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I am very appreciative of the opportunity which your committee has afforded to me to speak to this great audience of scientists, engineers and business people attending the 1954 Western Computer Conference. You gentlemen have accomplished much in a ...

When I began a week or ten days ago to think seriously about preparing for this talk, I came up with the conclusion that it is probably considerably more difficult now than it was a few years ago for a luncheon speaker to prepare a talk on the ...

Development of aircraft with large ranges in speed and altitude has resulted in a need for autopilot systems with optimum control characteristics over a wide range of conditions and with very high accuracy and resolution. In designing a digital flight ...

After World war II the field of digital computers began a period of rapid growth, primarily because their application to scientific computation provided increased accuracy and computational speed, as well as tremendous versatility which analog ...

In many industrial applications, the instrumentation of control functions with operational-digital components rather than conventional analog or programmed digital types evidences advantages. New techniques have been developed and previously published ...

The research objectives of the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics include fundamental investigations of aircraft flight propulsion systems. A portion of the research deals with the experimental ...

The use of digital computers as elements in control systems is rapidly becoming an accepted and effective practice. One important feature of such systems is that information is accepted by most digital computers only intermittently. On each sample of ...

Probably the most impelling factor behind the desire of business to mechanize the handling of the data with which it is concerned is the astounding growth in the volume of these data in the last two decades. The productive capacity of every factory ...

The advent of electronic data processing in business and industry will require the joint efforts of business management and equipment manufacturers. The following case study, conducted specifically for this Conference, is illustrative of a possible ...

The procedures outlined herein apply to seventeen women's ready-to-wear departments, four women's accessories departments and one men's clothing department, all for four Los Angeles stores, and to six ready-to-wear and three accessory departments in the ...

There are many areas in retailing in which electronic information processing systems may be applied. The areas of application given consideration for this discussion were the following: accounts receivable, including credit authorization; accounts ...

Sales activity tapes, as well as receiving tapes produced in the receiving departments of the several stores, are to be processed against an inventory tape, and a daily selling report produced. These tapes are to be sorted into order; in this particular ...

The gentlemen who have preceded me here today have all represented what might be titled the "heroes" of the computer world; the business men of vision who can foresee the coming revolution in business data processing which the modern computer portends, ...

The term conversion equipment is used here to denote devices which either express analog quantities in pulse-coded digital form or express pulse-coded digital data in analog form. These devices are called coders and decoders, respectively.

This report is intended to cover a successive approximation type analogdigital converter which was designed for use in an airborne digital computer developed by Hughes Aircraft Company on an Air Force Contract. The unit which was developed was required ...

The large-scale tests of aircraft, missiles, and components necessitate the recording of many parameters. These parameters are usually converted by transducers or pick-up devices to voltages proportional to the magnitude of the physical quantity being ...

The increasing application of digital techniques, particularly in control systems, has heightened the need for a device capable of translating shaft position into a digital representation. A survey of technical literature of the past several years ...

The solution requirements of differential analysis problems are increasing to the point where solution speed requirements are often beyond the capabilities of present-day conventional digital computers, while analog computers will not provide sufficient ...

This paper covers the engineering principles and design considerations given to the components that are used in the International Business Machines Corporation's Type 650 Calculator. The factors that led to the selection of the particular systems and ...

Tallying, the recording of the number of occurrences of specific events, although basically a simple repetitive act, has somehow failed to become mechanized in the general trend toward relieving humans of the drudgery of paper work. A tremendous amount ...

The revolution in the office which electronic digital computers eventually will bring about, will not be accomplished by a clash of thunder, charged with 100,000 volts, and accomplished with the speed of light. Instead, it looks to me as if the ...

Early in the spring of 1953 with the activation of a ground telemetering facility at the Air Force Flight Test Center it became evident that there existed a real and continually increasing need for a less expensive, faster and more reliable method of ...

Merchandise control operations promise to be benefited by the application of electronic data processing equipment. Such equipment offers a new concept of speed and accuracy in reporting. It makes possible data summaries and analyses which to date have ...