{"title":"Growing pains in the evolution of hybrid executives","authors":"Martin D. Thompson","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476680","url":null,"abstract":"The development of a hybrid executive creates problems that go beyond those normally encountered in a digital executive. One of the biggest problems results from bringing two divergent human elements together in the same system. The analog user is \"real-world\" oriented with an extensive knowledge of the hardware involved in his problem. The digital user is often concerned with batch data processing and scientific computation that has been written in a high level compiler language.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129013497","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 computer system designer's view of large scale integration","authors":"M. E. Conway, L. Spandorfer","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476697","url":null,"abstract":"Russell has defined faith as the willingness to adhere to a belief in the face of evidence to the contrary. According to this definition it is quite appropriate to describe as faith the forecasts being made by many industry optimists about the imminent future of Large Scale Integration (LSI) of semiconductor logic in digital computers. This paper will attempt to cast a realistic light on the promises and possibilities of mainframe LSI. Two major topics will be discussed: A. Semiconductor technology: What major improvements are possible and under development, and what difficulties must be overcome before these possibilities materialize. B. Computer design: In what ways can the special characteristics of LSI enhance the design of general-purpose computers, and why are some proposals not as promising as they might first seem.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114706242","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":"Multiprogramming: promise, performance and prospect","authors":"T. Steel","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476607","url":null,"abstract":"\"Multiprogramming\" is the label given to the concept of a dynamic sharing of the resources of a given computer system among two or more programs. An operating multiprogramming system presents to external observers the appearance of effecting the concurrent execution of several object programs. There may or may not be truly simultaneous operation of more than one program, but it will be the case that a second program begins execution before the first program has run to completion. Simple sharing of storage among several programs in a systematic way to facilitate serial execution is insufficient to qualify an operating system as incorporating multiprogramming. There must be an oscillation of control among the several programs for multiprogramming to come into play.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128148138","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":"Hydrid assumed mode solution of non-linear partial differential equations","authors":"D. Newman, J. Strauss","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476666","url":null,"abstract":"Economical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is necessary for the solution of many pressing optimization, identification, design and simulation problems involving spatially continuous systems. The hybrid computer with its parallel organization promises to provide this necessary economy through a combination of increased solution speed and reduced equipment cost with respect to stand alone digital computer methods. This paper presents a hybrid computer oriented assumed mode solution method for non-linear PDEs which are initial value problems in a time-like independent variable. (To facilitate discussion, PDEs with these characteristics are referred to as Dynamic PDEs.) Several examples illustrating the efficiency of the method are included.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125990522","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":"Application of functional optimization techniques for the serial hybrid computer solution of partial differential equations","authors":"H. Hara, W. Karplus","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476665","url":null,"abstract":"Since its introduction in 1961, the serial or CSDT (continuous-space-discrete-time) method for solving nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations in one space-dimension has received a considerable amount of attention. This effort has been justified by the engineering importance and the abundance of problems characterized by one-dimensional diffusion equations. Although initially introduced as a pure analog technique, interest in the CSDT method was stimulated particularly by the increasing availability and capabilities of hybrid computing systems. Utilizing the hybrid computer, a closed loop of analog elements is employed to integrate a second-order ordinarly differential equation at successive time levels. The digital computer serves as a function memory and to control the iterative determination of an initial condition at each time level.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123935090","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":"Computer models for speech and music appreciation","authors":"P. Denes, M. Mathews","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476633","url":null,"abstract":"Computers have been used extensively in speech research for over 10 years now; they have been applied to the synthesis of musical sounds for a slightly shorter period. The results have produced models of sound production and perception which are intimately related to the synthesis rules programmed in the computer and indeed the program is often the best available model of the production or perception process.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129392967","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":"Software compatibility: what was promised, what we have, what we need","authors":"J. Gosden","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476605","url":null,"abstract":"Software compatibility is an extremely complex and pervasive topic. Unfortunately it is not well defined nor well documented. To say anything useful within the space and time constraints we must confine ourselves to generalities and readily admit in advance that there are many exceptions.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134536732","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 head-mounted three dimensional display","authors":"I. Sutherland","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476686","url":null,"abstract":"The fundamental idea behind the three-dimensional display is to present the user with a perspective image which changes as he moves. The retinal image of the real objects which we see is, after all, only two-dimensional. Thus if we can place suitable two-dimensional images on the observer's retinas, we can create the illusion that he is seeing a three-dimensional object. Although stereo presentation is important to the three-dimensional illusion, it is less important than the change that takes place in the image when the observer moves his head. The image presented by the three-dimensional display must change in exactly the way that the image of a real object would change for similar motions of the user's head. Psychologists have long known that moving perspective images appear strikingly three-dimensional even without stereo presentation; the three-dimensional display described in this paper depends heavily on this \"kinetic depth effect.\"","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129766749","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":"Computer-driven display facilities for an experimental computer-based library","authors":"D. R. Haring","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476627","url":null,"abstract":"Project Intrex (information transfer experiments) is a program of research and experiments intended to provide a foundation for the design of future information-transfer systems. The library of the future is conceived as a computer-based communications network, but at this time we do not know enough details about such a network to design it. Lacking are the necessary experimental facts, especially in the area of user's interaction with such a system. To discover these facts, we want to conduct experiments not only in the laboratory, but above all, in the real-life environment of a useful operating library.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133097223","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 file management system for a large corporate information system data bank","authors":"Honien Liu","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476615","url":null,"abstract":"A corporate information system has several characteristics that distinguish it from a conventional \"batch-oriented\" data processing system.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116035180","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}