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Teaching Machine Issue / March, 1963

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In the Classroom of Tomorrow . . • "A Transistor for the Teacher?"

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"A Transistor for the Teacher"
may well be the rhyme of tomorrow's school children
if experiments in automated education
such as those being conducted with
computer-controlled tlttoring machines
at the System Development Corp. are successful.
Don Bushnell (seen guiding class in photo) provides
on page 8 an tip-to-date review of progress in this area.

automation
MARCH, 1963 Vol. XII, No.3

computers and data processors:
construction, applications,
and implications,
including automation

editor and publisher
EDMUND C. BERKELEY

associate publisher
PATRICK J. MCGOVERN

assistant editors
MOSES M. BERLIN
NEIL D. MACDONALD
L. LADD LOVETT

In This Issue
8

PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
by Gloria M. Silvern

prodtlction manager
ANN B. BAKER

COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION
by Don D. Bushnell

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS
by Arthur L. Samuel

art director
JOHN LOVELL

contributing editors
ANDREW D. BOOTH
NED CHAPIN
JOHN W. CARR, III
ALSTON S. HOUSEHOLDER
PETER KUGEL

In Every Issue
across the editor's desk
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readers' and editors forum

advisory committee
T. E. CHEATHAM, JR.
GEORGE E. FORSYTHE
RICHARD W. HAMMING
ALSTON S. HOUSEHOLDER
HERBERT F. MITCHElL, JR.

COMPUTING AND DATA PROCESSING NEWSLETTER

Census Praised

More Notes on Used Computers

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Something Old.,' . Something' New

Calendar of Coming Events

Plaudits from a Poetic Reader

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Teaching Machines and Programmed Learning tions and What They Are DOing

Monthly Computer Census

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Advertising Index

Who's Who in the Computer Field

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Editor s
CENSUS PRAISED
To the Editor:
I am a member of a committee of the National
Academy of SC'iences looking into the amount of Federal Support which should 'be given to computer centers in the U. S. I want to tell you that we find your
Monthly Computer Census very useful. I hope you will
continue it.
A. H. ROSENFELD
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
University of Oalifornia
Berke}ey 4, Oalif.

MORE NOTES ON USED COMPUTERS
To the Editor:
The Computers and Automation articles, "The Case
for Buying a Used Computer" and "T'~e Used Computer Market" in your November 1962 Issue 'are very
timely for people in data processing a~d compu.ter
work who 'are facing the question of eIther sellmg
or buying a used computer. These articles 'are the
only well informed source data whi~h I have se~n
that have been pubHshed on the subject of the still
infant used data processing equipment market. Heart,Y
congratulations to you for this good work. I hope It
will ,become a regular feature.
You might be interested in some inforI~J:ation t.hat
came to me indirectly recently about trade-m practices
in one area of this market. An IBM 1401 'about two
years old is 'Soon to he replaced with advanced equipment. It is my understanding that the trade-in offer
from the manufacturer was a figure of about 35%
of the original purchas'e price. This is of in~erestt,. I
believe since for all practical purposes the trade-m
allowa~ce offered hy a manufacturer at any -given time
puts a price floor under such late model used data
processing equipment.
It ,is my understanding that up to last August ~he
IBM branch offices' were supplied with Hsts of machme
trade-in prices which the branch managers an~ salesmen could use as a basis for immediate trade-m deals
with any customer. This arrangement was cance!l~d
sometime last Fall, and now all proposed trade-m s
must be written up and sent to IBM headquarters for
individual quotations. It is also my understanding
that tHere is a list of somewhat older card operated
equipment for which no trade-in is offered. Probably
a similar arrangement is used by all of the major
manufacturers.
A practical working level of used computer market
values depends in part on an analysis such as was
presented in "The Case for Buying a Used Compute,r"
and a discuss'ion :between ,buyer and seHer on such
practica,l questions as programming for a different
computer, an 'addi,tional computer or a first cOI?puter.
Also there is the very basic question of repaIrs and
maintenance, together with the future ~tility value
of the used computer toa user for anesbmated span
of years.
Until recently the end product of an ADP system
with qualified supervision was accounting or other
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data processing results that came wrapped up in a tidy
package for 'a monthly rental which included systems
service and maC'hine maintenance. Now with the advent of ,a used computer market a compute~ can be
purchased for a fraction of its original ,price, but
systems service and maintenance must often be provided from somewhere else in order to insure s'atisfactory results f'Or the Ibuyer.
To the I}arge firm with a well developed systems,
methods, or data processing department, this is not
especiaHy a problem. For the medium sized and smaller
firm, these services, are available from the manufacturers, and from many well qualifi'ed CPA's and management consulting firms.
Imporiantractors to consider in 'any used computer
transaction are the questions: Who takes it down and
packs it in its present location? Who unpacks, assembles it, and tests it out at a new locatio~? How much
will theseessentia,l services cost? It is my understanding that some large computer users 'are adding
fuB-time Customer Engineer ,technical' people to their
staffs. For the medium and smaller firms whose volume will not justify a full~time man, there are several
Technical Engineer service firms in the la~ger metropolitan 'areas to supplement the 'machine repair services from the manufacturers.
If the prediction in the dosing paragraph of "The
Used Computer M,arket" s,tory comes true, then there
will be a sharply increased demand for the services of
qualified technical maintenance 'engineers, either from
the manufacturers, private service groups, or the user's
own staff. Notably, t'hereare now several dealer firms
who are wHling to work with those f'aced with computer equipment obsolescence in making the prediction
in that article come true.
NICHOLAS H. DOSKER, JR.
Louisville 2, Kentucky

PLAUDITS FROM A POETIC READER
To the Editor:
Reading your December and J'anuary numbers was
rather like awakening one morning to find one's
fai'thrul old motorcar transmogvified into a splendid
new machine. J.t was comfo:r.ting to find the same dependable engine, but with more hors'es; the still firm
suspension, with an even smoother ride; intriguing to
note the elegant refinements of an interior already
tasteful'ly functional~and all this enclosed hy a dashing new e~terior. Allow me, Sir, to congratulate you.
While engaged in all this automotive imagery, let
me rehearse for you a mercifully brief tale of a man
called Auto, ina form neither poetry nor even prose
run mad:
Auto had some sums to do,
The computer printed one;
But since he ,put in two plus two,
Computers Auto may shun.
JAMES X. SHORT
Cambridge, Mass.
COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

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COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

At the recent Workshop on Educational Data Processing held at
the System Development Corporation in Santa Monica, California,1
it was reported that increasing
numbers of school districts and
higher learning institutions are installing electronic data processing
systems (EDP systems) for the
management of educational data.
This development of course is associated with the already extensive
use of electronic accounting machines in the offices of pupil-personnel, registrar, and business; and
it seems to forecast even further
automation in our schools and universities.
There is good evidence, too, that
such automation will gradually extend 'into the classroom itself.
Automatic translating machines,
compu ter-based teaching-devices,
rapid document-retrieval systems,
computerized models of school-system operations, and other similar
applications of computer technology
are coming to fruition. And the
digital computer and its peripheral
equipment will support most of the
subsystems in the total school-system. These applications, of course,
will have an impact on education
provided the research is taken out
of the laboratory and introduced
into real school situations.

Developments
The research and technological developments discussed at the
Workshop can be summarized as
follows:
1. The Comput,er-Based Teaching
Machine. By branching students
laterally, backward, and forward
through subject material, the
machine develops a course of
study individually suited to each
individual student's educational
background, level of motivation,
and aptitude.

2. In/ormation Rel.rieval Systems.
Up-to-date information in any
area of the arts and sciences
can be provided by information
centers using: abstracting and
translating machines; techniques of rapid retrieval and
dissemination of data; and datalink transmission lines that link
the school computer with information centers.
3. Simulation Programs. Computer-based programs of simulation will aid management and
teaching by:
a. supplying periodic economic
or population forecasts;
b. helping to balance budgets;
c.giving guidance in the planning of new educational facilities;

".
The ill'sibructor (at the right) shows
the subject his decislioll's 'Dn a machine
developed fDr "Project DeciSliO'n," a
psychologic-all res€,a,rch plDO'gl1am conducted cO'operntively by The Catholic
Universlityof Americ'a and A'CF Electl1Onics, a division of ACF InduSltries.
The instructO'r checks the actiDns
taken by the subject on his conlsole
(not in ,this picture). The subject
decides how much to' risk,at what
odds, to achieve a "payoff" in a sedes
of numericall pl1oblems. The answers
apperur on the large matrix facing the
instructO'r.

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

d. expediting the training and
selection of educators;
e. making classroom and vocational instruction easier.
4. The Automated Classroom. New
technical developments 'have occUl'red for processing educational data and for organizing
instructional material in the
classroom. Counselor and teacher
data displays, automated diagnostic routines, and .programs
permitting student-directed exploration of subject matter will
result from such techniques.

Artist's sketch 'Of a laboratory simulating an expedmental school, and
using the conc'ept 'Of a central data
store.

An Integrated Educational
Data Center
In an ed uca tional sysitem, a
single integrated center for data
processing may serve the needs of
the administrator, teacher, counselor, curriculum developer, and
student. For example, students
might carryon independent study
with programmed ma,terials, and
the machine would make detailed
records of their responses, recording the answers chosen by the student to the questions presented by
the teaching machines. These records would be stored on magnetic
tape in a central computer. The
information thus stored would be
summarized for .the counselor, for
it would reveal much about e~ch
COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

student's individual learning problems. The curriculum developer
would have summary reports telling many students' learning experiences; he would use these for
evaluating curriculums and proposing modifications. Teachers would
have an up-to-date account of each
student's extent of understanding
of the subject matter. The school
librarian could update the record
of the student's information-needs,
and could guide the teacher in
selecting particular materials that
would ,be helpful. The administrator would learn the progress of the
individual student, and would be
able to select study programs for
him, in the nongraded school system environment.
This is an example of applying
the total systems concept in the
storing and retrieving of educational data. Present applications of
EDP systems in education are
much more limited in scope; but
if the results of current research
are applied to the future configuration of school systems,and if centralized data processing continues
to expand, educators may expect
major technological changes in
their profession, as computers enable the educational process to become far more efficient.
Other developments in computer
technology might be initiated for
the realization of future goals.
N one of these developments, to be
discussed below, were touched upon
at the recent Workshop, nor are
they likely to be for some time to
come, since obviously many breakthroughs are to be made before
the new developments are applied
in educational practice. However,
the futuristic look at new developments raises an 'interesting question of the readiness of the educator to utilize the technology when
it does exist.

Effortless Learning and
Attitude Changing
In 1960, Dr. S. Seshu, Professor
of B~lectrical Engineering at Syracuse University, conceived of the
"penultimate" teaching machine as
an electronic transducer or input
system which transfers factual information stored on punched cards
or magnetic tape directly into human memory.:! This would be accomplished without first having the
information processed by the visual
or aural senses. "All that we need
to do," suggests Seshu, "is to find
the input terminals in the human
brain and the necessary code-the
gadgetry is trivial." His contention
is that the basic trouble with the
teaehing machine or any modern

learning method is that the input
is fed in at the "Tong place. When
the input to the brain arrives
visually or aurally, it is often dist.orted or lost .in the transference
process. "What is needed is a transducer capable of transferring information to the human memory with
the same ease and accuracy of data
being transferred into the memory
of an IBM 7090," asserts Seshu.
Although these are major barriers yet to be surmounted by the
physiological psychologist, it is conceivable that such a machine may
eventually exist. The question
arises, should the effortless learning machine teach beyond the limits of factual data? If the student
can take in'· information without
error, shouldn't the teacher also·
steep him in the culture, train him
in the proper professional attitudes,
and thoroughly ground. him. in the
scienbific method as away;of life?
It is difficult to know where a reRpom;ible instructor would leave
off in the use of this effective tool.

Attitude-Changing
Another potential development in
computers is the attitUde-changing
machine. Dr. Bertram Raven in
the Psychology Department at the
University of Californ1ia at Los
Angeles is in the process of building a computer-based device for
changing attitudes.:! It is planned
that this device will work on the
principle that students' attitudeR
can be changed effectively by using
the Soeratic method of asking an
appropriate series of leading questions logically designed to right the
balance between "appropriate" attitudes and "inappropriate" attitudes. For instance, after first
determining a student's set of
attitudes through appropriate testing procedures, the machine would
ealculate
which
attitudes are
"right" and which are "wrong."
If the student were opposed to
lowering tariff barriers to foreign
trade say, and a favorable disposi-·
tion were sought,' the machine
would select an appropriate series
of statements and questions organized to change the student's attitudes. The machine, for instance,
might have detected that the student liked President "Williams"
(say) ; therefore, the student would
he told that President Williams
favored increased foteign trade. If
the student's liking for President
Williams was sufficiently strong,
Dr. Raven would argue that a
ehange in attitude favoring inel'eased foreign trade would be
effectively brought about by showi ng the' student the inconsistency

of his viewR. There is considerable
evidence that such techniques do
effectively change attitudes. The
question of course.arises, what is
the appropriate subject material,
or "attitudes" in this instance,
with which to indoctrinate the student?
Making Decisions
As a further example, at the
Catholic University of America in
Washington, D. C., a psychological
research program is underway to
study the problems of training a
student in - decision-making skills
(see photo). A special-purpose computer and display equipment presents the student with a series of
numerical problems designed to
test the student's ability to make
good de~isions at maximum speed.
Training in the skills of deciding
is of course a legitimate goal of
education 'in this 'age of automation.
But .the problem remains: does the
educator know what values to attach to .the different alternatives of
these decisions? For example,
should students whose values are
different from the acceptable values
of democratic society be taught to
conform to 'Someone els'e's judgment
of acceptable values? Training in
decision-making is ultimately compounded with training in value
judgment and, as ,such, becomes a
controversial subject; some resolution of controversy is needed before
programmed le'arning can be put to
use. Progress musit be made not
only 'in data~processing technology,
but in our knowledge of educational
requirements. Automation requires·
a clear, operational statement of
objectives to be accomplished by
the system being automated. Desired student behaviors and attitudes need to be more precisely
defined.

Trends in Hardware and Costs
The tools reported in the foregoing discussion are of course expensive. If the question were asked
whether or not education could
afford a medium- or large-capacity
computer, the answer today would
be "No." But multi-processing,
miniaturized large-capacity computers are on the horizon, and it
may be expected ,that the tools will
become economically feasible in the
next few years, even perhaps for
the small school district.
If computer-based instructional
systems are to be applied on any
vast scale, they must be economically competitive with other systems
performing similar functions. Some
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COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

Programmed Instruction,
't

PART I
PROGRAMMED LEARNING
FOR COMPUTER
PROGRAMMERS
Along with the evolution of the
automatic computing machine came
a new occupation now known as
"programmer," whose job it was
to prepare the instructions (or
".program") for th.e machine. The
rapid introduction of 'hardware in
a few, short years generated a
monumental requirement for programming, or "software," creating
the need to obtain large numbers
of sufficiently proficient computer
programmers.
The number of programmers
trained 'by older, conventional
methods of human instruction is
far from adequate. The frequently
used practice of assigning a novice
to a master programmer is quite
inefficient. This report deals with
recent efforts to develop computer
programmers ,through the use of
what is known as materials for
"programmed instruction" or "programmed learning," where the
word "program" in this phrase is
used in a different though closely
related meaning, referring to a
carefully constructed sequence of
specific instructions for teaching a
human !being rather than for instructing an automatic computing
machine.
Conventional Programmer
Training
The technique of changing a person's behavior is called training.
A training program is successful
if (a) its objectives are clearly
defined in behavioral terms, and
(b) its effect on a trainee results
in Ihis being able to perform the
defined behavior within limits of
proficiency previously specified.

Traditionally, ,training programs
have been 'conducted in ,the classroom-laboratory format, 'and have
depended 'upon expert human instruction and the use of carefully
prepared course outlines, lesson
plans, work!books, textbooks, manuals, performance tes,tsand similar
conventional methods (Ref. 1). To
what extent these formal training
programs conducted 'across the nation have actually produced 'competent programmers is a matter of
conjecture. The answer is partly
obscured by disagreement about
what a programmer really must
know and do in the process of
programming. The job 'analysis of
"Programmer" is affected Iby differences due to the type of computer,
kinds of problems to ,be solved, and
many other factors. Also, there
has been a less than acceptable
evaluation, on a systematic basis,
of the elements constituting a
training program for computer
programmers and the transfer of
these learned elements to the reallife programming situation.
Training by Use of Self.
Instructional Techniques
Following soon 'after the explosion
of the computer field was the less
momentous birth of the technology
of the teaching machine and "programmed learning." The reader
needs to be warned abouttrhe term
"program" 'and the ,phrases in
which i,t occurs. A training program, computer program, and
teaching machine program are
different forms of different things
and should be differentiated rather
than integrated! (Ref. 2)
It would have been unnatural if
computer-oriented individuals had
ignored the potentialities of the
man-machine relationship known
as "teaching machines and pro-

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

..
I

for Computer Programming
Gloria M.

Silvern~

Research Specialist, Computer Center, Space and Information Systems Division,
North Amer1:can Aviation, Inc., Downey, California
grammed learning." In fact, it
would have been impossible. Consequently, a number of efforts were
begun to fertilize human instruction with the forms of machine
instruction.
This report will not -attempt to
outline the :principles of programmed instruction nor to discuss its 'advantages or disadvantages. The nature of programmed
learning has been set forth in a
large number of texts, articles
and papers, and the reader is referred to one of these for fUl~ther
information. (Ref. 3)

PART II
REVIEWS OF FIVE
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PRODUCTIONS OF
PROGRAMMED LEARNING
FOR TRAINING
PROGRAMMERS
Part II of this reporlt is devoted
to five instances or productions of
programmed learning for training
people to become computer programmers. Three are in text format, and one in machine format,
and these aUempt to teach computer .programming and are currently available. In addition a fifth
program, in text format, will be
examined but not reviewed because
it has not yet been released for
distribution. Several other programs which deal with training
for the job of computer programmer are still being field-tested,
are not yet available, and were
not provided for review at this
time. Programs written in-house
by various companies for their
own use, but which will not be
made available outside the company, are not included. An examination of teaching machine and
COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

programmed learning materials
which merely use computers or
which deal with computer-related
skills and knowledge, such as
PERT, matrix algebra 'and number systems, is beyond the scope
of this report.
1. Title: "FORTRAN AUTOTESTER," Document 186A
Author: Control Data Corporation
Publisher: Control Data Corporation
Date of Puhlication: 1DG 1
Format: Text, loose-leaf, 176 pp.,
a1f:.:" x G"
Type: Branching variant using the
scrambled-book layout.

A casual, visual inspection of this
program is deceiving. What appears at a distance to be a branching program turns out upon close
examination to be mainly a combination of linear and two-alternative branching, although mO're
alternatives appear occasionally.
Except fO'r the few points where
branching occurs, the bottom line
of each page directs the trainee
to "Go to' x" where x is the number
of the following page. Thus, if
each page is to be considered a
separate step, few steps require
any response from the trainee. If
several pages are considered to
compl'isea step, then the size of
step is invariably very great in
contrast with programs in other
subject fields. One such "step"
covers three pages dealing with
the conceptH of arrays and subscripts, the use of commas and
parentheses, the D I·M ENS LO N
statement, 'and a problem; all of
the instruction is new-it had not
been instructed in any previous
steps. Towards the end there are
as many as ten consecutive pages
on input-output before one in
which a response is required.

Author: H. L. Colman and
C. Smallwood
Publisher: Mc'Graw-HiH IBook
Company
Date of Publication: 196,2
Format: Text; plastic bound,
answers, references,
175 pp.
index, coding- forms, 6" x 9"
Type: "No-response" mode and
exercises requiring written
completion.

_____
The Preface states that "Every
effort' (through "humor," etc.) is
made to keep you awake!" Cons:quentI~, this "self training deVIce desIgned to emancipate the
scientist and engineer from the
need for the professional programmer" suffers from a large overdose
of "go take a shower," "complete
the limerick . . . ," "roses are red
violets are blue . . . ," and othe;
irrelevant, distracting and adolescent trivia. The author (s) were
unable to detect their inability to
avoid prompting, and the trainee
cannot escape cues which virtually
give him the correct response.
Many of the branches which should
lead to remedial instruction inste~d ?irect the trainee to "try
revIewmg 80-84" or some similar
vague, unstructured activity.
What is important, however is
the critical evidence that a trainee
(engineer or scientist) who begins
the text as a novice ends it with
Hsufficient skill, in a minimum of
time, to enable him to efficiently
program his own problems" as the
Preface claims. The real-life test
of any black box is its ability to
modify the input and produce the
output for which it is designed.
This capability is the "figure of
merit," "gain" or "efficiency" of
the system. In the absence of such
external criteria and in the presence of the program alone, one
must regretfully conclude that
FORTRAN A UTOTESTER receives an A for Effort (the first
known program in ,its field) and an
I (Incomplete) in the absence of
evidence that those who complete
it "can do a· creditable job of
programming any problem in Fortran." Anyone who is able to present systematic evidence will
contribute to the conversion of the
"Incomplete" to a higher or lower
grade.
2. Title: "COMPUTER LANGUAGE
--ian Autoinsh''Uctional Introduction to FORTRAN"

The Foreword describes the program as designed to train students
at the UCLA Western Data Processing Center to use FORTRAN
and produce "their first Fortran
program." A "period of advanced
training on the special features
of any particular system" is
deemed necessary to 'produce "useful computer programs for that
system."
The P.reface states that the program IS based on B. F. Skinner's
reinforcement theory of learning
yet nowhere in the text will b~
found the constructed response
frames so characteristic of Dr
Skinner and this followers. Instead
one finds two to 38 consecutive
pages, each containing approxIma:tely five "frames" which do not
require ,trainee response. These
are followed by as many as twenty
questions or problems lumped together which deal with the preceding statements. Correct "answers" to the exercises are traced
to the r:ar of the te~t where they
appear m a random but labeled
array. The authors contend that
"if the overt response and verification are omitted, the result is a
program of instruction that is
equally as effective and significantly more efficient ... ealled the
no-response mode."
One way of describing the text is
to visualize a standard, college
te:ctbook consisting of chapters
WIth a set of exercises or problems
at the end of each chapter. This
college textbook also has an answer
section dn the rear so a student
can check his solutions. "COMPUTER LANGUAGE" has the

basic structure of the college textbook. ~t does, however, differ in
one major respect: the college text
is much more complete! The Colman-Smallwood text attempts to
break down the text material into
small steps by taking a significant
statement (sentence or short paragraph),. drawing a rectangle
around It, and connecting the series
of rectangles with arrows in flowchart style. The layout has the
advantage of squeezing -in a maximum number of rectangles per
page, but it is a very ,poor example
of flow-charting. Since the mode
is "no-response," the trainee
merely reads the contents of each
rectangle until the chapter is completed, then attempts to solve the
exercises, checking his answers in
the rear of the book.

