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Presents the author's comments on the paper "Reducing Truncation Errors by Programming," by J.M. Wolfe. Comments on Wolfe's proposal to use cascaded accumulators to evaluate a sum of the truncation errors; Remarks on the method used for rounding of errors; Advantages of using electronic computers which normalize floating-point sums before rounding or truncating them.

The article discusses the role of the man as an Information-Processing System. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) will conduct a session regarding technological innovations in data processing. Computer system design which has been patterned on man as recently been moving away from totally central control system design concepts headed for decentralized control concepts. Chairman of the session will be Isaac L. Auerbach which is also the president of IFIP. The plans of this computer organization will make a big progress in information technology.

Analyzes the proposed American Standard Vocabulary of Information Processing and the Vocabulary of Terms Used in Information Processing developed by the Federation for Information Processing and the International Computation Centre. Influence of earlier works on the vocabularies; Distinctive contributions; Caliber of the technical experts involved and the prestige of the sponsoring organizations.

Presents a brief nontechnical introduction to OEDIPUS, a computer programming system which can serve as an operating environment for dynamic and/or recursive programs and programming systems. Dynamic allocation of storage for contiguous blocks of arbitrary size; Input and output for a hierarchy of data types; Public pushdown list for automatic recursive programming.

Presents the translation procedures for the conversion of decision tables to computer programs. Storage requirements; Execution time and compile time; Valuability as hand-coding guides or as algorithms for a compiler; Analysis of limited- and extended-entry tables; Nature of table-oriented programming languages and features.

Describes a computer program which will assign each word in English text to its form class or part of speech. Speed of operation in only a limited storage space; System for identifying the words; Conditional probability used as basis for the coding; Accuracy of the coder on trials.

The article presents information on activities held in various chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the U.S. Richard T. Silberman, executive vice-president of Electronics Capital Corp., spoke on "Financial Trends in Electronic Data Processing" at a meeting of San Diego chapter in April, 1965. In the meeting of San Francisco chapter, professor Edward A. Feigenbaum spoke on "Soviet Cybernetics and Computer Science." I.E. Perlin has been chosen as the chairman of Mid-Southeast chapter for 1965-66.

Presents a letter by the President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to the ACM membership. Comment on the size and quality of the Fall Joint Computer Conference in Las Vegas; References to education and the role of computing; Discussion on meeting of the ACM Council with Association's chapter chairmen; Discussions on how ACM should interface with other organizations in the computing field; Comment on the meeting with the new International President of the Data Processing Management Association, Daniel Will of Montreal.

The article provides different information related to the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) activities, universities, new products and events. After serving as associate editor for Scientific and Business Applications for over a year and a half, and as editor-in-chief since August 1962, Professor C.C. Gotlieb is now leaving the Staff of the journal "Communications of the ACM" to take over as editor-in-chief of the Journal. Professor George Forsythe has accepted the position of editor of a new Education Department of the Journal. The ACM Council met on December 3, 1965. Seventeen members were present and three were represented by proxies. The name of A.M. Turing was selected for the ACM Honored Lecture to be presented at our National Meeting. At the meeting, the ACM Council reelected Walter Hoffman treasurer of the Association for another three-year term, starting January 1, 1966. The Executive Director reported ACM membership is over 16,000 including student members. The 1966 Roster of ACM Members, now an press, will contain expanded information, to be of greater usefulness to ACM members, chapters, and special interest groups and committees, as well as others.

The article presents news briefs related to computer science at the universities in the U.S. The University of Wisconsin has started offering Ph.D. and M.S. degree programs in computer science. The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $1.3 million contract to the University of Michigan for the development of a computer language for the new generation of computers. A Ph.D. program in Systems Engineering has been started by the University of Arizona.

The article news related to ACM activities in the U.S. The new haven area chapter, with over fifty members, was formed at an organizational meeting in November 1965. The Michigan chapter received Professor George Forsythe, ACM President, as guest speaker at its dinner meeting' in January 1966. The lecture entitled, "Computer Science Education," consisted of an outline of topics comprising such a curriculum, a description of the existing Computer Science Department at Stanford and a candid glimpse at some of the problems in formalizing education in this relatively new field. David F. Weinberg, general conference chairman, announces that Jay A. Wight has joined the Conference committee as Technical Program co-chairman. Wight has assumed primary responsibility for the technical program due to the transfer of former co-chairman Bob R. Parker out of the Los Angeles area. ACM's employment service project, has recently initiated as a service to ACM student members, has been well received, reported by J. Don Madden, ACM executive director.

