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T. C. Hickman Early Experiences with an E.D.P. System 152--163
P. Redfern Experience in using a Deuce computer for
the family expenditure survey . . . . . 164--169
Anonymous Handbook for Automatic Computation . . . 169--169
C. W. Clenshaw Curve Fitting with a Digital Computer 170--173
J. S. Hornsby A function interpretive scheme for
Pegasus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--180
A. R. Edmonds The generation of pseudo-random numbers
on electronic digital computers . . . . 181--185
R. L. Cook Time-sharing on the National-Elliott 802 185--188
R. A. Brooker Some Techniques for dealing with
Two-Level Storage . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194
R. Goodman Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--194
D. Milledge and
M. J. Mills Forecasting Election Results . . . . . . 195--198
Anon Note on commissioning of LEO automatic
office at the Ministry of Pensions and
National Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Leo Automatic Office at the Ministry of
Pensions and National Insurance . . . . 198--198
E. S. Page Theoretical Considerations of Routine
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--204
R. L. Sutton The first year's experience with a large
computer in a life assurance office . . 2--9
D. G. N. Hunter Note on a test for repeating cycles in a
pseudo-random number generator . . . . . 9--9
T. R. Thompson Problems of Auditing Computing Data:
Internal Audit Practice and External
Audit Theory: Section 1: Internal Audit 10--11
F. C. de Paula Problems of auditing computer data.
Section 2: The external auditor and
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--14
P. F. Windley and
L. R. Kay and
A. Rowland-Jones Data Processing in University
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--20
Anonymous Book Review (concluded) . . . . . . . . 20--20
A. H. Cockayne and
E. Hyde Prime Number Code for Information
Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
J. H. Wilkinson Householder's Method for the Solution of
the Algebraic Eigenproblem . . . . . . . 23--27
D. W. Barron and
H. P. F. Swinnerton-Dyer Solution of simultaneous linear
equations using a magnetic-tape store 28--33
R. K. Livesley The Analysis of Large Structural Systems 34--39
N. V. Findler Some remarks on the game `dama' which
can be played on a digital computer . . 40--44
K. T. Boyd Simultaneous Equations and Linear
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
D. G. Papworth Computers and Change-Ringing . . . . . . 47--50
Anonymous Simultaneous Equations and Linear
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50
R. H. Tizard Conversion between Analogue and Digital
Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59
A. S. Douglas and
A. J. Mitchell AUTOSTAT: a language for statistical
data processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--66
D. G. Prinz Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
M. Woodger An Introduction to Algol 60 . . . . . . 67--75
Anonymous Information Processing . . . . . . . . . 75--75
M. A. Wright Mechanizing a Large Index . . . . . . . 76--83
P. F. Windley Trees, Forests and Rearranging . . . . . 84--88
E. W. Solomon A Comprehensive Program for Network
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97
F. G. Duncan and
D. H. R. Huxtable The DEUCE Alphacode translator . . . . . 98--107
S. Vajda Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
A. Gibbons A program for the automatic integration
of differential equations using the
method of Taylor series . . . . . . . . 108--111
J. C. P. Miller Note on the numerical evaluation of a
first derivative from a table of a
function satisfying a second order
differential equation . . . . . . . . . 112--113
C. Strachey Two contributions to the techniques of
queuing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
D. W. Polley A Progress Report on the Introduction of
A.D.P. for Recording Contributions Paid
under the new Graduated Pensions Scheme 117--120
L. D. Slater Problems of the Introduction of Large
Scale Data Processing into the Royal
Army Pay Corps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--123
C. B. Warmington The First year's Production on a
Computer, and future plans . . . . . . . 124--127
R. Hindle A Bank Adopts Automatic Data Processing 127--130
R. A. Buckingham The Organization of a University
Computer Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--135
F. Yates and
H. R. Simpson A General Program for the Analysis of
Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--140
R. L. Cook Market Surveys with a Small Computer . . 140--142
J. A. Gosden Market research applications on LEO . . 142--143
R. M. Paine Automatic Coding for Business
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--149
P. V. Youle Simulation of full-scale multi-stage
batchwise chemical plant . . . . . . . . 150--157
J. M. Dempsey Some Aspects of Simulator Design . . . . 158--161
P. F. King and
D. A. Peel An Analysis of a Hydro-electric System 161--163
L. Clarke Notes on the state of digital computing
in the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--167
R. A. Brooker and
D. Morris An Assembly Program for a Phrase
Structure Language . . . . . . . . . . . 168--174
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
H. H. Rosenbrock An automatic method for finding the
greatest or least value of a function 175--184
A. J. Platt The experience of applying a commercial
computer in a British organization . . . 185--197
D. J. L. Hughes Computer production control --- the
second year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--201
Anonymous Automation: Men and Money . . . . . . . 201--201
H. M. c. G. Ross Considerations in choosing a character
code for computers and punched tapes . . 202--210
M. M. Berlin Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
J. G. Thomason An Introduction to Analogue Computer
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
P. Taylor Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
M. V. Wilkes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
R. A. Brooker and
D. Morris Some proposals for the realization of a
certain assembly program . . . . . . . . 220--231
A. Gibbons Running Pegasus Autocode programs on
Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--236
H. W. Gearing Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
J. S. Appleby and
D. V. Blake and
E. A. Newman Techniques for producing school
timetables on a computer and their
application to other scheduling problems 237--245
Anonymous Work of `New Generation' to be shown at
London Computer Exhibition and Symposium 245--245
A. Young and
G. Almond Predicting Distributions of Staff . . . 246--250
J. C. Butcher Random Sampling from the Normal
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
J. M. Bennett and
R. J. Dakin Computers as an Aid in Computer Design
Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
H. H. Johnson Optimum time for multiplication on a
digital computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--261
Anonymous Forthcoming Publication of the
Proceedings of the 1960 PICC Symposium,
Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
I. J. Good A comparison of some methods of
calculating covariance functions on an
electronic computer . . . . . . . . . . 262--265
R. M. Needham Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--265
R. M. Needham Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--265
J. H. Cadwell A Least Squares Surface Fitting Program 266--269
D. B. Hunter An Iterative Method of Numerical
Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--271
W. Barrett Convergence properties of Gaussian
quadrature formulae . . . . . . . . . . 272--277
M. V. Wilkes Data transmission and the new outlook
for the computer field . . . . . . . . . 1--9
H. D. Huskey Compiling Techniques for Algebraic
Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--19
Anonymous Ifip Congress 62 . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--19
F. Yates and
H. R. Simpson The analysis of surveys: processing and
printed the basic tables . . . . . . . . 20--24
M. J. R. Healy Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
D. G. Prinz Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
B. R. Taylor Experience with a digital computer in an
aeroplane testing establishment . . . . 25--29
H. W. Gearing The use of Pegasus Autocode in some
experimental business applications of
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--34
P. A. Long and
E. H. Truslove Data transmission --- problems and
prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37
M. A. Wright Matching Inquiries to an Index . . . . . 38--41
G. J. Herring Book review: \booktitleAnalogue
Computation in Engineering Design, by A.
