October 1960 - Vol. 3 No. 10
Features
Automatic graders for programming classes
Fifteen months ago the first version of an “automatic grader” was tried with a group of twenty students taking a formal course in programming. The first group…
Do it by the numbers—digital shorthand
Present communications systems transmit single characters in groups of coded pulses between simple terminal equipments. Since English words form only a sparse set of all…
Comments on a technique for counting ones
Peter Wegner [1] describes a short 704 SAP program that is faster than the standard technique. The expected number of loops—of five instructions each—for a…
Some thoughts on parallel processing
In the past two years or so I have seen a number of papers and heard a number of talks describing the characteristics of (and the wonders inherent in) certain computers…
Evaluating numbers expressed as strings of English words
Integer numbers can be expressed in English by a series of words such as “one hundred thirty three million two hundred four.” The process indicated by the…