“system Green Shield Trading Stamp Com Expansion of automated stock control system for its pany of Edgware, Colindale, England gift houses and new Argos chain of catalog showrooms NCR Century 251 system Columbia EDP Centers, Inc., General data processing services to a variety o”
“Center in Montreal, Canada (system valued at $6.3 million) Control Data 3150 system Ingalls Iron Works Co., Birming Expanding automated design activities: system will ham, Ala. operate in conjunction with a previously installed CDC 3150 to support CONSTRUCTS, an automated en”
“13-00000 NEW INSTALLATIONS OF AT FOR Burroughs B 4700 system Computer Management Group (CMG) The first of two B4700 systems (which are included Ltd., North-west London, England in a five-system order) to be installed at CMG’s North-west London. England center (entire 5 co”
“13-00000 OLUREI 10. A publication circulated during the conference was the November, 1973 issue of Computers and Automation which is to be renamed, starting January 1, 1974, Computers and People.- The publication of articles such as "Nixon and the Mafia" which concludes th”
“budgets; management of con tracts, and projects, inventory control, production and performance, and road in ventory information Systems Engineering Labora Singer Simulation Products, Central control and simulation element of $330,000 tories, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, Div. of ”
“Hampton, Va. Interdata, Inc., DATRAN (Data Transmission Co.), Dual processor Model 55 data communications $1+ million Oceanport, N.J. Vienna, Va. concentrators, with software and technical support, for an information network DATRAN is designed and installing on a turnkey basi”
“Richard Accordingly, Computers and Automation publishes Nixon's career — his ascendancy to the pinnacle of from time to time articles and other information American power has required twenty-five years of related to socially useful input and output of data care and feeding by ”
“keyboard. of children in grades 2 through 6, the project was introduced by director of curriculum Dr. Wallace The new system, which was expected to be operable Manning with federal Title'1 aid during the dis this fall, should be an easier method of modifying trict's 1973 summ”
“13-00000 wide'tour. Working with Professor Vercoe on the trie and a National Science Foundation institutional ‘ project are Richard J. Steiger, a graduate student, grant of $8,698. The prototype employs a mini-com and Stephen Haflich, a recent M.I.T. graduate. puter that is ”
“con rate among these companies. As a result, the number sidered to be the greatest threat to magnetic tapes. of time-sharing firms dropped from 150 to 50 between Water does not constitute an important hazard to 1969 and 1972, magnetic tapes, but it does to computer installa-”
“state agencies Computer Sciences Corp., National Aeronautics and Space Engineering and related services to NASA's $5 million El Segundo, Calif. Administration (NASA) Wallops Station, Wallops Island. Va. (approximate) • Philco-Ford Corp. U.S. Army Electronics Command. Improving”
“also include time-sharing capability as well as remote job entry from terminals in the field Univac 9480 system Reliance Federal Savings & Loan Faster customer service at any bank branch Asso. of New York, Jamaica, N.Y. Across the Editor's Desk - Continued from page 45 The ”
“13-00000 The magazine of the design, applications, and implications of information processing systems — and the pursuit of truth in input, output, and processing, for the benefit of people. World Affairs and Social Policy (continued) 33 Virtue, in Spite of Erroneous Concep”
“13-00000 NEW CONTRACTS 10 FROM FOR AMOUNT Sanders Associates, Inc., CAE Electronics, Display system segment of Canadian Joint En- 18.6 million Nashua, N.H. Montreal, Canada route Terminal System (JETS) Program; first phase consists of seven Enroute and two■ Terminal Syst”
“Medical Progress • Despite a 25-year period of no ex- : third of a million city medical workers . . change of information between the U.S. and graduates of medical colleges have and China, a vast amount of detailed settled in rural areas while 400,000 data has been accumulate”
“AMERICAN MARIle ENGINEER Larch, 1967 p.- 19 • JnLd SEP CPU UtgA-27447 26 Apr 6.7 18, as a ho 1 believe that the United tr icy which has led since "The 1 who have been employed 25 Sexto sef gr.ooge be established States, now surpassed by 13 r the end of World War II stands ”
“or checking account. In this case, according to Dr. Crane, the data would not have to be retranscribed from a piece of paper by another employee, or the paper itself put through expensive automatic reading equipment. Thus, costs and de- lays could be reduced in crediting acc”