E. Rogers and T. W. Connolly, 1960 . . . 41--41
J. M. M. Pinkerton The evolution of design in a series of
computers, LEO I--III . . . . . . . . . 42--46
P. M. Woodward and
D. P. Jenkins Atoms and Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53
M. A. Cayless Solution of systems of ordinary and
partial differential equations by
quasi-diagonal matrices . . . . . . . . 54--61
C. E. Maley The effect of parameters on the roots of
an equation system . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Anonymous Electronic Computer Exhibition . . . . . 63--63
A. Ralston Some theoretical and computational
matters relating to predictor-corrector
methods of numerical integration . . . . 64--67
A. W. O. Firth Optimization problems: solution by an
analogue computer . . . . . . . . . . . 68--72
B. A. Carré The determination of the optimum
accelerating factor for successive
over-relaxation . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--78
L. Fox Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
C. V. D. Forrington Extensions of the predictor-corrector
method for the solution of systems of
ordinary differential equations . . . . 80--84
C. J. Maloney and
R. A. Fairthorne Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
M. B. Williams Present and Future Facilities for Data
Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--95
P. A. Long A Data Transmission Survey . . . . . . . 95--102
E. P. G. Wright Data Collection and Transmission . . . . 103--109
K. S. Hope SABER: a real time problem in
tele-processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
E. A. Newman Some comments on Character Recognition 114--120
C. R. Merton Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
M. B. Clowes and
J. R. Parks A New Technique in Automatic Character
Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Z. Herzenstein and
F. E. A. Briggs Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
R. L. Grimsdale and
J. M. Bullingham Character recognition by digital
computer using a special flying-spot
scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136
Anonymous Data Processing Society of the
Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
I. W. Merry and
G. O. Norrie Character Quality and Scanner
Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--144
A. S. Douglas The Impact of Computers on Documentation 145--149
G. J. Herring Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
G. Jennings A Direct Ordering, Recording and
Invoicing System . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--156
K. H. Treweek and
D. E. Williams Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
R. Hindle Character Recognition and Document
Handling in Banks . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160
J. B. Stringer The place of character recognition, data
transmission and document handling in
A.D.P. systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--167
J. M. Watt Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167
C. Strachey and
J. G. F. Francis The reduction of a matrix to codiagonal
form by eliminations . . . . . . . . . . 168--176
R. A. Brooker and
D. Morris Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
J. S. Rollett and
J. H. Wilkinson An efficient scheme for the
co-diagonalization of a symmetric matrix
by Givens' method in a computer with a
two-level store . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
P. M. Woodward Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
A. R. Bagshaw Organization of a computing service for
industry and commerce . . . . . . . . . 181--184
R. O. Bennett and
J. B. Stringer Acceptance trials of computer systems
for government use . . . . . . . . . . . 185--196
T. G. H. Braunholtz and
A. G. Fraser and
P. M. Hunt NEBULA: a programming language for data
processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--211
Anonymous Annual Prizes: Result of 1960-61
Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
L. Fox Computing Machines for Teaching and
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--216
R. A. Fairthorne Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--216
P. R. Bagley Improving problem-oriented language by
stratifying it . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--221
N. E. Wiseman Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221
T. Kilburn and
D. J. Howarth and
R. B. Payne and
F. H. Sumner The Manchester University Atlas
operating system part I: internal
organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--225
D. J. Howarth and
R. B. Payne and
F. H. Sumner The Manchester University Atlas
operating system part II: users'
description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--229
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
J. H. Wilkinson Rigorous Error Bounds for Computed
Eigensystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--241
D. W. Martin and
G. J. Tee Iterative methods for linear equations
with symmetric positive definite matrix 242--254
C. B. Haselgrove The solution of non-linear equations and
of differential equations with two-point
boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . 255--259
J. H. Cadwell and
D. E. Williams Some Orthogonal Methods of Curve and
Surface Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--264
J. G. F. Francis The $QR$ Transformation a Unitary
Analogue to the $LR$ Transformation ---
Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
F. Yates Computers in research --- promise and
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--279
J. S. Rollett and
J. H. Wilkinson Letter to the Editor: [Givens and
Householder processes] . . . . . . . . . 279--279
J. C. Gower The handling of multiway tables on
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--286
L. J. Slater Regression Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 287--291
R. W. Hockney ABS12 ALGOL: an extension to Algol 60
for industrial use . . . . . . . . . . . 292--300
E. Humby RAPIDWRITE --- a new approach to COBOL
readability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
L. Clarke Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
P. R. Bagley Principles and problems of a Universal
