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THE REHABILITATION of certain classes of handicapped persons by use of self-implementing automated processes will be discussed in this paper. Rehabilitation comprises evaluative testing and analysis, and therapy. Classically, these procedures have ...

APPRECIATION of the significance of computer systems for feedback analyses depends on one's understanding of the cybernetic model. Until recently, feedback control in the living system has been assumed generally to conform to the negative-feedback servo-...

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION in any evaluation of a computer should be, “How long will it take this system to process my workload?” If the system cannot do the workload, there is no point in asking how much it costs or any other facts about the system. ...

TRAFFICSIM is a digital computer simulation of the cause, effect, and result of processing system message traffic.

The cause is simulated by the Message Generation Simulation (MGS) program which provides the capability of simulating system user ...

THE PRIMARY REASON for specifying increased capabilities in tape transports is, ostensibly, to improve the system performance in some manner, such as: (a) - storage capacity; (b) - access time/transfer rate; and (c) - error incidence and severity.

The ...

IN 1961 A GROUP was established within IBM to test systems programs before they were released for customer usage. The goal of this group was to assure IBM management that each program released would be satisfactorily usable by the customer.

One step ...

IN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, several papers^1,2 have been written that have developed a description language that can be used to describe classes of objects. A class is a grouping of a number of objects such as all integral numbers, all five card poker ...

THE KINDS OF FILE structures required if we are to use the computer for personal files and as an adjunct to creativity are wholly different in character from those customary in business and scientific data processing. They need to provide the capacity ...

ASSOCIATED WITH MANY ARTIFICIAL intelligence problems there is a set of elementary objects with which the problem is concerned. This set of objects constitutes the universe for a particular problem. Typical examples might be the set of machine printed ...

WHEN I WAS ASKED to give a tutorial paper on information storage and retrieval, my first thought was to give a state-of-the-art survey of the field. But then it was evident that much of the paper would be a “state-of-the 'state-of-the-art'” survey since ...

I WAS INVITED to present a survey of the theory of automata. Since there are already several surveys, especially the very competent ones of Chomsky ¹⁰, McNaughton ³⁷, and Rogers ⁵⁴, all of which deal with various aspects of the theory of automata and ...

THIS PAPER reports on a series of experimental programs which are used to recognize line drawings and the spatial relationships between them. At the pattern-recognition level the programs learn to associate a name with a generalized bit pattern ...

BOGART consists of a set of board game playing routines written in MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder) which is capable of learning to play board games. Examples of board games BOGART can learn to play, with widely varying degrees of proficiency, include ...

THIS SYSTEM of information storage and retrieval was conceived with the user in mind and attempts to demonstrate how each user may contribute to the effectiveness of information searching. Considering the relative nature of information, how soon after ...

ALTHOUGH TREES have long been used for the storage and retrieval of information ^1,2, unfortunately there is a tradeoff between storage (construction) time and retrieval time. To keep retrieval time at a minimum, the tree must be balanced; but posting a ...

THE NEED for ready access to chemical information is by now generally recognized as common to many different agencies within government as well as to industrial, academic, and other private organizations. A review of techniques available for finding ...

THE CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE is a non-profit organization started in 1906 under the guidance of the American Chemical Society. The main activity of CAS, from its inception, has been to make the results of chemical information universally available. ...

IN THE SUMMER OF 1960, I visited the Soviet Union as a delegate to the International Automatic Control Congress, made an extensive tour of computer centers in the USSR, and spoke with numerous Soviet scientists in computers and cybernetics (broadly ...

THE CHOICE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM as the venue for IFIP Congress '68 is an appropriate one. Computer developments in that country during the next three years will be worth watching.

THE TRAC SYSTEM for Text Reckoning And Compiling was developed as a software package and user language to go with the reactive typewriter. Design goals included the attainment of a concise and efficient input language, a straightforward philosophy and a ...

THE AMBIT PROGRAMMING language has been applied to problems in two areas. In the area of algebraic symbol manipulation, programs have been written in AMBIT for elementary arithmetic, elementary algebra, formal differentiation, set operations, and ...

THIS PAPER reports on a compiler writing system called TMG, basically a syntax directed system. It has, however, some interesting differences which make it easier to handle errors and declarative information. The original objective of this system was to ...

IT IS OFTEN USEFUL to classify particular computer programs as lying within some special category. Labelling a piece of work in advance as a scientific task, a software application, or a problem of pure data manipulation gives some idea of what to ...

COMPUTER CODES for solving linear programs by the simplex method usually use one of three forms in representing the problem during the course of solution. These are: (a) - the standard form or original simplex method; (b) - the revised simplex method ...

THE ANALYSIS OF GRAPHICALLY presented data, such as the structural diagram of a chemical compound, or a model of information flow in a system design, is becoming increasingly important as technology advances. In the interests of accuracy and lower costs,...

GENERALLY, style is a unique method of organization of artistic material. This paper is the result of some attempts to find, using the computer, an objective measure of style in music which would be generally acceptable, and which would not conflict ...

IN FORTRAN PROGRAMMING of extensive storage problems the programmer has to devise elaborate schemes to make use of available space. The programmer also has to define the extent of the storage before execution, even when the sizes of the various data ...

MANY URBAN and metropolitan areas have surface street networks, expressway, and high-speed road systems that are adequate for normal operation, but which become congested during the peak demands imposed by commuter travel. Since peak demand occurs only ...

THIS PAPER describes research and development addressed to the problem of how to train men in the effective use of military information systems. Three questions are explored:

What is the operational concept which dictates the unusual training needs in ...

A RECENT TREND of great potential importance is the increased on-line use of digital computers to permit a close coupling of user and machine in solving a wide variety of problems. Program debugging, theorem proving, mechanical design, architectural ...