T'he authors, in planning ahead
for more able trainees, suggest
that those who are confident that
their answer ,is correct may omit
verifying it. If this procedure is
followed, incorrect ans,wers may
often go unnoticed! The rectangles, called "frames" by the
a utI:!ors, ar~ ~drawn differently to
denote the kind of -information
contained. The "essential facts"
are represented hy solid-line, blackbordered rectangles and require
concentration, while the trainee
may skim over the "e~planations"
and "examples" depiCited by brokenline borders 'if he finds the subjectmatter easy to understand. A careful analysis of the content of these
broken-line rectangles reveals that
they often contain essential facts.
Skimming therefore would not contribute to proficiency. Besides, the
trainee tends to read these frames
to find out if 'he should skip them.
Thus, rbhe varying ,borders merely
add confusion.
This is the only "programmed" text
in any subject-matter field using
the "no-response" mode combined
with the rectangle-flow-chart style.
It may be concluded that, despite
the ti tie and statements made in
the ~oreword and Pref'ace, to say
nothIng of the advertising, this is
not an example of bona fide programmed learning.
The authors state ,that "The program has never been e~perimental."
It is contended that "early drafts
underwent informal trials, which
resulted in extens'ive revisions and
r~trials." No specific data is proVIded or even referenced in a bibliography to permit 'a prospective
user to examine the conduct of the
criterion tests.

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

What is mIssmg, as usual, is any
evidence to support the claims made
that it is "a practical replacement
for eight 'hours of traditional instruction." Therefore, "COMPUTER LANGUAGE" receives an
I (Incomplete) on the grounds of
insufficient evidence. So far as
effort -is concerned, the identification in rbhe Preface with B. F.
Skinner suggests that the 'authors
might profit by making a more
strenuous attempt to understand
the Skinnerian point of view.

3. Title: "Self Teaching FORTRAN"
Author: S. C. Plumb
Publisher: Programmed Instruction Center, IBM,
Poughkeeps,ie, N. Y.
Date of Publication: Third Edition
-1962, not yet available
Format: Text; plastic bound
345 pp. + index, 8%" x 11"
Type: Written-completion involving cons;tructed wo~d responses
and problem so,lumon; some multiple-choice and simp}e branching.

This program is in the third
edition and has not been made
available to the general public or
on a quantity basis to IBM groups
internally. Therefore, the criteria
normally applied will be withheld.
It is expected that the final edition
of the program will be supported
by the evidence now being collected
and evaluated.
Each page is divided horizontally
into three "tracks" or parts. The
trainee receives a step of instruction and a question which calls for
a written response on the page.
Upon turning the page, in the corresponding section of the next
right-hand page, the correct answer is stated along with the next
increment of technical information.
The trainee moves along a "track"
until he is directed to change tracks
or invert the book. When inverted,
the three upside-down tracks on the
left..lhand pages b~ome .right-side

up on the right-hand pages. In this
way, all the space is used, even
though the trainee, in the process
of following one track, must disregard the others.
Additional exercises are located at
the end of each chapter, and occasionally the trainee 'is directed to
solve these and then check his answers with the ones provided. Each
chapter also has an "examination"
which is to he removed from the
pJastic binder and turned in; the
solutions to these examination problems are not included in the text.
At the end of the book is a final
examination consisting of two problems which are to be programmed
and run on the computer.
It is refreshing to find 'a text on
FORTRAN which is bona fide programmed instruction. The writing
style lis informal yet retains its
technical character. A few minor
criticisms may be offered. The author tends to use T (true)-F
(false) steps occasiollally which
reduce the value of the response;
it is neither written-completion nor
true multiple-choice and the element
of chance or guessling is introduced.
Some steps appear to contain excessive prompting. On the whole,
however, the steps seem to be carefully constructed and the step size
appears to be appropriate for the
material 'and the intended trainee
population.
Based upon a visual inspection and
sampling of critical sections, the
program receives A for Effort, A
for Patience, 'and I (Incomplete)
pending final pUblication after tryout 'with supporting evidence. The
author has followed a systematic
pattern of preparation and controlled administration which should
aid in establishing minimum
standards . for slimilar efforts in
business and industry. "Self Teaching FORTRAN" 'adheres closely ,to
what is now identified ,by authorities as acceptable technique.

4. Title: "P.ROGRAMMING THE
THE I'BM 1401-A SelfInstructional Programmed
Manual"
Author: J. A. Saxon and
W. S. Plet!te
Publisher: Prerubice-Ha:ll, Inc.
Date of Publication: 1962
Format: Text; hard covered and
hound, 194 pp. + index, answers
Type: Written-c1ompletion involving constructed word responses
and written solutiorus. The ansrwers
are' entered directly into the book.

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

The Introduction describes the volume as a "self-instructional workbook." Its purpose is to teach a
beginner to program for the IBM
1401. The objectives specify that
the program "will not qualify the
student as an expert programmer
. . . it will teach him the fundament'als .... " The program consists
of ten units, each 'Of which contains
from two to six lessons. The authors recommend that trainee sesRions not exceed two hours each,
with not mor~ than two such sessions per day. However, no data
is presented to explain the basis
of their recommendation.
A typical lesson c'Onsists of instruction and examples, followed hy a
series of problems with space provided for written responses, and
followed on the next page by the
correct answers together with some
reinforcement. Each unit has a
quiz summarizing the lessons in
that unit, with quiz answers 'and
explanations on the following 'page.
A final quiz covers highlights of
the entire course, and the last
lessonconta:ins a fairly comprenensive flow-charted final problem
which is to be coded by the trainee.
As the program progresses, the instruction step lengthens from half
a page Ito about four pages due to
the inclusion of more material, flowcharts and coding examples. This
style avoids the less desirable
method of having a trainee flip
continually ,to the rear for flowcharts and examples. However, the
size of the instruction step and the
organization of the book places this
program more in the teXit-w'Orkbook category than 'in the programmed text classification.

The program appears to have haa
careful, detailed preparation. The
authors have not described the
methods they might have used to
revise the program or whether it
was actually used to train prog'rammers. Therefore, the claim
that "dt will teach him the fundamentals of programming for the
IBM 1401" is without explicit
foundation. The grade is A for
Effort; the statements appear to be
carefully made, page layouts utilize
graphics and the instruction seems
to be designed for use ,by a novice
in a self-study environment. The
program is somewhat technical but
no effort "is made to talk down to
the trainee or humorize-the presentation is straight-forward. It
captures and retains a technical
style until the last page when, in
Concluding Remarks, it wishes the
trainee ."good luck in your new
profession."
This reviewer bel'ieves that the
grade for Performance should be I
(Incomplete). Again, no evidence
in the form of data is provided.
How many revisions were made
prior to final pUblication? On what
grounds were revisions made? How
many trainees were used in the
tryouts? What criterion tests were
used? One can only accept the
authors' word tliat it will train a
programmer. While their intention
that it should produce results is not
questioned, the results it did produce are not described.

5. Title: ",Computer Programming"
Subd.ivided into three pans:
Part I Computer:s-An inltroduc*
tion to Progr;amming
Pam II Oomputers-Techniques in
Progr,amming
Part III ,Computers-Advanced
Tec'h niques in Programming
Author: Theodore G. Scott
Publisher: U. S. Industries, Inc.;
Educational 'Science Division
Date of Publication: 1962
Format : 35mm Isingl'e frame film,
black and white ('us'able only ilrJ.
the AutoTutor* Ma'l'lk II), 3 r-~els

Type: Multiple-choice, branching
* 'Trademark

This program is presented to the
learner in the form of a screen
display of film frames projected
through a special lens and controned by an indexing system. Instruction ,is provided and 'a question
or problem is given. In all instances, multiple choice alternatives
are exposed to the learner who responds by selecting and pressing
the appropriate button on the keyboard. The indexing mechanism
searches the film and either reinforcement for ,correct responses
or remedial instruction for incorrect answers 'is .presented visually.
In examining the content of the
course, 'a number of significant
points are worth noting. This program is a general course in computer programming in which a fictitious computer, TUT AC, is used.
All principles and the illustrative
problems deal with TUT AC. This
is in contrast with other programs
which 'are written to develop programmers in an 'actual language.
In essence, :this is 'a practical extension of the classic differentiation
between "training" and "education." Not only must 'a training
director who plans to use it be
~atisfied that it successfully produces learning for the general case,
but that a 'learner is able to transfer this general instruction to a
specific case on the job. Obviously,
the author can only be responsible
for proving conclusively that learners do learn TUTAC programming.
Tfhe training director as 'a purchaser must ,be sure the TUTAC
programming is readily transferable to programming for the specific 'computer being used. The use
of pseudo or fictional c'Omputers is
a practice in education environments where machines are often not
available, rather than in business
and industry where specific hardware and software techniques exist.
The program presents very specific
information 'and methods, implying
to a novice that "!this is the only
way to do this." For ex'ample, a
learner can eas'iIy believe that card
read-in is the only way to enter
data into computers, since lesson 1
does not ·mention the possibility
of anything else. Not until lesson
13 is he 'informed of several other
possible means 'Of input. Had this
program been developed for a reallife computer rather than TUT AC,
the specific Iimi,ted instruction
would be .praised rather than criticized.

The -amount of material in a frame
approximates that on a printed
page. The 'answer to the previous
step, together with reinforcement,
occupies almost half the space in
many frames. Following the new
material presented, the question and
choices occupy the rest of the space.
At times several frames are required. to develop the material before a question appears.

It is this reviewer's contention that
since programmers must construct
their programs, programmed learning in :this field should require the
trainee to answer most of the questions using constructed responses
rather than multiple choice responses. Choosing the correct sequence of coding from about four
possibilities s uppli ed is a task
which 'is quite different from composing a correct sequence.
The lessons in Par,t I include Memoryand Input, Addition and Output, Suptraction, Multiplication,
and Division. Part II contains
Fixed Decimal Point (scaling), Decision Making, Address Modification, Flow Charts, and Loops. Part
III consists of Indexing, Subroutines, Advanced Input-Output,
Magnetic Tape, and Debugging.
The elapsed time for a trainee will
depend 'Upori individual reading
and comprehension rates as well as
incorrect (error rate) responses
and accompanying remedial instruction (branching) . The reviewer ·and a colleague played the
roles of novice -and experienced
programmer, 'alternatively, to study
remedial techniques as well 'as subject-matter treatment,. with an
elapsed 'average time of aboU't 2Y2
hours for each of the~. parts.
The remedial branches seem to be
well des'igned.
The author deserves 'an A for
Effort. In the absence of documentatio~ of tryout and revision
data, the program receives an I
(Incomplete). Any evidence to
change this grade will be most
welcome.

PART III
QUALITY CONTROL FOR
PROGRAMMED LEARNING
MATERIALS
It is obvious that a method as important 'as programmed learning
should not have its growth or decay
left to chance 'alone. Because 'of the
agressive nature and unbridled enthusiasm of many practitioners,
the early days of development were
pockmarked with claims 'and asser-

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

HDns withDUt fDundatiDn. The
AERA-APA-DAVI JDint CDmmittee, under the leadership Df Dr.
Arthur A. Lumsdaine, was fDrmed
and, in cDnsultatiDn with the CDmmittee Dn PrDgrammed Learning Df
the American SDciety Df Training
DirectDrs, guide lines have been
established. (Ref. 4) The ASTD
CDmmittee has prepared a digest,
based upDn the Joint CDmmittee
recDmmendatiDns, which is designed
fDr training applicatiDns Df prDgrammed learning in business, industry and gDvernment. (Ref. 5)
MDre recently, ISPIC (the InterSDciety PrDgrammed InstructiDn
CDuncll, cDnsisting of the AssDciatiDn fDr CDmpuHng Machinery,
(ACM) American Society of Engineering EducatiDn, ElectrDnic Industries AssDciatiDn, and the
American Society Df Training DirectDrs) was fDrmed. In this way,
to' recDmmendatiDns may be prDduced which" when translated intO'
terms mDst me'aningful to' cDmputer
peDple, will gradually develDp intO'
an instrument of qualit.y contr(ll fDr
prDgrammed instructiDn Df CDmputer programmers. SDme Df the
more signifiGant recDmmendatiDns
appear belDw:
1. Programs compared with textbooks: Internal and external
characteristics 'as criteria fDr evaluating prO' grams may be examined
by cDmparing prDgrams with CDnventiDnal textboDks. Despite the
similarities, prDgrams differ from
textbDDks in several impDrtant reSlpectS:
a. prDgrams require frequent
trainee respDnse
b. trainee respDnses generate a
SDurce Df data useful for prDgram revisiDn
c. prDgrams require the testing Df
specific effectsprDduced
d. prO' grams require mDre sharply
fDcUSed objectives or specified
behaviDral DutcDmes
e. prDgrams generate a mDre predictable pattern Df trainee behaviDr
f. bDDkshave a less speCiialized
purpDse, serving as a reference
SDurce as well as fDr instructiDn

2. Programs compared with educational and psychological tests:
AlthDugh prDgrams aim primarily
to' instruct trainees rather than to'
test them, prDgramsand tests
share impDrtant attributes:
a. bDth generate trainee respDnse
b. bDth are develDped thrDugh empirical prDcedures
c. the difficulty Df each step in a
prO' gram, Dr 'item lin a test, can

be investigated using samples Df
learners
d. bDth have limited ranges Df usefullness which can be described
to' the cDmputer-prDgramming
training directDr using empirical evidence
e. bDth specify' an external criteriDn
f. bDth describe hDW well an intended DutcDme is achieved by
describing the beha viDr developed Dr differentiated

3. Program availability: PrDgrams
are becDming cDmmercially available in 'a variety Df subject-matter
areas, but mere aV3Jilability is nO'
guarantee Df quality. PrO' grams are
sDmetimes announced IDng befDre
they are actually avaHable.
There is little empirical basis at
present to' favDr Dne tY'Pe of prDgram Dver another. Different types
Df prDgrams will eventually prDve
to' be useful for different kinds Df
training objectives, and different
styles O'f programming may be CDmbined effectively lin 'a single prDgram. At present, Dne ty;pe or -anDther may be fDIIDwed withO'ut
seriDus CDncern in the absence Df
systematic evidence.
4. Critical reviews: Tlhese furnish
Dne basis fDr evaluatiDn. Reviews
are beginning to' appear in prO'fessiDnal journals alDng with rev:iews
Df textbDDks. SDme include data
Dn achievement 'attained as well as
the reviewer's opiniDn.
5. Assessing a program:
a. Inspecting the subject-matter
content-tO' determine if cDntent
is apprDpriate.
(1) ·program titles Dften are
nDt definitive
(2) prDgrams labeled as a particular subject can vary
widely lin cDntent Dbjectives
(3) inspect the cDntent at least
as carefully as that Df· a
textbDDk
(4) gO' thrDugh the entire prDgram
(5) determine what topics Df
the subject are included Dr
Dmitted
(6) determine depth Df sub-tO'pic
development
b. Limitations of visual inspection
( 1 ) 'training directDr may be
inapprDpriately infl uenced
by ,particular structural features
(2) 'certain steps may seem tDD
difficult Dr tDD easy
(3) difficulty and apprDpriateness of steps cannDt be
judged 'accurately by inspectiO'n alDne

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

(4) visual inspectiDn cannDt
substitute fDr 'actual tryDutS using individuals representative Df the intended
traineepDpulatiDn
c. Using test data to assess effectiveness
(1) find DUt empirically what
trainees learn
(2) determine which sequences
have to'o much Dr tDD little
repetition, review, prDmpting Dr Dverlap Df steps
(3) accurate predictiDn based
upDn scientific evidence dDes
not yet justify recDmmending specific rules of prDgram cDnstructiO'n fDr evaluating prDgrams
(4) evaluate effectiveness using
test data O'btained by tryDUt
under specified cDnditiDns
(5) determine the measure Df
gain in trainee achievement
and time required
d. Assessing program use. PrDgrams have 'a variety Df uses:
(1) they may prDvide the main
sO'urce for trainees to' learn
certain facts, principles Dr
skills
(2) they may be used Dnly to'
review previDus instructiDn
(3) programs will prDbably be
interspersed with O'ther
methDds Df instructiDn
(4) training directDr ShDUld determine what the prDgram
itself actually' cDntributes
to' trainee knO'wledge and
prDficiency
(5) effects revealed thrDugh empirical trYDut are limited by
the cDntent Df 'achievement
tests Dr other measures used
fDrassessiment
(6) visual inspection supplemented 'by ,prDfessiDnal reviews may 'Suggest uses Dr
kinds Df effects nDt indicated Iby field-test data because they were nDt cDntemplated in the authDr's Driginal purpDse
e. Inspecting achievement test.
Aside frDm data obtained in
testing under labDratDry Dr field
cDnditiDns:
(1) inspect the authDr's Dr publisher's statement Df the
prDgram's purpDse
(2) examine in full the achievement test items which pu~
PDrt to' exemplify what the
prDgram is intended to' instruct
(3) examine criterion test items
and respDnses called fDr by
the program
(4) determine what the trainee
is required to' be able to' dO'

units are included with the license.
Additional units can be ordered by
licen:sees only in lots of 50, for
$750 per 50 units.

(5) compare whether (4) reflects the competence the
training director wishes to
achieve
(6) analyze test content in (3)
to determine program objectives
References
(1) Silvern, G. M., "Selection,
Training and EvaluaJt'ion of
Computer Programmers,"
Journal of t.he American Society of Training Directors,
Vol. 16, No.4; April 1962.
(2) Silvern, G. M., "Non-Programmed Curriculum Materials' for Computer Programmer
Training Programs," North
American Aviation, Inc., SID
62-1410, 21 January 1963.
Summary 'appears in Digest
of Technical Papers, 19£2 National Conference, Association
for Computing Machinery, 4-7
September 1962.
(3) Lumsdaine, A. A., and Glaser,
Robert, Editors, "Teaching
Mac'hines 'and Programmed
Learning-a source book," Depamment of Audio-Visual Instruction, National Education
Association, July 1960.
(4) Lumsda:ine, A. A., "Criteria
for Assessing Programmed Instructional Materials," Audiovisual Instruction. Prepared
by the AERA-APA-DAVI
Joint Committee, 17 January
1963.
(5) Silvern, L. C., "Quality Control Recommendations for
Teaching Machine and Programmed Learning M'aterials,"
Journal of t.he American Society 0 f Training Directors,
1963 (in press). Prepared by
the ASTD Co-mmittee on Pr'ogrammed Learning, 24 J anuary 1963.
Ed. note: Dr. Silvern is also Chairwoman of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest
Committee on Digital Computer Programnwr Training, which is also
known by its jaw-breaking acronym
SICODCPT.

EDITORS' APPENDIX
"Required COBOL-1961," a new
programmed.;.instruction 'course of
interest to computer programmers,
was not available when Dr. Silvern
prepared rtheabove article f'Or C&A
this pas1t month. However, a complete copy 'of the training course
did arrive in 'Our editorial 'Offices
just a few days before going to
press, 'and a review by our staff
of it appears below:
18

6. Title: "Required COBOL-1961"
Author: Developed' by :bhe Auerba,Cln GOl'Ip. of Phhladelphna, Pa.
Publisher: iHaSlic Systems, Inc.,

2900 Broadway, New York 25,
N. Y.
Date of Publication: Fehruary,
1963
Format~F'Our spiral bound manuaIlS, 8%" by 11", with a total of
990 pages. A1I,so included is a
Btudent Manual of :250 pages,
w:irtlh codling forms and exarnnnati~ns.

