Home → Magazine Archive → March 1990 (Vol. 33, No. 3)
Table of Contents
News track
Rosalie Steier
Pages 249-250
Viewpoint
Gary Chapman
Pages 251-252
President's letter
Bryan Kocher
Page 261
ACM forum
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 263-271
From Washington
Diane Crawford
Pages 272-273
Personal computing
Larry Press
Pages 274-279
Scaling up: a research agenda for software engineering
The following excerpts have been gleaned from a report by the Computer Science and Technology Board that summarizes the deliberations of a group of software engineers participating in a CSTB workshop that focused on setting research …
CORPORATE Computer Science and Technology Board
Pages 281-293
The art of navigating through hypertext
Hypertext (3), (19), (25) is becoming a popular approach to many computer applications, especially those dealing with the on-line presentation of large amounts of loosely structured information such as on-line documentation or …
Jakob Nielsen
Pages 296-310
HyperIntelligence: the next frontier
The authors discuss how mental models may be used to organize an individual's thoughts while forming a plan. A hypermedia system, SPRINT, is described which supports an explicit representation of a mental model as a network of …
Sudha Ram, David A. Carlson
Pages 311-321
Integer programming vs. expert systems: an experimental comparison
Expert system and integer programming formulations of an NP-complete constraint satisfaction problem are contrasted in terms of performance, ability to encode complex preferences, control of reasoning, and supporting incremental …
Vasant Dhar, Nicky Ranganathan
Pages 323-336
Improving a human-computer dialogue
A survey of seventy-seven highly motivated industrial designers and programmers indicates that the identification of specific, potential problems in a human-computer dialogue design is difficult.
Rolf Molich, Jakob Nielsen
Pages 338-348
Automatically generating visual syntax-directed editors
Since inexpensive computers possessing sophisticated graphics were introduced in the late 1970s, program development research has focused on syntax-directed editors that are based on the grammars of their underlying languages …
Farah Arefi, Charles E. Hughes, David A. Workman
Pages 349-360
Literate programming
Christopher J. Van Wyk
Pages 361-ff.