A. G. Oettinger
Pages 838-839
This report on the author's trip to universities in Western Europe in the summer of 1966 gives brief descriptions of computing activities at each institution visited. Present equipment capabilities vary from moderate to large …
Aaron Finerman
Pages 840-844
The FLOWTRACE system produces flowcharts of programs written in “almost any” programming language. One must describe the syntax of the control statements in his language; for this purpose a metalanguage is available. The resultant …
Philip M. Sherman
Pages 845-854
The evaluation, by the propagation of variance technique, of the sensitivity of time-varying systems to initial condition and parameter errors, involves the determination of several system-dependent partial derivative matrices …
R. D. Wilkins
Pages 855-859
The second Remes algorithm as originally established for polynomials, may converge or not when the approximating functions are rational. However, the few results known in this domain show how efficient the algorithm can be to …
I. Gargantini
Pages 859-863
A FORMAC program has been written which is capable of calculating various quantities of interest in tensor calculus. Using this code, Christoffel symbols have been calculated for 12 basic orthogonal coordinate systems.
John J. Walton
Page 864
Based upon a machine-readable statistical model and related symbolic specifications, an efficient method of performing calculations for statistical models of a balanced complete nature is presented. Fixed, mixed, and random analysis …
J. E. Schlater, W. J. Hemmerle
Pages 865-869
G. Bayer
Pages 869-871
In building current computer systems, we tend to break them down into “levels” of control, command and communication; in using the system, we break our problems down correspondingly.
The continued use of such a structure raises …
Peter Bryant
Pages 873-876
The philosophy of a monitor which allows slow output devices to be multiplexed is presented.
C. Abraham, G. N. Lance, T. Pearcey
Pages 877-878
