Rubinoff, Morris, Alt, Franz L., Rubinoff, Morris, and Alt, Franz L.
Subjects
Computers, Electronic data processing, Computer science
Abstract
Volume 6 reflects the editors'conviction that application of digital computers to areas akin to human thinking—machine-aided cognition, to borrow a term from another environment—is one of the most active frontiers of development in our time. Articles in this volume deal with two such areas: information retrieval and what is called'ultraintelligent machines.
Rubinoff, Morris, Alt, Franz L., Rubinoff, Morris, and Alt, Franz L.
Subjects
Computers, Electronic data processing, Computer science, Electronic datat processing, Electronic digital computers
Abstract
The survey articles included in Volume 5 have been selected with two aims in mind: to arrive at a balanced sampling of the computer field, and to emphasize the subjects of most active current interest. Articles cover topics such as the role of computers in delivering election results; the state of computer development in the Soviet Union and its neighbors; artificial intelligence; and applications of computers to the design of optical instruments, to nuclear reactor design, and to the determination of the structure of crystals or molecules from X-ray diffraction patterns.