October 1964 - Vol. 7 No. 10
Features
Copyright aspects of computer usage
This paper is concerned with the question of what constitutes infringement of a copyright on a book or other nondramatic literary work when the work is fed into a…
Suppose a potentially very valuable experimental multi-computer system is being designed by you and your group. You feel you have made at least a system invention. In…
Joint inventorship of computers
The term joint inventorship asks but does not necessarily answer the question, “Who is the true inventor of a computer?” I will try to show how…
Computer programs are patentable
It is not surprising that computer programs are not listed in the patent statutes as one of the categories of patentable invention. When these categories were defined…
Patent protection of computer programs
Recently, the computer industry has been exploring anew the question of whether programs for operating an electronic digital computer are or should be patentable.
Constraint-type statements in programming languages
A proposal is made for including in a programming language statements which imply relations between variables but which are not explicit assignment statements. The…
A method of syntax specification
The addition of a few simple conventions to the Backus Normal Form specification of a language provides a mode of description which is more compact and easier to prepare…
History and summary of FORTRAN standardization development for the ASA
The American Standards Association (ASA) Sectional Committee X3 for Computers and Information Processing was established in 1960 under the sponsorship of the Business…