Computer-Oriented Language . . . . . . . 305--312
L. J. Slater Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
C. C. Leighton Control Gear Simulation for an Automatic
Car Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
L. Fox Chebyshev methods for ordinary
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 318--331
D. W. Barron Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
J. G. F. Francis The $QR$ transformation --- part 2 . . . 332--345
D. Kershaw and
S. Vajda The Economics of Dumping from Electronic
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--348
D. V. Cheesman A Small Business Computer at Work . . . 1--6
J. E. Meggitt Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
D. R. Palmer A stock-control and invoicing system
using a Gamma 3 computer . . . . . . . . 7--9
C. A. R. Hoare Quicksort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--16
P. Wegner Zero-Address Computers . . . . . . . . . 15--15
H. P. F. Swinnerton-Dyer The Calculation of Power Spectra . . . . 16--23
R. H. Tizard Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
W. G. Proctor and
M. F. Mitchell The PACE scaling routine for Mercury . . 24--27
Anonymous Midsummer International Conferences . . 27--27
D. C. Cooper and
H. Whitfield ALP: an Autocode list-processing
language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
J. H. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleSolutions
Numériques des Équations Algébraiques, by
E. Durand (Paris: Masson et Cie., 1960,
pp. 328, 65 NF) . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
R. A. Brooker and
D. Morris and
J. S. Rohl Trees and Routines . . . . . . . . . . . 33--47
D. J. Evans Note on the line over-relaxation factor
for small mesh size . . . . . . . . . . 48--50
B. A. Chartres Adaptation of the Jacobi method for a
computer with magnetic-tape backing
store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
M. Woodger Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
J. H. Wilkinson Instability of the Elimination Method of
Reducing a Matrix to Tri-Diagonal Form 61--70
H. H. Rosenbrock Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
A. E. Checksfield The first computer in Rhodesia . . . . . 79--87
D. H. Kelley and
J. N. Buxton Montecode --- an Interpretive Program
for Monte Carlo Simulations . . . . . . 88--93
R. Grimmond An Analysis of Real and Simulated
Statistics for System Design Purposes 94--99
A. R. Curtis and
I. C. Pyle A proposed target language for compilers
on Atlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--106
Anonymous Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
A. d'Agapeyeff Current Developments in Commercial
Automatic Programming . . . . . . . . . 107--111
R. F. Clippinger FACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--119
Anonymous Discussion: Session 1: 17 April 1962
(Morning) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--125
E. W. Dijkstra Operating Experience with Algol 60 . . . 125--127
C. A. R. Hoare Report on the Elliott Algol Translator 127--129
F. G. Duncan Implementation of Algol 60 for the
English Electric KDF9 . . . . . . . . . 130--131
A. E. Glennie Operating Experience with Fortran . . . 132--134
Anonymous Discussion: Session 3: 18 April 1962
(Morning) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--139
D. C. Handscomb Computation of the Latent Roots of a
Hessenberg Matrix by Bairstow's Method 139--141
A. R. Mitchell and
R. P. Pearce High Accuracy Difference Formulae for
the Numerical Solution of the Heat
Conduction Equation . . . . . . . . . . 142--146
M. J. D. Powell An Iterative Method for Finding
Stationary Values of a Function of
Several Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 147--151
J. Howlett Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
Christopher Strachey Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154a-155
H. R. Hopkin Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous British Computer Society Conference,
Cardiff: 4th to 7th September 1962 . . . 156--156
M. A. Kingsbury Operating experience with COBOL in a
service bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
A. S. Cormack Early Operating Experience with Language
H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--161
A. R. Rousell A progress report on NEBULA . . . . . . 162--163
T. R. Thompson Fundamental Principles of Expressing a
Procedure for a Computer Application . . 164--169
Anonymous Discussion: Session 2: 17 April 1962 . . 170--176
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
F. G. Duncan Errata: ``Implementation of ALGOL 60 for
the English Electric KDF9'' . . . . . . 176--176
R. F. Clippinger COBOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180
R. F. Clippinger Information Algebra . . . . . . . . . . 180--183
Anonymous Discussion: Session 4: 18 April 1962 . . 183--192
M. V. Wilkes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
Robert M. Baer Note on an Extremum Locating Algorithm 193--193
J. N. Buxton and
J. G. Laski Control and Simulation Language . . . . 194--199
Anonymous Appendix 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
J. C. P. Miller Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
J. K. Iliffe and
Jane G. Jodeit A Dynamic Storage Allocation Scheme . . 200--209
C. L. Hamblin Translation to and from Polish Notation 210--213
E. S. Page On the Scheduling of Jobs by Computer 214--220
J. M. Watt and
Andrew Young An Attempt to Simulate the Liver on a
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227
D. W. Martin Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
P. J. Wallis Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Henry C. Thacher, Jr. An Iterative Method for Quadratures . . 228--229
R. A. Sack Newton--Cotes Type Quadrature Formulas
with Terminal Corrections . . . . . . . 230--237
S. Gill Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
D. J. Howarth and
P. D. Jones and
M. T. Wyld The Atlas scheduling system . . . . . . 238--244
Anonymous Editorial Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
G. N. Lance and
J. C. West Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Anonymous Computers and School Timetables . . . . 247--247
