorman:
  An Object Model for Image Recognition. 33-41
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  Andrew M. Goodman, Robert M. Haralick, Linda G. Shapiro:
  Knowledge-Based Computer Vision. 43-54
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  Arturo Pizano, Allen Klinger, Alfonso F. Cardenas:
  Specification of Spatial Integrity Constraints in Pictorial Databases. 59-71

The Open Channel

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  Joseph Arceneaux:
  User-Interface Copyrights Kill Competition. 72
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  Chandan Sen:
  On Intelligence and Randomness. Computer 22(12): 73 (1989)

Standards

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  Fletcher J. Buckley:
  'No Irish Need Apply': Proposal Places Standards Under New IEEE-USA Unit. 73-74