APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL MACHINES
Some of the problems that mechanical brains can solve, some of the methods for controlling them to solve problems, and some of the implications of mechanical brains for future problems are covered in the following references:
Solving Problems
Berkeley, Edmund C., Electronic Machinery for Handling Information, and its Uses in Insurance, Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America, vol. 48, May 1947, pp. 36-52.
Berkeley, Edmund C., Electronic Sequence Controlled Calculating Machinery and Applications in Insurance, Proceedings of 1947 Annual Conference, Life Office Management Association, New York: Life Office Management Association, 1947, pp. 116-129.
Curry, Haskell B., and Willa A. Wyatt, A Study of Inverse Interpolation of the Eniac, B. R. L. Report No. 615, Aberdeen, Md.: Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aug. 19, 1946, 100 pp.
Harrison, Joseph O., Jr., and Helen Malone, Piecewise Polynomial Approximation for Large-Scale Digital Calculators, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 26, Apr. 1949, pp. 400-407.
Hoffleit, Dorrit, A Comparison of Various Computing Machines Used in Reduction of Doppler Observations, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 25, Jan. 1949, pp. 373-377.
Leontief, Wassily W., Computational Problems Arising in Connection with Economic Analysis of Interindustrial Relationships, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 169-175.
Lotkin, Max, Inversion on the Eniac Using Osculatory Interpolation, B. R. L. Report No. 632, Aberdeen, Md.: Ballistic Research Laboratories, July 15, 1947, 42 pp.
Lowan, Arnold N., The Computation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards, Scripta Mathematica, vol. 15, no. 1, Mar. 1949, pp. 33-63.
Matz, Adolph, Electronics in Accounting, Accounting Review, vol. 21, no. 4, Oct. 1946, pp. 371-379.
McPherson, James L., Applications of High-Speed Computing Machines to Statistical Work, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 22, Apr. 1948, pp. 121-126.
Mitchell, Herbert F., Jr., Inversion of a Matrix of Order 38, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 3, no. 23, July 1948, pp. 161-166.
Anonymous, Revolutionizing the Office, Business Week, May 28, 1949, no. 1030, pp. 65-72.
Speech
Some of the possibilities of machines dealing with voice and speech are indicated in:
Dudley, Homer, R. R. Riesz, and S. S. A. Watkins, A Synthetic Speaker, Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 227, June 1939, pp. 739-764.
This is an article on the Voder, which is an abbreviation of Voice Operation Demonstrator. The machine was exhibited at the New York World’s Fair, 1939.
Dudley, Homer, The Vocoder, Bell Laboratories Record, vol. 18, no. 4, Dec. 1939, pp. 122-126.
This is a more general type of machine than the Voder. The Vocoder is both an analyzer and synthesizer of human speech.
Potter, Ralph K., George A. Kopp, and Harriet C. Green, Visible Speech, New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1947, 441 pp.
Anonymous, Pedro the Voder: A Machine that Talks, Bell Laboratories Record, vol. 17, no. 6, Feb. 1939, pp. 170-171.
Weather
Some of the possibilities of machines dealing with weather information are covered in:
Lagemann, John K., Making Weather to Order, New York Herald Tribune: This Week, Feb. 23, 1947.
Shalett, Sidney, Electronics to Aid Weather Figuring, The New York Times, Jan. 11, 1946.
Zworykin, V. K., Outline of Weather Proposal, Princeton, N. J.: Radio Corporation of America Research Laboratories, Oct. 1945, 11 pp.
Anonymous, Weather Under Control, Fortune, Feb. 1948, pp. 106-111 ...
The Robot Machine
Čapek, Karel, R. U. R. (translated from the Czech by Paul Selver), New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923.
Lagemann, John K., From Piggly Wiggly to Keedoozle, Collier’s Magazine, vol. 122, no. 18, Oct. 30, 1948, pp. 20-21 ...
Leaver, E. W., and J. J. Brown, Machines Without Men, Fortune, vol. 34, no. 5, Nov. 1946, pp. 165 ...
Pease, M. C., Devious Weapon, Astounding Science Fiction, vol. 53, no. 2, Apr. 1949, pp. 34-43.
Shannon, Claude E., Programming a Computer for Playing Chess, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Oct. 8, 1948, 34 pp.
Shelley, Mary W., Frankenstein (in Everyman’s Library, No. 616), New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., last reprinted 1945, 242 pp.
Spilhaus, Athelstan, Let Robot Work for You, The American Magazine, Dec. 1948, p. 47 ...
Anonymous, Another New Product for Robot Salesmen, Modern Industry, vol. 13, no. 2, Feb. 15, 1947.
Anonymous, The Automatic Factory, Fortune, vol. 34, no. 5, Nov. 1946, p. 160 ...
Anonymous, Machines Predict What Happens in Your Plant, Business Week, Sept. 25, 1948, pp. 68-69 ...