D. W. Moore Accounting for the soldier's pay . . . . 249--257
W. S. Caskey Accounting for the soldier's pay ---
organization of programming . . . . . . 258--263
Andrew Young Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Colin Cherry Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
J. H. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleSolutions
Numériques des Équations Algébraiques,
Volume II, by E. Durand (Paris: Masson
et Cie., 1961, pp. 445, 90 NF) . . . . . 263--263
R. P. Thorby and
B. Benjamin The application of the electronic
computer to the 1961 population census
of Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--270
R. G. Massey Computers in a new steelworks . . . . . 271--275
J. A. Gosden Estimating computer performance . . . . 276--283
J. D. W. Janes Measuring the profitability of a
computer system . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--293
John D. Harrison Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
A. Young The impact on universities of the
expansion in their computer facilities 294--296
L. Fox and
Andrew Young Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
F. D. Robinson The background of the PERT algorithm . . 297--300
S. Lambourn Resource allocation and multi-project
scheduling (RAMPS) --- a new tool in
planning and control . . . . . . . . . . 300--304
J. F. Wilson Experience in transmitting accounting
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--307
K. W. Pearson Satellite communications . . . . . . . . 308--312
J. C. F. Payne Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
F. Yates and
J. C. Gower and
H. R. Simpson A specialized Autocode for the analysis
of replicated experiments . . . . . . . 313--319
R. L. Boyell The method of successive grids for
reduction of function storage
requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--321
J. D. Lambert and
A. R. Mitchell The use of higher derivatives in
quadrature formulae . . . . . . . . . . 322--327
D. J. Evans and
C. V. D. Forrington Note on the solution of certain
tri-diagonal systems of linear equations 327--328
H. H. Rosenbrock Some general implicit processes for the
numerical solution of differential
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
H. H. Robertson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--331
J. M. Watt The realization of ALGOL procedures and
designational expressions . . . . . . . 332--337
J. M. Gerard and
A. Sambles A hardware representation for ALGOL 60
using Creed teleprinter equipment . . . 338--340
F. G. Duncan Input and output for ALGOL 60 on KDF 9 341--344
C. A. R. Hoare The Elliott ALGOL input/output system 345--348
Peter Fellgett Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--348
J. W. Backus and
F. L. Bauer and
J. Green and
C. Katz and
J. McCarthy and
P. Naur and
A. J. Perlis and
H. Rutishauser and
K. Samelson and
B. Vauquois and
J. H. Wegstein and
A. van Wijngaarden and
M. Woodger Revised report on the algorithmic
language ALGOL 60 . . . . . . . . . . . 349--367
J. Drummond Some aspects of recording graduated
national insurance contributions . . . . 1--4
J. R. Hopkinson Integrated accounting using a variety of
equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
W. S. Ryan LEAPS --- the first three years . . . . 6--13
A. F. George SAS aids for the jet age:
telecommunication for electronic
reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17
D. J. Dace Experience in the practical use of data
transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--23
S. Kirkby Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
J. W. Lewis Time sharing on Leo III . . . . . . . . 24--28
M. R. Mills Operational experience of time sharing
and parallel processing . . . . . . . . 28--36
L. H. Underhill The growth of complexity of a
general-purpose program . . . . . . . . 37--38
R. Palmer Computer calculations on the initiation
of high-explosive detonation . . . . . . 39--43
D. W. Barron and
D. F. Hartley Techniques for program error diagnosis
on EDSAC 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--49
H. McG. Ross A convention to distinguish letter O
from numeral zero . . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
B. Higman What EVERYBODY should know about ALGOL 50--56
J. M. R. Buxton Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
G. H. L. Waston and
G. M. Davis Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
M. J. R. Healy Programming multiple regression . . . . 57--61
J. H. Leveson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
A. H. Stroud and
D. Secrest A multiple-precision floating-point
interpretive program for the Control
Data 1604 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--66
A. J. T. Colin Note on coding reverse Polish
expressions for single-address computers
with one accumulator . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
L. Fox Partial differential equations . . . . . 69--74
D. M. Collison Note on a method of forming a sorting
key for a partly ordered list, and an
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
D. Mustard and
J. N. Lyness and
J. M. Blatt Numerical quadrature in $n$ dimensions 75--87
C. W. Clenshaw and
H. J. Norton The solution of nonlinear ordinary
differential equations in Chebyshev
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--92
M. R. Osborne Iterative procedures for solving
finite-difference approximations to
separable partial differential equations 93--99
J. M. Ortega and
H. F. Kaiser The $LL^T$ and $QR$ methods for
symmetric tridiagonal matrices . . . . . 99--101
D. Elliott A Chebyshev series method for the
numerical solution of Fredholm integral
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--112
L. N. Carling Book Review --- \booktitleAnalogue
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
J. C. Cluley Book Review: \booktitleAnalogue
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
D. A. Brace Direct Coding of English Language Names 113--117
C. W. Oatley Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
T. H. Anstey and
K. W. Smillie Use of a Remote Digital Computer on an
Open-Shop Basis in Agricultural Research 118--120
Beryl Kitz and
