On the feasibility of voice input to an on-line computer processing system
June 1970 - Vol. 13 No. 6
Features
An on-line digital computer processing system is considered in which an ordinary telephone is the complete terminal device, input to the computer being provided as a…
On the conversion of decision tables to computer programs
The use of execution time diagnostics in pinpointing ambiguities in decision tables is discussed. It is pointed out that any attempt at resolving ambiguities at compile…
Scheduling to reduce conflict in meetings
Conflicts in scheduling can be treated as defining an undirected linear graph independently of the relation of the activities in conflict to additional constraints of…
A PL/1 program to assist the comparative linguist
A practical PL/1 program is described which can assist comparative linguists to determine the regular sound correspondences between genetically related languages. The…
Automatic parsing for content analysis
Although automatic syntactic and semantic analysis is not yet possible for all of an unrestricted natural language text, some applications, of which content analysis is…
Accurate floating-point summation
This paper describes an alternate method for summing a set of floating-point numbers. Comparison of the error bound for this method with that of the standard summation…
This report compares the performance of five different adaptive quadrature schemes, based on Newton-Cotes (2N + 1) point rules (N = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), in approximating the…
Incorporating origin shifts into the QR algorithm for symmetric tridiagonal matrices
The QR iteration for the eigenvalues of a symmetric tridiagonal matrix can be accelerated by incorporating a sequence of origin shifts. The origin shift may be either…
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Future users of large data banks must be protected from having to know how the data is organized in the machine (the internal representation). A prompting service which…