Type: Linear program. Borne s'ayaloud amid ,some written-completJi'On
l"eISlp'OOlSJes
iiuwlv'ing coniSltlmcted
word answerlS 'and problem soluti't'C 62
ROBERT E. CORRIGAN AND ASSOCIATES, 8701 Adah St.,
Garden Grove, Calif. / M Students watch the program on a television display screen and make multiple choice responses on an individual response
panel. Colored lights provide feedback. Scoring
is automatic. / *C 62
CORRIGAN COMMUNICATIONS, INC., 1111 Ash St., Fullerton, Calif. / P / *C 62
CREATIVE EDUCATION RESOURCES, INC., 1544 Embassy St.,
Anaheim, Calif. / P / *C 62
CYBURTEK CORPORATION, 102 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge,
Mass. / P / *C 62
DAVIS SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, 12137 Cantura St.,
Studio City, Calif. / R,M (for psychological research only) / *C 63
DAYSTROM, INC., Control Systems Div., 4055 Miramar
Rd., La Jolla, Calif. / R / *C 63
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, 146 Main St., Maynard,
Mass. / M,C / *C 63
DORSETT ELECTRONICS, INC., 119 West Boyd St., Norman,
Okla. / M Telescholar. Students watch the program displayed on a screen and indicate their answers by pressing 5 buttons on a response panel,
with colored lights providing feedback information.
/ *C 62
DOUBLEDAY & CO., INC., 501 Franklin Ave., Garden
City, N.Y. / The publishers of the TutorText, a
scrambled book using an unsequential arrangement of
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pages in order to achieve a branched program. Developed in cooperation with Dr. Norman A. Crowder
of the Educational Science Div. of the United
States Industries, Inc. / >!·C 63
DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT CORP., 300 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa
Monica, Calif. / R Auto-instructional devices
using a visual display and button-panel input. /
*C 62
DUKANE CORP., St. Charles, Ill. / Produces a number
of teaching machines, all utilizing 35 mm filmstrip. The Model 576-65 is a flexible rear
screen projection device for use with a program
having linearly progralIllred franes. The Model
14A525 has a similar projection device and also
an audio capability. Through the use of the
patented DuKane 30/50 cycle system, the audio
portion may be stopped at a predetermined spot
requiring the student make an active response. /
*C 63
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EDEX, 3940 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, Calif. / M,P,
R Producers of a group teaching system that provides for simultaneous presentation of slides,
magnetic tape, filmstrips, and movies. System
provides individual student scoring in mUltiple
choice mode and machine-pacing or pacing to last
respondent. System acts as classroom communicator when not used in automated teaching mode.
Firm has produced programs for industrial and
cOlIllrercial clients; is currently developing educational series for schools. / *C 63
THOMAS A. EDISON RESEARCH LABORATORJES, We.st Orange.
N.J. / Presently doing device research in areas
such as the teaching of typing and reading to preschool children. Has a publication called" Program Learning in the Educational Process" edi ted
by Annice L. Mills. / ,:'C 62
ED-U-GARDS MANUFACTURING CO~~ANY, 36-46 33rd St.,
Long Island City, N.Y. / M,P,R,S / *C 63
EDUCATIONAL AIDS PUBLISHING CORP .• Carle Place.
Long Island, N.Y. / M,P,R,S / :::C 63
EDUCATIONAL DESIGN OF ALABAMA, INC., 1428 University
Ave. -, Tuscaloosa, Ala. / R,P / ::'C 62
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP., 200 California Ave.,
Palo Alto, Calif. / M Utilizing paper tape and
offering a flexible programming capacity; expected to be available in the late Spring or early
SUlIllrer, 1962. / ,:·C 63
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL LABORATORIES, 284 E.
Pulaski Rd., Huntington, N.Y. / Producers of reading instrunents: Tach-X, Flash-X. Controlled
Reader, Controlled Reader Jr., and Skimner; series
of recordings and accompanying workbook to improve.
listening and reading skills; progralIllred- vocabulary
workbooks; other skill-building materials in language arts, arithmetic, and business education. /
*C 63
EDUCATIONAL ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES, 3810 Pacific
Coast Hwy., Torrance, Calif. / Producers of a
slide display device, using multiple choice responses and feed back supplied directly by the
program, i.e., a correct response changes the
question. / ,:'C 62
EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION AIDS, III Hampton Rd., West,
Williamsport, Md. / Presently designing an instructor controlled teaching device. Unit uses
linearly progralIllred frames with a constructed
response elicited from the student. / *C 62
ELECTRONIC TEACHING LABORATORIES, 5034 Wisconsin Ave ..
N.W., Washington 16, D.C. / Producers of language
laboratories, electronics circuit trainers, progralIllred magnetic tape language courses, progralIllred
courses in electronics. / *C 63
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA FILMS, INC •• 1150 Wilmette
Ave., Wilrrette, Ill. / M,P
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of mathematics and modern foreign languages, in
the elementary and secondary level of education.
/ *C 63
ENTELEK INCORPORATED, 42 Pleasant St., Newburyport,
Mass. / P PERT/CPM, Economics, and Probability
and Statistics. Customized tr.aining packages for
bank tellers, department store sales personnel.
and airline agents. Consulting to business and
industry -- clients include Chemical Bank New
York Trust Co., KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines, and the
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Government-sponsored
development of program in U.S. Navy ship's store
management. / *C 63
EPSCO, INC., 275 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge 39,
Mass. / Self-contained logic demonstrator of digital circuitry for industrial laboratory and training applications. / *C 63
EXECUGRAF CORPORATION, 113 No. San Vicente Blvd.,
Beverly Hills, Calif. / M,R / *C 63
E-Z SORT SYSTEMS, LTD., 45 Second St., San Francisco 5, Calif. / P,S / *C 63 ,
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FAIRCHILD CAMERA AND INSTRUMENT CO., Syosset,
Long Island, N.Y. / R / *C 62
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FIELD ENTERPRISES EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION, Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago 54, Ill. / M,P / *C 63
FORBES PRODUCT CORP., 6255 Goodwin St., Rochester 3,
N.Y. / M Consists of large display window. typewriter roller operation, and detachable answer
uni t. Teaching devices are being field tested in
the Rochester Public School System. / *C 62
FORINGER AND CO., INC., 312 Maple Drive. Rockville,
Md. / Produce simple teaching device consisting of
a projected film strip with one or two levers on
which the student indicates his response to a
question. Physical reinforcement includes presentation of marble upon a correct answer. Other
experimental teaching devices concerned with the
field of applied psychology, i.e., controlled environment boxes for training animals. / ,;:C 62

GENERAL ATRONICS CORP., 1 Balla Ave., BalaCynwyd, Pa. / Producers of the Atronics Tutor,
Model 580. This machine is a portable, mechanical,
multiple-choice teaching device. It operates by
allowing pages of programned material to fall by
gravity when an operator selects correct answers
by pushing a button at the base of the machine.
Also, produces the TAG System which is a modified
punch board device used mainly for recording an-swers in scoring. The company indicates a general
interest in industrial training with accent on
electronic data processing in progralIllred form. /
,:'C 62
GENERAL EDUCATION, INC., 96 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge 38, Mass. / P,M 3000 frame program in
Fundamentals of Finance & Investment in selfcontained cardboard machine. Probability Models
of Random Processes for Harvard Business School.
190 frame program on Salesmen's Call Reports for
Monsanto Chemical Co. Other programs for World
Book Encyclopedia, J. J. Little & Ives, Science
Research Associates. Offering in February, 1963,
a 36 program Kit, with five plastic machines, for
elementary and secondary schools on sentences,
words, and references. / *C 63
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Schenectady, N.Y. / R / *C 62
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Educational Technology & Products Project, 212 l~. Division St., Syracuse, N.Y.
/ B Publication of technical and scientific
subjects. / *C 63
G. E. CONTIWL. INC., Minneapolis 20, Minn. / R,M /
.;,c 62
GENERAL PROGRAMMED TEACHING CORPORATION, Box 4235,
Albuquerque, N. Mex. / M, P / ·;:C 63
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GINN AND COMPANY, Statler Building, Boston 17, Mass.
/ P Investigating the publication of programmed
materials. Program completed: earth-sun relations; 8 programs in the process of development.
/ ':'C 63
GRAFLEX, INC., 3750 Monroe Ave., Rochester 3, N.Y.
/ M,P
The Koncept-o-Graph uses the rolled
paper strip technique for a linear program, having two display areas, one for the program material itself, and the other for the constructed
response. / ·:,C 63
GRAPHICS, INC., 3750 Monroe Ave., Rochester 3, N.Y.
/ The Graphics Audiographic System is a coordinated slide and audio presentation unit used for
training in industrial assembly procedures. The
audio record is repeatable at the request of the
student. / ':'C 62
GRAY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Special Products Division, 16 Arbor St., Hartford I, Conn. / *C 62
THE GROLIER SOCIETY, INC •• 575 Lexington Ave •• - New
York 22, N.Y. / Currently distributes various
models of self-instructional devices for Teaching
Machines. Inc. Example is the Min/Max machine.
See Teaching Machines, Inc. / ':'C 63
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HAMILTON RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, 4 Genesee St.,
New Hartford. N.Y. / M,P
This company has recently withdrawn its Visitutor, a 35 mm microfilm
program device. It is developing a 3 x 5 card
model Visitutor and microfilm unit using a film
sort card. The unit is expected to be available
in July. 1962. / *C 62
HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC., 750 Third Ave., New
York 17, N.Y. / P / *C 63
HARWIL CO •• 1009 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, Calif.
/ R Science teaching devices. / *C 63
D. C. HEATH, INC., Boston, Mass. / P,B / . . C 63
HOLT, REINHART, AND WINSTON, INC., 383 Madison Ave.,
New York 17, N.Y. / P Presently publishing program materials for the Center for Programmed Instruction; also looking into the development and
writing of other programs. / *C 62
HRB-SINGER, INC •• Science Park. State College, Pa.
/ STAR. a general purpose device which electronically scores and records a student's performance
during tests; teaches using feedback or reinforcing principle. / *C 63
HUGHES AIRCRAFT CO., VIDEOSONIC (Trademark, Hughes
Aircraft Co.) Systems Div., P.O. Box 3310, Fullerton, Calif. / Developers and producers of the
VIDEOSONIC System. The equipment consists of
portable self-contained audi-visual devices incorporating slide projection with synchronized
tape recordings. It has direct application in
industrial training procedures and as an on-thejob performance aid. The device can be programmed incrementally and the subject matter can
be presented visually and orally through slide
displays and automatically coordinated tape instructions. Standard and custom programs may also
be obtained from the VIDEOSONIC Systems Division.
/ ~'C 63
HUNTER MANUFACTURING CO., INC •• P.O. Box 153, Coralville Branch. Iowa City, Iowa. / Producers of the
Model 340 Cardmaster. This is a control circle
card display device for paced-practice learning.
Other automated instructional devices being developed. / ':·C 62
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INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION CORP., IE. Wacker Dr.,
Chicago I, Ill. / P Programs are prepared on a
custom basis for clients for training purposes and
are normally linear, constructed response type. /
':'C 63
INFORMATION PRODUCTS CORP" 156 Sixth St., Cambridge
39. Mass. / M,C An interrogator and display unit

which allows selective correction, deletion. and
addition of alphanumeric characters on a cathode
ray tube display. Expected to allow a ready means
of student constructed response to questions on a
computer-based teaching machine. Ready by the
summer, 1963. / ':'C 62
THE INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND PROGRAMMED
INSTRUCTION. P.O. Box 302, Ann Arbor, Mich. / P /
·:·C 62
INSTITUTE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT, INC •• 110
E. 30th St., New York 16, N.Y. / P / ':'C 62
INSTITUTE OF BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH. College Park, Md.
/ R, in the field of programmed learning, program
wri ting, evaluation. and field testing. / ·:·C 62
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT,
INC., P.O. Box 4456, Lubbock, Texas / P >!'C 62
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT,
INC., Educational and Training Methods Div •• 4910
13th St., Lubbock, Tex. / This unit does research
and development work in educational testing and
preparation of self-instructional programs. Evaluation and testjng of programs also done. Plans
call for the design of materials and training
methods for use in underdeveloped countries. The
unit is already publishing a newsletter to serve
as a clearing house for information on programmed
learning: AID. / *C 62
INSTRUMENT RESEARCH CO., 12031 Euclid Ave •• Garden
Grove, Calif. / Producing a self-instructional
device using 3 x 5 inch cards with a linear program. Provides for multiple choice response, and
feedback is by colored slides. / *C 62
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP., Thomas J.
Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown
Heights, N.Y. / Has been pursuing a research program on computer based teaching machine for several years. Has programmed a small curr'iculum
of courses including Stenotypy, German Reading,
Psychological Statistics and 1410 Autocoder computer programming. / ,:'C 63
INTERNATIONAL TEACHING SYSTEMS, 457 Washington, S.E.,
Albuquerque, N. Mex. / P / *C 62
lTEK CORP., 10 Maguire Rd., Lexington, Mass. / R,P,
M Emphasizes advances in the field of optics.
For example, work being conducted on use of a
light pen for the construction of student responses on the surface of a cathode ray tube for
direct input into a computer. / *C 63
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JENSEN, GERALD J., 1267 Wensley Ave., El Centro,
Calif. / P / *C 62

KUNINS ENGINEERING COMPANY, 1730 Popham Ave.,
New York 53, N.Y. / M / *C 62

LABELLE INDUSTRIES, Oconomowoc, Wis. / Developing audio-visual type machine without response
mechanism. / *C 62
LEARNING, INCORPORATED, 1317 W. Eighth St., Tempe.
Ariz. / P / *C 63
LEARNING MACHINES, INC., Box 613, Silver City. New
Mexico / M,P,B,R Consulting. / ·:·C 63
LEARNING RESOURCES INSTITUTE, 680 Fifth Ave., New
York, N.Y. / Presently conducting an evaluation
of currently available programs and teaching machines for professional educational organizations.
/ ,:'C 62
LECTRON CORPORATION OF AMERICA, 9929 W. Silver
Spring. Milwaukee 18, Wis. / M,P,R / *C 63
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 60 Fifth Ave., New York
II, N.Y. / P / *C 62
MANAGEftENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, Rm. 1300, 185 No.
Wabash, Chicago I, Ill. / Currently producing a
pull-tab, multiple choice teaching machine. /
~'C 62

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COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

rn LITTON SYSTEMS, INC.

Guidance and Control Systems Division

THE MARQUARDT CORPoo.ATION, 2771 No. Garey Ave.,
Pomona, Calif. I M,S,C,I *C 63
WILLIAM BARTON MARSH CO., INC., 18 East 48 St., New
York 36, N.Y. I P, with emphasis on LP records
and programmed textbooks. I *C 62
MAST DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC., 2212 E. 12th St.,
Davenport, Iowa I M I *C 62
McGRAW HILL BOOK CO., INC., 330 W. 42nd St., New
York 36, N.Y. / The company is presently selling
the Holland-Skinner book "The Analysis of Behavior" with nearly 2,000 linearly programmed
frames. They claim to have under development
nearly 40 other kinds of teaching machine type
programs, some intended for the program books,
others for both books and machines. Also developing machines using fan-folded paper tapes.
First unit expected to be available in May 1962 I
*C 62
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MERIT ASSOCIATES, 2037 Harrison Ave., Eureka,
Calif. I P Producers of a sequential teaching
program to be placed on a punched card. The
student procedes from one frame to another by a
coded sequence of holes punched along the border
of the programmed card. I *C 63
MINNEAPOliS-HONEYWELL REGULAToo. CO., Ordnance Di v. ,
1724 So. Mountain Ave., Duarte, Calif. I Currently developing an experimental audio-visual teaching machine, with linear and branching ca~ability,
for demonstration purposes and use in research
work. Specialized programs being developed.
Machines or programs are not currently available.
/ *C 63
MOTOROLA CORP., 4545 Augusta Blvd., Chicago 51,
Ill. I R,M I *C 63
MULTI-MATICS MACHINES, INC., 6782 La Jolla Blvd.,
La Jolla, Calif. I M I *C 62
N: NATIONAL BLANK BOOK COMPANY, 2829 Water St.,
- Holyoke, Mass. I ProdUCing "Learn-Ease" devices
using our slide mask principle. Largest producer
of programmed learning devices. I *C 63
NATIONAL COMMUNICATION LABffiATOOIES, 507 Fifth Ave.,
New York 17, N.Y. I R,P,M I *C 63
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOC., Div. of Audiovisual Instruction, 1201 16th St., N.W., Washington 6,
D.C. I This division of NEA, the American Psychological Assoc., and a committee of the American
Educational Research Assoc. are cooperating in the
evaluation of teaChing devices and programmed
learning. Criteria are being worked on to determine the effectiveness of programmed learning
techniques. The Association also sponsors the
publication of books and periodicals concerned
with teaching machines and programmed learning.
One such is its "AV Communication Review" which
appears bi-monthly. An "Occasional Paper No.3"
has appeared which surveys the current industrial activities in teaching machines and programmed learning. It is written by Dr. James D.
Finn and Donald G. Perrin. I *C 62
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS, INC., 9250 Wilshire
Blvd., Beverly Hills, Calif. I R,P,M I Developing
programs and teaching machines. I *C 62
NATIONAL TEACHING MACHINES, P.O. Box 4016, El Paso,
Texas I R,P / *C 62
NAVIGATION COMPUTER CO., Valley Forge Industrial
Park, Norristown, Pa. I Experimenting with computer centered teaChing device. Work being done
in investigating programming methods for teaChing
in various disciplines. / *C 62
Noo.TH AMERICAN AVIATION CORP., Columbus, Ohio / R,
M I *C 62
NORTRONICS, Div. of Northrop Corp., 222·N. Prairie
Ave., Hawthorne, Calif. I R,M An audio-visual
training device with visual student response
under development. I *C 63

PALMER LEARNING AIDS, 600 So. Michigan Ave.,
Chicago 5, Ill. I Produces the Slide-a-Mask, a
flexible plastic sliding mask which fits over a
programmed text page showing the correct answer
after the student has constructed his answer. I
*C 63
PAROMEL ELECTRONICS CORPOOATION, 3956 Belmont Ave.,
Chicago 18, Ill. I Serving as an electronics
trainer. I *C 63
PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT LABoo.ATOOY, 6767 Southwest
Ave., St. Louis, Mo. I Making a modified movie
projector for training purposes. Can be used for
a flash projection of individual frames or superimposing two different films upon one another.
An adapt ion allows 10 possible multiple-choice
panel for student reaction to the questions and
ideas in the film. I *C 62
PHOENIX ASSOCIATES TEACHING MACHINES, 13012 Willamette St., Westminster, Calif. I P, consulting I
*C 62
PICTURE RECORDING COMPANY, 1392 W. Wisconsin Ave.,
Oconomawoc, Wisc. I Developing a 35 mm slide
projector with synchronized aural presentation.
Student unit provides multiple-choice push
button response. I *C 62
POLAROID INC., 730 Main Street, Cambridge, Mass. I
R Developing a computer-based teaching machine
which provides spoken answers to informally
phrased questions about a subject. I ~ 63
PRENTICE HALL, INC., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. I P I
*C 62
PROGRAMMED LEARNING ASSOCIATES, 700 Font Blvd.,
San Francisco 27, Calif. I P and consulting I
*C 63
PROGRAMMED TEACHING AIDS, INC., 3810 S. Four Mile
Run Dr., Arlington 6, Va. I R,P,M I *C 63
PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA, 763 Broad St.,
Newark 1, N.J. I R,P I *C 62
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL Coo.Poo.ATION, 304 E. 45th St., New
York 17, N.Y. / M,P,R / *C 63
PSYCHOLOGICAL-RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, 5~7 So. 18 St.,
Arlington, Va. I Currently working on an audiovisual training device for research purposes.
It is designed as a modified sound film projector
which would allow for forward branching review. I
*C 62
PSYCHOTECHNICS, INC., 105 West Adams 'St., Chicago 3,
Ill. I P,R,S I *C 63
PUBLIC SERVICE RESEARCH, INC., 91 Prospect St.,
Stamford, Conn. I R,P Recently completed traffic
safety teaching program. I *C 63
PUBliSHERS CO., INC., 1106 Connecticut Ave., N.W.,
Marketing "Teachall"
Washington 6, D.C. I M,P
teaChing machine, with programmed learning, direct to home and schools, and through distributors.
16 basic short programs come with Teachall. Two
full courses on word recognition and arithmetic
ready for distribution early 1963. To follow:
French and Spanish, then higher levels. I *C 63
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RANDOM HOUSE, INC., 501 Madison Ave., 'New York
22, N. Y. I P, B I *C 63
RECORDAK CORP. Subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co., 770
Broadway, New York 3, N.Y. I R Pursuing a program of equipment development for the industrial
and military training field. Only units to date
are prototypes. -I *C 63
RENNER, INCORPoo.ATED, 1530 Lombard St., Philadelphia
46, Pa. I P Developing masking device. / ~'C 62
RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT Coo.Poo.ATION, Programmed Learning Div., 2736 E. Grand River Ave., E. Lansing,
Industrial and governmental trainMich. I M,P,R
ing. 7-day training seminar for programmers
offered each month. Also a wide range of consultant services in programmed learning, including
preparation of programs and supervision of programming. I *C 63
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COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

