1965 Proceeding- Conference Chair:
- Robert W. Rector
This second volume of the Proceedings of the 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference is an attempt to capture the spirit of innovation that was the hallmark of the Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 30 - December 1, 1965. Part I of Volume 27, containing the formal papers presented in the Technical Sessions, was distributed at the Conference. The first volume included the traditional papers covering recent advances in hardware and software as well as a number of presentations focusing attention on new applications and problems of management in information processing.
From its inception, the 1965 FJCC attempted to provide the opportunity for professional communication at every level. To this end the conference included a number of panel sessions organized to explore new areas of activities in the field of information processing. In a more radical departure, the structure of the traditional program of the conference was altered to focus the attention of the entire conference on the profound influence that computing is exerting on all facets of American society. In place of the usual keynote speaker, the Conference Committee invited nine outstanding speakers from disciplines outside of the traditional definition of data processing to explore the question of how computers are affecting the world around us. The speakers from government, education, and industry who honored our platform on the day-long session that closed the Conference, were not casual observers remote from the changing world of computer technologies, but rather men of stature that knew and used computers in their diverse fields.
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The mighty man-computer team
If the Martians, Venusians, or Plutonians ever bother to observe the antics of their neighbors on the Planet Earth, they must be vastly amused by our attitude toward the digital automatic computer, the DAC for short. While professing to be completely ...
The computer and our changing society
Those responsible for this convention are to be congratulated for including a whole day's session on the impact of computers on society. Usually when engineers and scientists meet the subject matter is almost wholly technical. In a way this is strange ...
Computers and education
Since I am an enthusiast, rather than an expert, in the computer field and have been asked to talk about the future, anything may happen; but it is reassuring to find experts almost as far out as myself. In fact, it would be unwise to look only at the ...
Computers: the physical sciences and medicine
Although computer science is in its infancy, it has already contributed significantly to society in the fields of business and commerce, communication, exploration, and scientific discovery. In contrast, the contributions of computers to medicine have ...
Impact of computers on retailing
My presentation today will be confined to systems in retailing that are either in operation or in the development stage. There is little point in describing retailing as seen through the eyes of a customer since a store is a familiar sight to each of ...
The application of computers to domestic and international trade
The Act establishing the Department of Commerce provides, in part, that the Department shall "foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce... of the United States." These broadly described functions are carried out under the policy ...
The role of computers in space exploration
The modern digital computer has been fundamental to the space exploration program. Computers have profoundly affected almost every aspect of space technology, including spacecraft design, celestial mechanics, mission control, and the gathering and ...
The impact of computers on the government
Imagine a large mass of nonhomogeneous metal. Imagine that it is struck a severe blow by a large hammer. The shock wave of the impact will travel throughout the mass and arrive at different parts at different times. Furthermore, this shock wave will be ...
Communications, computers and people
Communications and computers are today becoming what the economists call "complementary goods"---one without the other is of much lesser value---like pen and ink, pretzels and beer, and gin and dry vermouth.
The impact of computers on urban transportation
Dr. Ramo has said that one of the purposes of this series of talks was to try to "close the gap" between the information technologists and the applications of their technology in the real world. If this is one of our primary objectives, I don't believe ...
The computer industry in the buyer's market
The panel, in general, agreed that the computer industry is now in a buyer's market. There was one notable dissenting point of view which indicated that the technology is still rapidly changing, particularly in peripherals, and thus, that the buyer's ...
The future of electromechanical mass storage
- William A. Farrand,
- Robert M. Franklin,
- Norman Hardy,
- Robert M. Graham,
- Marvin Eyster,
- William J. Broderick,
- Frank J. Lohan,
- Donald K. Sampson,
- Alan F. Shugart,
- Irving L. Wieselman
The field of mass storage under consideration by the panel is that which communicates at machine speed in machine form. The areas of concern are both software and hardware from total system to details within the components.
Promising avenues for computer research
Part I of the session is a presentation by the four panelists. We would like to give you our views on computing as it can be in the year 1970. In Part II, we invite the audience to comment. We'll be very pleased to have you air controversial views. We ...
A high-speed thin-film memory: its design and development
Memories in today's high-performance systems are typically made up of memory modules of capacity comparable to the new memory to be described here. Cycle times are 500 nsec to 1 μsec with access times of 300 to 500 nsec. This paper presents the design ...
Efficiency and management of a computing system
The study of efficiency in computing systems can be subdivided in the following way: (1) efficiency of hardware, (2) efficiency of software, and (3) efficiency of operating systems. Efficiency in this context will be considered as performance for the ...
Use of digital computers in basic mathematics courses
A digital computer is now available at most colleges and universities in the United States. In those where there is none today, the advent of time-sharing systems in the next several years should result in a computer capability for all at a nominal ...
MATHLAB: a program for on-line machine assistance in symbolic computations
A mathematical scientist experiments. Today, his test tube and his breadboard are blackboard and paper. He may, it is true, have available a computer, but its role is numerical and its results are delivered not today or tomorrow but the day after the ...
A time- and memory-sharing executive program for quick-response, on-line applications
The TX-2 Computer, an experimental facility at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, has been in operation since 1960. Never a service facility, the computer has been used principally in a number of long-term research projects that have taken advantage of the ...
Interactive machine-language programming
The problems of machine language programming, in the broad sense of coding in which it is possible to write each instruction out explicitly, have been curiously neglected in the literature. There are still many problems which must be coded in the ...
An integrated computer system for engineering problem solving
Computers should provide the mechanism that enables engineers to do better engineering. By permitting faster, more accurate and complete problem analysis to be performed, computers assist the engineer in his computational and decision making roles. The ...