“Computer Revolution. Prentice-Hall, 1970. dering of a sound world trade policy in the United 36. Simon, Herbert A., and Allen Newell. "Informa- States the logical and popular response to a broad tion-Processing in Computers and Man". and informed public petition. American Scie”
“dredged, and we well then be flesting-drydock ficiently developed to offer/services large boats. The Port Blue- . fielde would then have the opportunist becoming a prim mermuntiol Pore.2 Pensible Future Expansions This preliminary study provides for the construction of an a”
“13-00000 THE PURSUIT OF IMPORTANT TRUTH The magazine Computers and Automation has for more than three years followed an unusual publication policy: — The pursuit of truth in input, output, and pro cessing, for the benefit of people, Unsettling, Disturbing, Critical... a”
“really exists, or who maintain that new technology I am convinced, thanks to these studies, and my will solve the problem before it reaches crisis experience with Honeywell, that multinational com- stage. I can say at this point that there is an panies-do not export jobs, but c”
“02139 to detect changes in rock strata as the working face of the mine advances," Dr. Podio said, "or the sys The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has be tem could be transported throughout the mine to make gun work on a project aimed at making the Institute daily chec”
“systems and equip Texas ment for the U.S. Air Force Satellite Com munication System (AFSATCOM); eventual pro duction awards, depending upon Air Force re quirements, could total more than $125 million Diablo Systems, Inc., Wang Laboratories, Tewks Series 40 disk drives t”
“Processing) Congresses have become the major Applications may be obtained through the Math Di international media for exchange of information vision, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. among developers and users of information processing 20416. Applications must be re”
“13-00000 CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Nov. 28-30, 1973: 1st Annual Systems Engineering Conference, May 13-17, 1974: European Computing Congress (EUROCOMP), Statler-Hilton Hotel, New York, N.Y. / contact: Technical Ser Brunel Univ., Uxbridge, Middlesex, England / contact: Online”
“13-00000 sions, he added, the district hopes to make such computer assistance available at a nearby rural ele LOXON mentary school attended by children of migrant farm workers. • — welhei RESEARCH FRONTIER "TALKING" BALLPOINT PEN UNDER DEVELOPMENT electronic resepren”
“Foundation, James E. N Man., NY 1965,66 , K Fonthe om Charitable Trust# N doston. Mass 1965,66 130 - / nosent 1 Foundation, Benjamin J. Chicago, III. 1966 131 Rexco Foundation Boston, Mass ,133 KSoir ntific Engineering Institute, Inc. * Cambridge, Mass 133 , . The" A Son”
“Aug. 5-10, 1974: IFIP Congress 74, St. Erik’s Fairgrounds, Stock holm, Sweden / contact: U.S. Committee for IFIP Congress 74, Feb. 13-1S, 1974: International Solid State Circuits Conference, Box 426, New Canaan, CT 06840 Univ, of Penna., Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. / co”
“application Most important technological advances have been services such as colleges' records, inventory achieved recently on on-line terminals linked to control, payrolls of small companies, and ac central processors. Some of the improvements made count receivables; adminis”
“courses, the system will be a .novel example that will technologically simplify composing elec of computer application in a non-scientific field. tronic music. The studio is being designed and built by an interdisciplinary group from Iowa STUDENT PROGRAMS COMPUTER State's mu”
“what are now traditional prototype, PHOTAC, a similar process developed by instruments, instead of for the human voice alone," the New York Telephone Company under sponsorship of Professor Vercoe said. "Electronic music merely ex the nationwide Bell System. The first director”
“experience. An example of such improve nary natural language. The vocabulary though small was ment is Dr. A. L. Samuels' famous checker-playing pro free, and there was unlimited freedom in putting the words gram, which can learn from experience, and which plays together, with”
“guard is alerted. of Mines, has been .on the Job on the floor of Kaiser Corporation's York Canyon coal mine in New Mexico. As an additional safeguard, the system can auto "One of the most frequent causes of mine accidents matically log all entrance activity by individual is r”