S. Vajda A Program to Study the Effect of Random
Delays on the Ability of Trains to Run
to a Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
S. Gill A Technique for the Composition of Music
in a Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--133
H. Rutishauser Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
D. W. Barron and
J. N. Buxton and
D. F. Hartley and
E. Nixon and
C. Strachey The main features of CPL . . . . . . . . 134--143
C. A. R. Hoare Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
L. A. Edelstein ``Picture Logic'' for ``Bacchus'' a
Fourth-Generation Computer . . . . . . . 144--153
M. Lehman and
Rayna Eshed and
Z. Netter The Checking of Computer Logic by
Simulation on a Computer . . . . . . . . 154--162
S. Gill Book review: Management . . . . . . . . 162--162
R. Fletcher and
M. J. D. Powell A Rapidly Convergent Descent Method for
Minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
H. E. Wrigley Accelerating the Jacobi Method for
Solving Simultaneous Equations by
Chebyshev Extrapolation When the
Eigenvalues of the Iteration Matrix are
Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176
G. J. Tee A Novel Finite-Difference Approximation
to the Biharmonic Operator . . . . . . . 177--192
D. J. Evans The extrapolated modified Aitken
iteration method for solving elliptic
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 193--201
D. G. Prinz Book review: Dynamic programming . . . . 201--201
I. M. Khabaza An Iterative Least-Square Method
Suitable for Solving Large Sparse
Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--206
R. E. Scraton and
J. W. Searle Note on the Numerical Solution of Linear
Differential Equations with Constant
Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
C. W. Clenshaw Book Reviews: Numerical Analysis . . . . 207--208
P. A. Samet Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Anonymous The Systems Approach to Data
Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
D. G. Russell The Problems of Data Transmission
Systems in a General Manufacturing Data
Processing Installation . . . . . . . . 210--213
F. G. Chapman Use of Large Computers at a Distance . . 214--218
Wing Commander L. B. Davey Data preparation and transmission in the
Royal Air Force integrated supply system 219--222
K. L. Smith The Views of the Data Transmission
Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--227
Anonymous Discussion forum --- the systems
approach to data transmission . . . . . 228--231
Donald Michie Experiments on the mechanization of
game-learning Part I. Characterization
of the model and its parameters . . . . 232--236
E. R. Kermode Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
E. R. Kermode Correspondence: On ``Direct coding of
English language names'' . . . . . . . . 236--236
W. Barrett and
A. J. Mitchell An extended Autocode for Pegasus . . . . 237--240
E. S. Page A Note on Assignment Problems . . . . . 241--243
D. A. Bell Approximations in Fourier Transforms . . 244--247
J. Houstoun Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
J. Houstoun Book review: \booktitleMathematical
Methods for the Study of Automatic
Control Systems, by V. I. Zubov, 1962 247--247
J. H. Matthewman Note on the Selective Summation of
Fourier Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
R. M. Needham Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
R. M. Needham Book review: \booktitleTextbook on
Mechanized Information Retrieval, by
Allen Kent, 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--249
G. J. Tee Eigenvectors of the Successive
Over-Relaxation Process, and its
Combination with Chebyshev
Semi-Iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--263
B. Richards Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
B. Richards and
E. S. Page Book reviews: \booktitleAnnual Review in
Automatic Programming, Volume 3, edited
by R. Goodman; \booktitle Proceedings of
a Harvard Symposium on Digital Computers
and Their Applications, edited by A. G.
Oettinger, 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263, 270--270
J. N. Lyness and
B. J. J. McHugh Integration over Multidimensional
Hypercubes I. A Progressive Procedure 264--270
E. S. Page Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
D. J. Evans and
C. V. D. Forrington An Iterative Process for Optimizing
Symmetric Successive Over-Relaxation . . 271--273
M. Goyer and
G. C. Tootill Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
M. Goyer and
G. C. Tootill Boor review: \booktitleRussian
Supplement to Elsevier's Dictionary of
Automation, Computers, Control and
Measuring, by W. E. Clason, 1962 . . . . 273--273
J. Eve Starting Approximations for the
Iterative Calculation of Square Roots 274--276
D. A. Brace Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
D. A. Brace and
G. J. Tee Book reviews: \booktitleElementary
Mathematical Programming, by Robert W.
Metzger, 1963; \booktitle U.S.S.R.
Computational Mathematics and
Mathematical Physics, Number 1, 1962 . . 276--276, 286--286
G. J. Tee Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
D. R. Cowdrey and
C. M. Reeves An Application of the Monte Carlo Method
to the Evaluation of Some Molecular
Integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--286
Paul A. Samet Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
Paul A. Samet Correspondence: a hardware
representation for ALGOL 60 using Creed
Teleprinter equipment . . . . . . . . . 286--286
R. Fletcher and
C. M. Reeves A Mechanization of Algebraic
Differentiation and the Automatic
Generation of Formulae for Molecular
Integrals of Gaussian Orbitals . . . . . 287--292
Anonymous Notice to Members of the British
Computer Society . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
B. R. Heap Permutations by Interchanges . . . . . . 293--294
G. H. Perry Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
G. H. Perry and
J. C. Cluley and
K. L. Smith and
R. L. Goodstein Book reviews: \booktitleLarge-Capacity
Memory Techniques for Computing Systems,
edited by Marshall C. Yovits, 1962;
\booktitleDigital Techniques, by D. W.
Davies, 1963; \booktitleTheory and
Design of Digital Machines, by Thomas C.
Bartee, Irwin Lebow, [and] Irving S.
