Advances in Computers
Academic Press
Published on 1. January 1964
396 pages
978-0-08-056637-5 (ISBN)
Description
The survey articles included in Volume 5 have been selected with two aims in mind: to arrive at a balanced sampling of the computer field, and to emphasize the subjects of most active current interest. Articles cover topics such as the role of computers in delivering election results; the state of computer development in the Soviet Union and its neighbors; artificial intelligence; and applications of computers to the design of optical instruments, to nuclear reactor design, and to the determination of the structure of crystals or molecules from X-ray diffraction patterns.
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- Front Cover
- Advances in Computers, Volume 5
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors to Volume 5
- Preface
- Contents of Volumes 1. 2. 3. and 4
- Chapter 1. The Role of Computers in Election Night Broadcasting
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Oddities Plaguing the Model Builder
- 3. Sources of Data
- 4. Communications on Election Night
- 5. The Mathematical Model
- 6. Combining the Estimates
- 7. An Example
- 8. National Estimates
- 9. Estimated Turnout
- 10. Other Elections
- 11. Other Applications
- 12. The Future
- 13. A Report of TV Monitor of Election Night Coverage for the 1960 Presidential Election, November 8-9, 1960
- Chapter 2. Some Results of Research on Automatic Programming in Eastern Europe
- Introductory Notes
- 1. Soviet Union
- 2. Poland
- 3. Other Countries of Eastern Europe
- 4. Survey of Methods of Programming
- Appendix 1 . Example of a Lyapunovian Program
- Appendix 2 . Kindler's Algorithm for Programming of Arith- metic Formulas
- References
- Chapter 3. A Discussion of Artificial Intelligence and Self-Organization
- 1. Introductory Comments
- 2. The Characterization and Behavior of a Self-Organizing
- 3. Artificial Intelligence
- 4. Other Disciplines
- 5. The Interaction between Men and Their Intelligent Artifacts
- Glossary
- References
- Chapter 4. Automatic Optical Design
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ray Tracing
- 3. Classical Methods of Lens Design
- 4. The Computer Applied to Lens Design
- References
- Chapter 5. Computing Problems and Methods in X-Ray Crystallography
- 1. Introduction
- 2. General Computational Methods
- 3. Available Programs
- References
- Chapter 6. Digital Computers in Nuclear Reactor Design
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Development and Classification of Nuclear Reactor Codes
- 3. Neutron Transport Equations
- 4.Solution of the Neutron Transport Problem
- 5. Other Calculations
- References
- Chapter 7. An Introduction to Procedure-Oriented Languages
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Evolution of Computer Languages
- 3. A Typical Digital Computer
- 4. A Language for Describing Computers
- 5. A Simple One-Address Computer
- 6. A Square-Root Example on the One-Address Computer
- 7. Relocatability
- 8. An Assembly Program
- 9. The Square-Root Example in Assembly Language
- 10. An Algebraic Language Translator
- 11. Alternative Methods of Translation
- 12. Algorithmic Languages
- 13. Comparison of Features of Algorithmic Languages
- 14. Some Special Languages
- 15. Summary
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