“systems analysis approach which, of course, must take into account the 5 broad psychosocial and socioeconomic forces that in- - fluence the psychodynamics matrices in individuals. I am interested in the particular securities that are 25 precipitated in the ego structure of i”
“discussion now developing, particu a year we studied every way in which this and other larly in the halls of Congress, but also at various countries are affected by international trade and other governmental and community, levels. investment policies. Facing these and still ”
“York, NY April 21-24, 1974: International Circuits & Systems Symposium, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, Calif. / contact: L. 0. 10022 / page 32 Chua, Dept, of EE, Univ, of Calif., Berkeley, CA 94720 THE NOTEBOOK ON COMMON SENSE, ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED / published by ”
“the regular summer session was able to get experience The ISMUS presently being built is a protytype of at a terminal and benefit from these interactive a full-scale model. If the "test-system" proves programs." He said high school laboratory assist satisfactory, "we will lo”
“the most competent, if not. the most competent man in the Uni ted States in this gereral field of investigation. Anything he turns out will be about as good as it comes. Although I have not seen any of this most recent work, my hunch is that it •.•.'ill be enormously valuable”
“13-00000 EDITORIAL The Understanding of Natural Language by Computers Proposition: Computers are making long strides towards mistake occurred, it would inquire of the human program understanding natural language as used by human mer what he meant, suggesting the correctly”
“authors, and summaries. 47 New Installations 27 The Watergate Crimes [NT R] 23 Statement of Ownership Inventory of 12 articles published in Computers and Automation August 1972 to September 1973 on the Key burglarizing of the Democratic National Committee offices [A] — Artic”
“As for the state taxes they pay, the current method of Mr. Peter Peterson wrote, the New Economic Policy taxing income from foreign sources is inconsistent announced that month was not, and I quote, "a one- with the way domestic income is taxed. shot reaction to a one-time cri”
“14-00000 w t* * tr. t iliu t t e t vist: China ... from p. 1 * Cahill, Department of Art, University . of California, Berkeley, (Fine Arts); Western Influence Professor Jerome A. Cohen, Langdell Hall, Harvard Law School, (Law, The Autumn Canton Trade Fair $ recentl”
“of five in 1972, and probably three out of six in 1973. Nowadays, this Description of the System computer facility is coming back to its original trend, and it is expected that the number of com The service provided by a single computer to many puters with terminals will gro”
“13-00000 * Classified Advertisement CORRECTION THE COLLEGE OF In the July 1973 issue of Computers and Automation, PETROLEUM & MINERALS a single article entitled "Communication — Three Way: Chimpanzee, Man, Computer" was published. Part 1 was authored by Larry B. Dendy of”
“13-00000 UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 1973 computers "and automation Vol. 22, No. 11 November, 1973 STARTING JANUARY 1, 1974 computers and people Editor Edmund C. Berkeley Assistant Barbara L. Chaffee Editors Linda Ladd Lovett Neil D. Macdonald The Computer Industry Software ”
“Dec. 9-11, 1973: Computer Architecture, Flagler Inn & Reitz Union, Gainesville, Fla. / contact: G. Jack Lipovski, 229 Larsen June 25-28, 1974: 1974 Annual International Conference & Busi stall, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32601 ness Exposition, Minneapolis, Minn. / conta”
“• 4 ZCAP-EA 3 serve cur operational seeds? a) Present 2 As we all undoubtedly realize, our relations with DANIP have been ratier loose and underdeveloped due ] I - - --- -0 *5-0 --citations. We have, in effect. g wL a nice-sounding relstienship called "ICAP IBERIA S.A.”
“which provides ready-to-print list morphoses for Orchestra," was given its Boston pre ings for White Pages. Besides the annual White mier early this year by the M.I.T. Symphony and was Pages directories, DIR/ECT produces daily updates of performed by the orchestra on its subs”
“who have been working toward consciousness for the trol. 1 noted that most of the stories focused on super-computer have been successful because the re extensions of specific current uses and emphasized jection of the data was a display of its first human man's responsibilitie”
“which are transformed through a digital-to-analog sound converter and Corporation, Huntsman developed programs for arith metic and language drill to serve between 40 and 50 loudspeaker into sound. This immediate feedback pupils on each of two teletypewriter terminals situ ”