The article presents information on the Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation held on March 29-31, at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington D.C. The symposium was sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Committee on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation, and held under the general chairmanship of Jean E. Sammet. A registered attendance of 450 included international visitors such as M. Wilkes of Cambridge, England and A. Caracciolo of Pisa, Italy. The meeting was opened by ACM Vice- President H.S. Bright, followed by Jean Sammet who surveyed the present state of the art in this area. There were ten informal discussion sessions during the first two evenings and two online demonstrations. The most heavily attended sessions were on LISP-2 and on the "Mathematics and Metamathematics" of algebraic manipulation, but the other sessions, such as on graphical languages, drew large numbers of interested participants. This conference made clear that many independent groups were making significant progress in fabricating techniques for a new tool in computer science.

The article presents information on various chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) across the U.S. The Greater Rio Grande Chapter of ACM has recently extracted from its files a list of the titles of all technical papers presented at Chapter meetings since its inception in 1957. Using a program developed by D.K. Robbins of Sandia Corp., a KWIC-type listing of permuted titles of these papers has been made. This listing has been distributed to all members of the Chapter. Topics and speakers at ACM Chapters across the U.S. indicate the current trends of interest in computer science and data processing. The ACM Tidewater Chapter is sponsoring this spring a professional development course on "Real-Time Computing." The course is given by the Chapter's professional development chairman, Cecil Frost, who is applications staff specialist for Control Data Corp. At its April 21, 1966 meeting, the Westchester-Fairfield Chapter heard William Orchard-Hays speak on "Linear Programming of Computational Techniques."

This article focuses on research articles related to computer applications. Poisson series of three variables are manageable symbolically through a set of formal subroutines written partially in the IBM 7094 machine language, but to be called in the FORTRAN language for use in FORTRAN programs. In the article "Symbolic Manipulation of Poisson Series," by J. Danby, A. Deprit and A. Rom, an effort has been made to supply those operations which are most required by celestial mechanics. The routines are entirely self-contained subroutines and require only standard FORTRAN input/output units 5 and 6; they are designed to avoid waste and overflow of core storage space. In the article "A FORMAC Program for the Solution of Linear Boundary and Initial Value Problems," by E. Cuthill, a computer program is described which has been developed for obtaining approximate solutions to linear initial and boundary-value problems involving differential equations. The article further focuses on the article "Computation of Algebraic Properties of Elementary Particle Reactions Using a Digital Computer," by A. Hearn.

This article presents information on two articles related to computer science. These are: "PM: A System for Polynomial Manipulation," by G. Collins; and "Experience With FORMAC Algorithm Design," by R. Tobey.

This article presents information on several articles related to computer science. In the article "Application of LISP to Sequence Prediction," by Paul W. Abrahams, a LISP program that analyzes sequences of letters and numbers is described. The program takes as input a sequence such as A C E G I and so on and produces as output the next element of the sequence, in this ease K. The program does this by creating a LISP program that will generate the nth element of the sequence, given n, and then executing this program with the length of the given sequence plus one as argument. In the article "Models for Mathematical Systems," by Alfred H. Morris, a program, written for the IBM 7090, which defines a model for a finite collection of associative algebras for the computer, is described and illustrated. The program contains a structure broad enough in scope to allow one to perform operations on such diverse mathematical concepts as differential equations, infinite series and differential forms in a simple yet comprehensive manner, while also serving in a foundation upon which a variety of higher level symbol manipulation languages can be developed.

This article focuses on several articles related to computer programs for algebraic simplification. In the article "MANIP: A Computer System for Algebra and Analytic Differentiation," by Bernice Bender, a mathematical expression to be operated upon is written in FORTRAN-like notation and stored in the computer as a string of BCD characters with all blanks removed. It may be as complicated as desired so long as the entire expression does not exceed 5000 characters. The problem of performing algebraic operations and obtaining analytic derivatives was translated into that of identifying and manipulating character sequences. Programs which resulted were written in FORTRAN IV for a CDC 3600 computer and are discussed in detail. The goal of the computer program mentioned in the article "An On-Line Program for Non-Numerical Algebra," by Knut Korsvold, is to make a step towards the design of an automated mathematical assistant. Some requirements for such a program are: it must be easy to access, and that the result must be obtained in a reasonably short time. Accordingly the program is written for a time-shared computer.

