April 1968 - Vol. 11 No. 4
Features
The expanding world of computers
The onward sweep of automatic processing of information is impeded by nine principal barriers: geography, cost, problem complexity, man-machine communication, inadequate…
A global parser for context-free phrase structure grammars
An algorithm for analyzing any context-free phrase structure grammar and for generating a program which can then parse any sentence in the language (or indicate that the…
Programming Languages: A general purpose graphic language
Interactive use of computers with graphic terminals will permit many new problems to be solved using machines. In order to handle a variety of applications, it is…
Numerical Analysis: Quasilinearization and the estimation of differential operators from eigenvalues
Given a linear ordinary differential operator containing several unknown constants and a number of its eigenvalues, the values of the unknown constants are estimated. A…
The Southern Regional Education Board published a complete report on a survey it conducted to determine the funding and characterize the utilization of computers used for…
Panel discussion on computer appreciation
Session 19 of the ACM 20th Anniversary Conference on August 31, 1967, was entitled Education, Design Experiments, and Computer Appreciation. Its second half consisted of…
This proposed USA Standard presents a standard data code for a calendar date for use in the interchange if data from machine-to-machine among data systems.
This proposed USA Standard presents the standard Hollerith Card Code representation of the 128 characters of USASCII in twelve-row punched cards.…