RHEEM CALIFONE CORPORATION, 5922 Bowcroft St., Los
, Angeles 16, Calif. / M,P,R
Didak constructed
response teaching machines; programs for Didak. /
*C 63
.
RHEEM ELEClRONICS CORP., 5200 W. 104th St., Los
Angeles 45, Calif. / R / *C 63
ROTO-VUE, 1212 Holland Bldg., 211 No. 7th St.,
St. Louis, Mo. / R,P,M / *C 63
ROYAL McBEE, 850 Third Ave., New York 22, N.Y. /
Has conducted experiments on the use of a typewriter as a "teaching machine" in four teachers t
colleges in the United States. / *C 63
S: SANFORD ASSOCIATES, 159 Crescent Dr., Menlo
- Park, Cal if. / P, cons ultant. / *C 62
SCIENCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, 259 Erie St., Chicago
11, Ill. / R,P(modern math course and vocabulary
building course available), B("Programmed Instruction for Schools and Industry,"' by J. L.
Hughes) / *C 63
SCIENTIFIC EDOCATIONAL PRODUCTS CORP., 30 E. 42 St.,
New York 17, N.Y. / M, the Minivac 6010, a unit
suitable for self-instruction in the basic principles of digital computer operation. This device uses relays and switching circuits for binary
addition and subtraction. Texts accompany the
unit to guide the student. / *C 63
SCOTT, FORESMAN, AND COMPANY, 433 E. Erie St.,
Chicago 11, Ill. / P / *C 62
SEMINAR INC., 480 Lexington Ave., New York 17,
N.Y. / Part of an industrial programming group /
*C· 62
SHOE CORPORATION OF AMERICA, 35 N. 46th St., Columbus 16, Ohio / Presently using several semiautomatic devices in program materials and sales
training. / Device research being conducted USing
a programmed projector as a central display unit.
A three-button response panel operated by the
student. This device provides for both forward
and backward branching in the program. / *C 62
SHOENTGEN, BRANDT & ASSOCIATES, 385 E. Green St.,
Pasadena, Calif. / B,P, distributing an audiovisual device made by the Anirama Company of
Japan. / -:'C 62
SIGMA PRESS, 2140 K. St., N.W., Washington 7, D.C./
P / *C 62
STANDARD PROJECTOR AND EQUIPMENT CO., INC., 7433
N. Harlem Ave., Chicago 48, Ill. / MUsing
specially prepared filmstrips with a push button
response unit • .I *C 63
STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Menlo Park, Calif. /
R ,P / *C 62
STAP LES-HOPPMANN, INC., 500 East Monroe Ave.,
Alexandria, Va., / This is a rear-view projecting
device for the presentation of film and slides,
both individually and simultaneously. The instructor has individual control of the microphone
audio for the materials that accompany the film. /
*C 62
STATEN, J. B., Box 44, Bay City, Tex. / R,M
and
roll or tape duplicating processes / *C 63
SYNCHRQ-MAT EQUIPMENT COOP., 1316 Wildwood Ave.,
Jackson, Mich. / Presently developing a synchronized audio presentation device for training purposes. / *C 62
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 2500 Colorado Ave.,
Santa Monica, Calif. / R,M / *C 63

1: TEACHING MACHINES, INC., 221 San Pedro Dr.,
N.E., Al,lmquerque" N.M. j Producers of MIN/MAX III,
Wyckoff Film Tutor, and Multi/Max teaching
machines, and the TMI-Grolier series of SelfTutoring courses and Programed Textbooks. The
Self-Tutoring courses are used in conjunction
with the MIN/MAX III and are of the constructed

26'

rei~onse type. The Wyckoff Film Tutor and Multi/
Max"'a're 35mm and 8mm rear screen projection devices using filmstrip programs. The Wyckoff,
Film Tutor has a typewriter keyboard response
panel; the Multi/Max response panel is part of
the viewing screen. Both advance upon the
students selection of the correct response. The
Programed Textbooks include constructed response
programs and are used independent of a teaching
machine. / *C 63
TEACHING MATERIALS CORP., A Division of Grolier,
Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New York 22, N.Y. /
Distributors of the Min/Max and othei~eaching
devices produced by Teaching Machinesj Inc. /
*C 63
TEACHING MATERIALS CORP., Sales Organization for
Teaching Machines, Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New
York 22, N.Y. / *C 63
TELEPROMPTER CORP., 50 W. 44 St., Ne\'{ York 36,
N.Y. / R,M / *C 63
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THOMPSON RAMO WOOLDRIDGE, Cols Divisions, 6325
Producers
Huntley Rd., Columbus 24, Ohio / M,P
of lRW Language Laboratories. / *C 63
THOMPSON RAMO WOOLDRIDGE, INC., Intellectronics
Division, 8344 Fallbrook Ave., Canoga Park,
Calif. / R The unit being developed uses a
synChronized audio-visual display, a six button
multiple choice response panel and is controlled
by a small analog computer. Educational Electronics Division includes Dage (educational
television), Magnetic Recording Industries
(language laboratories) and the Intellectronics
Division. / *C 62
TOR EDUCATION, INC., 453 Main St., Stamford,
Conn. / P,R,S / *C 63
lRAINING RESEARCH BRANCH, BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
LABORATORY, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio / Conducts
applied research on programmed learning and
automated instruction. In field trial of U.S.
Industries' ~~rk I Auto-Tutor and scrambled
books, found a time saving when compared with
conventional electronic course. Research program includes evaluation of full courses, conduct of laboratory experimentation on fundamental
parameters, integration of multiple instructional
techniques, application of computers, design and
use of individual audio-visual devices, and emphaSis on devel~pment of performance rather than
verbal knowledge. / *C 63
TRAINING SYSTEMS INC., 12248 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Los Angeles 25, Calif. / P Programs in management development, sales training, chapter writing,
etc. expected to be available by June, 1962 /
*C 62
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new material and is then questioned about it. He
responds by pushing a button corresponding to an
answer. If he chooses the right answer he is immediately advancedj if he chooses a wrong answer,
he is given correctional material before being
allowed to advance. The program thus adapts to
the student through an evaluation of the studentts
responses. In addition to many off-the-shelf
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Artificial Intelligence: f
.A.rthur L. Samuel,

Director of Research Communications,

RTIFICIAL intelligence is an apparently selfA
evident phrase which has come into common
usage without having a well-defined and generally
accepted meaning. Unfortunately, this term also carries with it certain anthropomorphical implications
wbich tend to arouse emotional responses on the part
of the reader that have little or no bearing on the
actual state of affairs. To some people, the concept
of artificial intelligence is a scientific -aberration defined as the Myth of Thinking Machines; to others, it
relates to man's first stunibling attempts to develop
machine methods for dealing with some of the perpIeX'ing ,problems that should, in all justice, be delegated to machines but which now seem to require the
exercise of human intelligence; and, finally, to some
easily frightened individuals, artificial intelligence refers to the impending danger of man's domination by
the Machine. This divergence of opinion -and of feelings, with respect to a subject that should be capable
of scientific evaluation, bespeaks of a general lack of
knowledge, which this discussion will attempt to
correct.
As a matter of fact, a revolution is in the making
with respect to the manner in which digital computers
will be used to solve the problems of business and
industry. This revolution has its beginnings in a
variety of apparently unrelated research studies.
Some of these studies seem to be directed toward quite
uneconomic ends, such as programming computers to·
match pennies, play tic-tac-toe, play checkers and
chess, write poetry, compose music, and solve high
school problems in plane geometry. Other studies are
concerned with more practical problems-programming computers to read hand-sent telegraph signals,
to recognize handwriting and speech, and to translate
from Russian into English. Still others are concerned
with learning machines, the mechanization of cognitive
processes-yes, even with thinking, machines. Some
idea of the magnitude of the effort on these topics
may be gained from the fact that a recently published
bibliography! to the literature on artificial intelligence contained 559 references to individual papers
by some 400 different authors and 26 additional
references to symposia, proceedings, and other special
collections concerning artificial intelligence, and this
tabulation did not include mechanical translation,
for which an earlier bibliography-1959-listed 645
papers. A large and growing body of workers, largely
in the United States but with many members scattered
throughout the civilized world, is attempting to write
programs for existing machines or to design and build
special machines 'all for the expressed purpose of performing tasks which, if done by human beings. or by
animals, would be described as involving some use of
the intelligence. Regardless of our personal feelings
as to the moral consequences of this form of automation, we cannot afford to ignore the revolutionary
effect on our society which it portends.

(Reprinted with permission from "The Annals of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences," vol. 340,
pp. 1 to 20.)
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As always, with 'any revolution, there is a lunatic
fringe-people who .believe in magic, or those who are
carried awaY,(Nith ,their enthusiasm for a new cause
and who make wild claims which tend to discredit the
entire undertaking. The field of artificial intelligence
has, perhaps, had more than its sha1re of these people.
Norbert Wiener, who certainly does not belong in this
category, has, nevertheless, fostered some of the loose
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thinking by maintaining, as a basic tenet of cybernetics, that a rather complete analogy exists between
control functions in men and in machines and by linsisting that machines can possess originality and Ithat
they are a threat to mankind.:! In a contrary vein,
Mortimer Taube:! of Columbia University discounts
the entire field of activity and, in effect, charges the
workers in the field with "writing 'Science fiction to
titillate the public and to make an easy dollar or a
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synthetic reputation." Can we cut through a morass
of detail and this mishmash of conflicting claims 'and,
somehow or other, identify the true nature of artificial
intelligence 'and of the revolution which is upon us?
To simplify our task, we will 'have to be quite
arbitrary and exclude certain usages of digital computers such, for example, as calculating the stresses
in an airplane wing, or computing a payroll, even
though these usages do reduce the amount of human
thinking which must be done. In a sense, the human
thinking in these situations is done in advance by the
people who write the set of instructions---the "program," in computer jargon-which spell out the series
of individual steps that are to be taken in the computational process.

Run-of-the-Mill Computing
S'ince even these commonplace uses may seem a bit
mysterious to the uninitiated, we milght pause for a
moment and point out that 'a digital computer is, after
all, only an inanimate assemblage of mechanical and
electrical parts that functions in a completely mechanis,tic fashion. As Lady Lovelace remarked over a
hundred years ago in describing Charles Ba.bbage's
Analytic Engine, nothing comes out of the computer
which ha~ not heen put into it, harring, of cour~e, an
infrequent ca~e of malfunctioning, and the computer
can only do what we know how to instruct it to do.
The magic of the computer resides not in what it
can do but only in the speed and accuracy with which
it performs a sequence of very simple computational
steps, a sequence which, as we have said, has been
specified in advance by the person who wrote the program and which. derives its complexity and its utility
from the linvolved relationships existing between the
individual steps. Let us characterize these commonplace .uses of digital computer~, by .the f'act that the
answers whiCh the computer is c",lled upon to produce
are all derived from the input data by the application
of a strict set of' rules that are known and that have
been written down in advance by the programmer.
These rules may be strictly logical, as in scientific
problems, or as illogical as our income-tax laws, but
they are definite and woe be it to him who viol'ates
them. In a sense, we may say that the answers are all
contained in the input data 'and that the computer's
function is that of rearranging the input data in a
more convenient form by the application of certain
rules.
Programming a computer for such computations is,
at best, a difficult ta~k, not primarily because of any
inherent complexity in the computer itself hut, rathel',
because of the need ,to spell out every minute step of
the process in the most exasperating detail. Computers, as any programmer will tell you, are giant
morons, not giant bra'ins. By way of contrast, when
one assigns a computational task to a human assistant,
one tells the assistant what to do; when one writes
a computer program, he must, in effect, tell the computer how to do the problem. This distinction between
how and what is far from trivial. It distinguishes the
poor employee from the good one, and, to a much
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greater extent, lit differentiates between the digital
computer, as a very efficient but extremely stupid
computing aid, and an intelligent human being.
While ,the digital computer is a devic8 for manipulating symbols of any kind, its genesis, as Allen
Newell of Carne!rie Institllte of Technology has so
aptly pointed out, lay in the desk calculator and in
the business mac,hine. Just as Babbage had earlier
proposed, several innovations have been made to increase the usefulness of the device. In particular, three
special types of units have been introduced in addition
to the arlithmetic unit. The first of these is the memory (more correctly, a storage unit) in which instructions and data can be retained until needed. Input
and output devices are also added which enable the
operator to introduce instructions 'and data into the
machine and to obtain a record of the desired output.
Finally, there ,is a central control unit which interprets the instructions one at 'a time and initiates three
basic types of operations: moving information from
one place ,to 'another, doing simple arithmetic, and
transferring cont'rol to an instruction taken from one
of two or more spec'ified locations, depending upon a
comparison that it makes between the signs or relative
magnitude of specified numbers. These instructions
are in the form of imperative statements, for example,
move X to location A; add X to Y; skip an instruction
if X is negative, and so on. The sequence of these
st'atements which constitute the program is, as we
have said, a specification as to how to do ,the problem
rather than a statement as to what to do. Once this
specification has been made, it is then only a matter
of routine to use the computer to solve many of the
problems of the workaday world.
As everyone knows, these commonplace uses of computers are of very great economic importance, so important, in fact, that they are already causing a
revolution in our way of conducting research, of running mills, 'and of doing business. The important point
to remember, however, is that these changes are
brought about, not by some mystical process that can
be known only to the elect few, but by the straightforward but detailed application of quite elementary
procedures to problems that are essentially routine in
nature.
On the Frontier
In contrast with ithese routine types of problems,
there 'are many mental '. proce'sses 'that people are
called upon to perform that cannot be, or at least
have not been, reduced to a simple set of ,rules. Take
the process of playing a game of chess, not of simply
adhering ,to the rules of the game, but rather the
process of playing a good game against an lintelligent
opponent. There are no known procedures for guaranteeing a win, and yet people learn to play the game
and some few become very proficient. Still another
example might be the problem of proving theorems
in plane geometry. Ignoring for a moment the Tarski
decision procedure, which high school students do not
know, it is still possible to develop a proficiency in
proving theorems without involving the exhaustive
process of writing down all possible strings of logically
derived statements that mi'ght -lead to a proof. Instead,
one adopts a technique in which a number of more
or less arbitrarily chosen procedures are explored in
a rather incomplete fashion, each yielding some clue
as to whether or not one is on the right track, until,
through a series of hunches, one is led to a formulation of a satisfactory proof. In both of these cases,
one can sometimes arrive at a correct or, at least, 'a
very good answer in a remarkably shoI'lt period of

time, but there is a concomitant uncertainty as to
whether or not a solution will ever be obtained and
as to Whether or not an apparent solution is the best
solution.
Such a method of solving any problem has come to
be known as 'a "heuristic" procedure, 'Us contrasted
with the use of an "algorithm," a term that is used
in ,this connection to mean a completely specified solution procedure which can be guaranteed to give an answer if 'one but takes the time to follow through the
specified steps. It should be noted that an attempted,
but imperfect, algorithm 'is not per se 'Un heuristic
program. Heuristic problem-solving, when successful,
must, obviously, be rated as a higher mental activity
than the solving of problems by 'Some more or less
automatic procedure. We are, therefore, probably
justified in attaching the label of artificial intelligence
to machine methods and machine programs that make
use of heuristic procedures.
There are two fundamentally different approaches
to this problem of artificial intelligence. One approach,
and this is the one that we will fi,rst discuss, consists
in analyzing prdblems that seem to require the exercise of human intelligence and then devisling a machine, or writing a program for an existing machine,
which we hope will solve these problems. The specific
mechanisms that the human brain employs in solving
the problem do not here concern us; we analyze the
problem, not the device that solves i,t. To call to mind
a rather trite analogy, when man first attempted to
fly, he stUdied the birds, and the early, unsuccessful
flying machines were mechanical birds. It 'Was not
until man stopped studying the birds and began to
study aerodynamics that much progress was made.
The modern jet airplane must cope with the same
aerodynamical problems with which birds contend,
but the mechanisms used in the solution of the problem of flight are quite different.
Bird·Watching
The alternate approach-that of studying ~birds, not
aerodynamics-does have its virtues, and, in the case
of artificial intelligence where 'So much is stIll unknown, some very interesting results 'are being obtainedby this route. I am referring to the general
type of studies based on Donald Hebb's work at McGill,
pioneered by Nathaniel Rochester of International
Business Machines (IBM), by Farley and Clark of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and, more recently, made popular by Frank Rosenblatt of Cornell
University under the name of the Perceptron. The
argument goes something like this. The brain of
man, like that of the animals, is made up of many
cells of a certa,in type called neurons. These ceUs have
rather unusual properties; they react on an all-or-none
basis ("fire" in the jargon of the trade) and transmit
a pulse to other neurons through synaptic connections.
Each neuron is connected to many others, and a number of input signals are, in general, required before
a neuron will "fire." As far as we can determine,
there isa certain amount of order in the over-all
pattern of interconnections between the neurons, but
there also appears to bea degree of randomness in the
precise connections. Learning seems to consist of
alterations in the strength and even perhaps in the
number of these synaptic interconnections. Now it is
possible to devise a variety of mechanical, chemical,
and electrical devices which simulate the behavior of
individual neurons in a crude sort of way, and we
can interconnect these devices in some random fashion
to simulate the synaptic interconnections that exist
within the brain, and, finally, we can 'arrange for the
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autamatic strengthening ar weakening af ,these intercannectians using a training rautine.
While the degree af intelligence achieved to' date is
indeed at a very law level, these devices have same
very interesting praperties. Far ane thing, they can be
utiHzed in Ithe salutian af prablems far which we dO'
nat have a camplete mathematical farmulatian.
A
secand and equally impartant attribute is that they are
reasanably general purpase devices. As an example,
a device built far the purpase af recognizing characteristic marks an Ipaper might be trained to' recagnize
English letters. The training wauld cansist af presenting a sequence af inputs to' the device, in this
case the letters af the alpha'net, and af strengthening
thase particular internal intercannectians which wauld
cause the device to' give the carrect respanse and af
weakening cannectians leading to incarrect respanses.
This is quiteanalogaus to' the reward and punishment
technique used in training animals. The impartant
characteristic is that this device cauld equally well be
trained :ta recagnize Chinese aI', far ,that matter to'
identify distinctivegeagraphical features an an aerial
survey map.
We will have space to' mentian anly ane additianal
characteristic, Ithis being the apparent ecanamy af
elements, at least in ,terms af infarmatian starage,
an ecanamy which seems to' result fram the fact that
the infarmatian is stared in ,the intercannectians between 'bhe elements rather than in the elements themselves. We will return to' this interesting subject after
we have cansidered the "aeradynamics" af the prablem.

Back to Aerodynamics
Marvin Minsky af Massachusetts Institute af Technolagy, in discussing the subject of artificial intelligence,4 chase to' divide the discussion into five differcnt
areas, these being Search, Pattcrn Recognition, Lcarning, Planning, and Inductian. Although thcrc il-i a
degree af arbitrariness in this division, it secms to
segmen1t ,the prablem in 'a way that enables ane to
came to' grips with the essential features, and it
demanstrates that there is nO' magic invalved here.
Instead, we are gaing to' discu~s a series af rather
simple steps that can be mechanized. As an encapsula:ted summary, we can hardly dO' better than to' quate
Minsky:
"Acamputer can dO', in a sense, anly what it is tald
to dO'. But even when we do, not knaw exactly haw to'
salve a certain prablem, we may pragram a machine
to' search thraugh same large space af salutian attempts. [That is, try many, many salutians, ane after
anather.] Unfartunately, when we write a straightfarward pracedure far such a search we usually find
the resulting pracess enarmausly inefficient. [There
are jus1t taO' many af them.] With Pattern Recagnitian techniques, efficiencies can be greatly impraved
by restricting the machine to' use its methads anly
an the kind af attempts for which they are apprapriate. And with Learning, efficiency is further impraved
by directing search inaccard with earlier experience.
By actually analyzing the situatian, using what we call
planning methads, the machine may obtain a really
fundamental impravement by replacing the ariginally
givcn Search by a much smaller, mare apprapriate
exploratian."
Minsky cancluded his summary by mentianing what
he called same rather mare glabal cancepts relating
to' Inductian, and it is perhaps here that we will gO'
our separate ways.
To bring the discuss ian dawn to' earth, let us cansidcl' what might be thaught af as the mare 0'1' less
trivial prablem af pragramming a camputer to' play
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checkers. I have chasen ~heckers rather than chess
partly as a matter af persanal bias ('having written
such a pragram myself") and partly because af the
apparent simplicity af the game which highlights the
prablem af search. TO' get a camputer to' play checkers
we must, firs,t af all, represent the pieces an the
checkerboard in a fashian which can be stared in
the camputer. Then the cansequences af each of the
available maves are to' be analyzed by loaking ahead,
much as a persan might do, cansidedng each initial
mave in turn, then all of the apponent's passible replies, and, far each af these, all af the caunterrepl'ies,
and sa on. The average persan is anly able to' cantinue
this -look-ahead process for two or three maves in
advance, but ane might argue that, since computers
are sa very fast, it shauld be passible to' search thraugh
all passible maves clear to the end af the game and
sa determine, unambiguausly, the relative warth of the
different passible first maves. Unfartunately, camputers are nat that fast. Prajecting ahead to' the fastest possible camputer, subject anly to' such limitatians
as the size af the universe, ,the molecular nature of
matter, and the finiteness af the speed af light, it
wauld stHl take many centuries, perhaps mare than
the tatal age af the universe, far such a camputer,
us;ing this pracedure, to make its first mave.
Hill-Climbing
A persan salves this prablem by stapping the laakahead pracess at a canvenient paint and by evaluating
the resulting board position in terms af same intermediate gaals: has he been able to' capture ane of his
oppanent's pieces withaut lasing ane in turn? has he
been able to liking" a man? or, even, has he been
able to dcvclop an opcning which will lead to the
king row'! This analysis eannot, hy lhc nalure af
things, he cxhaustivc, and thcsc secondary goals are
not foolproof as indicatians that one is procceding in
the right direction. This general pracedurc is known
as hill-climbing, and its shartcamings can be seen if
ane attempts to' use it to' get to' the tap of Mount
Everest by always gaing uphiH, starting, say, at
Garden City, Lang Island. There are twa difficulties,
the first being the existence af lacal peaks (if West
Hill at 380 feet abave sea level justifies such an appellation) and the secand being the existence af fiat regians subject to' lacal perturbations (the surface af
the acean, for exampl~) in which aimless meandering
wi'll accur unless very large steps are taken and the
attendant danger that the desired peak may be completely missed unless the steps are small. Needless to
say, a variety af different techniques have been develaped to cape with these problems, but they may
always be present to' same degree, just as they always
seem to' plague man.
Having terminated a particular hill-climbing excursian, 0'1' a particular laak-ahead process in the game
af checkers, we must then determine the elevatian, or
evaluate ithe baard pasitian, to see if we are any neare1'
aur gaal. In the case of physical hill-climbing, thcrc
exist such things as altimetcrs with which \\'C can
measure our precisc clevatioll, bul, in the checkcr
analagy, there is no simplc nwasure of the goodness
af a checker pasition. Of course, there is thc possibility that we have eneountcred precisely the same
pasitian in same prcviaus gamc, but this is highly
unlikely except, pcrhaps, for apening positions and
for the end game, so, instead, we must categorize the
baard situation, 01' classify it as belanging to' same
general class of uourd situations. The prablem is not
unlike that of rceognizing a pattern 0'1' ink spats 0'1'
smudgcs 011 the printed page which we identify as a

