Bruce Gilchrist
Page 297
Franz L. Alt
Pages 300-307
Isaac L. Auerbach, A. Walther, A. P. Speiser
Page 308
Pages 312-326
Irving N. Rabinowitz
Pages 327-337
In using ALGOL, or any other common language for communicating among computers with different input-output media, one or more human beings is normally present in the communication channel. In the otherwise convenient method of …
Henry C. Thacher
Pages 337-342
The final result of prolonged computations will in general contain some errors. These errors are composed in part of computational round-off errors. This note points out one source of round-off error encountered in the IBM 709 …
C. A. Oster
Page 343
The problem of selecting a random sample of precisely
n records from a tape film containing
N records sometimes arises in data processing applications. If a means of obtaining a random sample of
n integers
r1,
r2, … ,
rn selected …
T. G. Jones
Page 343
Millard H. Perstein
Page 344
Frank Stockmal
Page 344
Jerome Kurtzberg
Page 344
Robert W. Floyd
Pages 344-345
Robert W. Floyd
Page 345
Stephen J. Garland, Anthony W. Knapp
Pages 345-346
John L. Pfaltz
Page 345
Philip J. Kiviat
Page 346
G. F. Schrack, M. Shimrat
Page 346
Philip J. Kiviat
Page 346
A. P. Relph
Page 347
Bichard Steck
Page 347
A. P. Relph
Page 347
Guy F. Kuncir
Page 347
Richard A. Conger
Page 347
Victor E. Whittier
Page 348
B. Randell
Page 348
A. P. Relph
Page 348
John Caffrey
Page 348
During the past few years a major portion of the work in computer applications has been concentrated in the two closely related fields of automatic programming and symbol manipulation. The results of this effort have been a wealth …
James W. Hanson, Jane Shearin Caviness, Camilla Joseph
Pages 349-355
Recently, a personal reaction to a published abstract started a study which may lead to criteria for abstracts. This particular abstract seemed inadequate to those who were familiar with the original journal article. This brought …
Harold Borko
Page 356
In the past Backus Normal Form (BNF) has been defined only informally; however, a formal recognition definition has been evolved.
Peter Zilahy Ingerman
Page 356
A new problem-oriented language,
XYZ, is being used on an experimental basis for trajectory computation. In the experiment,
XYZ is compared with FORTRAN to determine the relative advantages of the two systems for use in flight …
Clarice MacDonald
Page 356
M. R. Kellington
Page 364
R. E. Dickie
Page 364
Harry D. Huskey
Page 297
In retrospect, it is obvious that Charles Babbage, when writing these words, had Howard Aiken in mind. In July 1961, twenty-four years after conceiving the idea that led to Mark I and after over a quarter century of service to …
Anthony G. Oettinger, Howard Aiken
Pages 298-299
Morton Nadler
Page 364
