Francis V. Wagner, Paolo Ercoli, Roland Silver
Page 0.09
Harry D. Huskey
Page 631
R. F. Wheeling
Pages 632-638
Technical Committee 97 of the International Standards Organization (ISO) is concerned with standards in data processing. The American Standards Association holds the secretariat of this committee. Sectional Committee X3 of A.S …
R. W. Bemer
Pages 639-642
The “Survey of Coded Character Representation” by R. W. Bemer (p. 639) covers the representation of symbols in paper tape, magnetic tape and main storage of a number of different machine systems. Another method of mechanical
…
H. J. Smith, F. A. Williams
Page 639
K. W. Ellenberger
Page 643
Numerical techniques are presented for computing the roots of polynomial equations. By applying the recommended scaling and inversion rules, the basic Bistrow and Newton-Raphson iterative techniques can be applied with great
…
Kenneth W. Ellenberger
Pages 644-647
David E. Ferguson
Page 648
In reference to the discussion about evaluation
ex on page 500 of the September
Communications of the ACM, may I point out that there is no need to use Mr. Berin's lengthy expressions to obtain relation (9). If we use the simple …
S. Lubkin
Pages 649-652
David A. Pope, Marvin L. Stein
Pages 652-654
An important property of the Newell Shaw-Simon scheme for computer storage of lists is that data having multiple occurrences need not be stored at more than one place in the computer. That is, lists may be “overlapped.” Unfortunately …
George E. Collins
Pages 655-657
In some logical problems it is necessary or convenient to invert the bit structure of a word, i.e., replace bit
i by bit
n + 1 -
i for
i = 1, 2, ···,
n, thus creating a mirror image. The method described here exploits the CAQ …
Robert A. Price
Page 658
Paul Des Jardins
Page 658
The discrete flow systems discussed are characterized by the movement of randomly arriving items along interacting channels. Programming a digital computer to simulate such systems utilizes some techniques not common in other …
C. J. Moore, T. S. Lewis
Pages 659-660
Each year electronic computers become more sophisticated, and the programs they must process become more complex. Because of this, dependence of those in computing on the skill and experience of operators is increasing.
At the …
David Farbman, Richard Ketover
Pages 661-662
An evaluation of an automatic programming method can be made from many points of view. Two recent articles give evaluations of two compilers for the IBM 650 based on the method of decomposition of compiler statements into machine …
T. B. Curtz, J. F. Riordan, M. Spohn
Pages 663-664
