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New frontiers imply departures from the past. In the next two decades the data processing industry can be expected to face challenges very different from those of the last 15 years. These new frontiers will require a new way of thinking, different kinds ...

In general, the managers of the more progressive industrial firms early recognized the advantages that might be gained through the use of digital and analog computers to supervise and control manufacturing and production operations. No doubt this is due,...

In general, the mission of the Air Defense Systems Integration Division is to insure a properly time-phased and effective Air Defense Mission System. (The definition of mission system will become clear later on in this paper.) With such an aim in view, ...

Before going into the subject matter of this paper, the author will report, briefly, the state of the digital computer art in Britain. Just before leaving England for Philadelphia, the author attended an electronic computer exhibition which opened in ...

This presentation provides actual performance data, which makes feasible digital computer applications that require equipment to operate 24 hours a day for a period of 7 days without error or failure, with no preventive maintenance required, and involve ...

Automatic computing and dataprocessing equipment is depended upon today to perform a substantial portion of all data-processing requirements of government and industry in this country. It is natural, then, that the issue of reliability and the related ...

The title of this paper is intended to indicate concern not so much with the individual techniques of reliability, even though a number of these will be mentioned, but rather with the total impact of these various techniques on the reliability of a data ...

Memory designs at present reflect either the applications, size, or environment of the memory. Many desired memory characteristics oppose each other in the determination of the memory design and there has been no general solution to the basic problems ...

This paper concerns an information store which represents a considerable achievement in the development of photographic storage. Some suggestions will be made for the use of such a store in digital computers. Credit for the achievement belongs to those ...

The primary motivation of the group in this experimental development was to find a suitably economic system in terms of reliability and equipment simplicity for transmitting binary data from point to point. To this end solutions, primarily with respect ...

Webster gives one definition of a revolution as follows: "A total or radical change." The following discussions are concerned with a radical change in the technology which provides components for use in digital data processing systems. At the onset of a ...

Mr. Rice has given a stimulating introduction to the subject of the impending revolution in computer technology. This paper will continue this introduction by calling attention to the spectrum of activity in computer design. On the one extreme of this ...

Before making any attempt to outline the course of future development in computer systems technology, it is well to review briefly the present state of the art and how it arrived at that state. The system designs of the first digital computers such as ...

The cay is rapidly drawing near when digital computers will no longer be made by assembling thousands of individually manufactured parts into plug-in assemblies and then completing their interconnection with back-panel wiring. An alternative to this ...

This paper describes the organization of a file and retrieval system developed for use on a large-scale engineering project, the development of the Electronic Recording Machine Accounting (ERMA) Mark I. ERMA, which was built by Stanford Research ...

The organization and structure of an information file cannot properly be discussed by itself. The design of a file only makes sense when it is considered as part of the entire problem of information retrieval and maintenance of the file. In any ...

It is generally recognized that, at the present stage of development, businesses must process data to produce reports useful for management guidance in making decisions. Such reports are, however, often more dependent upon what data are available and ...

At The National Bureau of Standards (NBS), a new large-scale digital system has been designed for carrying out a wide range of experimental investigations that are of special importance to the Government. The system can be utilized for investigating new ...

Early computing machines executed programs which could be specified by pluggable wiring, paper tape, or cards. These programs remained unchanged during their execution. The invention of the stored program made it possible to treat a program as data. ...

Synopsis: The primary concern of this paper is the design of a digital machine for use as a Post Office directory. Sorting must be fine enough so that the letters come out arranged in the order in which the carrier walks his route. Using straightforward ...

This paper discusses some features of the logical design of the CG24 computer with emphasis on the techniques used in the logical design rather than on the particular characteristics of the computer itself.

Synopsis: The circuits and organization of present computers are such that possible operating speeds are lower than the capabilities of the components. The speed limitations of such synchronous computers will be described, and design criteria for higher ...

Synopsis: A program to design transistor-resistor logic (TRL) circuits and compile TRL propagation delay tables on a digital computer is presently underway at the Sylvania Data Processing Laboratory. This paper points to the need for such a program and ...

In the design and development of today's complex computers, the ratio of routine and repetitive work to creative engineering is getting larger and larger. The factors which make the development of a large scale computer a lengthy and time-consuming ...

Synopsis: A sequential network consists of an interconnection of logical elements, such as "and"-gates, "or"-gates, inverters, etc., and storage elements, such as flip-flops and delay lines. These networks process signals, usually binary signals, in the ...

Testing and instrumentation are essential prerequisities for the completion and operation of any new system. A system can be defined as a number of components that are amalgamated or integrated together to perform a desired operation. Throughout this ...

The Automated Integrated Data Systems (AIDS) program objectives are to: 1. automate weapon data activities reliably, economically and with realistic accuracies, 2. provide these facilities rapidly with a degree of flexibility for maximum utilization, 3. ...

Synopsis: With an increase in the use of digital techniques in the fields of instrumentation, data handling, and control, there has been an ever-increasing need for high-speed high-accuracy, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters.

Grammatical and syntactic rules designed for the production of "smooth" automatic translations between human languages will be called translation algorithms. Because of the rigid constraints imposed by automatic machines, the formulation of translation ...

The procedure for writing down the equations of motion of certain classes of dynamic systems is explicit, particularly those to which Kirchoff's laws and/or D'Alembert's principle can be applied. The Dynamics Analyzer-Programmer (DYANA) is a program ...