A view of the world of computing as seen at the 1976 National Computer Conference 1 Stanley Winkler Conference maketh a ready man or, twenty-five years in the better joints 7 Herbert R. J. Grosch Computer prehistory and history in Central Europe 15 H. Zemanek Early computers in Europe 21 Richard Williams The U.K. privacy white paper 1975 33 A. S. Douglas Human and organizational implications of computer privacy 39 Jerry M. Rosenbel A control systems model of privacy 45 John Salasin Computer security - A survey 53 Peter S. Browne Computer abuse perpetrators and vulnerabilities of computer systems 65 Donn B. Parker Effective safeguards for computer system integrity 75 Norman R. Nielsen, Brian Ruder, David R. Brandin A centralized approach to computer network security 85 Frank R. Heinrich, David J. Kaufman Computer network cryptography engineering 91 Harrison R. Burris The application of cryptography for data base security 97 Ehud Gudes, Harvey S. Koch, Fred A. Stahl Multiuser cryptographic techniques 109 Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman Cryptography using modular software elements 113 Herbert S. Bright, Richard L. Enison Analysis of secret functions with application to computer cryptography 125 Ingemar Ingemarsson A secure, national system for electronic funds transfer 129 D. Kaufman, K. Auerbach Design considerations for electronic funds transfer switch system development 139 Joseph P. Mazzetti Are computers ready for the checkless society? 147 Frank Backman Personware 157 H. W. Bomzer From data entry supervisor to data entry specialist 161 Carolyn M. Dunning A modern beginning programming course 165 Roy F. Keller Instructional computer systems for higher education 171 Charles J. Prenner, Alfred Z. Spector ADP training systems - Organization-wide training for increased productivity 179 Jack L. Stone, Alexander P. Grant Teaching art through computer graphics 185 Joseph Scala Artists and computers 191 Patsy Scala The digital component of the circle graphics habitat 195 Thomas A. DeFanti Braille grade II translator program 205 Monique Truquet Interfacing computers for the physically handicapped - A review of international approaches 209 Gerald A. Raitzer, Gregg C. Vanderheiden, Craig S. Holt The spellex system of speech aids for the blind in computer applications 217 Ching Y. Suen, Michael P. Beddoes, James C. Swail Development of a hand-held talking calculator for the blind 221 R. E. Savoie, J. S. Brugler, J. C. Bliss Survey of public attitudes toward computers in society 227 David H. Ahl Survey of public access to computing 231 Carol H. Kastner, William G. Underhill Building your own computer 235 Stephen B. Gray THREAD (three-dimensional reconstruction and display) with biomedical applications in neuron ultrastructure and computerized tomography 241 John C. Mazziotta, H. K. Huang Regional kidney transplant matching - The Rentran interactive approach 251 David J. Mishelevich, Peter Stastny, R. Gail Ellis, Susan G. Mize Data base for protein sequences 261 M. O. Dayhoff, W. C. Barker, R. M. Schwartz, B. C. Orcutt, L. T. Hunt From text to structured information-Automatic processing of medical reports 267 Lynette Hirschman, Ralph Grishman, Naomi Sager Design considerations of a database system in a clinical network environment 277 Shi-Kuo Chang, M. O'Brien, J. Read, R. Borovec, W. H. Cheng, J. S. Ke Correct problem statements in biomedical data processing 287 N. I. Moiseeva, M. Yu. Simonov, V. M. Sysuev An adaptable, modular data-collection system suitable for scientific experimentation - Analog to digital transformation, short-term digital storage, formatted digital tape-recording, and computer entry of experimental data 295 Harold H. Shlevin Classification of personal information for privacy protection purposes 301 Rein Turn Philadelphia justice information system 309 Irving J. Chasen Computers in architecture 315 Genevieve Greenwald-Katz Prospective capabilities in hardware 323 Margaret K. Butler An evaluation of the East German RYAD 1040 system 337 Robert A. Koenig Magic Score bowling scorer - A microprocessor application for fun and profit 341 Reg A. Kaenel QLISP - A language for the interactive development of complex systems 349 Earl D. Sacerdoti, Richard E. Fikes, Rene Reboh, Daniel Sagalowicz, Richard J. Waldinger, B. Michael Wilber User interface design issues for a large interactive system 357 Richard William Watson Terminal transparent display language (TTDL) 365 Carl E. Krebs, C. Bumgardner, T. Northwood Working set restoration-A method to increase the performance of multilevel storage hierarchies 373 Peter Schneider Performance and power dissipation analysis for CCD memory systems 381 S. L. Rege Intelligent memory 393 Murray Edelberg, L. Robert Schissler Approaches to computer reliability - Then and now 401 Algirdas A Vizienis Failure-tolerant parallel programming and its supporting system architecture 413 K. H. Kim, C. V. Ramamoorthy Strategic planning for MIS - A conceptual framework 425 Ephraim R. McLean, John V. Soden The economics of software quality assurance 433 David S. Alberts Implementation of quality control in software development 443 Frank Tsui, Lew Priven A