A Computer Science Reader: Selections from Abacus
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Editorials.- Who Reads abacus?.- Star Wars: What Is the Professional Responsibility of Computer Scientists?.- Less than Meets the Eye.- Babel and Newspeak in 1984.- Don't Shoot, They Are Your Children!.- Articles.- Who Invented the First Electronic Digital Computer?.- Does John Atanasoff deserve as much credit as Eckert and Mauchly for the invention of ENIAC? Letter: Who Owned the Eniac/Univac Interest in the 1950s?.- Programmers: The Amateur vs. the Professional.- Are many professional programmers really amateurs in disguise? Letter: On Software Development.- Japanese Word Processing: Interfacing with the Inscrutable.- Coping with the disadvantages of Oriental languages. Letter: Should the Japanese Language Be Reformed?.- Author's Response.- Living with a New Mathematical Species, The impact of computing on mathematics.- Foretelling the Future by Adaptive Modeling, Compressing data to an average of 2.2 bits per character.- Automating Reasoning, AR programs can help solve problems logically.- The Composer and the Computer, Composing serious music with algorithm.- Mathematical Modeling with Spreadsheets, Examples and problems in spreadsheet modeling.- U.S. versus IBM: An Exercise in Futility? Lessons of the longest antitrust suit in U.S. history.- In Quest of a Pangram, Having serious fun with a word puzzle.- Microcomputing in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, It lags the West in every way.- Chess Computers, A critical survey of commercial products.- Departments.- Book Reviews.- Books for Every Professional.- The Fifth Generation: Banzai or Pie-in-the-Sky?.- Letter to the Editor: More on the Fifth Generation.- In the Art of Programming, Knuth Is First; There Is No Second.- The Permanent Software Crisis.- IBM and Its Way.- Problems and Puzzles.- Computer-Assisted Problem Solving.- Computers and the Law.- Who's Liable When the Computer's Wrong?.- Personal Computing.- Is There Such a Thing as a Personal Computer?.- The Computer Press.- Specialization in the Computer Press.- Computing and the Citizen.- SDI: A Violation of Professional Responsibility.- Reports from Correspondents.- Report from Europe: France's Information Needs: Reality or Alibi?.- Report from the Pacific: Tokyo: Fifth-Generation Reasoning.- Report from Europe: Data Protection: Has the Tide Turned?.- Report from Anaheim: Abacus Goes to the 1983 National Computer Conference.- Report from Washington: MCC: One U.S. Answer to the Japanese.- Features.- Abacus Competition #1: Old and New Computing Aphorisms.- The Editors of abacus Present Their Forecast for the Coming Decade in Computing.- Results of abacus Competition #1: Old and New Computing Aphorisms.- The First Fourteen Issues of Abacus.- Volume Index.
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