Home → Magazine Archive → January 1988 (Vol. 31, No. 1)
Table of Contents
Authors
Rosalie Steier
Pages 1-ff.
President's letter
Paul Abrahams
Pages 2-4
ACM forum
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 5-9
Parlog86 and the dining logicians
A classic problem in concurrent programming is that of the "dining philosophers" which challenges the power of any aspiring concurrent program language. Recently, a growing number of logic programming languages have been refined …
G. A. Ringwood
Pages 10-25
A view of the origins and development of Prolog
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Jacques Cohen
Pages 26-36
The early years of logic programming
This firsthand recollection of those early days of logic programming traces the shared influences and inspirations that connected Edinburgh, Scotland, and Marseilles, France.
Robert A. Kowalski
Pages 38-43
A fair share scheduler
Central-processing-unit schedulers have traditionally allocated resources fairly among processes. By contrast, a fair Share scheduler allocates resources so that users get their fair machine share over a long period.
J. Kay, P. Lauder
Pages 44-55
Anatomy of a compact user interface development tool
Many contemporary user oriented applications require a combination of attributes from both window and forms management systems. PANES was developed as a tool to fill this niche by providing a simple, yet flexible tool for both …
Jack W. Stott, Jeffrey E. Kottemann
Pages 56-66
Computer technology and jobs: an impact assessment model
A model is proposed that associates the impact of computer technology on a job, with the set of underlying characteristics that describe the activities performed on the job. An empirical test of the model has been undertaken. …
Ron Weber
Pages 68-77
Computer backup pools, disaster recovery, and default risk
There is a growing popularity of computer backup pools, where a few members share the ownership, or right for service, of a computer center. Such a center stands by to provide for the lost computing capacity of a member suffering …
Yehuda Kahane, Seev Neumann, Charles S. Tapiero
Pages 78-83