{"title":"Nonlinear resistors in logical switching circuits","authors":"F. A. Schwertz, R. Steinback","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434839","url":null,"abstract":"Nonlinear resistors may be used to replace whole arrays of crystal rectifiers in certain logical switching circuits. Where such replacement is possible, considerable savings in fabrication and component costs may be effected, because both the nonlinear resistors and the associated connecting busses are fabricated by applying printed circuit techniques to standard plastic- or ceramic-bonded sheets of semiconductors such as granular silicon carbide. The manner in which groups of nonlinear resistors may be used in logical switching circuits is described here in terms of simple circuits which employ both \"matrix logic\" and \"grid logic.\" The technique is experimentally illustrated with the aid of a pair of simple matrix-type function switches, encoded as binary-to-octal converters. The first employs individual nonlinear resistors as the switching elements; the second is fabricated from a rubber-bonded sheet of granular silicon carbide. Two similarly-constructed decoding matrices are used to transform the converters into three-binary-digit adders. The output voltage-patterns for these devices are compared photographically.","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":"130434905","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":"Scientific manpower problems","authors":"L. DuBridge","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434824","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a great deal of discussion during recent years of the problems arising from the shortage of scientists and engineers. This is a serious problem but unfortunately it is also a complex one. Hence there is confusion, both as to the facts and as to the remedies. It is desirable, therefore, to be clear about what factors are affecting the demand for scientists and engineers; what factors are influencing the supply; which of these various factors are long- and which are short-term in nature and finally which remedies should be considered for the short-term or the long-term problem.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130778801","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":"A magnetically coupled low-cost high-speed shaft position digitizer","authors":"A. J. Winter","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434842","url":null,"abstract":"The outputs of many precision devices occur as shaft rotations. When the position of such a shaft must be determined to an accuracy beyond the reach of analog instruments, or when the data has to be processed by digital equipment, an analog to digital conversion must be made. It is nearly always desirable and often essential that the digitizer present no appreciable mechanical load to the shaft under measurement. A further requirement which often must be met is that readings be taken on the fly. That is, positional information may be called for when the shaft is in motion at speeds that may vary from zero to many hundreds of rpm.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"23 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116374890","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 equivalent circuits of shells used in airframe construction","authors":"R. Macneal","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434833","url":null,"abstract":"In discussing elastic shells one must be careful to state clearly the type of shell being discussed. Although a complete description together with restrictive assumptions will be given later, it is well to state at the outset that the type of shell discussed in this paper is the type to be found in aircraft fuselage construction. Such a shell has an elongated shape and consists of a thin skin supported by rings and longitudinal members. In analyzing such shells it is the universal practice to replace the elastic supporting rings by rigid bulkheads in order to simplify the analysis. This assumption will not be made in this paper.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132876861","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":"Automatic data processing in larger manufacturing plants","authors":"M. E. Salveson, Richard G. Canning","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434829","url":null,"abstract":"If you have ever tried to drag a small child through a toy department, while trying to catch a train, you will have some feeling for the troubles of the Production Control Manager. He is faced with a never ending stream of unexpected troubles, all of which tend to keep him from making good his schedule. Development of ingenious methods to solve this problem has helped some, but in many cases, both the problem and ulcers remain.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122474892","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":"Magnetic reproducer and printer","authors":"J. C. Sims","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434837","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development of business systems during the past few years has at the same time called attention to some rather serious limitations in mechanical and photographic methods for the production of printed copy. Modern electronic computing machines can process data and produce results in tremendous quantity. Moreover, the operation of large business organizations creates a problem in the dissemination of information within themselves that is not always economically solved by existing equipment.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134370817","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":"Payroll accounting with Elecom 120 computer","authors":"R. F. Shaw","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434828","url":null,"abstract":"The Elecom is a magnetic drum computer of the same general type as the Elecom 100, which was described in detail by Mr. Auerbach of this company at the meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in Pittsburgh last May, and published in the Proceedings of that meeting. It differs from the 100 in two important respects; operation is decimal throughout, and the memory capacity has been increased from 512 to 1000 words. The change from binary to decimal operation results in a machine which is well adapted to commercial applications as well as purely mathematical computations.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117158632","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 equations for management","authors":"J. Hobson","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434825","url":null,"abstract":"Research produces needed facts. Men planning the course of today's industry need facts. They need dimensional facts from the laboratory and pilot plant; and they need facts on the human element in industry--the customer, the worker, and the executive.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121453626","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":"An improved cathode ray tube storage system","authors":"R. Thorensen","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434838","url":null,"abstract":"Several years have passed since Williams and Kilburn first described their method of storing digital information as charge patterns on the phosphor screens of common cathode ray tubes.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125880389","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":"Requirements of the bureau of old-age and survivors insurance for electronic data processing equipment","authors":"Edward E. Stickell","doi":"10.1145/1434821.1434830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434821.1434830","url":null,"abstract":"The activities of the Division of Accounting Operations of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance have been referred to, upon occasion, as one of the biggest bookkeeping jobs in the world. Whether this condition is true or not depends on how it is measured. Certainly, by the yardstick of costs, it would not appear that the job is at all near the biggest. On the basis of comparisons similar to those made in business, the gross costs of operations represent only 1/2 of 1 percent of total gross income. Furthermore, the system shows no signs of becoming the biggest in terms of cost. In a ten year period, an approximately 50 percent increase in basic work loads has been absorbed with no significant or compensatory increase in personnel. It is felt, therefore, that if the job qualifies as being one of the biggest in volume, it also might qualify as one of the smallest in terms of proportionate costs. However, regardless of how it is measured, the job represents a real challenge to those who administer it and to those who would furnish it with suitable electronic paraphernalia. For these reasons, the following problems are presented with pleasure at the opportunity and with confidence in the know-how represented at this conference to solder together whatever combinations of wires, tubes, diodes and transistors that are found to be necessary in each case.","PeriodicalId":294022,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the February 4-6, 1953, western computer conference","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125894004","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}