ACM '82Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/800174.809807
J. M. Morris
{"title":"Children and computers","authors":"J. M. Morris","doi":"10.1145/800174.809807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/800174.809807","url":null,"abstract":"In this panel presentation, we explore three related issues: the competencies that children bring to computer learning, the effects of computer learning, and the more general effects of growing up in a computer-rich environment.\u0000 The presentation is sponsored by the Society for Cognition and Brain Theory, an interdisciplinary study group in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience.","PeriodicalId":321698,"journal":{"name":"ACM '82","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115506396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM '82Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/800174.809768
J. Foreman
{"title":"Ada '82 - status, use and application techniques","authors":"J. Foreman","doi":"10.1145/800174.809768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/800174.809768","url":null,"abstract":"The Ada language was designed as a language to address embedded systems within the Department of Defense. The interest in this language is evident from the numerous articles, texts and conferences which have addressed this language and its application within the real time embedded systems environment.\u0000 There have been research efforts directed to the use of Ada. These efforts have been conducted by a variety of individuals and organizations and have resulted in contributions to requirements and design methodologies as well as application areas. Thus, we are seeing several prototype implementations which illustrate the use of Ada in the software lifecycle.","PeriodicalId":321698,"journal":{"name":"ACM '82","volume":"16 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126011872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM '82Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/800174.809751
J. Cheung, S. Dhall, S. Lakshmivarahan, L. Miller, B. Walker
{"title":"A new class of two stage parallel sorting schemes","authors":"J. Cheung, S. Dhall, S. Lakshmivarahan, L. Miller, B. Walker","doi":"10.1145/800174.809751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/800174.809751","url":null,"abstract":"A two stage parallel sorting scheme is presented in which in the first stage the input file is divided into a number of subfiles and sorted in parallel using the conventional heap sort algorithm. The second stage then merges the sorted sub-files in parallel. It is shown that a given input file of size n can be sorted in 0(n) time using 0(log n) processors. The speed-up ratio, which is a measure of the effectiveness of parallel processing, with respect to the best sequential algorithm, is asymptotically proportional to log n, which is optimal in the number of processors used.","PeriodicalId":321698,"journal":{"name":"ACM '82","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125675435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM '82Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/800174.809805
L. Peterson
{"title":"Problems in biomedical computing:: what are they, and who is solving or creating them?","authors":"L. Peterson","doi":"10.1145/800174.809805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/800174.809805","url":null,"abstract":"SESSION OVERVIEW: The general theme of ACM '82, “The Computer Industry, Solving or Creating Today's Problems”, generates a number of questions for the biomedical computing community. What are today's problems in biomedical computing? What are today's problems WITH biomedical computing? These questions raise a number of issues which should be of interest to the broader audience of ACM.","PeriodicalId":321698,"journal":{"name":"ACM '82","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133597066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM '82Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/800174.809754
D. McCallum, J. L. Peterson
{"title":"Computer-based readability indexes","authors":"D. McCallum, J. L. Peterson","doi":"10.1145/800174.809754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/800174.809754","url":null,"abstract":"Computer-based document preparation systems provide many aids to the production of quality documents. A text editor allows arbitrary text to be entered and modified. A text formatter then imposes defined rules on the form of the text. A spelling checker ensures that each word is a correctly spelled word. None of these aids, however, affect the meaning of the document; the document may be well-formatted and correctly spelled but still incomprehensible.","PeriodicalId":321698,"journal":{"name":"ACM '82","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115681614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM '82Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/800174.809750
D. Schlusselberg, Wade K. Smith, Margaret H. Lewis, Bradley G. Culter, D. Woodward
{"title":"A general system for computer based acquisition, analysis and display of medical image data","authors":"D. Schlusselberg, Wade K. Smith, Margaret H. Lewis, Bradley G. Culter, D. Woodward","doi":"10.1145/800174.809750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/800174.809750","url":null,"abstract":"A general computer-based system has been developed and implemented for acquiring and viewing medical image data. Originally developed for neuroanatomic studies (1), including investigations of cell topography and connectivity in brainstem nuclei, the system has become a versatile and powerful tool for three-dimensional analysis and display of a variety of types of image data, including studies of cardiac morphometry and 2-d gel electrophoresis. The system includes components for data input via video frame digitizer or digitizing tablet; graphical output through a high-resolution color graphics display or hardcopy plotter. Keys to the system's flexibility and power are a tree-structured data file system, in which line segments and shaded strips may be combined to form complex three-dimensional structures, and a disk-based virtual memory system which permits greater numerical accuracy and use of larger structures than would be otherwise possible with a 16-bit minicomputer.","PeriodicalId":321698,"journal":{"name":"ACM '82","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115860722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM '82Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/800174.809814
Bill Inmon
{"title":"Professional development seminars: Design review methodology for a data base environment","authors":"Bill Inmon","doi":"10.1145/800174.809814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/800174.809814","url":null,"abstract":"There are many variables to be properly managed in the building of a database application (especially on-line) which, if misunderstood or ignored, could lead to eventual failure. Design review methodology addresses the need to test the system design as early as possible in the development cycle in order to avoid the potentially high expense of implementing an inadequate design. The methodology provides a way to examine the soundness of a design at various points of a system development prior to the actual building of a system. Design review can be considered a method of quality control of system design.\u0000 The methodology is an outgrowth of the structured walkthru concept, extended for on-line data base applications. The goal is to provide a perspective of the design from the point of view of meeting the specific requirements of the system and a balance between performance, flexibility, availability, and user function.","PeriodicalId":321698,"journal":{"name":"ACM '82","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121185055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}