“The in ithms sightful computer artist, however, seeks to unite Pseudo-randomizations of patterns with artist- personal philosophy and expression with the highest imposed parameters level of computer usage.in a statement of artistic Overlays of images and sounds in dimensiona”
“musical patterns experimental/initial exercises, or mathematical and throughout musical history; and randomization of scientific visualization, rather than as works of musical variations via throwing of dice, as prac art per se. (This latter statement is equally true ticed by”
“13-00000 Computer Art: The Search Beyond Manipulation Grace C. Hertlein California State University—Chico Chico, Calif. 95926 “Computer arts are still in the highly experimental stage of emergence." In present computer art, the naive onlooker could Pattern Manipulation ”
“with source not obtainable by manual methods. (The writer growing scalar values and many others have often found these new departures Bedundant serial imagery in closed form from the design source to be as or more aesthetic Polygon serial imagery, with circular, square, than t”
“13-00000 The ‘computer artist is manipulating patterns, be Prior to design state variation, the artistic cause this is an inherent potential of the computer idea is stated in coherent, sequential steps. It may medium. The manual artist (or scholar), by con be flow-charted b”
“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”
“ics and art. Since the turn of the century, such sculpture, film, dance, music, textile design, weav techniques and philosophy have been practiced and ing, poetry, and architecture. even more verbally expressed by electronic and con crete musicians. Further, the concept of p”
“should express the ter it by additions and/or changes of pattern, re personal philosophy of the originator, whether it is sulting in a series of new works. The term denotes mathematical formulae, natural derivations from the known variations of pattern that are possible, whic”
“the election, and Counterfeit World being is also an information processor, it (Galouye) describes an entire synthetic'society (an should be possible to study his processes and "electromathematical model") made up for purposes of their organization independently of the details”
“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”
“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”
“cybernetic art is "pure idea," ad infinitum. Ironi Taken together, the information published May cally, even the newest of the arts appears destined 1970 to May 1973 in Computers and Automation to hardening within specific schools of thought, effectively destroys a large seg”
“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”
“afford fur ther exploration of ideas and techniques that have been practiced by experimental artists for years. This article is reprinted by permission from the Proceedings of the The philosophy and practice of twentieth century Invitational International Exhibit of Computer”
“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”
“Structural modules in sculpture and archi tecture The manual artist is generally not concerned with Derivations of design from art or musical perceptual change or alteration of the original im history, including the archaic, the classi age. On the other hand, since the com”
“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”
“INTERESTED IN THE FIELD OF Interpretation Strategy COMMON SENSE, WISDOM, AND GENERAL SCIENCE Distraction Understanding Gullibility Teachable Moment Failure to Observe Indeterminacy COMPUTERS are important — Failure to Inspect System But the computer field is over 25 years o”
“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”
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“reflect preplanned or participant, add a unique and personal personal expression of design. (One might compare opportunity to spontaneously participate within the design state variations to the many kinds of chisels formation of the work of art, or to maximize the ca the scul”
“social-business relationship with her/z With respect to the other members of the study group, (M-7 claims that the situation, to date, has not been conducive to ferreting out the identities of- these individuals, but that she hopes that as the group continues to meet, some r”
“13-00000 1 have to be done rationally. I also believe that it pollution caused by internal combustion engines by will have to be done by humanists, and that before using electric autos, for example. If so, we may they can do it, we have somehow to lower, or at least replace p”
“insured in terms of general Game When the Game is Changing." Computers and risk. Valuable papers and records' coverage pro Automation. Vol. 21, No. 12, December, 1972. sides protection in the event of destruction of such "Toward Distributed Computing." EDP Industry Re- intang”
“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”
“13-00000 Computers in Science Fiction — II Marcia Ascher Professor of Mathematics Ithaca College Ithaca, N.Y. 14850 * "In science fiction writing, non-specialists attempt to involve other non-specialists in the human questions arising from computer use." In "The Comp”
“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”
“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”
“character A, as ral language commands dealing with the stacking of blocks in optical character recognition; of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The interpretation of words, as with FORTRAN ex pressions. The main tasks for understanding natural language ap Probably there a”
“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”
“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, ”
“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”
“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”
“4. awallan: a la 220 IxNMS ttal- 7S #* citid. ‘thinfis It i* NK 157-2011 was determined that ROBERTSON’s office maintains for distribution 1/1000 scale maps of the entire District of Columbia sewer system and 1/1000 scale maps of the entire.District of Columbia water sys”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
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“individuals City of a Thousand Suns). and on society? Two side effects are discussed by 12. Dick, Philip K. "Autofac". Galaxy Publishing Weizenbaum. Corp., 1955, as reprinted in (14). 13. ________ . "The Variable Man". Space Pub First of course, there is the psychological li”
“13-00000 Virtue, in Spite of Erroneous Conceptions J. P. Frankel Dean of the Faculty Harvey Mudd College Claremont, Calif. 91711 "We think of knowledge as knowing how-to-do-it, wisdom as knowing whether-to-do-it, and virtue (if the answer is yes) as doing-it." In this”
“(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”
“trying to make the computer more like man, he progressively adds to Some considered the model too 'technocratic’ its ability to deal with data, the ability to play observing that it did not include critical so chess, language, concepts of love, the ability to cial factors, su”
“problem-solving teams differ place mechani sms are important for determining soap considerably from those of even our biggest, most or automobile styles, I believe that criteria of diversified companies, or else that we need some risk-and-return of investment are elements of o”
“a .national business. we do not hear from our Spanish friends as we do from George Economakis or Giovanni Manes.' The result is I ^ 1 that we do not know what is going on, in Spain, and do not have - - ^ W ^ ''' then ca our minds. . I am sure that if you were there you wo”
“stated. For example, when haps 300 to 500 words — knowledge in the sense a speaker exclaims “Ouch!”, a great deal of the meaning that the computer program can attach meaning to comes from the listener’s observations of the speaker. But the words either by themselves or in phras”
“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”
“have been shuffled so as to defy fession of information engineer includes not only complete reconstruction. Some of the crucial pieces competence in handling information using computers have been removed, so a full picture cannot be and other means, but also a broad responsibil”
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“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 ”
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