AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478525
A. Wasserman
{"title":"Realization of a skillful bridge bidding program","authors":"A. Wasserman","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478525","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of bidding at contract bridge is an \"intellectual\" task which has never before been performed skillfully by a computer program. Only Carley has made the attempt to handle this problem and his program used a very crude treatment; as a result, inferior contracts were produced because bidding requires many fine lines of distinction which his approach could not make.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114224892","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478532
D. Bjørner
{"title":"Finite state automation: definition of data communication line control procedures","authors":"D. Bjørner","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478532","url":null,"abstract":"The notions of finite state automata, state transition graphs and tables and the set of regular languages being accepted (generated) by such automata are well known. But for some reason these notions have not been rigorously applied in the definition of data communication line control procedures. It is the objective of this paper to do so and to show the naturalness of this approach. We claim that we thereby arrive at a complete, precise and unambiguous definition. Others have attempted this before us. They have, however, not used the descriptional tool of finite state automata. Any one or all of these references thus form the basis on which we will compete and we shall use essentially the line control procedures which these documents set out to define.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121978308","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478558
M. Sakaguchi, N. Nishida
{"title":"The hologram tablet: a new graphic input device","authors":"M. Sakaguchi, N. Nishida","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478558","url":null,"abstract":"Graphic data tablets are input devices which digitize coordinate positions of topological patterns.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121332338","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478473
Y. Koga, C. Chen, K. Naemura
{"title":"A method of test generation for fault location in combinational logic","authors":"Y. Koga, C. Chen, K. Naemura","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478473","url":null,"abstract":"The Path Generating Method is a simple procedure to obtain, from a directed graph, an irredundant set of paths that is sufficient to detect and isolate all distinguishable failures. It was developed as a tool for diagnostic generation at the system level, e.g., to test data paths and register loading and to test a sequence of transfer instructions. But it has been found to be a powerful tool for test generation for combinational logic networks as well.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125766669","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478464
M. E. Barton
{"title":"The macro assembler, SWAP: a general purpose interpretive processor","authors":"M. E. Barton","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478464","url":null,"abstract":"A new macro assembler, the SWitching Assembly Program (SWAP), provides a variety of new features and avoids the restrictions which are generally found in such programs. Most assemblers were not designed to be either general enough or powerful enough to accomplish tasks other than produce object code. SWAP may be used for a wide variety of other problems such as interpretively processing a language quite foreign to the assembler.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122058637","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478508
R. Newton, P. W. Vonhof
{"title":"MDS: a unique project in computer-assisted mathematics","authors":"R. Newton, P. W. Vonhof","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478508","url":null,"abstract":"In the education of the deaf, are there problems so special that their solution justifies the use of a computer? And if there are such problems, how can the computer best be used to solve them? Early in the history of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, its administrators voted \"Yes\" on the first question and \"Let's find out\" on the second. As a result of these decisions, an IBM 1500 Instructional System was included in the Institute's original home on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120935125","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478553
Jerry D. Erwin, E. Jensen
{"title":"Interrupt processing with queued content-addressable memories","authors":"Jerry D. Erwin, E. Jensen","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478553","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most significant problems in designing high performance computing systems is the complexity of the associated supervisory software. This is especially true in multi-user environments: the software overhead involved in user communications and resource allocation normally absorbs a great percentage of the system's computing power.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122252485","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478520
B. Tossman, C. E. Williams, N. K. Brown
{"title":"SIMCON: an advancement in the simulation of physical systems","authors":"B. Tossman, C. E. Williams, N. K. Brown","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478520","url":null,"abstract":"The simulation of physical systems, once exclusively the domain of analog computers, is also being performed today by a variety of large-scale digital systems. Many specialized programs have been developed to permit the study of electronic circuits, biological organisms, and chemical processes, etc., by mathematical and empirical modeling techniques. So often these programs are written in procedural computer languages and may require months of developmental investment (and debugging) to yield a handful of computer-produced results. In addition, if simulation parameters are not well known, it may take hundreds of test runs to produce a simulation model that realistically portrays the actual processes involved. When the digital computer utilized to perform the simulation is operated in a batch-processing environment, such determination of model fidelity may take weeks because of the time lag from submission of test data to receipt of program results. Smaller computer systems may permit almost instantaneous turnaround and even on-line interaction, but too often do not have sufficient memory size, precision, or speed to be of much use in complicated digital simulations. The SIMCON simulation system is an integrated hardware/software system developed for the purpose of overcoming the difficulties of applying large-scale digital computers to the simulation of physical systems. The SIMCON system, which is used in conjunction with the IBM 360/91 computer, consists of the DSL/91 programming language, the SIMCON control console, a hybrid data interface, and a number of analog graphical peripherals. The SIMCON simulation system shown in Figure 1 includes the SIMCON console, incremental recorder and duel-channel X-Y plotter. The discussion of the SIMCON system presented herein includes the results from several hybrid satellite study programs, as examples of its application.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"236 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123098953","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478543
C. Moore, R. Mann
{"title":"CypherText: an extensible composing and typesetting language","authors":"C. Moore, R. Mann","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478543","url":null,"abstract":"CypherText is a programming language designed for text formatting and typesetting in a time-sharing environment. Text to be formatted or typeset is input on a terminal and may be output at the terminal or on various typesetting machines.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127075397","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}
AFIPS '70 (Fall)Pub Date : 1970-11-17DOI: 10.1145/1478462.1478510
M. Morgan, M. Mirabito, Norman J. Down
{"title":"Computer jobs through training: a preliminary project report","authors":"M. Morgan, M. Mirabito, Norman J. Down","doi":"10.1145/1478462.1478510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1478462.1478510","url":null,"abstract":"Job training directed toward the disadvantaged population in the United States has been under way for many decades. Traditionally this training prepared people for lower entry level skilled and semi-skilled jobs such as plumbers' aides, welders, clerks, and secretarial help. Only recently, with the expanding awareness of the significant social inequalities which continue to characterize U.S. society, have large numbers of people begun to realize that job training---for just any old job----is not enough. If training is to have any appreciable impact upon the social stratification that characterizes the employment structure, efforts must be made to find high entry level-jobs which are suitable for such special training projects.","PeriodicalId":438698,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '70 (Fall)","volume":"300 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115612319","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}