Reed, 1962; \booktitleA Survey of
Mathematical Logic, by Hao Wang, 1963 295--298
J. C. Cluley Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
K. L. Smith Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
R. L. Goodstein Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
R. L. Michaelson Presidential address. Science and the
non-scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
J. B. Stringer Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
J. S. Clowes and
E. S. Page Assignment Problems . . . . . . . . . . 304--307
H. D. Baecker Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Peter J. Landin The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions 308--320
N. E. Wiseman Application of list-processing methods
to the design of interconnections for a
fast logic system . . . . . . . . . . . 321--327
J. W. J. Williams E.S.P. the Elliott Simulator Package . . 328--331
C. W. Gear Optimization of the address field
compilation in the ILLIAC 2 assembler 332--335
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
D. W. Barron Correspondence: On the representation of
ALGOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
P. Taylor Correspondence: On the representation of
ALGOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335, 367--367
K. L. Ryder Note on an Algol 60 Compiler for Pegasus
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--338
Andrew Colin The Multiple Variate Counter . . . . . . 339--347
Lucy Joan Slater Some Experiences in Price Mapping . . . 348--351
G. A. Miles and
K. L. Stewart and
G. J. Tee Elementary divisors of the Liebmann
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--355
J. A. Grant and
Oliver G. Ludwig Note on the integrals of products of
associated Legendre functions . . . . . 356--357
K. Wright Chebyshev collocation methods for
ordinary differential equations . . . . 358--365
E. D'Sylva and
G. A. Miles The S.S.O.R. iteration scheme for
equations with $\sigma_1$ ordering . . . 366--367
R. E. Scraton The numerical solution of second-order
differential equations not containing
the first derivative explicitly . . . . 368--370
E. Playfair Computers and psychology . . . . . . . . 1--3
J. V. Goodman Auditing magnetic-tape systems . . . . . 4--7
P. H. Vince Documentation for systems design . . . . 8--14
A. Taylor-Smith Authorization and control of input in
the Royal Army Pay Corps Computer Centre
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18
D. G. W. Thomas Record identification using variable
alphanumeric names . . . . . . . . . . . 19--21
H. W. Gearing Book Review: \booktitleData processing 22--23
D. Pullin A Fortran to Algol translator . . . . . 24--27
W. L. B. Nixon Book Review: Computers in research . . . 27--27
A. F. Parker-Rhodes The communication of algorithms . . . . 28--35
L. J. Slater A dynamic programming process . . . . . 36--39
Anonymous Correction to ``Eigenvectors of the
successive over-relaxation process, and
its combination with Chebyshev
semi-iteration'', by G. J. Tee . . . . . 39--39
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
L. N. Carling A study of the solution of an
initial-value problem with a hybrid
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--46
M. R. Abbott Axially symmetric steady motion of a
viscous incompressible fluid: some
numerical experiments . . . . . . . . . 47--53
J. C. P. Miller Book Reviews: Mathematical tables . . . 53--53
D. F. Mayers The deferred approach to the limit in
ordinary differential equations . . . . 54--57
M. R. Osborne A method for finite-difference
approximation to ordinary differential
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--65
M. R. Osborne and
S. Michaelson The numerical solution of eigenvalue
problems in which the eigenvalue
problems in which the eigenvalue
parameter appears nonlinearly, with an
application to differential equations 66--71
M. S. Lynn On the equivalence of SOR, SSOR and
USSOR as applied to $\sigma_1$-ordered
systems of linear equations . . . . . . 72--75
H. J. Norton The iterative solution of non-linear
ordinary differential equations in
Chebyshev series . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--85
Peter Fellgett Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
C. R. Smith Computer development from a user's point
of view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--92
F. J. M. Laver A user's view of A.D.P. systems design 93--94
P. Giles Problems of Life Assurance data
processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
I. M. Golds User's experience of Cobol . . . . . . . 99--101
T. H. Ayre User's experience of Rapidwrite . . . . 101--102
M. Richardson User's experience of Cleo . . . . . . . 102--103
S. Vajda Book Review: Mathematical programming 103--103
O. S. Lumb Experience of program development with
FACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--107
J. K. Iliffe Book Review: Computer organization . . . 107--107
H. D. Baecker Initial users' reactions: what do they
really want? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
D. B. Lloyd Data retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--113
T. A. Maguire Book Review: Parity-check codes . . . . 113--113
R. Taylor and
D. A. Harragan The FORTRAN system for Orion . . . . . . 114--116
A. J. Cole The preparation of examination
time-tables using a small-store computer 117--121
Ivan Flores Note on a machine algorithm for
conversion from reflected binary to
natural binary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--121
R. L. Chew Note on timing simulation of a large
asynchronous computer . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
F. G. Foster A computer technique for game-theoretic
problems I: chemin-de-fer analyzed . . . 124--130
R. C. Williams Book Review: Threshold decoding . . . . 130--130
C. S. Wallace Correlated round-off errors in digital
integrating differential analyzers . . . 131--134
John C. West Book Review: Automatic control . . . . . 134--134
M. D. Bakes An alternative method of solution of
certain tri-diagonal systems of linear
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
R. E. Scraton Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--136
D. J. Evans The extrapolated modified Aitken
iteration method applied to
$\sigma_1$-ordered systems of linear
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
C. T. H. Baker and
L. Fox and
D. F. Mayers and
K. Wright Numerical solution of Fredholm integral
equations of first kind . . . . . . . . 141--148
Martin Fieldhouse Book Review: Linear programming . . . . 148--148
R. Fletcher and
C. M. Reeves Function Minimization by Conjugate
Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--154
C. A. R. Hoare Book review: \booktitleAlgol on the KDF9 154--154
M. J. D. Powell An Efficient Method for Finding the
Minimum of a Function of Several
Variables without Calculating
Derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--162
Anonymous Errata to Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
I. B. Parker and
J. Crank Persistent discretization errors in
partial differential equations of
parabolic type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--167
F. A. Rigg The operation of large computer systems 169--172
Karen S. Jones Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
