“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”
“beginning. It is foreseen that uses the Sonic 360 reservation system with 550 on- in the future the equipment itself will change in line terminals). nature and will probably not be recognizable as Trends terminals per se. Rather, terminals will be modu lar systems consisting”
“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”
“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”
“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 26. Pohl, Frederick and Jack Williamson. Starchild. Binger — Continued from page 17 ' Penguin Books, 1970. our world trade. These weights must be removed and 27. Sheckley, Robert. "Fool's Mate". 1953, as re this need must be attended to by Congress and our printed”
“firmly believe this. 1963. 31. _______ . "Fictional Computers and Their If I have reminded you of both the pluses and Themes". Computers and Automation. Vol. 11, minuses that world trade produces, ask yourself how No. 12. December 1962. much of this your family knows and unde”
“James J. Cryan How systems analysts are often looked upon as in a Bernard Quint "computer department" and outside of the firm — and what might be done to correct this practice. Editorial Berkeley Enterprises, Inc. Offices 815 Washington St. Computers and Art Newtonville, ”
“past deficiencies, but also to define a future for an institution in transition. He prepared a "five year plan" for the BDC that set five goals, developed a corresponding program to meet each goal, and designed a system to monitor the progress. In achieving all of the goals, M”
“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 ”
“extinction. scribe to our magazine, and buy our back copies (almost every one is in print). Please help us pursue the important The professional information engineer needs to truth and report on it, by buying our products. relate his engineering to the most important and most”
“agencies, works in real-time, makes policy decisions where there is a struggle between man and the com based on quasi-mathematics, commands vast resources, puter, it is not a struggle to retain control but to and affects large numbers of people. get it back once it has knowin”
“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”
“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”
“and corporations and public agencies — are built by E=2 T =7 people, led by other people. So our leaders must be part scientist, part humanist, and part engineer, S=3 R=8 and they must use what they have, not in response to H=4 A= 9 some particular market-place,' but in the t”
“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 ”
“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”
“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 ”
“past deficiencies, but also to define a future for an institution in transition. He prepared a "five year plan" for the BDC that set five goals, developed a corresponding program to meet each goal, and designed a system to monitor the progress. In achieving all of the goals, M”
“13-00000 Strategy and Action on World Trade James H. Binger, Chairman Honeywell Inc. 2701 Fourth Ave. S. Minneapolis, Minn. 55408 “What we [the United States] have is a little corner of the world, and we must find a way to live in it harmoniously with our neighbors, man”
“One Must be Wise and Knowing IFYOU One final caution. I hope you have not heard x GIVE me suggest that only scientists and engineers are capable of leading us out of the thicket of diffi Y LUY IT culties we are in. I am not advocating technocracy, that totalitarian philoso”
“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 November, 1973 VoL 22, No. 11 UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 1973 "art Gan and automation STARTING JANUARY 1, 1974 computers and people j” “hit, th JR 1 I (i ‘% • 7 . “ oreSX V # — , ■ L/ y4 1 1 X #. 1 1 mil. : WORKING TOGETHER Coopera”
“13-00000 could not be devised and introduced in this characteristics which are human, falls into another 'first effort. Yet, despite the model's mater part of the prevalent mechanistic trap — aggression ial orientation, the conclusions of the study is in our genes; the solut”
“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”
“(quotes pp. 101, 645, 649). the systems come into use, most of the origi 6. Burdick, Eugene. The 480. Dell Publishing Co., nal programmers have left or turned their at 1964. tention to other pursuits. It is precisely 7. Caidin, Martin. The God Machine. E.P. Dutton when giga”
“13-00000 NUMBLES collections of scientific, humanistic and engineer ing talent, that either already exist in the aero Neil Macdonald space companies, universities and think tanks, or Assistant Editor can be collected there. In essence, this bill Computers and Automation ”
“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 ”
“14-00000 OJe Atlanta Covers Dixie Like the Dew p.s 28A 4IC, (0472/0*4,44 Since 1883 I Aapat A. Co., CAgirrnon 1939 1957— Jones At Cox Jr. Chaier 245/dsra /% Jack Tarver, President a Jack Spalding, Editsr 22-A ***** APRIL 9, 197 % The Need for MARTOC : THE POSSIBIL”
“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”
“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”
“WEURA RE_C C at ry of Modern Welfat rams to ‘Idern welfare programs in the United States be: With passage of the Social Security Act+--in 1935, authorizing federal grants to states for public assistance and child welfare programs. In 1037, the Washington Legislature repealed”
“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”
“• 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.”
“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”
“Novel Computer. Flamma- (Ibid., p. 613) rion, 1964, (English translation Martin Secker and Warburg, Ltd., England, 1966). Computers Are Not Gadgets 19. Fairman, Paul W. .I, the Machine. Lancer Books. 1968. The reader may argue the degree to which these 20. Galouye, Dan. Coun”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“File; Delany, The Fall of the Towers; Dick, computers, (ibid. p. 258) Vulcan's Hammer; Fairman, I, the Machine; Mason, Matrix). In most cases, the vast destructive power To reemphasize the contribution of science fic of the system is realized when, for some reason, it tion, ”
“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”
“U.S. only. $23.50 I One Year (excluding the Computer Directory and Buyers' 1 1 Guide — 12 issues) U.S. only. $11.50 POSTAGE W ILL BE PAID BY B E R K E LE Y ENTERPRISES, INC. 1 Name: Title: 1 Oraanization: 1 N o postage stam p necessary If m a ile d in th e U n ite d S ta”
“Cybernia: dertaken of the feasibility of the G.T. project and Sladek, The Reproductive System). Most of these for alternative plans of carrying it out. With re systems are destroyed by man's more flexible intel gard to the possibility of computer analysis of what ligence. Ho”
“our anxiety grow more dis learning is by machine, only uneducated children dainful of ourselves and ambivalent towards comput still know how to pose questions. A super-computer ers if computer usage is predicated on a mechanistic is defeated by a human because he can bluff o”
“13-00000 Let's look at just one major concern: about 1.3 the controversy over this nation's foreign-trade million new American families are formed every year. policies revolves around the best way to achieve it. Approximately eight million people change their jobs every year”
“the globe for some of our more basic needs — and for the consideration of Congress. some portions will be dependent on us. The U.S. is not self-sufficient in materials, nor does it have a At this point, there may be those who will accuse corner on the world's technology, the w”
“Subscription rates: United States, $11.50 for one year, $22.00 for two years. Canada: astute writers explore the significance of computers to add $1 a year; foreign, add $6 a year. human beings. NOTE: The above rates do not include our publication "The Computer Directory 6 Th”
“the arithmetical problem stands for just one digit 0 to 9. A digit may be represented by more An example of the international approach is the than one letter. The second message, which is expressed in recently established International Institute of Ap numerical digits, is to ”
“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”