Preface
iii
Karl E. Martersteck
Introduction
Anthony S. Wojcik
A decade of ORACLE experience
3
Earl W. Burdette and Rudolph J. Klein
Williams tubes: A remembrance
15
Edwin L. Hughes
Post-AVIDAC computer technology at Argonne National Laboratory
21
James W. Buder
Early papers on the ORDVAC and the ILLIAC (Introduction)
29
James E. Robertson
The ORDVAC
31
R. E. Meagher and J. P. Nash
A review of ORDVAC operating experience
39
Charles R. Williams
Diagnostic programs for the ILLIAC
45
David J. Wheeler and James E. Robertson
Odd binary asynchronous counters
51
J. E. Robertson
An early paper on the ORACLE (Introduction)
55
Margaret K. Butler
The Oak Ridge automatic computer
57
J. C Chu 
Categorizing natural-language queries for intelligent responses
67
Kurt Godden
How to gel a large natural-language system into a personal computer
75
Bozena Henisz Thompson and Frederick B. Thompson 
The need for text generation
87
Kathleen R. McKeown
Knowledge needed for expert system explanation
93 William R. Swartout
Planning and language generation in problem-soiving systems
99
Douglas E. Appelt
Surface generation for a variety of applications
105
David D. McDonald
MEDCAT: An interactive computer program for medical diagnosis, consultation, and teaching
111
W. D. Hagamen, Martin Gardy, Gregory Bell, Edwin Rekosh, and Steven Zatz
PRISM: PRototype Inference SysteM
121
P. Hirsch. M. Meier, S. Snyder. and R. Stillman
The impact of AI technology on VLSI design
125
Robert S. Kirk
The architecture and implementation of the Flex/32 MultiComputer
139
Nicholas Matelan
The Encore Continuum: A complete distributed work station-multiprocessor computing environment
147
C. Gordon Bell, Henry B. Burkhart III, Steve Emmerich, Anthony Anzelmo, Russell Moore, David Schanin, Isaac Nassi, and CharJ.e Rupp
Concurrent processing: A new direction in scientific computing
157
Justin Rattner
Parallel control algorithms for the reduced-omega-omega-1 network
167
Tse-yun Feng and Wei Young
Interconnecting off-the-shelf microprocessors
175
Humoud B. AI-Sadoun, O. A. OJukotun, and T. N. Mudge
The PASM prototype interconnection network design
183
Nathaniel J. Davis IV and Howard Jay Siegel
Prototype of Star architecture - a status report
191
Chuan-lin Wu, Manjai Lee, Chai Sudtikitpisan, Jamshid Moaddeb, Geoffrey Brown, Woei Lin, Nader Bagherzadeh, and David Vaughn
System and software security via authentication handshake in EPROM
203
David Hoff, Alan Folmsbee, and Lawrence Letharn
Database machines: A survey
211
Ghassan Z. Qadah
Z80,OOO 32-bit microprocessor
225
Anil Patel
Introducing the MC68020: Perormance and flexibility improvement through redesigned hardware and software enhancements
233
Clara I. Serrano
Hardware configurations and I/O prolocol of the WE32100 microprocessor chip set
241
Michael L. Fuecio, Lakshmi Goyal, and Benjamin Ng
TRAC: An experience with a novel architectural prototype
247
S J. Deshpande, R. M Jenevein, and G. J. Lipovski
Hypercube architectures
259
Lyle L. Welty and Peter C Patton
An architecture for doing concurrent systems research
267
Vason P. Srini
A single chip bit-mapped image processor, MN8617
279
Kazufumi Suzuki, Shigeo Shimazaki, Yuetsu Ochiai. Kazutoshi Ikegaya, Etsuko Hirokami, Katsura Kawakami, Hiroaki KOlera, Mikio Fujiwara, and Yoshiaki Kasuga
Dataflow architectures for knowledge representation systems
287
Lubomir Bie
An overview of the DADO parallel computer
297
Mark D. Lerner, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Salvatore J. Stolfo
Dense matrix operations on a torus and a boolean cube
307
S. Lennart Johnsson
Parallel algorithms for bridge- and bi-coinnectivity on minimum area meshes
319
Susanne E. Hambrusch
Where are the parallel algorithms?
329
Robert G. Voigt
Making Apple computers accessible to blind children
339
Susan H. Phillips, Andrew G. Renouf, and Robert A. Bowers
Teaching teachers to use microcomputers
345
Marilyn D. Ward and Patricia L. Hutinger
Computer contributions legislation and the public interest
351
Hal Berghel
Programming environments based on structure editing: The GNOME approach
359
Ravinder Chandhok, David Garlan, Dennis Goldenson, Philip Miller, and Mark Tucker
Effects of microcomputer technology on young handicapped children
371
Patricia L Hutinger and Marilyn D. Ward
Smart buildings for intelligent people
383
Thomas B. Cross
Information systems and competitive advantage
395
M. Victor Janulaitis
Reengineering business systems
401
George H. Rittersbach
Transaction processing in the reservation industry
413
James R. Manchester
An approach to successful online transaction processing applications
419
Armond Inselberg
Front-end transaction processing in the brokerage industry
429
Alfred S. Kroin
Controlling third-party testing vendors
441
Russell R. Sprunger
Software testing procedures
445
Lee Sprague
A view on windows: Current approaches and neglected opportunities
451
Benn R. Konsynski, Arnold Greenfield, and William E. Bracker, Jr.
Artificial inteIligence on personal computers
461
David R. Brodwin, Wayne Erickson, Jerrold Kaplan, and Wanda Rappaport
The THOR template editor
473
Kwang-Ya Fang
Structured application generation using XDB
481
S. Bing Yao and H. Kitagawa
Developments in dialog engineering
493
Mildred L G. Shaw and Brian R. Gaines
Software productivity and its management
501
Jainendra K Navlakha
Software maintenance: A different view
507
Ned Chapin
The impact of implementing a rapid prototype on system maintenance
515
John L. Connen and Linda Brice
AGENT: An advanced test-case generation system for functional testing
525
Zengo Furukawa, Kenroku Nogi, and Kenji Tokunaga
A proposed causative software error classification scheme
537
James S. Collofelio and L. Blumer Balcom
Syntactic information useful for software maintenance
547
James S. Collofello and Johelen W. Blaylock
Database performance optimization
555
Dalia Motzkin
A general concurrency control for database systems
567
Abdel A. Farrag and M. Tamer Ozsu
Crypto-secure operating systems
575
George I. Davida and Brian J. Matt
SNA directions - a 1985 perspective
589
R. J. Sundstrom, J. B. Staton, G. D. Schultz, M. L. Hess, G. A. Deaton, L J. Cole, and R. M. Amy
Token-passing local area networks: A Success story for standards
605
Mary Jane Strohl
Protocol implementation strategies in local area network access units
611
Wendell Turner
OpenNET: A network architecture for connecting different operating systems
619
Leonard H. Magnuson and Michaei Szabados
DMI: A PBX perspective
625
Thomas F. Storey
Digital Multiplexed Interface: Architecture and specifications
633
James L. Neigh
Digital Multiplexed Interface: A host side implementation
639
Timothy C. Shafer