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Two steps are involved in pattern recognition. The
first is the creation of a number of concepts, for example, roundness used in identifying O's, straightness
and the directionality of lines, and similar concepts.
The second step is the assignment of weights to these
various properties as they are used in identifying or
classifying unknown characters. Attempts have been
made to mechanize both of these steps, but, to date,
very Ettle progress has been made with respect to the
concept-formation step,and most of the workers have
been content to supply man-generated concepts and to
develop, machine procedures for assigning weights to
these concepts.
Machine-Learning
It is ,here that we encounter the idea of machine
learning. Suppose we arrange for some automatic
means of testing the effectiveness of any current
weight assignment in terms of actual performance
and provide a mechanism for altering the weight
assignment so as to maximize the performance. We
need not go into the details of such 'a procedure to see
that it could 'be made entirely 'automatic and to see
that a machine so programmed would "learn" from
its ex,perience. As a bit of corroborative evidence,
the checker-playing program (to which I have alluded)
does have this feature, and it is fairly easy to demonstrate that this program "learns" from its playing
experience and that it gets to he a better and better
checker player with time. An amusing consequence
of this characteristic is that the .program soon becomes
able ,to beat the man who wrote the program, not
because i,t makes use of any information or techniques
not known or knowable to the man, but only because
of 'its infallible memory, f'antastic accuracy, and prodigious speed which enahles it to make a detailed, but
quite unimaginative, analysis in a few seconds which
would take years for the man Ito duplicate.
We have gone into all of ,this detail not to make
professional programmers out of our readers but,
rather, to demonstrate how very prosaic the entire
matter really is flnd how very far away from approx:imating the behavior of an intelligent human being
our intelU,gent machines seem to be. I need only remind you that a checker master ean still beat the best
checker program, in spite of his pitiful m'emory by
machine standards and a difference of more than one
million in relative calculating speeds. Learning procedures have yet to be applied to anything more
complicated than checkers, and the realprobleIl].s to
which we w~>uld .like, tp address .ourselves are many
orders-of llIagnittidemore complicated.
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A Paradox
Perhaps we have said enough on the negative side.
Progress is being made lin machine learning, and we
will someday understand why i,t is that 'a man can
outperform a machine, and, as a result of this understanding, we will rbeable ,to devise better machines or
even to program existing ones so that they can outperform 'man in most forms of mental activity. In
fact, one suspects that our present machines would be
able to do this now were we but smart enough to write
the kind of programs. The limitations are not in the
machine but in man.
Here, then, is a paradox. In order to make machines
which appear to be smarter than man, man himself
must be smarter than the machine. A higher order
of intelligence, or at least of understanding, seems
to be required to instruct a machine in the art of
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being intelligent than is required to duplicate the intelligence which ,the machine is to simulate.
When we have at last achieved that degree of
understanding required to write a program which will
ape people in most of their mental -activities, we will
then feel the need to write a more generalized program for a machine which will cause it ,to write its
own programs or to write programs for another machine. This, in turn, will require still greater understanding on the part of man. There is no end to this
process, but, apparently, man as the originator will
always be on top.
Our point, then, is that we have nothing to fear
from the machine, 'at least in so far as there is any
danger of the machine becoming more intelligent than
man. The machi:ne's intelligence is prescribed by 'man,
and a hig'lher intelligence is demanded for the prescription than for the execution.

On Second Thought
But, there is a fallacy in our argument. \Ve have
been assuming that man will not be able to construct
an intelligent machine until he thoroughly understands
the inner workings of such a device. Nevertheless,
throughout his,tory, man has discovered many properties of nature which he has not understood, and he
has proceeded to use these pro,perties both for good
and for evil in spite 'of his lack of comprehension. We
must, therefore, reckon with the possibility that man
may yet create a· Frankenstein monster in the form of
an intelligent machine more or less by accident and
long before he has developed the detailed knowledge
required to control his own creation.
T'his brings us back to the alternate approach to
the artificial"inteUigence problem which we mentioned
earlier, that of studying birds, not aerodynamics,
since it seems' reasonable to assume that, of the two
alternatives, this approach is the more likely to lead
to discovery without understanding. It will be recalled that the procedure is to Slimulate the brain by
means of a randomly connected net of neuronlike
devices in the hope that such an assemblage will
possess intelligence. We might further argue that,
since the details of the interconnections between the
elements would be unknown, there would be a degree
of uncertainty in our knowledge of the capabilities of
the ensemble and in our ability to predict. its behavior
and, to this extent, the device'mi'ght develop an intellect superior to that of man, its creator.
Such a development is, however, extremely unlikely.
In the first place, there is the matter of relative size.
It becomes increas'ingly difficult to interconnect neuronlike devices when the number gets much larger than,
say, 10 6 'or 10 7 elements, and, under these conditions,
the individual devices must, of necessity, be quite
simple. By way of contrast, the brain of man contains
perhaps 1010 neurons, and the 'individual neurons have
many processes which connect ,them in 'a very complicated way to other neurons. There -are perhaps a
hundred such connections on the average per neuron.
In the face of this complexi,ty, our feeble attempts at
simulation resemble the nervous system of the flatworm more nearly than they duplicate the brain of
man. T'his situation will not always prevail, and, with
some of the newer computer-fabrication techniques,
we may s.omeday be able to make devices which approach the .brain in complexity.
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cannectians in the brain. The brain certainly is na.t
cannected alt randam, althaugh ane can advance arguments to' suppart the thesis that chance must play a
part. Far example, with a camplexity measured by
samething like 10:!(), it is hard to' see haw the entire
specificatian can be cantained in a germ plasm. There
is alsO' evidence af a great amaunt af redundancy, far
there are cases in which relatively large partians af
the brain have been damaged, ar even remaved, withaut any seriaus lang-range impairment af the mental
faculties.
Arguing an the ather side, there is an abservable
grass ardering camman to' all brains. Abave and beyond this, the,re is the ardering 'which is abviausly
necess'ary to' provide the newbarn child with the many
reflexes and instinctive behaviar patterns sa necessary
far his survival. 'Order is alsO' betrayed. by the many
detailed mental quirks which we inherit. Finally,
while men of genius, an the average, appear to' have
lar'ger brains than their less fartunate brethren, this
is certainly nat univers'ally the case, and the chief
difference between pradigies and the mentally deficient
seems to' reside mare in the detailed structuring af
their brains than in mere bulk.
Of caurse, slince we knaw substantially nothing
abaut the ardering af the brain, 'an assumptian af
randamness is 'as gaad a place to' start as anywhere
else, but aur chance af canstructing a device resembling the brain af man is then samething like ane in
10 12 • It will anly be thraugh an increased unders,tanding af rthe basic mechanisms invalved that we will be
able to' increase these odds, and, to' the extent that
we increase aur understanding, we also increase aur
ability to' cantral.

We can, ,therefare, reaffirm our previaus canclusian
that we have nathing to' fear fram the machine in
terms af daminatian. This daes nat mean that man
may nat use the camputer to' harm mankind. T'he
digital camputer af taday and the intelligent machine
af the marraw are 'taals, just 'as the typewriter, the
steam sihavel, and the thermanuclear bamb are taals,
and mast, if not all, af man's taals may be emplayed
by bath saints and sinners. The digital camputer
may lack same af the destructive pawer af the bamb,
but ,then the bamb awes much af its effectiveness to'
calculatians made by camputers and, in a sense, the
camputer will have to' share the blame if man succeeds
in destraying himself. It wiH be man, hawever, whO'
must bear the ultimate respansibility, and attempts
to' assign blame to' an inanimate callectian af mechanical and electrical parts which man assembles, ar
causes to' ,beassembled, canstitute a shabby farm af
buck-passing.

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The entire threat af ,the intelligent machine is nat
s'a easily dismissed as ane might judge fram these
remarks. While the ma,chine may never be mare intelligent than man, men vary in their inteHectual
capabilities, and the machine may and undaubtedly
will surpass same men. The threat, then, is mare
ane af technalagical unemplayment than af daminatian. In a sense, this is but 'a cantinuatian af the
pracess which, has been gaing an ever since man made
his first inventian. Such a statement daes nat salve
the prablem, but, in terms af its grass effect on emplayment, the intelligent machine shauld be laaked
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be singled out for especial approbation. Artificial
intelligence is, of course, something more than another
labor-saving device, since it augments man's brain
rather than his brawn. In fact,it is quite apt to be
that added factor in our economy which will enable
man to solve the entire problem of technological unemployment, including that portion, if any, caused by
its own introduction.
Programming computers to play games, to write
poetry, and to solve high school problems is but one
stage in the development of an understanding of the
methods which must be employed for the machine
simulation of intellectual behavior. We are still in
the game-playing stage, but, as we progress in our
understanding, it seems reasonable to assume that
these newer techniques will be applied to real-life
situations with increasing frequency and that the
effort devoted to games and other toy problems will
decrease. Perhaps we have not yet reached this turning point, and we may still have much to learn. N evertheless, it seems certain that the time is not far
distant when most of the more humdrum mental tasks,
which now take so much 'human time, will be done by
machine. Artificial intelligence is neither a myth nor
a threat to man.
1 ~Iar\'in
~Iinsky, "A S,elected Bibliography to the Literature on
Artificial Int!'lIigencp," IR'B Tran.mctions on Human Factors in Elec·
tronics, Vol. 2 pIarch 196'1), pp. 39·55.
2 ::-.rorbert ,,'iener, Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in tht
Anilllal and the ]lachine (Xpw York: John \Viley & Sons, 1948) and
"Some ~roral and Tpchnical Consequences of Automation," Science, Vol.
131 Dray 19(0), p. 1355. See also Arthur L. Samuel, "Some Moral
and Tpchnical Consequences of Automation-A Refutation," Science,
\'01. 132 (Spptpmb!'r 19(0), p. 741.
3~Iortimpr Taube, Computers and Common Sense-The Myth of
Thinkill{l Jlachines (::-.rpw York: -Columbia University 'Press, 1961).
4 ~Iarvin ~Iinsky, "Steps Towards Artificial Intelligence," Proceedings
of fTlI' I.R.E., Vol. 49 (January 19(1), pp. R·30.
:; Arthur L. Samllel, "Some Studies in ~rachine Learning Using the
Game of Checkers," IBM Journlll of Re.~ellrch and Dere/opment, Vol. 3,
No.3 (July 195P), p. 211.

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APPLIC,ATIONS

ELECTRONIC COMPUTER AID FOR STORM OBSERVATION

A new electronic device that
"may revolutionize methods of
Short-range storm observation and
forecasting" has been announced by
Dr. David Atlas, chief of the Air
Force Cambridge Research Laboratories' Weather Radar Branch. The
electronic device is a specialpurpose digital computer; it was
designed and built by Budd Electronics, a division of The Budd
Company, Inc., Long Island City,
N.Y., according to ideas originally set forth by Dr. Atlas.
The device is called STRADAP
(for Storm Radar Data Processor).
It operates automatically, converting rapidly fluctuating weather
echoes (as received by a Weather
Radar Uriit) infb two storin'maps
made up entirely of numerals, one
showing storm intensity, and the
other heigfit. In the STRADAP intensity map, numerals from one to
7 indicate the degree of storm
intensity in increasing order.
The numerals in the height map indicate storm tops in 10,000-ft.
categories. Height and intensity
displays can be transmitted anywhere in less than 15 seconds;
locally through the use of a highspeed display printer, or at a remote site, through the use of high
speed telephone lines. A network
of 100 radars would be able to
transmit all their data to a national center in less than 20
minutes, allOWing an entire national storm display to be updated two
or three times an hour in rapidly
developing situations.

The STRADAP has been successfully tested by the AFCRL Weather
Radar Branch at its laboratories
near Sudbury, Mass. After one
week of operation and in its first
test in severe storm conditions,
the device on October 12, 1962,
detected and displayed a storm
which produced a tornado in Charlton, Mass., the first time radar
observations of storm intensity
and height have been made completely automatically and have been available within minutes of the observation time.

The machine may become a revolutionary aid in (1) increasing
air safety, by vastly speeding
weather information to pilots and
air traffic controllers, (2) providing warnings and alerts to the
public on tornadoes, hurricanes,
squall lines and hailstorms, (3)
giving advance warnings on flash
floods, and (4) prodUCing up-tothe minute information for
national weather forecasters.

OUTER SPACE "ANCHORAGES" DESCRIBED BY MATHEMATICIAN

A General' Electric rtiat'herriati-'
cian is applying an extensive program of modern computer techniques
to a two-centuries astronomical
old theory. He has specified two
areas in outer space where space
platforms could be "anchored" between earth and the moon. At such
"anchorages" space platforms would
orbit the earth at the same relatively slow speed as the moon.
This would provide stable bases
for scientific observatories of
the earth, moon and sky. They
could also be used as relay stations in a communications satellite system or as way stations
for trips to Venus and Mars.

J. Pieter de Vries, manager
of astrodynamics in G-E's Space
Sciences Laboratory, Philadelphia,
Pa., explained that these "anchor-

ages" oc-curred where the"gravitational forces of the earth and
moon balanced the centrifugal
force of a space vehicle. In applying his computer program, de
Vries analyzed the motions of a
space ship and its reaction to
the actual forces in the solar
system, such as the earth and
moon's gravitational fields. He
also considered the guidance and
propulSion necessary to place a
vehicle at or near one of these
"anchorages". A space ship rocketed to either location would hang
suspended there and require only
small amounts of thrust to correct
any tendencies to drift out of
position.
De Vries based his modern
work on a theory announced in 1772
by the European mathematician-

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astronomer Joseph Louis Lagrange.
Lagrange's theory grew out of his
investigations of the mutual effects of three bodies moving in
space. He determined that a small
object moving under the gravitational forces of two larger bodies
would encounter five positions
where the forces exerted by the
larger bodies would cause the
smaller body to move in specified
orbits related to the larger
bodies. The development of this
theory at G-E as applied to a
space ship under the influence of
the earth and moon indicated that
a space ship would stay permanently only at the two locations described by de Vries.

G-E began its study in 1961
under contract to the Air Force's
Rome Air Development Command
(RADC). Shortly afterward, a
Polish astronomer,after ten years
of telescopic research,reported he
had discovered two cloud-like natural satellites slowly circling
the earth at these same
"anchorages". American astronomers are trying to verify his
report.
De Vries' group has carried
an analysis of the three-body
problem further by introducing
into it the effects of the Sun's
forces. First results of this
analysis indicate that the Sun
would have only a small effect on
the motion of spacecraft at an
"anchorage" location.

READING MACHINE CONVERTS
ADDRESSOGRAPH PLATES
TO PUNCHED CARDS

The Rabinow Engineering Co.,
Inc., Rockville, Md., has completedthe conversion of, addressograph plate impressions directly
into computer language by means of
a reading machine, for the Potomac
Edison Co., Hagerstown, Md.
Potomac Edison customer address plates were imprinted in
Cumberland, Md. The impressions
were sent to Rabinow in Rockville;
there they were optically scanned
by the Rabinow Reader. The machine
converted the human readable information into computer language,
in the form of IBM punched cards.
The reader also picked up edit
code marks. The final output can
be arranged to meet the special
computer program requirements of
the customer. The time required
to convert by means of the reader
is much less than that of conventional key-punch methods; and the
method has a high degree of
accuracy.

GROUPS OF COMPUTERS
SIMULATE CA TASTROPHES

At the Aerospace Development
Center of Lear Siegler Instrument
Division, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
engineers program "disasters" into
their computers: a test pilot, in
a screaming dive, strives desperately to pull back the control
column -- and fails; a guided
missile streak~ across the sky
and scores a direct hit. From
such simulated catastrophes as
these, information is obtained
which will aid the design and improve the expected performance of
products before any actual construction is begun.

DIGITAL COMPUTER USED
IN NEW TEST METHOD

The Aeronutronic Division of
Ford Motor Company, Newport Beach,
Calif., has developed a new technique for testing the reliability
of components and equipment used
in weapons and space systems.
The method tests safety
margins for short-lived components
such as rocket motors, thermal
batteries, switches, and similar
items. Reliability is established
normally by operating equipment
under increasingly severe environmental stress conditions until
failure occurs. In the case of
short-lived or "one-shot" items,
it is possible only to anticipate
a stress level, then operate the
specimen under this environment
to see if it functions successfully. The new technique includes
a procedure for selecting environmental test levels and a method
for analyzing test data, using a
digital computer to calculate the
statistical properties of equipment strengths. The method has
been used successfully in performing reliability tests for the
Shillelagh missile program.

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Documentation Inc., Bethesda,
Md., has signed a $2.9 million
contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
for the second year of operation
of NASA's Scientific and Technical
Information Facility located in
Bethesda. This facility is concerned with the collection, processing and distribution of technical information for the nation's
aeronautical and space community.

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

BLANCHE TO COMPARE
FEDERAL-D. C.
'62 TAX RETURNS

Ernest E. Blanche & Associ~
ates, Inc., Kensington, Md., has
been awarded a contract, by the
D.C. Finance Office, to compare by
high-speed computer the Federal
and District of Columbia income
tax returns filed last year by
Washington residents. The contract calls for the 1962 Federal
tax receIpts from 325,000 Washinton residents to be matched
with only 270,000 returns for
cit) taxes filed by D.C. citizens
to find out why there was a disparity of 55,000 local filings
in 1962.

AWARD $528, 000 CONTRAC T
FOR CANCER DATA PROCESSING

The National Institutes of
Health (NIH) have awarded a
$528,000 contract to Documentation
Inc:, Bethesda, Md., for processing test data of drug effects on
cancer. The new one-year contract
is a continuation of work which
DOC INC has conducted for the
Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center of NIH for five years.
The NIH-DOC INC program, one of
the nation's most highly-automated
systems of medical data processing,
so far has enabled cancer scientists to mobilize test data from
a master file on 500,000 chemical
components and 26 different cancer
systems.

U. S. AIR FORCE AWARDS
$8 MILLION CONTRACT TOPHILCO

Philco's Communications and
ElectronicsDj vis,i,Qn has been
awarded an $8 million contract by
the U.S. Air Force to furnish
data processing and display equipment for the Alaskan Air Command
Data Processing and Display System. The contract is to engineer
and install an automatic system
to provide continuous tracking
and display of enemy aircraft
penetrating U.S. northern defense
lines. The system provides almost
instantaneous data displays at
local control centers as well as
at NORAD headquarters in Colorado
Springs, Colorado.

RCA UNDER CONTRACT
TO DEVELOP NEW FAMILY
OF THIN-FILM CIRCUITS

A new family of thin-film
circuits is being developed by the

Radio Corporation of America under
a contract funded by the U.S. Navy
Bureau of Weapons and administered
by the Office of Naval Research.
The circuits, comprised of active
and passive elements evaporated
as a film on glass, are being
built by nCA Laboratories, Princeton, N.J., and the Applied Research activity of RCA Defense
Electronic Products, Camden, N.J.
Initial application of the circuits will be in aircraft cockpit
displays.

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LIBRASCOPE RECEIVES CONTRACT
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The Librascope Division of
General Precision's Information
Systems Group has received a
$468,000 letter contract from
Douglas Aircraft Co. to design and
produce an airborne digital computer system for use in Army tactical
aircraft. The lightweight digital
system will be capable of performing as the computing center of a
cockpit display system being developed for the U.S. Army by the
Douglas Aircraft Division at Long
Beach, Calif. Librascope's computer system, built around a modified 37-pound AN/ASN-24 digital
computer, will monitor the aircraft's navigation sensing devices
and compute the in-flight data at
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Societ€d' Informa t ique Applique (S.I.A.) and S6~i~t~ d'Economie et de Mathematique Appliqu~es
(S.E.M.A.), of Paris, France, have
ordered a Control Data 3600 computer. S.E.M.~ is a European industrial management firm; S.I.A. provides computing services for the
firm and its customers. Operation
of the CDC 3600 by S.I.A. as part
of S.LA.'s Paris Computing Center,
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above, will operate a 3-axis
Pratt & Whitney Numeric Keller
machine at Boeing.
FOOD PACKING ORGANIZATION
TO INSTALL COMPUTER SYSTEM

A Burroughs B280 magnetic
tape computer system is scheduled
for installation this spring in
the San Francisco headquarters of
the Tri-Valley Packing Association,
a large grower in Northern California. The computer will be used
to pinpoint critical cost areas,
speed customer service, and assist
the company to supervise inventory
more closely.

