{"title":"Interactive telecommunications access by computer to design characteristics of the nation's nuclear power stations","authors":"D. Cardwell","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476626","url":null,"abstract":"Computer-aided information storage and retrieval systems have been pointed to, frequently, as a means for efficient handling of large masses of data so that users of such systems can rapidly find selected specific items with a minimum degree of effort. In engineering and scientific fields (except for certain rather specialized areas), major progress toward such an objective has been limited to bibliographic sorting of technical publications by keyword search of authors, titles, or abstract context. The development of a comprehensive system to provide varied users with access to factual technical data, on a broad basis, has awaited a need sufficiently important to warrant the substantial effort required for such an undertaking.","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":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129727429","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":"Prices and the allocation of computer time","authors":"N. Singer, Herschel Kanter, Arnold Moore","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476656","url":null,"abstract":"The use of prices as a mechanism for allocating resources is generally well understood. Nearly two hundred years have elapsed since Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, discussed the functioning of the \"invisible hand\" in a market economy, but the principles which he enunciated have not been altered or invalidated by ensuing generations of economists. In the United States today, markets are the dominant economic form, and the price system is used to allocate nearly all the product of our private sector, over 75% of gross national product. (Governments also participate in markets, at least to the extent of obtaining resources.) To be sure, the price mechanism does not always work as well in real markets as in theory---a defect shared by other allocative mechanisms---and certain categories of goods and services continue to be allocated by means other than prices. Among these goods are most of those produced by the several levels of governments and nonprofit organizations such as universities. In addition, non-price allocation techniques are frequently used in instances when market allocation violates social canons of equity, for example during periods of rationing in wartime.","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":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130092807","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":"Flexible pricing: an approach to the allocation of computer resources","authors":"N. Nielsen","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476659","url":null,"abstract":"The past twenty years have seen the rapid development of an extremely powerful new tool---namely the electronic digital computer. The technology associated with these machines has advanced rapidly, permitting the development of capabilities which only a few short years ago would have staggered the imagination. Man has been equally progressive with respect to the application of this tool in his endeavors. In particular, the area of business management has built rapidly upon the advantages offered by computer processing. Although the computer only served as a glorified bookkeeping machine in the earliest applications, its usage quickly developed.","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":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122504153","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 economical method for calculating the discrete Fourier transform","authors":"R. Yavne","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476610","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent of digital computers it became possible to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform for a large number of input points in relatively reasonable times. However, for certain uses a demand developed to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform in a very short time or even in real time. Also, a demand developed for computing the Fourier Transform for a very large number of input points. These demands resulted in a requirement for computing the Fourier Transform in the fastest time possible. A very economical way for computing the Fourier Transform was developed a few years ago and is known as the Cooley-Tukey Algorithm. This article describes another algorithm for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform where the required number of additions and subtractions is the same as in the Cooley-Tukey Algorithm; but the required number of multiplications is only one half of that in the Cooley-Tukey Algorithm.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"118 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":"133607971","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 adage graphics terminal","authors":"T. Hagan, R. J. Nixon, L. J. Schaefer","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476685","url":null,"abstract":"Interactive computer graphics applications require that the system present visual displays to the user for his interpretation and that these displays change in response to actions taken by the user as he goes about solving the problem for which he is using the system. Effectiveness of a graphics system is very dependent upon the complexity of the displays which it is able to present and the speed with which it can produce changes in the displayed image. A CRT displaying dynamic images of sufficient complexity for meaningful visual assimilation imposes a data transfer and arithmetic burden very much greater than that imposed by such conventional output media as typewriters, line printers and point plotters.","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":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130740996","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":"MOS GP computer","authors":"R. Booher","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476701","url":null,"abstract":"When the 2-phase, 20-bit shift registers using P-channel enhancement mode MOS-FET's were first introduced on the market many of us did not have the foggiest idea of what a MOS-FET was. Logical designers were intrigued by the functional complexity which the technology appeared to offer. System designers were pleased with the prospect of lower power and fewer package requirements. Semiconductor manufacturers predicted that MOS would be forgotten sooner than the tunnel diode.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"37 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":"114111966","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 with hands, eyes, and ears","authors":"J. McCarthy, L. Earnest, Raj Reddy, P. Vicens","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476634","url":null,"abstract":"The anthropomorphic terms of the title may suggest an interest in machines that look or act like men. To this extent it is misleading. Our interest is in extending the range of tasks to which machines can be applied to include those that, when performed by a human, require coordination between perceptual and motor processes. We attempt to suppress the egocentric idea that man performs these tasks in the best of all possible ways.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"5 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":"124683414","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 priority interrupt oriented hybrid executive","authors":"Gerald N. Soma, Joseph D. Crunkleton, R. E. Lord","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476679","url":null,"abstract":"Prior to discussing the design and implementation of an executive system for hybrid simulation, it is desirable to discuss the particular requirements which hybrid simulation places upon the digital computer and its operating software. Of course, the designers' opinions of how the solution of a hybrid problem can best be achieved have a great effect on the design goals and subsequently the implementation of the system.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"33 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":"125986576","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 legal structure for a national medical data center","authors":"R. Freed","doi":"10.1145/1476589.1476643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476589.1476643","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly, medical professionals are concluding that a computerized national center to contain medical records of all persons has significant medical advantages. Moreover, such a project seems to be becoming technically feasible. However, uncertainty about the adequacy of physical and legal protections of the privacy of the stored data (and the related compatibility of the system with the Fifth Amendment bar to involuntary self-incrimination) appears to be the major stumbling block at this time. Study of that aspect reveals that it is possible to achieve a level of privacy and an observance of Constitutional requirements that are entirely satisfactory on an absolute basis and especially in light of both the great social benefits in store and the degree of protection customary for the particular information involved. This article provides a blueprint of the types of legal inhibitions that should be sufficient for the purpose in view of technical measures available.","PeriodicalId":294588,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I","volume":"20 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":"132841994","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}