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For almost a decade funding in experimental computer science has faced a problem similar to the weather—everyone talked about it but no one did anything about it. Fortunately, there are now some signs of relief. Many industrial and government agencies ...

“The LSI and VLSI revolution” has probably become one of the most frequently mentioned phrases in discussions concerning technology trends. Microprocessors have entered most of our homes, offices and laboratories. Students in universities have begun to ...

Continuing advances in VLSI technology are putting major pressure on Design Automation (DA) applications. To meet this pressure, special purpose hardware to perform selected DA applications has been developed and proposed. Much of the advantage of such ...

This paper surveys the developments in VLSI that were triggered by the Mead-Conway design style. Computer-aided design tools and new architectures are reviewed, and future trends are suggested. The most significant future developments in tools are ...

Many people have realized that programming needs more support than a compiler, linker, debugger, and a few other tools. More comprehensive systems have been proposed, built, and (sometimes) used. Although the perfect programming environment is yet to be ...

There exists a buzzword in the user interface research community that symbolizes how the user should feel about a computer-based environment in which productive work can be carried out. The buzzword is “friendly.” It is a strange choice of word in that ...

This paper identifies three major characteristics of large-scale computer programming projects. The design features of the Ada Language System which facilitate large-scale efforts are then described in terms of these characteristics. The Ada Language ...