The Palm Beach Post-Times,
West Palm Beach, Fla., is using
an RCA 301 electronic data system,
which is installed in quarters
adj oining the city room, to set
news stories and classified advertising type. (Application of
the RCA 301 system to newspaper
typesetting technique was reported
in the November 1962 issue of
"Computers and Automation"') The
Los Angeles Times also is using
an automatic typesetting system
built around an RCA computer.

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A second manufacturer's
equipment also has taken up the
task of automatic typesetting.
An IBM 1620 has been installed in
Oklahoma City where it is preparing punched tapes that activiate
Linotype machines for the preparation of the Oklahoma Times and
the Daily Oklahoman. A second
1620 serves as a back-up system.
RALEIGH BANK INSTALLS B251

WEST GERMAN TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE WILL INSTALL
UNIVAC 1107

A UNIVAC 1107 Thin-Film Memory Computer, purchased by the
Ministry of Culture of BadenWurttenburg (West Germany), is
SCheduled to be installed in Stuttgart this summer. It will be ~e
livered to the Department of Aerostatics and AerodynamiCS of the
Stuttgart Technical Institute but
will also be used by other_aeronautical organizations in the area.
COLGA TE UNIVERSIlY
INSTALLS IBM 1620

Colgate University, Hamilton,
N.Y., has installed a desk-size
IBM 1620 for use by the students
and faculty members in the liberal
arts college. The 1620 is operated
for research purposes, Chiefly by
faculty members during the day and
by student teams in the evening.

100TH DYNAPA TH-20 DELIVERED

The 100th transistorized
DynnPnth-20 numerical contouring
system for machine tools has been
delivered, by The Bendix Corporation, Industrial Controls Division,

placed in operation a National
Cash Register 315 computer. The
computer has been installed in
Mead headquarters in downtown
Dayton. It has been programmed
and will be used for the company's business data processing.

PAPER INDUSTRY FIRM
ACQUIRES COMPUTER

The Mead Corporation, Dayton,
Ohio, a paper industry firm, has

The First-Citizens Bank &
Trust Company, Raleigh, No. Carolina, has installed a Burroughs
B251 computer system. The system
will take over all demand deposit
accounting operations. The bank
operates 75 offices in 41 communities in the state.
NASA INSTALLS GE COMPUTER

The-National-Aeronautics and
Space Administration has installed
a GE-225 computer to analyze
launches of the Saturn booster
vehicle, at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
This latest installation is used
to plan and analyze the instrumentation which tracks the Saturn
during flight.
During the past few months
four other GE-225's have been installed at NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center headquarters in
Huntsville, Ala., for aid in designing the Saturn. A sixth unit
was recently installed at NASA's
new computer facility at Slidell,
La., where it is helping develop,
fabricate and test other Saturns
being built at NASA's Michoud,
La., operation.

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 19G3

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NAVY TESTING TORPEDOES
BY COMPUTER

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The United States Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, Washington,
has leased a Control Data 160-A
computer system from the Control
Data Corporation, Minneapolis 20,
Minn. The station is responsible
for conducting proofing runs on
torpedoes issued to the Fleet.
Extensive research and development
tests on advanced types of torpedoes or other underwater devices
arc also conducted here. The CDC
160-A is used in conjunction with
the Navy's three-dimensional
acoustic underwater tracking
range located about 10 miles from
Keyport in Dabob Bay, a tributary
of Puget Sound.

medium scale computers. According
to latest available figures, five
201s and one 420 are already installed in the U.S.
The companies must seek approval from their stockholders on
the transaction. EMRI is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Schlumberger, Ltd., Houston, Tex., ASI
is said to be in a weakened financial condition since additional
financing from a potential investor was not available.
ASI officials indicate that
present plans call for them to
continue to operate the firm in
Minneapolis as an autonomous division of EMRI.

MERGER PLAN
FOR GENERAL CONTROLS COMPANY

ORGANIZATIO"N

NEWS

LITTON ACQUIRES SWEDISH FIRM

Litton Industries has acquired virtually all remaining
outstanding capital stock of
Svenska Dataregister AB of Stockholm, Sweden.
Since November 1959, Litton
has owned a controlling 50.17%
interest in the Swedish company,
which manufactures Sweda and
Monroe/Sweda point-of-sale recorders and cash registers for worldwide distribution. Distribution
of Sweda products in the United
States and abroad has been done
through Litton's Business Machines
Group.
The formal transfer of the
additional shares of Svenska stock
to Litton Industries occurred on
January 15. Since Svenskci joined
Litton Industries in 1959, worldwide sales of its cash registers
are reported to have more than
doubled.
ASI PURCHASE
BY ELECTRO-MECHANICAL
RESEARCH PROPOSED

Electro-Mechanical Research,
Inc., Sarasota, Fla., has made an
agreement to purchase the assets
of Advanced Scientific Instruments, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.
The agreement calls for a purchase
price of $825,000 plus an amount
equal to the cumulative net operating expenses of ASI from Jan.
~U, 1963, to the date of closing.
AS[ is the two-year-old firm which
produces the ASI 210 and ASI 420

The Boards of Directors of
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. and General Controls
Co. have approved an agreement for
the merger of General Controls Co.
into ITT, subject to approval by
stockholders of both companies.
Stockholders of General Controls
are expected to act on May 7; ITT
stockholders on May 8.
General Controls Co., Glendale, Calif., is a manufacturer
and supplier of automatic controls
for residential, industrial and
aerospace users.
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
LABORA TORIES ESTABLISHED BY GE

Genera-l Electric Company has
established its Advanced Technology
Laboratories, Schenectady, N.Y.,
for developmental work leading
toward new opportunities for American business and industry. The
new laboratories -- chemical,
materials, electrical, information,
and mechanical -- succeed the company's 67-year-old General Engineering Laboratory. Examples of
the kinds of new technologies
which the Laboratories will study
are new materials for information
systems, chemical energy conversion systems (fuel cells, gas bearings, etc.), application of semiconductors for conversion of DC to
AC power, and new sensors.

SDS DIGITAL COMPUTERS
FOR HONEYWELL

An agreement between Scientific Data Systems and Minneapolis-

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

Honeywell Regulator Company has
been concluded, under which SDS
will provide general-purpose digital computers for integration by
Honeywell into high-speed processcontrol computer systems. The
systems, along with SDS 910 and
920 high-speed computers, will use
all-silicon semiconductors. Integration of systems equipment will
be made by the Honeywell Special
Systems Division.
SCRIPTOMA TIC BECOMES
INDEPENDENT FIRM

Scriptomaticj Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., manufacturer of highspeed automatic-addressing and
data-writing equipment, has been
purchased by a group of investors.
The company was formerly a subsidiary of Fischer Machine Company,
Philadelphia. Scriptomatic has 47
offices in 21 countries providing
sales and service.
The Board of Directors of the
newly independent company are:
Walter Mann, Chairman of the Board;
Herbert W. Leonard, President;
George Kooch, Vice President; and
Rolf A. Merton and Eugene M. Lang.
AUSTRALIAN SUBSIDIARY
OPENED BY EAI
~lectronic Associates, Inc.
has formed an Australian subsidiary to handle sales of its complete product line in Australia
and New Zealand. The new subsidiary will be known as Electronic
Associates Pty., Ltd., and will
be responsible for sales of large,
medium, and small general-purpose
analog computers, digital plotting
boards, transistorized digital
voltmeters, and other related instruments. Officeswill"be at'
Sidney, N.S.W. where a small computation center will also be
operated.

SCI BUYS COMPUTER LABS
IN STOCK DEAL

Scientific Computers, Inc.,
Minneapolis, Minn., has acquired
Computer Laboratories, Inc.,
Houston, Tex., through a stock
exchange. An undisclosed number
of shares of SCI stock acquired
all of the stock of the Houston
firm. It will be operated as a
wholly-owned subsidiary of SCI.
President Robert O. Young, and
Vice President, A. Scott Kelso
will continue in their positions
with the subsidiary. SCI's existing Houston branch will be
closed and consolidated with Computer Laboratories' quarters.

INFORMA TION PROCESSING BUSINESS
FORMED BY GENERAL ELECTRIC

A new organization, called
the Information Processing Business, has been formed by General
Electric. It will provide.computer services to small- and
medium-sized businesses and government agencies throughout the
nation. The new organization
will be a part of the GE Computer
Department, Phoenix, Ariz. Six
computer centers in major metropolitan areas will be operated by
the Information Processing
Business.
Current activities of the
new organization are centered in
Information Processing Centers in
Schenectady, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.; Dallas, Tex.; Chicago, Ill.;
and Phoenix, Ariz. Another branch
is scheduled to open in New York
City. In addition, the Information Processing Business operates
the Government's computer complex
at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville,
Ala., and provides programming
services for government space
work at Whippany, N.J.; Falls
Church, Va.; White Sands, N.M.;
and in Kwajalein and Ascension
Islands.
Dr. H. M. Sassenfeld has been
appointed as general manager of
the new organization.

COMPUTING
CENTERS
LITTON INDUSTRIES
OPENING,FOUR-NEW CENTERS

Four new Business Equipment
Centers are being opened by the
Litton Industries, Business Machines Group. The new Centers
are, or will be located in Sioux
Falls, So. Dakota; Pensacola,
Fla.; Midland, Texas; and Binghamton, N.Y. The new branch
office facilities will be patterned after the first Business
Equipment Center which opened
last July in Scranton, Pa.

STANFORD COMPUTA TION CENTER
HAS NEW HEADQUARTERS

Two newly completed Computation Center buildings are the

first at Stanford erected specifically for big computers and computer users. Present data-handling capacity will be increased
more than 50 times when both the
new machines are installed, giving
Stanford University one of the
West Coast's largest computer
centers. An IBM 7090/1401 was installed in late January. A Burroughs B5000 is scheduled for installation in late spring.
Students will make up the bulk
of the users, both for education
and research purposes. Other users
will include the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center, Stanford Research Institute, the Graduate
School of Business, the School of
Engineering and various University
departments.

ASTIA SPEEDS
INTERCHANGE OF INFORMA TION

Technical questions on specific subjects telephoned to ASTIA,
the Armed Services Technical Information Agency, Arlington, Va.,
a central agency of the Department
of Defense, are now answered within one hour. This service is
available to the 300,000 scientists
and engineers working directly or
indirectly for the Department of
Defense whose organizations have
been authorized to use ASTIA
services.
Semiconductor devices are the
first subject for this service.
Nearly 500 documents on the subject have been indexed in depth
using a new "microthesaurlls" of
specific retrieval terms. Other
subjects will be added to the rapid
answer ing service wi thin t.he next
few months. They will include:
radiobiology, lasers & masers;
ultraviolet, :visible & infrared
radiation; metals & metallurgy;
oceanology; plasma physics; biological warfare; rocket motors;
and bionics.
Answers consisting of unclassificed and unlimited-release
information pertinent tolDOD
problems will be given by telephone within one hour. Classified
information, bibliographies and
reports, will be forwarded by the
most rapid means available. This
rapid-answering service is one of
a number of improvements which
ASTIA is making to speed the interchange of scientific and technical
information related to defense.

RADC MULTIMILLION DOLLAR
COMPUTER FACILITI

A large computer facility is
in operation at the Rome Air Development Center, Rome, N.Y., in
its Intelligence and Electronic
Warfare building. RADC's computation engineering branch planned
and organized the new facility.
Both military and civilian scienti~ts will use the equipment for
research and development work in
support of the general Air Force
mission and other USAF requirements.
The equipment includes a general purpose computer worth more
than $1 million; an analog computeri a system involving a number of
computers functioning within a
computer; several small desk-size
computers; and an automatic print
reader which can scan a printed
page and convert it to paper tape
in 20 seconds.

ON-CAMPUS COMPUTING CENTER
PLANNED AT BRADLEY UNIVERSITI

Bradley University, Peoria,
Illinois, has completed plans to
establish a Computing Center on
the campus. It will be equipped
with an IBM 1620 computer leased
from the International Business
Machines Corporation. A $20,000
grant from the National Science
Foundation, recently received by
the University, will offset some
of the operating expense of the
Center.
The computer will be used as
a laboratory device for some of
the courses now offered; and new
courses also will be offered.
The computer will be used by the
Whole university, for administration, instruction, and research.
Installation is expectedto.be
accomplished during the spring
with the Center ready for use
when classes open in September.

PEOPLE

NOT'E

DR. CAR HAMMER
APPOINTED BY UNIVAC

Dr. Car Hammer has been appointed as Director of Scientific
Computer Government Marketing by
UNIVAC Division, Sperry Rand Corporation. Dr. Hammer was for 3
years director of the Univac
European Computing Center in
Frankfurt, West Germany.

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

DR. TUCKER RECEIVES PROMOTION

IBM Corp., New York, N.Y.,
has promoted Dr. Gardiner L. Tucker
to IBM director
of research.
Dr. Tucker was
formerly director of development engineering for the
IBM World Trade
Corporation.
In his new
position, he
will ve responsible for the company's research activities at its laboratories iL Yorktown, N.Y., New York,
N.Y., San Jose, Calif. and Zurich,
Switz.
AlEE FIRST PRIZE
A WARDED TWO AMERICAN
RESEARCH ENGINEERS

Two American research engineers, who helped to develop the
theory of Russian mathematician
A. M. Liapunov (1892) into a method
for testing the safety and stability of automatically-controlled
machinery, have been awarded a
prize for their contribution from
the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Drs. John E. Gibson, director
of the Automatic Control and Information Systems laboratory, Purdue University, and Donald G.
Schultz, formerly a Purdue graduate student who is now an associate professor at the University of
Arizona, were awarded the first
prize for the outstanding paper
published in the AlEE journal
(Applications and Industry) during
the past year. The award was made
at the AlEE annual meeting in the
Statler-Hilton Hotel, New York.
As developed by Gibson and
Schultz, the theory has been expanded from previously limited and
specialized applications so that
it can now be applied to a wide
class of engineering systems.

NEW EXECUTIVE OFFICER AT CLARY

Paul I. Stevens has been
named Executive Officer at the
Clary Corpo~ation. In his new
capacity Mr. Stevens will be chief
operating executive supervising
all line and staff functions of
the Corporation. He is now Executive Vice President and a member
of the Board of Directors.

VP'S AT GENERAL PRECISION

Sidney L. Briggs has been appOinted vTce president of administration for General Precision's
Information Systems Group.
Mr. Briggs will be responsible
for employee
relations,
organization
and systems
planning, and
plant telecommunications.
The newly
formed Information Systems
Group includes: the
Librascope Division, Glendale;
Commercial Computer Division,
Burbank; and a new Research Center
in Glandale. Mr. Briggs has been
assistant to the president of
Librascope Divi~ion.
Robert O. Vaughan, formerly
director of marketing, has been
appointed as vice president of
marketing for
the Librascope
Division of
General Precision's Information Group.
Mr. Vaughan
will direct the
marketinu of
Librascope's
computers and
data-processinu
systems for military and space
applications. His responsibilities cover market planning and
the operations of nationwide
regional marketing offices.

FIVE NAMED TO NEW POSTS
BY SIMULMA TICS CORPORA TION

Two new VP's and three other
executives have been named by The
Simulmatics Corp., New York, N.Y.
James H. Marshall, a director
of Creative Marketing Analysts and
of Alto, Inc., has been named a
Vice President. He was formerly
an executive with Grand Union Co.

System and has been associated
with the IBM Servi~e Bureau
Corporation.
Henry D. Sedgwick has been
named Promotions Manager. He was
formerly a sales executive with
Aluminium, Ltd., and President of
Trig-A-Tape Corporation.
Marjorie La Neve, named
Senior Director, was formerly
Media Director at Sudler & Hennessey Inc.

CHAIRMAN-ELECT OF THE AFIPS

Mr. J. D. Madden, director
of information processing and as-sociate director of research at
System Development Corporation, Santa
Monica, Calif.,
has b~en named
chairman-elect
of the board of
governors of
the American
Federation of
Information ProceSSing Societies. Mr.
Madden will assume his duties at
the Spr inU Joint Computer Conferellce ill Uetroit ill May.

BURROUGHS APPOINTMENT

Paul S. Mirabito has been appointed corpo.;,
rate vice
president -administrative
programming of
Burroughs Corporation. Mr.
Mirabito was
Vice President
-- Defense
prior to re ....
ceiving this
appointment
to the newly created position.

James L. Tyson, a director of
Media Mix, has ,also been named a
Vice President. He was for~rly
director of Statistics at
.
C-E-I-R, Inc.
Ernest Heau, formerly Supervisor of Business Systems Programming at the I.T.T. Data Processing
Center, has been named Director of
Programming. He also served as
analyst for the Strategic Air
Command's Computerized Command

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

NEW PRODUCTS
Digital
SECOND IN FAMILY
OF GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPUTERS

General Electric Company
Computer Department
Phoenix, Arizona

A new medium-class gen~ral
purpose computer has been announced
by this company. It is known as
the GE-215 and is second in the
line of a planned family of General Electric computers. The
GE-215 is designed to allow smaller
businesses and industries to convert to electronic data-processing
at minimum start-up costs.

Datanet-15. Outputs are by punched
cards, console typewriter, printer,
magnetic tape, paper tape and
Datanet-15.
A basic system includes, in
addition to a central processor
with console typewriter, a 400-cpm
card reader; 100 cpm card punch;
two dual tape handlers; MICR document handler; and a 450-line-perminute printer.

DUAL-PURPOSE COMPUTER

Honeywe 11 EDP
60 Walnut Street
Wellesley Hills 81, Mass.
A medium-price, dual-purpose
data-processing system has been
introduced by this company. The
system has scientific and business
capabilities, high internal operating speeds, and many large scale
computer features. It is called
the Honeywell 1400, and has floating point arithmetic and multiplydivide options for scientific data
processing, a memory cycle time of
6.5 microseconds, and an internal
speed of 14,000 three-address
binary additions per second.

-- Senlor programming analyst Joan V. Cannon with
General Electric's new
GE-215.
The new machine has complete
compatibility with the larger
GE-225 and with all programming
packages presently used with that
computer. Programs are available
for simplified transition from
punched card systems to the GE-225.

The 1400 has priority processing, permitting the simultaneous operations of peripheral devices, such as card readingcomputing-printing, simultaneous
magnetic tape reading and writing
at full tape speed, and operation
of two high speed printers at the
same time.

Programming aids for the system are compatible with the Honeywell 400 system. EASY assembly
language, COBOL, and the AUTOMATH
scientific (algebraic) compiler
form the basic software package.
Honeywell 1400 programs can be
run and tested on the H-400 or
the large-scale H-800 computers.
VAN-MOUNTABLE VERSIONS
OF SDS COMPUTERS

Scientific Data Systems
1649 Seventeenth St.
Santa Monica, Calif.
This company has made vanmountable versions of the SDS 910
and the SES 920 general-purpose
digital computers. All parts of
the computers have been mounted on
pull-out slides so as to provide
complete accessibility from the
front of the cabinets.
The picture shows an SDS 910
computer and peripheral equipment

The memory capacity of the
new system ranges from 4096 .words
to 16,384 words, expandable in
4096-word modules. A Honeywell
word is 12 decimal digits.

The GE-215 has a magnetic core
memory of 4000 or 8000 words. Additional memory needs are available
through a disc-type Mass Random
Access Data System. Instruction
time is 35.6 microseconds. Short
word lengths are 20 bits; long
.
words, 40 bits.

Up to 16 magnetic tape units
can be connected to the Honeywell
1400. Three models are available
with transfer rates of either
48,000, 96,000 or 133,000 decimal
digits per second. The tape units
have Honeywell's Orthotronic automatic error-detect ion-correct ion
system.

The magnetic tape subsystem
used with the GE-215 includes one
controller and up to eight tape
handlers. Inputs may be punched
cards, magnetic tape, MICR documents, punched paper tape, Mass
Random Access Data System and

The basic configuration of
the system includes a central processor with a 4096-word memory,
eight magnetic tape drives, a
printer, card reader, card punch
and operator's console. Arithmetic and control units for the

system are contained in the
central processor. Paper tape
equipment, disc storage units,
optical scanning and Orthoscanning
devices and communications control
units can also be used with the
Honeywell 1400.

which have been mechanically modified for slide mounting in a van.
The entire computer slides in and
out of its rack as one assembly.
Also, the paper tape punch, spooler,
reader, and the power supply are
mounted on slides. The machine may
have extra long cables (some as
long as 40 ft.) in order that the
paper tape equipment, typewriter a
and control panel may be physically
removed from the computer itself
when mounted in a van.