computer performance prediction model 451 Robert W. Otto, Mark Auerbach A queueing network model for the effect of data compression on system efficiency 457 Alan Jay Smith The Federal Communications Commission and major policy matters affecting computer communication 467 Frank J. Martin, Jr. A new communication protocol for accessing data networks - The international packet-mode interface 477 A. Rybcznski, B. Wessler, R. Despres, J. Wedlake Virtual circuits vs. datagrams technical and political problems 483 Louis Pouzin Network access techniques - A review 495 Robert Rosenthal The Rand intelligent terminal agent (RITA) as a network access aid 501 Robert H. Anderson, James J. Gillogly Network interface systems-An evaluation by simulation 511 Joe B. Wyatt, Vincent I. Polley An overview of the distributed computer network 523 David L. Mills A network-oriented multiprocessor front-end handling many hosts and hundreds of terminals 533 W. F. Mann, S. M. Ornstein, M. F. Kraley Design issues for mixed media packet switching networks 541 D. Huynh, H. Kobayashi, F. F. Kuo A perspective on network operating systems 551 Stephen R. Kimbleton, Richard L. Mandell A pipeline polish string computer 723 Gerard G. BailIe, Jean P. Schoellkopf Evolution of computer memory structure 733 Yaohan Chu Cache system design in the tightly coupled multiprocessor system 749 C. K. Tang Coupling small computers for performance enhancement 755 Fernando C. Colon, Robert M. Glorioso, Walter H. Kohler, Dominic W. Li The CERF computer system 765 Neil Wilhelm, David Pessel, Charles Merriam A parallel processor for evaluation studies 769 Gary J. Nutt Asynchronous speed-independent arbiter in a form of a hardware control module 777 H. Sechovsky, S. Jura Log-sum multipler 783 J. P. Agrawal, V. U. Reddy Distributed information systems 789 Grayce M. Booth Error detection in data base systems 795 Michael Hammer A framework for federal health data collection 803 N. Phillip Ross, Meyer Katzper Data base processor technology 811 Donald R. Anderson Integrity aspects of a shared data base 819 Eduardo B. Fernandez, Rita C. Summers Designing optimal data structures 829 Larry Clough, William D. Haseman, Yuk Ho So REG IS-A relational information system with graphics and statistics 839 J. D. Joyce, N. N. Oliver Query-by-example - Operations on hierarchical data bases 845 Moshe M. Zloof A virtual memory system for a relational associative processor 855 S. A. Schuster, E. A. Ozkarahan, K. C. Smith Managing the census data base - Data description, acquisition, and manipulation 863 Jay-Louise Weldon Defining management's information needs 869 Trevor John Bentley Managerial response to an information system 877 Roy H. Igersheim Transaction queueing and cylinder logic access in the Time, Inc. magazine/book/record system 883 Carl R. Gerami, T. Russell Shields, Richard J. Weiland Generalized software for translating data 889 Edward W. Birss, James P. Fry Experiments with a symbolic evaluation system 899 William E. Howden Some experience with DAVE - A Fortran program analyzer 909 Leon J. Osterweil, Lloyd D. Fosdick A dynamic (FORTRAN) programming system 917 Julius A. Archibald, Jr. GPMX - A portable general purpose macro processor adapted for preprocessing Fortran 927 Robert C. Gammill An experiment comparing Fortran programming times with the software physics hypothesis 935 R. D. Gordon, M. H. Halstead Representations of networks 939 Harvey J. Greenberg, James E. Kalan A practitioner's guide to the state of large scale network and network-related problems 945 Fred Glover, Darwin Klingman Low-cost residue number systems for computer arithmetic 951 Behrooz Parhami Very fast computation of polynomial remainder sequence coefficient signs 957 James R. Pinkert System theoretic implications of numerical methods applied to the solution of ordinary differential equations 963 T. G. Winderknecht and H. D'Angelo Memory conserving efficient methods for solving large sets of stiff differential equations 973 Gruia-Catalin Roman, David Garfinkel, Carl B. Marbach A geometric analysis of heuristic search 979 Gordon J. Vander Brug Another algorithm for reducing bandwidth and profile of a sparse matrix 987 W. F. Smyth, Ilona Arany Business opportunity analysis 995 James S. Ketchel, John B. Dolan A "unique number" generator 999 Armen Nahapetian An on-line test program for peripheral devices 1001 Akira Taneda, Hikaru Oku, Daiji Namba Structure of the ELF operating system 1007 David L. Retz, Bruce W. Schafer Elements of a planning and modeling system 1017 Thomas H. Naylor Analysis of "natural" language discourse 1027 Sally Yeates Sedelow Computer animated film systems - A rat's nest of trade-offs 1035 Bruce Cornwell, Katharine Cornwell Speakeasy - A window into a computer 1039 Stan Cohen A case study of a young child doing turtle graphics in LOGO 1049 Cynthia J. Solomon, Seymour Papert Feature selection for binary data-Medical diagnosis with fuzzy sets 1057 James C. Bezdek Procedural representation in a fuzzy problem-solving system 1069 Richard A. LeFaivre Subjective Bayesian methods for rule-based inference systems 1075 Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, Nils J. Nilsson