G. D. Mccann, John L. Barnes, F. Steele, L. Ridenour, A. W. Vance
{"title":"An evaluation of analog and digital computers","authors":"G. D. Mccann, John L. Barnes, F. Steele, L. Ridenour, A. W. Vance","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434826","url":null,"abstract":"I would like to begin this meeting by first introducing them to you, and I will start with John L. Barnes, on my far right, Associate Director of the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Department, North American Aviation, Inc., Downey, California. Next is Floyd Steel, Vice President in charge of Engineering, Digital Control Systems, La Jolla, California. On my left is Louis Ridenour, Vice President, International Telemeter Corporation, Los Angeles, California. On my far left is Arthur W. Vance, Research Section Head, RCA Laboratory Division, Princeton, New Jersey.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114567558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Airplane landing gear performance solutions with an electronic analog computer","authors":"D. Drake, H. W. Foster","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434832","url":null,"abstract":"The typical airplane landing gear is basically a rather simple shock absorbing device whose characteristics can normally be described with considerable accuracy by a system of three or four simultaneous differential equations. However, due to the fact that the system includes a number of non-linear and discontinuous elements, it has been impractical to obtain analytical solutions of the equations without making simplifying assumptions which severely limited the value of the results. For this reason the shock strut energy absorbing characteristics have generally been developed experimentally by laboratory drop tests of an actual landing gear, and the landing gear evaluation has been accomplished by extensive laboratory and flight tests. This design method is obviously far from ideal, since all structure effected by landing loads must originally be designed to assumed landing gear characteristics, and the landing gear test results do not become available in time to allow design changes to be made economically.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129048601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors influencing the effective use of computers","authors":"R. D. Huntoon","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434823","url":null,"abstract":"The second keynote address for the Western Computer Conference was given by Dr. R. D. Huntoon, Director of the Corona, California, Laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards (a center of activity for work in guided missiles).","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129622712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commercial applications: the implication of census experience","authors":"J. L. McPherson","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434827","url":null,"abstract":"The Bureau of the Census began operating a Univac System in April 1951. We temporarily stopped operation at the end of December 1952. During this period our Univac was housed in the factory in Philadelphia where it was built by the Eckert-Mauchly Division of Remington Rand Inc. The first of this year (1953) our Univac was shipped to Washington. It is now being reassembled and we hope to put it back in operation within the next two or three months.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"30 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114085945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New laboratory for three-dimensional guided missile simulation","authors":"L. Bauer","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434840","url":null,"abstract":"Project Cyclone at the Reeves Instrument Corporation is under the cognizance of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy. The function of Project Cyclone is primarily the development and operation of a Guided Missile Simulator, and the establishment and operation of a Simulation Laboratory. Problems in other fields are also studied and analyzed using the computing machinery of the Simulation Laboratory.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132933240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of computer development on the training and utilization of engineers","authors":"S. Ramo","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434822","url":null,"abstract":"Computer development, in the broad sense of automatic intelligence devices for military, business, and industrial applications may some day be the greatest single user of engineers and scientists. Even today, with this field in its infancy, the shortage of properly trained scientists and engineers is the bottleneck. This talk points out the technical difficulty of the new field and the need for training engineers and scientists in new specialties in order to progress rapidly and efficiently in the development. Ultimately, the universities must turn out a new kind of doctor whose studies include the physical sciences, with emphasis on electronics, a study of the human brain, nature's example of a thinking machine, methods and procedures in business and industry, and government and labor rules and regulations. Industry must particularly avoid large programs until and unless capable technical experts can be assigned to the problem. The field is too difficult to be advanced by the average scientist and engineer. The automatic intelligence field properly developed will pay off several times over in the manpower that it uses. For each top technical man assigned for a period of computer development today, the services of scores of people can be spared during an equivalent later period. From the standpoint of the nation's security, as well as to insure the most rapid technical advances, it is justificable to assign a substantial part of the technical effort of this nation's scientific body to computer development. This is a way to increase the nation's brainpower.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124327483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The processing of information-containing documents","authors":"George W. Brown, L. Ridenour","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434831","url":null,"abstract":"Much recent attention has been paid to the promise that digital computer techniques will simplify, speed up, and cheapen various sorts of large-scale information processing in business and industry. Only a few actual applications of this sort have so far been attempted, probably for two main reasons. First, punched-card machines are already so highly developed that, despite the potentially greater speed of the newer electronic techniques, it is difficult to introduce novel ways of accomplishing what can now be done by standard business machines. Second, and probably more important, appropriate input and output equipment to couple the world of the digital computer to the world of men often does not exist. To use a computer for scientific or engineering calculations, it is sufficient to provide it with input in the form of a device for reading punched cards or tape, and an output in the form of an electric typewriter or a card punch. Most existing computers have terminal equipment no more sophisticated than this. To use such a machine for accounting purposes, however, requires a far more imaginative solution of the input-output problem; a satisfactory solution can be achieved only on the basis of a deep understanding of the nature of the accounting activity that is being mechanized.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122772826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nordsieck computer","authors":"A. Nordsieck","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434844","url":null,"abstract":"After some experience with a mechanical differential analyser of the Bush type, the author became convinced that there was a need for a smaller, cheaper instrument of this type with a faster and more convenient setup procedure. The large instruments are so large and expensive mainly because of the torque amplifiers they contain and are somewhat inconvenient to use because, aside from considerations of accessibility to the individual researcher, they have rather long and complicated setup procedures.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125935869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analog-digital techniques in autopilot design","authors":"W. T. Hunter, R. L. Johnson","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434834","url":null,"abstract":"The analytical and computer techniques employed in the design of aircraft and missile autopilot systems at Douglas Aircraft Company are presented. Roles assigned to digital and analog computation are discussed with the associated reasons for such assignment. The mutual support provided by both types of computation is stressed. Typical examples are used for illustration.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125486952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The snapping dipoles of ferroelectrics as a memory element for digital computers","authors":"C. Pulvari","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434836","url":null,"abstract":"A brief review is given of the memory properties of non-linear ferroelectric materials in terms of the direction of polarization. A sensitive pulse method has been developed for obtaining static remanent polarization data of ferroelectric materials. This method has been applied to study the effect of pulse duration and amplitude and decay of polarization on ferroelectric ceramic materials with fairly high crystalline orientation. These studies indicate that ferroelectric memory devices can be operated in the megacycle ranges. Attempts have been made to develop electrostatically induced memory devices using ferroelectric substances as a medium for storing information. As an illustration, a ferroelectric memory using a new type of switching matrix is presented having a selection ratio 50 or more.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1953-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127172249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}