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May 1984

Volume 37, Issue 5

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Select this Article		Parallel architectures for computer systems James C. Browne


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Select this Article		Engineering limits on computer performance Charles L. Seitz and Juri Matisoo


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Select this Article		Algorithms for concurrent processors Geoffrey C. Fox and Steve W. Otto


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Select this Article		A debate: Retire FORTRAN?: Yes James R. McGraw


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Select this Article		A debate: Retire FORTRAN?: No David J. Kuck and Michael Wolfe


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Zehe's scientific character Ramón Peralta‐Fabi and Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Shortest wavelength Lee W. Casperson and Bertram M. Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Inadvertent slight James E. Hesser and David S. Heeschen


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Select this Article		Development of radar Juval Mantel


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Select this Article		Reactions to complaints abroad Igor Alexeff and W. N. Lawless


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Select this Article		Mathematics as an obstacle Ya. B. Zeldovich


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Select this Article		Polymeric fluids Gabor Kiss


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Select this Article		More on radon hazard Richard Wilson


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Select this Article		Physics in decline T. Tsang


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Select this Article		Soviet nuclear position Edgar Villchur


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Infrared evidence for protoplanetary rings around seven stars Bertram M. Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Orbiting gyro test of general relativity Barbara G. Levi


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science P. J. Hilts and Robert March, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Vectorial Astrometry C. A. Murray and Heinrich Eichhorn, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications R. Abraham, J. E. Marsden, T. Ratiu, and Cecile DeWitt‐Morette, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Relativity and Its Roots B. Hoffmann and Robert March, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		New Products


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Bonner prize for nuclear physics to Harald A. Enge


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Select this Article		New York Academy of Sciences honors Flynn, Danby, Mathies


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Select this Article		Binnig and Rohrer share 1984 King Faisal award


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Select this Article		Naval Observatory awards for research achievement


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Select this Article		C. A. Barth receives NASA distinguished service award


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Select this Article		AAS presents Chretien awards to Chalabaev and Madore


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Gregory Wannier Philip W. Anderson


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Select this Article FREE		Alfred Kastler William Happer


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Select this Article FREE		Kurt Symanzik Gerhard Mack


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Select this Article FREE		John M. Wilcox Philip H. Scherrer


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Select this Article FREE		Frank G. Dunnington Richard T. Weidner


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Select this Article FREE		F. Russell Petersen Kenneth M. Evenson, Donald A. Jennings, and Joseph S. Wells


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Select this Article FREE		Harold Jacobs Konrad Fischer


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GUEST COMMENT

Select this Article		The straight dope Cecil Adams


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		Supercomputers: who'll be the fustest with the fastest? Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		SSC cost and size perplex Congress Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		Bell Labs fissions, yielding AT&T Bell Labs and Bellcore Gloria B. Lubkin


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Select this Article		Ballhaus new director of NASA's Ames Center


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Select this Article		In Brief


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NEWS FROM APS

Select this Article		Council approves modest enlargement of headquarters staff


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Select this Article		Successor to Burton as APS treasurer


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Select this Article		Industrial task force is formed


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CALENDAR

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EDITORIAL

Select this Article		Launching a national program for scientific computing Neal Lane


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