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Brian Randell, editor, The Origins of Digital Computers—Selected Papers, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1973; C. Gordon Bell and Allen Newell, editors, Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, McGraw Hill, New York, 1971. Many articles about the development of stored program computers, written by the participants, are printed in N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, editors, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980. A complete description and analysis of the ENIAC is contained in "The ENIAC: First General-Purpose Electronic Computer," Arthur W. Burks in collaboration with Alice R. Burks, to be published in the Annals of the History of Computing.
Classifications of computer architectures are discussed in Bell and Newell, op. cit.,; Michael Flynn, "Some Computer Organizations and their Effectiveness," IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-21, nr. 9, Sept., 1972; Wolfgang Händler, "On Classification Schemes for Computer Systems in the Post-von Neumann Era," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 26, G. I. 4 Jahrestagung 1974, Springer-Verlag, 1975, 439–452; Arndt Bode and Wolfgang Händler, "Classification d'architectures parallèles: Introduction de la notation ECS et application au projet EPGA," pp. 22–43 of Arbeitsberichte des Instituts für Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung, Band 11, Nummer 13, Oktober, 1978, Friedrich Alexander Universität, Erlangen.
There are many articles on the potentialities of VLSI. A good one is Ivan Sutherland and Carver Mead, "Microelectronics and Computer Science," Scientific American, Vol. 240, Sept., 1977, 210–228.
Von Neumann's work on cellular automata was published in Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, edited and completed by Arthur W. Burks, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 1966. This book is now out of print. The German translation, by Franz Kaltenbeck, was published by Roger and Bernhard, Munich, 1975; it includes an excellent survey of developments in cellular automata theory by A. R. Smith. The present writer also summarized von Neumann's design of a self-reproducing cellular automaton in the first paper of Essays on Cellular Automata, edited by Arthur W. Burks, University of Illinois Press, 1970. Other essays in this volume relevant to the present paper are my "Programming and the Theory of Automata" and "Toward a Theory of Automata Based on More Realistic Primitive Elements"; and John H. Holland's "A Universal Computer Capable of Executing an Arbitrary Number of Subprograms Simultaneously" and "Iterative Circuit Computers."
My earlier Nürnberg paper was "Cellular Automata and Natural Systems," pp. 190–204 of Cybernetics and Bionics, edited by W. D. Keidel, W. Händler, and M. Spreng, R. Oldenbourg, Munich, 1974. The application of cellular automata to medical image processing is surveyed in "Basics of Cellular Logic with Some Applications in Medical Image Processing," Kendall Preston et al., Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 67, May, 1979, 826–856. H. T. Kung has many papers on the design of special-purpose VLSI chips, one of which is "Let's Design Algorithms for VLSI Systems," pp. 65–99 of Proceedings of Conference on Very Large Scale Integration: Architecture, Design, Fabrication, California Institute of Technology, 1979. This and other papers by Kung are available as Computer Science Department technical reports, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The relation of technological progress to the use of computers in society is discussed in my "Computers and Control in Society," Nature And System, Vol. 1, December, 1979, 231–243.
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Burks, A.W. (1981). Programming and structure changes in parallel computers. In: Brauer, W., et al. Conpar 81. CONPAR 1981. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0105106
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