This article focuses on several articles related to electronic methods in symbol manipulation. The author's viewpoint in the article "Operators for Manipulating Language Structures," by Barry Lawrence Wolman, is that all aspects of the engineering design problem are treated initially as statements in some appropriate predefined languages. These problem description statements are converted by a table-driven language translator into an intermediate form, called the first-pass structure, which models the syntax and semantics of the original statement. The characteristics of the languages used to describe the problem may be specified and altered via a subsystem of CADET. All of the processes desired in the CADET System can be considered to be the result of some operator applied to a first-pass structure so as to transform the meaning of the statement into a suitable form. The semantic sequencing information contained in the first-pass structure enables operators defined for atomic forms to be applied to arbitrarily complex structures in a uniform manner. The article further focuses on "Convert," by A. Guzman and H. McIntosh.

A brief description is given of the implementation technique for the replacement rule of the AMBIT programming language. The algorithm for the "AMBIT scan" and an example of its application are given. The algorithm is applicable to other members of the family of string transformation languages of which AMBIT is a member, and it provides a rationale for the design of the AMBIT language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Various facets of the design and implementation of mathematical expression manipulation algorithms are discussed. Concrete examples are provided by the FORMAC EXPAND and differentiation algorithms, a basic FORMAC utility routine, and an experiment in the extraction of the skeletal structure of on expression. One recurrent theme is the need to avoid excessive intermediate expression swell in order to minimize core storage requirements. Although many details from the FORMAC implementation are presented, an attempt is made to stress principles and ideas of general relevance in the design of algorithms for manipulating mathematical expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A programming language is described which is applicable to problems conveniently described by transformation rules. By this is meant that patterns may be prescribed, each being associated with a skeleton, so that a series of such pairs may be searched until a pattern is found which matches an expression to be transformed. The conditions for a match are governed by a code which also allows subexpressions to be identified and eventually substituted into the corresponding skeleton. The primitive patterns and primitive skeletons are described, as well as the principles which allow their elaboration into more complicated patterns and skeletons. The advantages of the language are that it allows one to apply transformation rules to lists and arrays as easily as strings, that both patterns and skeletons may be defined recursively, and that as a consequence programs may be stated quite concisely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bell Telephone Laboratories' Low-Level Linked List Language L6 (pronounced "L-six") is a new programming language for list structure manipulations. It contains many of the facilities which underlie such list processors as IPL, LISP, COMIT and SNOBOL, but permits the user to get much closer to machine code in order to write faster-running programs, to use storage more efficiently and to build a wider variety of linked data structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information on the forthcoming events related to the field of computing machinery and mathematics in the United States. The International Congress of Mathematicians will be held from August 14 to 24, 1966 in Moscow, the Soviet Union. The 7th Annual Joint Automatic Control Conference will be held from August 17 to 19, 1966 at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. The COINS Symposium on Learning Adaptation and Control in Information Systems will be held from August 22 to 24, 1966 in Columbus, Ohio. The Western Electronic Show and Convention will be held from August 23 to 26, 1966 in Los Angeles, California. The American Mathematical Society Summer Meeting will be held from August 29 to September 2, 1966 in New Jersey. The 4th International Conference on Operations Research will be held from August 29 to September 2, 1966 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Conference on Algebraic Theory of Machines With Applications will be held from August 29 to September 8, 1966 in California. The American Documentation Institute Annual Meeting will be held from October 3 to 7, 1966 in Santa Monica, California.

Examines the implications of digital computer in mathematical sciences curricula. Expropriation of mathematics; Disintegration of the logic; Description of a floating-point arithmetic; Identification of undetected errors in computation due to computer applications.

The article presents news related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Council met on August 29, 1966 at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California. Nineteen members were present and one member was represented by proxy. Automation of the production of ACM periodicals was discussed during the meeting. It was announced that ACM membership qualifications would be printed on the back of the membership cards. The council, at its meeting in Los Angeles in August 1966, heard that regular ACM individual membership increased from 11,943 to 14,532, in Fiscal Year (FY) 1966. This compares with an increase of 1250 for FY65. In February 1965, the Washington, D.C. Chapter published a special issue of its newsletter, "Computopics," which contained an annotated bibliography of career guidance materials in mathematics and the computer sciences and an annotated bibliography of computer science films. Preliminary plans for ACM's new Professional Development Program were announced at the recent National Conference in Los Angeles.