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 19G3

SAAB MARKETS NEW COMPUTER

Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget
100 Waterfront St.
New Haven, Conn.
A new digital computer has
been introduced to this country by
5MB (Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebologet).
The system, called the D21, is a
general-purpose, parallel-sequence,
binary computer. Its versatility
is reported to make it useful in
small offices and laboratories as
well as in large data processing
and plant process control centers.
The solid state computer has
a minimum core memory of 4000
words which can be enlarged to
32,768 words. Word structure is
flexible with semi-variable word
lengths of 1, 12, 24 (basic word
size), and 48 binary digits. Clock
frequency is 2.5 megacycles per
second. The memory-core cycle
time is 4.8 microseconds. A complete central processor consists
of an arithmetic unit, two control
units, memory unit or units, and
a power unit.
Modular design is used electrically, as well as mechanically,
in the system. CircuIt components
are easily accessible and functional units (memory, control, etc.)
can be quickly replaced. All malfunctions are located and reported
to the central processor.
An autocode called DAC is
used in programming the D21. This
symbolic language allows direct
computer instruction as well as
many pseudo-instructions. An
instruction list of 45 operations
permits technical computations
such as floating point arithmetic,
multiplication and division, matrix calculus, equations and
functions. Commercial data and
plant process control are also
programmed.

PLANT POWER MAINTAINED
WITHIN SET LIMITS
BY COMPUTER

Bailey Meter Company
1050 Ivanhoe Rd.
Cleveland 10, Ohio
A special-purpose digital
computer_has been developed by
this companYi it continuously
monitors total power consumed by
a plant or process. The computer,
called a Power-Demand Computer,
may be Installed in any plant
where economic use of electrical
power is desired.

Information supplied by the
computer permits the plant operator to obtain maximum use of
power available without exceeding
a preset demand limit. Demand is
based on either an analysis of
plant needs or on the terms of a
contract with the utility. The
computer is a self-contained device that uses solid-state digital
components of modular, plug-in
type. Demand rate is set by three
ten-position tap switches mounted
on a plug-in module within the
system cabinet. Indicator lamps
show if -the existing rate of power
consumption is above, below, or
at the preset demand rate.

has been introduced by this company. It can convert magnetic
tape to paper and paper tape to
magnetic"during t~ansmission.
The Mark 63 is a bi-directional device, designed for use
with a paper tape terminal. It
has lateral and longitudinal
parity checking, and automatic
back-up and re-transmission of
blocks upon detection of any kind
of transmission error. The system
uses a Datamec D2020 Magnetic tape
terminal (Computers and Automation,
October 1962). Paper tape may be
in any 5, 6, 7 or 8 level code.
The standard magnetic tape format
is 1401 but other formats may be
specified.

Data Transmitters
and

AID

Converters
Software

News

DA TA ACQUISITION SYSTEM
H-400 "PERT" PROGRAM

General Electric
Schenectady 5, N.Y.
This company has developed a
600-channel input, medium-speed
data-acquisition system capable of
automatically scanning up to 600
sensing instruments. The system
converts analog voltages representing any combination of functions,
such as temperature from a thermocouple, pressure from a gage, etc.,
into precise digital form. Measurements and auxiliary data are
concurrently recorded on punched
paper tape and on a digital printer, or fed directly into a general
purpose computer.
The system will print only,
punch only, or print and punch at
any rate up to 40 points per second. Its output can be coupled
directly to a digital computer.
In this arrangement scann~ng
speeds up to 60 points per second
are possible by setting a selector switch.
The data logger is designed
for use in testing jet engines,
space simulators, airplanes and
rockets and for use in the chemical, petroleum and utility fields.

MAGNETIC TAPE
TRANSMISSION TERMINAL

Tally Register Corp.
Seattle, Wash.
The Mark 63, a new magnetictape data-transmission terminal,

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

Honeywell Electronic Data
Process ing, Wellesley Hills, Mass.,
is developing a PERT package for
use with the Honeywell 400 computer. This package will be
available to users in the third
quarter of this year. PEHT, for
E,rogram livaluation and Review
lechn ique, is a management planning and control program.
The basic H-4UO configuration
required for using the PERT package IS a central processor with
2K memory, 5 magnetic tape units,
a high-speed printer and a card
reader. This configuration can
handle up to 700 events and 900
activities using the new PERT
package.

DATATROL
"FORTRAN DIAGNOSTIC LOADER"

Datatrol Corporation, Silver
Spring, Md., has written a program for diagnosing certain errors
in FORTRAN coding. The program is
called the Datatrol FORTRAN Diagnostic Loader (DFDU, and it is
being offered to interested computer installations at no charge.
The DFDL was written to check
FORTRAN statements durinu the
normal card-to-tape loading pass
on the Il3M 1<101. The maximum
checking possible is done on the
FORTRAN statements during cardto-tape load time, with the purpose of reporting errors quickly
to the programmer and also producing a job tape for processing

on the IBM 7090, free of errors
detectable by the Loader.

spend many more weeks manually rewriting the program.

When an invalid statement is
encountered, it is listed on the
1401's printer, together with a
notation specifying the nature of
the error. The first error found
causes the magnetic tape to be
repositioned to the beginning of
that job. After the first error,
the remaining statements are
checked but transcription to tape
is not resumed until the beginning
of the next job. All control
cards are listed on the 1401's
printer for identification
purposes.
All tape conventio~s required
by the 7090 FORmAN Monitor have
been followed, such as the insertion of look-ahead bits into
the tape records. No restrictions
have been placed on the FORTRAN
programmer.
2.
NEW COBOL MANUAL

The U.S. Government Printing
Office, Washington 25, D.C., now
has available a revised edition of
COBOL, called "COBOL 61 Extended".
The publication represents months
of effort on the part of that
group of volunteer programming experts, the COBOL Maintenance Committee. Headed jointly by Gregory M.
Dillon of the Dupont Company and
John Jones of the Air Force Logistics Command, this group is responsible for improving and clarifying
the rules which r.onstitute this
programming language, previously
published as "COBOL 61."
The new publication extends
the language but does not change
essential features. Those who
have already started using COBOL
need have no fear that their work
is obsolete.

All things considered, the
future of COBOL seems bright.
With the support that computer
manufacturers have shown by their
rapid production of compilers
and with improved methods of
With a problem stated in
training programmers in the use
COBOL the user is able to
of COBOL being developed, it
use any computer for which
seems likely that its use will
a compiler program is availgrow rapidly. Discussion is goable merely by compiling
ing on about adoption of COBOL,
an operating program for
by the Amerioan Standards Assothat computer. Heretofore
, clation, as the standard programan operating program was
ming language for commercial probwritten for the user's
lems. This may lead to similar
main machine at a cost of
adoption by the International
many weeks or months of efStandards Organization.
fort by his programmers;
then, if he wanted to use
With greater use will come
a different machine in anmore suggestions for improvement,
other location or wished
both of COBOL itself and of the
to replace his computer by
compiler programs. Admittedly,
a new model, he had to

Many users have started to
make use of COBOL. The advantages
expected are threefold:
1.

there is plenty of room for improvement in both areas but ithe
development has been a cooperative effort --an astoundingly
Recompiling the COBOL state- successful one considering the
ments into a program for
competitive situation -- and must
remain so. Too rapid improvethe new machine is a matter
ments in the language might waste
of minutes or, at the
millions of dollars worth of commost, a few hours. For
. piler programs. Hence, a period .
the Department of Defense
of slow, evolutionary improvement
with different computers
is to be expected.
in different locations,
all on the same job, this
is an important factor.
Some private corporations
have branches in different
locations where the same
Input- Output
situation applies. And
many companies feel much
MAGNETIC TAPE UNIT BC 422
better not to be "locked
in" to a situation where
an obsolete computer will
BurroughS CorpQration
be used rather than stand
Equipment & Systems Div.
the cost of reprogramming
Detroit 32, Mich.
f or a new mode 1.
In the_~agnetic tape unit
Some users report that
BC 422, recently developed by
over-all time of wri ting
this company, static skew has been
a program is reduced by
completely eliminated, and dynamic
use of COBOL. This will,
skew held to less than one micro~
no doubt, depend largely
second. The unit is solid-state
on the relative familiariand has been designed for use
ty of programmers with
with data acquisition and proCOBOL as compared with
ceSSing systems. The device is
other programming methods.
completely self-contained, includIt appears that new proing power supplies and circuitry
grammers can be trained
for logiC, error detection, and
in the use of COBOL more
skew corrections.
quickly than for other systems.
The BC 422 has a maximum tape
speed of 120 inches per second,
Another advantage of writand a maximum density of 555 bits
ing programs in COBOL is
per inch. The tape speed is kept
that those who come after
within 1% of the nominal rate by
can understand more easily.
a pair of specially designed hysThis is to be expected
teresis synChronous, belt-driven
since COBOL is composed
capstan motors. The start and
basically of English
stop times are less than three
words and phrases. There
milliseconds.
is no doubt that COBOL affords a clearer back-track
The magnetic tape unit may
than previous systems.
be used with any digital computer.

SQ-LID-STA TE TOTALIZER

General Electric
Schenectady 5, N.Y.

A totalizer designed to provide the connecting link between
metering devices and associated
recording and billing equipment
has been developed by this company; the device is called
PULSCRIPT SST-I. The solid-state
totalizer, type SST-I, is designed
to be joined with and meet the accuracy of electronic data loggers
and digital computers.
The SST-l can be used to receive, count, add, subtract, divide, or integrate impulses repre-

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 19(i)

I
.,.

senting electrical energy, or
gallons of water, or feet of wire,
paper, or steel, etc. Signals fed
into the SST-l originate from
pulses generated by various forms
of commercial contact-making devices, such as the meters of production-counting signals. The

device transmits toe total or net
amount of these impulses to any
one or a combination of the
following: computer, data logger,
telemetering equipment, printing
demand meter, or other totalizer.

Components
DECADE COUNTER TUBES

Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
Electronic Tube Division
Emporium, Pa.
Two new bi-directional decade counter tubes for use in digital computers have been developed
by this company. The tubes can
accomplish a variety of purposes,
including coding, scaling, frequency-dividing, multiplexing,
addition, and subtraction. Type
8035 will operate in high-speed
computers from 0 to 50 KC; type
8353 will operate from 0 to 4 KC
for low-speed computers. Both
tubes have ten individual cathodes to allow for multiple or sequential output pulses. Read-out
of the count is from the top of
the tube.
"BUILDING BLOCK"
CHECKOUT SYSTEM

NEW X-Y RECORDER

Houston Instrument Corp.
P.O. Box 22234
Houston 27, Texas
This company has developed a
s implif ied 11" x 17" X-Y recorder,
designated the HR-97. The recorder has 1 mv/in. basic sensitivity,
0.25% of full-scale accuracy,
15 in/sec. pen speed, zener reference voltages, snap-on pen assembly, and vacuum paper holddown.

The HR-97 has interchangeable plug-in control modules.
All of the plug-in modules have
precision ten-turn input attenuators, full-scale zero adjustments
and automatic pen-lift controls.
A load-operate switch automatically picks up the pen and positions it away from the chart area
for easy loading of paper.

Northrop Nortronics
Anaheim, Calif.
A "building-block" automatic
checkout system has been developed
by this company. The automatic
test equipment, called the Datico/
SP-5, is built upon a family of
individual, drawer-type subsystems
and modules. Their plug-in-capability gives complete flexibility
in meeting "all possible" test requirements. (Datico is an acronym
for digital automatic tape intelligence checkout.)
With the SP-5, it is possible
to choose only those functional
modules needed for a particular
checkout problem, substituting
alternate modules rapidly if
checkout requirements change.
The SP-5 is a completely solidstate system which can be either
tape-controlled or computer-controlled. Under tape control, the
system uses a 500-foot reel of
Mylar tape that can be read at a
speed of 250 frames a second. Any
equipment whose outputs can be
transduced to electrical units
can be checked out with the SP-5.

LOGIC ELEMENTS

Intercontinental Instruments Inc.
123 Gazza Blvd.
Farmingdale, L.I., N.Y.
A set of NAND logic elements,
covering frequency ranges up to

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

10 mc, has been developed by this
company. Each of the different
logic elements may operate at 3 mc
or 10 mc. The devices include
general-purpose flip-flops, DC~et-and-r~.set flip-f lops, digital
gates, free ri.llirling 'multi vlhra tors,
Schmitt Triggers, crystal oscillators, etc., each in a variety of
configurations.
The 3 mc and 10 mc elements
both use diode-coupled inputs and
provide 3 volt clamped outputs.
Both types have an operating temperature of -20 0 C to 55 0 C and
noise rejection is 0.5 v. Rise
and fall time is 17 nanoseconds
and 8 nanoseconds, respectively,
for the 3 mc and 10 mc units.

NEW OPTICAL SCANNING SYSTEM

The National Cash Register Co.
Dayton 9, Ohio
The new NCR 420 optical
scanner "reads" the "Sales Journals" of conventional NCR cash
registers equipped with NCR's
optical type font, and thus makes
input for the automatic preparation of merchandise reports. The
type 420 scanner may be linked
"on-line" with an NCR 310 desksize computer. It is also compat ible with the NCH 315 and 390
computer series. It can be used
with a tape punch to produce
punched paper tape, and then if
desired, punched cards, for offline applications. The Type 420
can read accounting and adding
machine tapes as well as those
from cash registers.
A changeable program board
controls its operations to suit
the format of the sales journal.
The machine can be programmed to
read only those entries from tapes
or journals which may be needed
for a specific report. Data is
read at the rate of 520 characters
a second.

DIGITAL PATTERN COMPARATOR

General Dynamics/Electronics
1400 North Goodman St.
Rochester 1, N.Y.
This company has developed a
digital pattern uenerator and comparator for checking the performance of binary data transmission
systems. It is called the SC-310

"Checker-Bi t". It generates a
ten-bit binary data pattern

(which is selected by switches on
the front panel) and presents this
pattern in serial form. The rate
can be set at 75, 150, 300, 600,
1000, 1200, 2000, 2400, or 4800
bits per second. The SC-310 can
be clocked or timed by an external
souree at any data rate up to
50,000 bits per second.

industrial equipment operating over wider temperature ranges and
with greater resistance to nuclear radiation.
"Wi th development of this new
device we have. for the first
time. a circuit element that combines the flexibility and simple
circuitry of a vacuum tube and the
small-size and low operating power
of a transistor. while offering
certain features of its own." he
said.

RCA DEVELOPS
SOLID-STA TE COMPUTER ELEMENT
COMBINING PROPER TIES OF
TRANSISTORS AND VACUUM TUBES

RCA Laboratories
Princeton. N.J.
Development of a new solidstate element. combining some desirable properties of transistors
and vacuum tubes. is reported by
the Radio Corporation of America.
Called a metal oxide semiconductor transistor. the new device
can be fabricated in large interconnected arrays. It may be regarded as a "new fundamental building block" of integrated. microelectronic circuits for a broad
range of future electronic systerns. according to Dr. James
Hillier. Vice President. RCA Laboratories. Princeton. N.J.
Among future products that
should become practical with such
circuits. he said. are portable.
battery-operated. high-speed computers; lightweight. high-performance communications systems; and
a new generation of tactical and

Both "n" (negative) and "p"
(positive) type devices have been
made. RCA states that the nature
of their electrical characteristics i~ such that complete digital (computer) circuits can be
constructed from them without the
need of other components. The
switching speed of the new units
is 10-20 nanoseconds.
While voltage-controlled
transistors are not new in principle. RCA explains their great
promise has gone largely unrealized due to high production costs.
technological difficulties and
the commanding role assumed early
by current-controlled transistors.

The digital pattern generator
operates with either a polar or
impulse digital data signal. Sufficient internal delay is provided
to permit compensation for system
propagation time so that time coinciaence between transmitted and
received data can be established
for error detection. Errors are
totaled on an external recorder.
Front panel switches and controls provide selection of functions, and are used to change
input and output signal characteristics to permit operational compatibility with most equipment.

by oxidizing the silicon over the
gap. A metal electrode or "gate"
is deposited on top-of the insulator and connected into the circuit. By applying proper voltage
on the insulated gate. the gap becomes conducting and the circuit
is closed.

-- Revolutionary solid-state
elements developed ~y RCA
scientists to combine the
properties of transistors
arid vacuum tubes are seen
here built into a complex
"logic" circuit for computers. The actual circuit
is held in a pair of tweezers
by Stev~n Hofstein. of the
RCA Laboratories technical
~taff. and i!s details appear
In the enlargement on the
viewing screen in the foreground.
The new unit is described as
an "insulated-gate. field-effect
transistor. It is a semiconductor
device made from silicon and capable of amplifying electric voltages.
By varying the input voltage on the
insulated gate. the device as a
Nhole can be made to switch. amplify. or otherwise regulate its output of electric current in a manner analogous to a pentode vacuum
tube. In conventional transistors.
similar results are achieved by
making changes in the magnitude of
the input current.
Circuits using these new elements are made by producing contlucting paths in a slice of highresistivity silicon. leaving gaps
wherever an active element is desired. An insulator is produced

-- A scientist at the David
Sarnoff Research Center positions an electrical probe
over a silicon wafer containing 2.200 newly-discovered
insulated-gate. field-effect
transistors.
Arrays of up to 850 of the
new components have been produced
in an area the size of a dime. Experimental microcircuits being
built from these arrays include
electronic switches and counters
for computers. amplifiers for military and commercial communications systems, and control networks
for a variety of industrial and
military applications.

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

•

TEACHING

EDUCATION NEWS

MACHINES

DIGITAL COMPUTER TRAINER AND LOGIC DEMONSTRATOR
BEHAVIORAL SCIENTISTS
INVITED TO PARTICIPATE
IN RESEARCH TRAINING COURSE

Bert F. Green, Jr.
Dept. of Psychology
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

A summer research training institute in the Simulation of Cognitive Processes will be held at The
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica,
California from June 17 to July 26,
1963. The Social Science ReSearch
Council and the RAND Corporation,
under a grant from the National
Science Foundation, are sponsoring
the institute. The Institute will
cover recent developments in constructing computer programs that
serve as models of complex processes of human thinking, such as
problem-solving, concept formation,
rote memory, decision-making, and
verbal communication. Intensive
insturction will be given in techniques for constructing such computer programs.
The Institute is intended
primarily for post-doctoral behavioral scientists who are affiliated with universities. Well
qualified advanced candidates for
the doctorate will be considered.
Further information may be
obtained from the writer.
We will be happy to send

a complimentary copy of

The Naval Training Device
Center (NTDC) , Port Washington,
N.Y., is using a Digital Computer
Trainer and Logic Demonstrator
developed by the ~omputer Control
Company, Inc., Framingham, Mass.
This device, designated "6B4" ,
was produced to meet military requirements for a versatile classroom device to teach students
various aspects of computer theory,
operation and maintenance.

elements of the Trainer, are displayed continuously on the front
panel flow diagram. The device
operates in parallel and uses:
ten-bit binary words; and a repertoire of thirteen commonly used
instructions. Program routines
may be run continuously, or sequenced through one instruction
at a time; or else each instruction may be executed in a series
of sequential steps.

The 6B'l cons ists of two
training demonstrators combined
in a single unit: a realistic
small-scale digital computer; and
a flexible logic demonstrator.
As a Digital Computer Trainer, the
operation of a small-scale generalpurpose computer is displayed on
the twelve-foot face of the system
in flow diagram form. The contents of the special twenty-five
word memory, as well as all major

'I'll(! removal of three display
pane 15 converts the dev i ce to a
Logic Uemonstrator. The panel removal exposes a module mounting
panel which can accommodate up to
53 independent logic demonstrator
modules. By simple patchcord
wiring between modules, students
can be introduced to the basic
digital logic building blocks of
flip-flops, gates, delays etc., a
and can learn to implement such
logic sub-assemblies as counters,
shift registers, and decoders.

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in your name
DI/ AN CONTROLS OFFERS PROGRAMMED MAGNETIC CORE LOGIC COURSE

to a friend who might find the
information in it stimulating
and useful to him.
Just send his name and ad-

The editors have noted with
interest the increasing use by
companies of programmed instruction materials to educate potential customers on the uses of
their products, with a goal of
increased sales.

dress to: V. D. Nelson, Computers & Automation, 815 Washington Street, Newtonville 60,
Mass.
He'll appreciate
your thoughtfulness!

One of the more interesting
such presentations we have seen,
is a Programmed Magnetic Core
Logic Course enti tIed "Do YOlJ
Have This Man's Problems?" put out
by DI/AN Controls, Inc.
The presentation is in the
form of a 114 page scrambled textbook where the reader advances

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

through the text at a pace determined by his ability to answer
questions on various pages which
test either his prior knowledge,
or his uptake of the text material.
The text is humorously and interestingly illustrated, and the
course is designed to provide a
painless way to get up-to-date on
the hows, Whys, and whats of magnetic core logic modules and circu·i ts.
Engineers with an interest in
this area arc invited to write to
Dr/AN Controls, 944 Dorchester Ave.,
Uoston 25, Mass., for a copy of
their programmed textbook.

