August 1969 - Vol. 12 No. 8
Features
Computing capabilities at Argentine and Chilean universities
The author reports on a trip to universities in Argentina and Chile during November 1968, describing university conditions and computing activities. As elsewhere, these…
One of the first definition facilities for higher level languages is described. Users of the language can define new operators and/or data types into the MAD language, so…
An ALGOL-based associative language
A high level programming language for large, complex associative structures has been designed and implemented. The underlying data structure has been implemented using a…
Error bounds for periodic quintic splines
Explicit error bounds for periodic quintic spline interpolation are developed. The first (third) derivative of the periodic spline is shown to be a sixth (fourth) order…
An algorithm for Filon quadrature
An algorithm for Filon quadrature is described. Considerable attention has been devoted to an analysis of the round-off and truncation errors. The algorithm includes an…
The teachable language comprehender: a simulation program and theory of language
The Teachable Language Comprehender (TLC) is a program designed to be capable of being taught to “comprehend” English text. When text which the program has…
A program for the syntactic analysis of English sentences
A program is described which produces syntactic analyses of English sentences with respect to a transformational grammar. The main features of the analyzer are that it…