Focuses on the computer science department of Stanford University in California. Review of the power of computers; Definition of computer science: Objectives of computer science education; Efforts of the university in achieving computer education objectives.

Presents a schedule of events related to computer science in the U.S. Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Conference from February 16-17, 1967 at the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago; Fourth Annual Meeting of the Numerical Control Society from March 1-3, 1967 at the Statler Hilton, Detroit; IEEE International Convention from March 20-24, 1967 at Coliseum and Hilton Hotel, New York City; Others.

Presents a letter to the editor about an undergraduate curriculum in computer science.

Computer programming deals with an enormous variety of activities and is carried on by people with a great variety of backgrounds. It seems clear that part but not all of this activity h evolving toward a distinct professional field, but that the scope of this emerging profession, and some of its economic, social, and educational characteristics are as yet by no means well defined. In this paper, these issues are examined and some opinions about them are expressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a letter to the editor, which focuses on the need of an undergraduate program in Computer Science.

In the main text of the paper [Comm. ACM 9, 12 (Dec. 1966), 864], a FORMAC program was discussed which is capable of calculating various quantities of interest in tensor calculus. This Appendix is intended as an example of the program output. Christoffel symbols calculated for 12 bask orthogonal coordinate systems are listed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A technique for using a digital computer to draw both ordinary and time-lag root locus diagrams is described. Ordinary diagrams are drawn much faster and more accurately than ever before. Time-lag diagrams, which had been impossible to obtain, are drawn with the same speed and accuracy as ordinary diagrams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a calendar of conferences. The "IEEE International Convention" would be held at Hilton Hotel in New York from March 20-24, 1967. The "5th Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Computer Science in the Life Sciences" is scheduled be held at Shamrock Hilton Hotel in Houston, Texas, from 20 March- April 1, 1967. The "Atlantic Systems Conference" would be held at Americana Hotel in New York City, from April 6-7, 1967. The "ACM San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Technical Symposium" will be held at Jak Tar Hotel, San Francisco, on April 7, 1967. The "Electronic Information Handling Conference" will be held at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, from April 12-14, 1967. The "Spring Joint Computer Conference," will be held at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, from April 18-20, 1967. The "4th Annual Machine Records Conference" will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 3-4, 1967. "Putting Information Retrieval to Work in the Office--A Symposium," will be held at Hotel Washington Hilton, Washington D.C., from May 3-10, 1967.

Presents several letters to the editor related to computer science. Comment on the remarks made by Association of Computing Machinery Council's President in the December 1966 in the journal "Communications"; Focus on the article "Statistical Discrimination of the Synonymy-Antonymy Relationship Between Words," published in the January 1967 issue of the "Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery"; Report that banking systems has proposed the "Checkless Society," the automatic crediting of wages and debiting of bills from an individual's bank account, with an automatic loan to cover any deficit.

This article presents information on the Association of Computing Machinery's 20th anniversary conference that will be held in Washington in September 2005. Jack Minker, chairman of the technical program committee, revealed that 58 papers had been selected and that the program would stress the historical theme of the meeting--"Past Is Prologue,"--through the scheduled 25 sessions. He noted that there would be 19 formal sessions in which the number of papers had been limited to permit greater discussion and in-depth analysis of the subject. Approximately 80 exhibit booths had been reserved by manufacturers of computer hardware and peripheral equipment as well as a number of the leading software firms. The firms--including IBM, Univac, Control Data, Honeywell, Computer Sciences Corp., Computer Usage and others--will display a number of new product applications at the meeting, it is understood. Of special interest to conferees will be two special presentations relating to the history of computer development.

This article presents information on various chapters related to computer science that are recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery Council at its two meetings, that were held in April and May 1967. The thirteen new student chapters are located at various colleges and universities. Joseph F. Cunningham, chief of the ADP Management Branch of the Bureau of the Budget, spoke to ACMers at the Washington D.C. Chapter's April dinner meeting. His topic was the direction of the Federal government's ADP management efforts. His talk covered the managerial changes initiated by his office since its formation a little over a year ago, as well as pending innovations. A record 500 people heard nationally recognized experts speak to the theme, "An Evaluation of Terminal Systems--Man/Computer Communication," at a symposium presented by the ACM San Francisco Chapter. The talks at the April 7 meeting ranged from underlying issues in time-sharing to real time applications. Norman H. Tamoff, the scientific program manager for the Management Science Program of the IBM Corp., addressed the Michiana Chapter of the ACM at its May meeting.