STANDARDS NEWS
X3 COMMITTEE BY -PASSES BEMA
IN SENDING 7 BIT CODE TO ASA

The X3 Committee on Computers
and Information Processing of the
American Standards Association
voted in a meeting on January 24th
to transmit the proposed American
Standard Code for Information Interchange to the Miscellaneous
Standards Committee of ASA for approval as an American Standard
without the recommendation of the
sponsor, the Business Equipment
Manufacturers' Association (BEMA).
The code transmitted, pASCII,
is a 7 bit code for the representation of alphanumeric characters and
symbols used in automatic computation, data processing, and data
transmission.
pASCII has been a controversial subject. At the September
10th meeting of the X3 Committee,
it was voted twenty to four to
send pASCII through the Sponsor to
ASA for approval as an American
Standard. BEMA formed and convened a Standards Review Board
which at its first meeting voted
to return pASCII to X3 for further
work in adopting it to media, i.e.,
paper tape, punched cards and magnetic tape; and also to consider
de facto standard codes for recognition as American Standards.
The latter recommendation of
the BEMA Standards Review Board
appeared to be in conflict with an
interpretation of ASA Regulations,
and at a second meeting of BSRB on
January 4th, the Sponsor withdrew
the recommendation on de facto
standards"but issued the following
resolution: "The sponsor accepts
the principle of a single code for
information interchange. This
code will be universally useful
only when it can be adopted to the
common methods of machine to machine communication, i.e., paper
tape, punched cards, and magnetic
tape. The sponsor, therefore, believes submission of the pASCII to
ASA is premature. It is recommended to X3 that they institute
a scheduled program of developing
such adaptations with the objective
of submitting to ASA a family of
pASCII codes by the end of 1963,
that will meet the needs of the
industry and that X3 provide the
organization and manpower needed
for this task."
Under ASA procedures, the
pASCII will now go before the ASA

Miscellaneous Standards Board for
their consideration and determination as to whether or not a "concensus" exists for adoption of the
code as an American Standard.
Final action is represented by a
review of the recommendation of
the Miscellaneous Standards Board
by the ASA Board of Review.
To bring out all the facts
bearing on the case, either board
may hold a hearing and ask the
different parties at interest to
appear and testify. On routine
matters the action by both boards
would be completed in about six
weeks but the controversial character of the pASCII makes it
probable that a longer period
will be required for final
determination.

BUSINESS NEWS
IBM NOTES 12% REVENUE GAIN

Gross income and earnings for
1962 were l~/o higher than those
for the previous year reports International Business Machines
Corporation in its recent annual
report.
IBM's gross income in the U.S'.
for the year ended December 31,
1962, was $1,925,221,857, an increase of $230,926,310 over 1961.
Net earnings a'fter federal taxes
were $241,387,268, an increase of
$34,159,671 over the previous year.
IBM's total assets at the end of
the year amounted to $1.984,540,202.
The IBM World Trade Corporation, a wholly-o~ned subsidiary
which carries on IBM's business
through its subsidiaries outside
the U.S., had earnings of
$86,679,086 last year, an increase
of 26% over the year before. IBM
earnings included $24,555,899 of
IBM World Trade's results in 1962,
compared with $18,540,853 in 1961.
The undistributed net earnings of
IBM World Trade's foreign subsidiaries continue to be excluded from
IBM's reported net earnings.
The report notes that among
new,products introduced in 1962
was the low-cost 1440, the 7010,
the 7094 data processing systems,
and the IBM 6400 Magnetic Ledger
Accounting Machine.
Also the report noted IBM engineers were successful during the
year i~ utilizing television channels to transmit computer information experimentally at the rate of

20 million bits a second -- the
fastest 5peed yet reported.
Expansion of IBM facilities
continued in 1962 with'the completion of development laboratories
in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and San Jose,
Calif.
At the year's end, IBM had
127,468 employees in its worldwide operations. Of these, 81,493
were domestic employees and 45,975
were abroad.

CONTROL DATA REPORTS
INCOME RISE; ITS STOCK
IS ACCEPTED BY NYSE

William C. Norris, President
of Control Data Corporation, reported recently for the six months
period ended December 31, 1962
that his company's sales, rentals
and service income was $24,916,998,
up 44 per cent compared with
$17,308,142 in the same period of
the previous year. Net profits
after provision for taxes were
$954,291, up 50 per cent compared
with $636,990 for the corresponding six months of 1961.
Other highlights of the Midyear Report included an announcement that the first delivery of
the CONTROL DATA 3600 Computer
System will be made in April 1963.
The 3600 is the largest commercially available computer in the
world, and orders for several have
been announced, including Michigan
State University, University of
California's Lawrence Radiation
Laboratory at Livermore, California, and an industrial installation
jOintly for Societe d'Economie et
de Mathematique Appliquees
(S.E.M.A.) and its subsidiary
Societe D'Informatique Appliquee
(S.I.A.), Paris, France.
The common stock of the Company was approved in February forlisting on the New York Stock Exchange. 4,706,956 shares are to
be listed, of which 3,902,454
shares are outstanding among some
18,000 stockholders.
President Norris commented
that "listing on the New York
Stock Exchange is an important
event in the history of Control
Data. It should provide our present and potential broad distribution of shareholders a dependable,
closely regulated market in which
to deal in our shares as well as
widen the Company's image in the
business and investment community."
Control Data was founded in
the summer of 1957 with an origin-

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 19(,)

Revenues climbed 6% to
$424,681,000 last year from
$401,210,737 in 1961, the 13th
consecutive year of record revenues. Net income fell to
$9,493,000, down nearly 10% from
$10,489,369.

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Louisville, Kentucky

al capitalization of $600,000.
Currently its net worth is approximately $24,500,000.

Ray Eppert, president, said
the devaluation of foreign currencies had an after-tax effect
of $1,710,000. In addition, a
leasing program for general business machines implemented in 1962
had the effect of deferring approximately $1,900,000 of earnings
into future years, he said.
Mr. Eppert said while leasing
of the general business machines,
as well as electronic data processing systems, defers revenue
and profit in the short term, it
builds a high, stable foundation
of future revenue and earnings
less susceptible to fluctuating
economic conditions.
In the first nine months of
1962 Burroughs reported revenue
rose to $303,500,000 from
$282,318,000 a year earlier.
Indicated fourth quarter net
fell to $3.6 million from $4.9
million a year earlier. Revenue
rose to $121.1 million from
$118.8 million.
Mr. Eppert said new orders
received last year totaled
$487,076,000 up 14% from a year
earlier.

In addition to producing comPHILCO REPORTS 13% SALES INCREASE;
puter systems, Control Data deORGANIZA TION CHANGES
signs and produces industrial data
processing equipment which includes
control systems, data communication
The Philco Corporation, a
systems, and data collection syswholly-owned subsidiary of the
tems for business applications.
Ford Motor Company, has reported
The Company's manufacturing opersales for fiscal 1962 of $475,ations are carried on in the Minn000,000, a l~/o increase over
eapolis-St. Paul area. In addi1961's sales of $421,000,000.
tion, Control Data operates computer service centers in the Twin
Philco's Computer Division
Cities, Palo Alto, California, and
announces plans to establish four
Washington, D.C. The Company's
regional U.S. offices, each comcomputer service centers offer
petent to handle sales and supversatile high-speed data processport activities, and to offer iming facilities for business and
proved services to the consumer.
industrial purposes on a service
They are designed to promote the
bureau basis.
sale of the company's new 212 and
4100 electronic data processors.
BURROUGHS REVENUES UP 6%;
EARNINGS FALL 10%

Burroughs Corp.' s 1962 net
income trailed 1961 results despite
record revenues. The computer
manufacturer blamed foreign currency devaluations and a new ]easillU program for the lower earnings.

Two of the offices will be
located in the Philadelphia area
-- Eastern Regional and a Federal
Systems Office; one in San Francisco and one in Los Angeles.
Philco also has a computer office
handling intra-company affairs in
Dearborn, Mich., home of the
parent firm.

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MONTHLY
"box-score" of progress for readers interested in
following the growth of the American computer industry.

The number of electronic computers installed, or
in production at anyone time has been increasing at
a bewildering pace in the past several years. New
vendors have come into the computer market, and
familiar machines have gone out of production. Some
new machines have been received with open arms by
users -- others have been given the cold shoulder.

Most of the figures are verified by the respective manufacturers. In cases where this is not so,
estimates are made based upon information in the
reference files of COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION. The
figures are then reviewed by a group of computer
industry cognoscenti.

To aid our readers in keeping up with this mushrooming activity, the editors of COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION present this monthly report on the number of
American-made general purpose computers installed or
on order as of the preceding month. We update this
computer census monthly, so that it will serve as a

Any additions, or corrections, from informed
readers will be welcomed.

AS OF FEPRUARX
NAME OF
MANUFACTURER
Addressograph-Multigraph
Corporation
Advanced Scientific
Instruments
Autonetics
Bendix
Burroughs

Clary
Computer Control Co.
Control Data Corporation

Digital'Equipment Corp.

El-tronics Inc.
General Electric
General Precision

Honeywell Electronic Data
Processing

H-W Electronics, Inc.
HRB Singer, Inc.

NAME OF
COMPUTER

SOLID
STATE?

EDP 900 system

ASI 210
ASI 420
RECOMP II
RECOMP III
G-15
G-20
205
220
EIOI-I03
B250
B260
B270
B280
B5000
DE-60/DE-60M
DDP-19
DDP-24
SPEC
160/160A
924/924A
1604/1604A
3600
6600
PDP-l

y
y

1963

AVERAGE MONTHLY DATE OF FIRST NUMBER OF
RENTAL
INSTALLATION INSTALLATIONS

$7500

$2850
$12,500
$2495
$1495
$1000
$15,500
$4600
$14,000
$875
$4200
$3750
$7000
$6500
$16,200
$675
$3500
$3000
$800
$ 2000/$ 3500
$lLJ)OO
$35,000
$52,000
120 000
Sold only
about $175,000
Sold only
about 75 000
2500
$16,000
$4000
$7000
$725
$1300
$4500
$1875

Y
Y
Y
Y
Y

$3000
$5000
$22,000
$14,000
$30,000 up

Y
N

N
N

Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y

y
y
y
y
Y
Y

PDP-4

AUVAC IIIE
210
215
225
LGP-21
LGP-30
L-3000
RPC-4000

H-290
H-400
H-800
H-1400
H-1800
DATAmatic 1000
HW-15K
SEMA 2000

20~

y
y
y

semi
Y

$500
$700

NUMBER OF
UNFILLED
ORDERS

2/61

4/62
2/63

6
1
130
28
352
19
78
58
170
44
25
12
9
0
88
1
0
10
267
5
42
0
0
37

3
0
7
19
2
6

38
47
26
17
12
1
2
1
2
55
11
10
5
1
10

8/62

2 54
7/59
-/63
1/61
12/62
9/56
-/63
1/61

32
69
0
110
4
410
0
67

6/60
12/60
12/60
-/63
-/63
12/57
3/63
1/62

11
37
50
0
0
5
0
21

11/58

6/61
7/55
4~61
1 54
10/58
1/56
11/61
11/62
7/62
7/62
2/63
2L60

6/61
5/60
5/60 & 7/61
4/62
1/60
4/63
2 64
12 59

X
X
X

8
3
86
32
15
2
18
3
68
8
1
2
X

2
19

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 19(»)

NAME OF
COMPUTER

NAME OF
MANUFACTURER
IBM -

Information S stems Inc.
ITT
Monroe Calculating Machine

National Cash Register Co.

Packard Bell
Philco

Radio Corp. of America

Scientific Data Systems Inc.
TRW Computer Co.

UNIVAC

305
650-card
65O-RAMAC
1401
1410
1440
1460
1620
701
7010
702
7030
704
7040
7044
705
7070, 2, 4
7080
709
7090
7094
ISI-609
7300 ADX
Monrobot IX
Monrobot Xl
NCR - 102
- 304
-310
- 315
- 390
PB 250
PB 440
1000
2000-212
-210, 211
4000
Bizmac
RCA 301
RCA 501
RCA 601
SDS-910
SDS-920
TRW-230
RW-300
TRW-330
TRW-340
TRW-530
Solid-state 80,
90, & Step
Solid-state II
490
1107
III
IARC
1100 Series (except 1107)
I & II
File Computers
60 & 120
1004

X -- no longer in production

COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 1963

SOLID
STATE?

AVERAGE MONTIfLY
RENTAL

$3600
N
$4000
N
$9000
N
Y
$2500
$10,000
Y
Y
$1800
Y
$9800
$2000
Y
$5000
N
Y
$19,175
N
$6900
$300,000
Y
$32,000
N
$14,000
Y
Y
$ 26,000
$30,000
N
$24,000
Y
$55,000
Y
$40,000
N
$64,000
Y
70 000
Y
4000
Y
Y
~351000
N Sold only-$ 5800
Y
~700
N
$14,000
Y
$2000
Y
$8500
Y
Y
~1850
Y
$1200
Y
~3500
Y
$7010
$60,000
Y
Y
$'10,000
.6000
Y
N
Y
$6000
Y
$15,000
Y
~351000
Y
$2190
Y
~2690
Y
$1800
Y
$6000
Y
$8000
$10,000
Y
Y
~2500
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y

$8000
$8500
$26,000
$45,000
$20,000
$135,000

N
N
N
N
Y

$35,000
$ 25,000
$15,000
$1200
$1500

DATE OF FIRST
INSTALLATION
3/62
11/54
11/54
9/60
11/61
4/64
10/63
9/60
4/53
2/64
2/55
5/61
12/55
6/63
6/63
11/55
3/60
8/61
8/58
11/59
12/62
2 58
7/62
3/58
12L60

NUMBER OF
INSTALLATIONS

NUMBER OF
UNFILLED
ORDERS

- 6:\
- 56
2/61
6/59
11/62
8/62
9L62
9/63
3/59
12/60
-/63
8L61

850
700
210
4850
156
0
0
1300
4
0
4
4
79
0
0
151
320
43
40
240
2
20
6
165
230
30
30
33
45
315
133
0
0
1
23
0
tl
201
90
2
11
4
0
32
6
0
16

X
X
X
3900
385
580
5
300
X
30
X
1
X
42
11
X
240
28
X
125
6
1
4
5
140
X
0
45
135
224
24
10
27
Itl
10
10
X
300
12
7
11
5
8
2
19
4
6

8/58
9/62
12/61
10/62
8/62
5/60

532
2
4
2
4
2

155
33
13
16
67
X

32
60
72
890
0
Itl,166

X
X
1
17
1250
8791

1/60
5/61
5/62
5L61
12/60
9/63
-/63
1/63
lO/GB

12/50
3/51 & 11/57
8/56
-/53
2/63
TOTALS

CALENDAR OF COMIN'G EVENTS
Mar. 6-7, 1963: Disc File Symposium, Hollywood Thunderbird Inn, Hollywood Calif.; contact Dr. Walter F.
Bauer, Informatics Inc., 8535 Warner Dr., Culver City,
Calif.
Mar. 15-16, 1963: Pacific Computer Conference, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.; contact
Dr. E. J. Schubert, Systems Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc., 2400 Harbor Blvd., Fullerton, Calif.
Mar. 19-21, 1963: Symposium on Bionics, sponsored by
Aeronautical Systems Div. of the Air Force Systems
Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Biltmore Hotel, Dayton, Ohio; contact Commander, Aeronautical Systems Div., Attn.: ASRNEB-3, Lt. Col.
L. M. Butsch, Jr., Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio
Mar. 23, 1963: 7th Annual Symposium on Recent Advances in Computer Technology, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio; contact R. K. Kissinger, Publicity Chairman, c/o Nationwide Insurance Companies,
246 No. High St., Columbus, Ohio.
Mar. 25-28, 1963: IRE International Convention, Coliseum and Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York; contact
Dr. D. B. Sinclair, IRE Headquarters, 1 E. 79th St.,
New York 21, N. Y.
March 28-30, 1963: Symposium on Biomathematics and
Computer Applications in the Life Sciences, Auditorium
of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital
and Tumor Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston,
Tex.; contact Office of the Dean, Univ. of Tex. Pos'tgraduate School of Medicine, 102 Jesse Jones Library
Bldg., Texas Medical Center, Houston 25, Tex.
Apr. 16-18, 1963: Optical Masers Symposium, United Eng.
Center, New York, N. Y.; contact Jerome Fox, PIB
Microwave/Res. Inst., 55 Johnson St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y.
Apr. 17-19, 1963: International Conference on Nonlinear Magnetics (INTERMAG), S h 0 r e ham Hotel,
Washington, D. C.; contact ]. J. Suozzi, BTL Labs.,
Allentown, Pa.
Apr. 17-19, 1963:.. Philco 2000 Computer Users Group
(TUG) Meeting, Anders Hotel, Colorado Springs,
Colo.; contact E. D. Reilly, ,Jr., General Electric Co.,
Knolls Atomic Power Lab., Box 1072, Schene·ctady,
N. Y.
Apr. 17-19, 1963: Southwestern IRE Conference and
Elec. Show (SWIRECO), Dallas Memorial Auditorium,
Dallas, Tex.; contact Prof. A. E. Salis, E. E. Dept.,
Arlington State College, Arlington, Tex.
April 23-25, 1963: The Eleventh National Conference on
Electromagnetic Relays, Student Union Bldg., Oklahoma
State University, Stillwater, Okla.; contact Prof. Charles
F. Cameron, Technical Coordinator of the NARM,
Oklahoma State University School of Electrical Engineering, Stillwater, Okla.
April 24-26, 1963: Power Industry Computer Application Conference, Hotel Westward Ho, Phoenix 4, Ariz.;
contact E. ]. Lassen, 453 E. Lamar Rd., Phoenix 12,
Ariz.
May 7-9, 1963: 1963 Electronic Components Conference,
International Inn, 14th & M Sts., N.W., Washington ),
D. C.; contact]. E. Hickey, Chilton Co., Chestnut &
56th Sts., Philadelphia ,~9, Pa.

May 13-15, 1963: National Aerospace Electronics Conference (NAECON), Biltmore Hotel, Dayton, Ohio;
contact IEEE Dayton Office, 1414 E. 3rd St., Dayton,
Ohio.
May 16, 1963: Western Systems Conference, Statler-Hilton
Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif.
May 17-18, 1963: Symposium on Artificial Control of
Biology Systems, Univ. of Buffalo, School of Medicine,
Buffalo, N. Y.; contact D. P. Sante, 4530 Greenbriar
Rd., Williamsville 21, N. Y.
May 20-22, 1963: National Symposium on Microwave
Theory and Techniques, Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica,
Calif.; contact Irving Kaufman, Space Tech. Labs., Inc.,
1 Space Park, Redondo Beach, Calif.
May 20-22, 1963: National Telemetering Conference,
Hilton Hotel, Albuquerque, N. M.; contact T. J.
Hoban, NTC Program Chairman, Sandia Corp., P. O.
Box 5800, Albuquerque, N. M.
May 21-23, 1963: Spring Joint Computer Conference,
Cobo Hall, Detroit, Mich.; contact Dr. E. Calvin Johnson, Bendix Aviation Corp., Detroit, Mich.
June 11-13, 1963: National Sym p. on Space Electronics
and Telemetry, Los Angeles, Calif.; contact John R.
Kauke, Kauke & Co., 1632 Euclid St., Santa Monica,
Calif.
June 19-21, 1963: Joint Automatic Control Conference,
Univ. of Minn., Minneapolis, Minn.; contact Otis 1.
Updike, Univ. of Va., Charlottesville, Va.
June 23-28, 1963: ASTM 66,th Annual Meeting, Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, N. J.
June 25 -2 8, 1963: Data Processing Management Association's 12th International Data Processing Conference
and Business Exposition, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Mich.;
contact DPMA Headquarters, 524 Busse Highway, Park
Ridge, Ill.
June 26-27, 1963: 10th Annual Symposium on Computers
and Data Processing, Elkhorn Lodge, ESltes Park, Colo.;
contact W. H. Eichelberger, Denver Research Institute,
Univ. of Denver, Denver 10, Colo.
July 15-17,1963: 3rd Annual Rochester Conference on
Data Acquisition and Processing in Medicine and Biology,
Whipple Auditorium, Univ. of Rochester Medical Center, Itochester, N. Y.; contact Kurt Enslein, 42 East
Ave., Rochester 4, N. Y.
July 22-26, 1963: 51th International Conference on Medical
Electronics, Liege, Belgium; contact Dr. L. E. Flory,
RCA Labs., Princeton, N. J.
Aug. 4-9, 1963: International Conference and Exhibit on
Aerospace Support, Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D. C.; contact F. K. Nichols, Air Defense Div.
Directorate of Operations, DSC/O Hdqs., USAF, Washington 25, D. C.
Aug. 20-23, 1963: Western Elec. Show and Conference
(WESCON), Cow Palace, San Francisco, Calif.; contact
WESCON, 1435 La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.
Aug. 27-Sept. 4, 1963: 2nd Congress, .International Federation of Automatic Control, Basle, Switzerland; contact
Dr. Gerald Weiss, E. E. Dept., Polytechnic Inst., 333
Jay St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y.
Aug. 28-30, 1963: Association for Computing Mach~nery,
Annual Meeting, Denver, Colo.
COMPUTORS and AUTOMATION for March, 19()3

....

COMPUTER8 IN EDUCATION
(Continued from page 10)

increase in equipment costs can be
justified by improving teaching efficiency and the subsequent reduction
in training .time and operational
waste. It seems clear that computer-based systems must approach
the over-all cost of more conventional equipment if they are to be
used for more than specialized military or industrial training applications. This development seems to
be the trend, however, in miniaturized, large-capacity systems.
There appear to be other avenues
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and associated equipment designed
for specific educational applications.
Such computers could be highly
simplified, since they would need to
incorporate only storage capacity
and the operating speed and flexibility necesS'ary for the specific job
of teaching.
The special-purpose computer
offers the advantage of greater efficiency in a particul'ar task. On the
other hand, a special-purpose computer is inflexible, and this may
prevent it from spreading electronic Itechniques to other areas of
educational operations.
A multitude of practical problems
must be solved if computers' are to
be widely useful in education. If
these problems can be solved, and
if the full potentials of hig'lh-speed
data processing can be realized,
throughout the educational system,
we may expect some of ,the greatest
improvements in education for hundreds of years.

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A udio-Visual Communication Review,
Vol. 11, #2, Supplement No.7, MarchApril, 1963.
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