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Computer development, in the broad sense of automatic intelligence devices for military, business, and industrial applications may some day be the greatest single user of engineers and scientists. Even today, with this field in its infancy, the shortage ...

The second keynote address for the Western Computer Conference was given by Dr. R. D. Huntoon, Director of the Corona, California, Laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards (a center of activity for work in guided missiles).

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 ...

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.

I would like to begin this meeting by first introducing them to you, and I will start with John L. Barnes, on my far right, Associate Director of the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Department, North American Aviation, Inc., Downey, California. Next is ...

The Bureau of the Census began operating a Univac System in April 1951. We temporarily stopped operation at the end of December 1952. During this period our Univac was housed in the factory in Philadelphia where it was built by the Eckert-Mauchly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much recent attention has been paid to the promise that digital computer techniques will simplify, speed up, and cheapen various sorts of large-scale information processing in business and industry. Only a few actual applications of this sort have so ...

The typical airplane landing gear is basically a rather simple shock absorbing device whose characteristics can normally be described with considerable accuracy by a system of three or four simultaneous differential equations. However, due to the fact ...

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 ...

The analytical and computer techniques employed in the design of aircraft and missile autopilot systems at Douglas Aircraft Company are presented. Roles assigned to digital and analog computation are discussed with the associated reasons for such ...

Aircraft dynamic problems present a major field for the application of modern digital and analog computers. While it is true that airplanes were designed before the advent of these computers, the design requirements of aircraft have advanced ...

A brief review is given of the memory properties of non-linear ferroelectric materials in terms of the direction of polarization.

A sensitive pulse method has been developed for obtaining static remanent polarization data of ferroelectric materials. ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Project Cyclone at the Reeves Instrument Corporation is under the cognizance of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy. The function of Project Cyclone is primarily the development and operation of a Guided Missile Simulator, and the establishment and ...

Analog computers can solve a wide variety of engineering problems. Why, then, doesn't every engineer use one? This paper will discuss the pattern of use of analog computers in the recent past and as the author thinks it will be in the future.

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 ...

Partial differential equations can be approximated by systems of simultaneous ordinary differential equations by replacing one or more of the partial derivatives by the appropriate finite differences. The resulting systems of equations can sometimes be ...

After some experience with a mechanical differential analyser of the Bush type, the author became convinced that there was a need for a smaller, cheaper instrument of this type with a faster and more convenient setup procedure. The large instruments are ...