This article presents information on various events related to computer science. A symposium on Electronic Composition in Printing will be held at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland on June 15-16, 1967. Emphasis will be on the state of the art, new machines in development, and research and applications both in and out of government. The Southeastern Regional Meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will be held jointly with the National Meeting of the Biological Information Organization at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on June 15-17. The previously announced ACM Symposium on the "Design and Implementation of Interactive Systems for Experimental Applied Mathematics," will be held on August 26-28, 1967, just prior to the ACM National Conference at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington D.C. A Computer Graphics Conference will be held on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, November 6-8, 1967. The conference will be aimed at participants with some knowledge of the scope and methods of computer graphics.

This article presents information on various events related to computer science. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Meeting will be held during June 11 and 15, 1967 in Washington. Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Conference will be held in Abingdon, Panama during June 15-16, 1967. Symposium on Computer Control of Natural Resources and Public Utilities, that will be held in September 1967, in Israel. 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference will be held during 30 April and 2 May, 1967.

Presents letters to the editor referencing article and topics discussed in previous issues. Comment on characters whose graphics are to be printed in a single print position; Views on invariant imbedding and the numerical integration of boundary value problems for unstable linear systems of ordinary differential equations; Compares information processing profession, and the computer programming profession.

A method is described for implementing the productions of a context-free phrase structure grammar in a PL/l procedure whose structure and statements parallel the structure and notation of the grammar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents new briefs related to latest developments related to computer science in the United States. It reports that the legislation to classify computer-produced bills and statements of accounts as first class mail was introduced by Senator A. S. Monroney of Oklahoma. The Academic Computer Center at the United States Military Academy, West Point, would like to establish contact with persons having a strong programming and computer science background who are entering the army. The installation is highly student-oriented, has an operational in-house, 15-terminal, time sharing/remote batch system and has run over 150,000 programs this academic year. It is primarily interested in persons who will enter the service as enlisted men rather than officers. The Australian Computer Society, which was formally organized by a combination of a number of state societies, is establishing a journal at the professional level in the data, information processing, and computing fields. Papers are invited for publication in the inaugural and following issues of the Journal.

Presents the speech given by the President of the Association for Computing Machinery at the Annual Meeting of the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council held on March 13, 1967, which dealt with the academic role of computers. Role of computers as educational tools; Definition of computer science and its key aspects; Computer science and classical mathematics.

Discusses the ambiguities remaining in the ALGOL 60 programming language. Impact of ALGOL 60 on many areas of computer science; Contradictions in the interdependent elements of ALGOL 60; Proposed solutions to ambiguities in ALGOL 60.

Describes a general purpose macro processor called ML/I. Capability of the ML/I to extend any computer programming language; User-oriented features and specifications; Applications of typical macro-assemblers in computer science.

Presents numerical descriptions of three computer fonts of letters. Key features and design of the fonts; Assortment of mathematical symbols in three sizes; Contributions of the study to computer-aided design.

Develops and analyzes a model of multiprogramming for a particular computer system using a page-on-demand strategy. Performance when user programs are typical of those arising from an interactive time-sharing environment; Parameter for gauging the effects of multiprogramming.

This report contains recommendations on academic programs in computer science which were developed by the ACM Curriculum Committee on Computer Science, A classification of the subject areas contained in computer science is presented and twenty-two courses in these areas are described Prerequisites, catolog descriptions, detailed outlines, and annotated bibliographies for these courses are included Specific recommendations which have evolved from the Committee's 1965 Preliminary Recommendations are given for undergraduate programs. Graduate programs in computer science are discussed, and some recommendations are presented for the development of master s degree programs. Ways of developing guidelines for doctoral programs are discussed, but no specific recommendations are made. The importance of service courses, minors, and continuing education in computer science is emphasized. Attention is given to the organization, staff requirements, computer resources, and other facilities needed to implement computer science educational programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a directory of several conferences and meetings related to information technology which took place between March to September 1968, in United States. A few of them are: Joint Spring Conference of the Univac Users Association and the Univac Scientific Exchange held between 12-15 March, in Philadelphia; Conference on Computers and Their Potential Application in Museums, held between 15-17 April in New York City; Third Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium on Uses of the Computer for Basic Research in the Humanities and Behavioral Sciences, held on 2nd May in Hoboken, New Jersey.