J. F. Milburn and
D. J. Fearnley and
C. G. Myers A computer in insurance . . . . . . . . 173--176
R. S. Piggott Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
V. E. Price Desirable computing facilities for a
College of Advanced Technology . . . . . 177--179
Maurice V. Wilkes A Programmer's Utility Filing System . . 180--184
H. D. Baecker Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
F. H. Dearnley and
G. B. Newell Automatic segmentation of programs for a
two-level store computer . . . . . . . . 185--187
J. M. Ridgion and
A. J. Willmott and
J. H. Thewlis An analogue computer simulation of a
Cowper Stove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--196
R. H. Tizard Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
H. McG. Ross The I.S.O. character code . . . . . . . 197--202
E. O. Thorp and
W. E. Walden A partial analysis of Go . . . . . . . . 203--207
J. S. Collins Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
M. J. Rose Classification of a set of elements . . 208--211
K. D. Tocher Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
F. M. Larkin A combined graphical and iterative
approach to the problem of finding zeros
of functions in the complex plane . . . 212--219
L. de Witte Error estimates for smoothing and
extrapolation formulae . . . . . . . . . 220--221
A. Doust and
V. E. Price The latent roots and vectors of a
singular matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--227
J. R. Thompson Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
M. R. Osborne A new method for the solution of
eigenvalue problems . . . . . . . . . . 228--232
M. R. Osborne An error analysis of finite-difference
methods for the numerical solution of
ordinary differential equations . . . . 232--237
A. Orden Stationary points of quadratic functions
under linear constraints . . . . . . . . 238--241
G. Fairweather and
A. R. Mitchell A generalized alternating direction
method of Douglas-Rachford type for
solving the biharmonic equation . . . . 242--245
R. E. Scraton Estimation of the truncation error in
Runge--Kutta and allied processes . . . 246--248
P. L. Cloot What is the Use of Operating Systems? 249--254
C. E. Harding Book Review: \booktitleManagement
Standards for Data Processing . . . . . 254--254
C. E. Harding Management Standards for Data Processing 254--254
J. W. Lewis The Management of a Large Commercial
Computer Bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261
A. S. Douglas The Use of a Large Computer on a Bureau
Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
I. H. Gould and
G. C. Tootill The terminology work of IFIP and ICC . . 264--270
Robert Hurt Letter to the Editor: Program
development with FACT . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Robert Hurt Program development with Fact . . . . . 270--270
J. S. Gatehouse Electronic data processing for the
international vocabulary of terms used
in information processing . . . . . . . 271--274
A. Power Book Review: \booktitleAutomation in
Bankwesen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Michael Levison The Siting of Fragments . . . . . . . . 275--277
E. A. Newman Book Review: \booktitleAn Introduction
to Cybernetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277a-277
E. A. Newman An Introduction to Cybernetics . . . . . 277a-277
R. J. Ord-Smith Book Review: \booktitleIrascible Genius
(Charles Babbage) . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
M. V. Wilkes Lists and Why They are Useful . . . . . 278--281
D. W. Barron Letter to the Editor: The ISO character
code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
J. R. Ullmann A Basic Approach to Pattern Recognition 282--289
Herbert Schorr Analytic differentiation using a
syntax-directed compiler . . . . . . . . 290--298
William C. Lynch More Combinatorial Properties of Certain
Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Anonymous The Computing and Data Processing
Society of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Anonymous Data Transmission Handbook . . . . . . . 302--302
M. J. D. Powell A Method for Minimizing a Sum of Squares
of Non-Linear Functions Without
Calculating Derivatives . . . . . . . . 303--307
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
J. A. Nelder and
R. Mead A Simplex Method for Function
Minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--313
C. Strachey An impossible program . . . . . . . . . 313--313
C. Strachey Letter to the Editor: An impossible
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
J. T. Day A one-step method for the numerical
integration of the differential equation
$y' = f(x) y + g(x)$ . . . . . . . . . . 314--317
D. J. Evans Estimation of the line over-relaxation
factor and convergence rates of an
alternating direction line
over-relaxation technique . . . . . . . 318--321
D. J. Green and
S. Michaelson Series solution of certain
Sturm--Liouville eigenvalue problems . . 322--336
Anonymous Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . xvi--xvi
R. A. Buckingham The Computer in the University . . . . . 1--7
A. S. Cormack Interaction between user's needs and
language-compiler-computer systems . . . 8--12
O. B. Chedzoy Perspectives in programming . . . . . . 12a-12
D. G. Owen Progress in Operations Research . . . . 12--12
E. M. L. Beale and
P. A. B. Hughes and
R. E. Small Experiences in Using a Decomposition
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
Aarni Perko Some Computational Notes on the Shortest
Route Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
J. C. Vickery Principles of tunnel dioded circuits . . 20--20
P. A. Samet The Efficient Administration of Blocks
in Algol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
H. W. Gearing Extended Mercury Autocode . . . . . . . 23--23
Alan J. Melbourne and
John M. Pugmire A Small Computer for the Direct
Processing of FORTRAN Statements . . . . 24--27
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27
R. J. Ord-Smith An extension of block design methods and
an application in the construction of
redundant fault reducing circuits for
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
R. Fletcher Function Minimization without Evaluating
Derivatives --- a Review . . . . . . . . 33--41
M. J. Box A new method of constrained optimization
and a comparison with other methods . . 42--52
A. R. Curtis Estimation of the truncation error in
Runge--Kutta and allied processes . . . 52--52
John A. T. Bye Obtaining solutions of the
Navier--Stokes equation by relaxation
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
William Phillips ``Irascible Genius'' . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
R. E. Scraton The solution of linear differential
equations in Chebyshev series . . . . . 57--61
P. Jarratt and
D. Nudds The use of rational functions in the
iterative solution of equations on a
digital computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--65
J. G. P. Barnes An algorithm for solving non-linear
equations based on the secant method . . 66--72
H. G. ApSimon ``An Impossible Program'' . . . . . . . 72--72
S. V. Ahamed Accelerated convergence of numerical
solution of linear and non-linear vector
field problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--76
F. H. Sumner Reliable computation in the presence of
noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
J. H. Wilkinson Convergence of the $LR$, $QR$ and
related algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84
J. H. Wilkinson The $QR$ algorithm for real symmetric
matrices with multiple eigenvalues . . . 85--87
J. M. Foster Mathematical theory of automata . . . . 87--87
I. J. Good Brains, Machines and Mathematics . . . . 88--88
F. H. Sharman Character Recognition . . . . . . . . . 89--94
Anonymous Editorial Board --- Corrigendum . . . . 94--94
A. B. Frielink The auditor and electronic data
processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--97
J. M. Forbes An introduction to compiler writing . . 98--102
R. H. Tizard Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
M. Klerer and
J. May A user oriented programming language . . 103--109
C. B. Jones A special-purpose compiler . . . . . . . 109--112
J. G. P. Barnes A KDF9 Algol list-processing scheme . . 113--119
E. C. Lay Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
D. M. Foster A simple list-processing interpreter . . 120--129
C. D. Lewis Iterative analogue computation applied
to inventory policy simulation . . . . . 130--135
T. A. Maguire Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
E. D. Barraclough The application of a digital computer to
the construction of timetables . . . . . 136--146
A. Rachman Computation of rotational energy levels
of rigid asymmetric top molecules . . . 147--149
M. R. Osborne Direct methods for the solution of
finite-difference approximations to
separable partial differential equations 150--156
C. W. Clenshaw Book Review: \booktitleIntegration of
Equations of Parabolic Type by the
Method of Nets, V. K. Saul'yev, 1964;
346 pages. (Oxford: Pergamon Press Ltd.) 156--156
L. A. Edelstein Note on analytic angular integrations
using series in Legendre polynomials . . 157--158
D. C. Spencer Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
I. Erdelyi On speeding convergence of an iterative
eigenvalue process . . . . . . . . . . . 159--165
W. A. Murray and
M. S. Lynn A computer-oriented description of the
Peaceman--Rachford ADI method . . . . . 166--175
B. Higman Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
W. F. Lunnon and
C. F. J. Outred Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Bryan Higman and
W. F. Lunnon and
C. F. J. Outred and
C. Strachey Correspondence: An impossible program 175--176
G. L. Cooper and
E. Gal Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
G. J. Cooper and
E. Gal Correspondence: Integration of
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 176--176
C. Strachey Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
S. Gill Automatic computing: its problems and
prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--189
F. M. Arscott Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
M. G. Kendall Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
M. L. V. Pitteway The organization of a data link
computing service . . . . . . . . . . . 190--200
B. L. Neff Do-it-yourself software experience . . . 201--207
J. Bauldreay Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
J. Bauldreay Correspondence: character recognition 207--207
R. M. Paine The gradual acceptance of a variety of
commercial English languages . . . . . . 208--215
B. E. Boutel Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
B. E. Boutel and
C. Strachey and
J. H. G. Phillips and
Michael Irish Correspondence: An impossible program 215--215
J. H. G. Phillips and
M. Irish Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
C. Strachey Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--215
E. J. Langham The underground storage of compressed
air for gas turbines: a dynamic study on
an analogue computer . . . . . . . . . . 216--224
R. H. Moore Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Roger H. Moore and
R. H. Rosenbrock Correspondence: On the Rosenbrock
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
C. Strachey A general purpose macrogenerator . . . . 225--241
H. H. Greenwood Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
E. W. Elcock Note on the addressing of lists by their
source-language names . . . . . . . . . 242--243
J. Nievergelt Fixed versus selfmodifying programs . . 244--245
M. Bridger Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--245
G. N. Lance and
W. T. Williams Computer programs for monothetic
classification (`Association analysis') 246--249
R. J. Dakin A Tree Search Algorithm for Mixed
Integer Programming Problems . . . . . . 250--255
K. S. Jones Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
E. J. Martin, Jr. and
P. C. Patton Evaluation of certain definite integrals
frequently encountered in radiational
and diffraction problems involving
circular geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 256--263
G. G. Alway and
D. W. Martin An algorithm for reducing the bandwidth
of a matrix of symmetrical configuration 264--272
J. H. Wilkinson The Calculation of Lam\'e Polynomials 273--277
M. H. Rogers Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
J. D. Beasley A note on the arrangement of Chebyshev
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
H. E. Fettis Note on the matrix equation $A x =
\lambda B x$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
D. J. Evans A stable explicit method for the
finite-difference solution of a
fourth-order parabolic partial
differential equation . . . . . . . . . 280--287
J. Howlett Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
C. G. Chezem Note on ``three-dimensional'' plotting
as a technique for finding the zeros of
functions in the complex plane . . . . . 288--288
C. J. C. McOustra Legal Protection for Computer Programs 289--296
D. Burns and
E. N. Hawkins and
D. R. Judd and
J. L. Venn The Egdon system for the KDF9 . . . . . 297--302
R. A. Brooker and
J. S. Rohl and
S. R. Clark The main features of Atlas Autocode . . 303--310
E. Humby and
P. Shackleton and
R. M. Paine Correspondence: Commercial English
languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
A. J. B. Anderson A note on the construction of a general
survey program in Extended Mercury
Autocode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
D. Williams Book Review: \booktitleDigital
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314
J. M. Craddock Book Review: \booktitleProgramming
Systems for use in Research Computation 315--318
K. Wolfenden Book Review: \booktitleInvariant
imbedding and Time-Dependent Transport
Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
P. Giles Some considerations regarding
arrangement of records on magnetic tape 319--322
P. H. Hammond Book Review: \booktitleModern Control
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
D. B. G. Edwards and
D. Aspinall and
R. Lane Addressing magnetic tape on the Atlas 1
computing machine . . . . . . . . . . . 323--329
H. G. ApSimon and
W. D. Maurer and
P. J. H. King and
C. H. R. Morris Correspondence: An impossible program 329--330
Mary Almond An algorithm for constructing University
timetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--340
J. F. Traub Notice: Newsletter for Numerical
Analysts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
B. Meltzer Theorem-proving for computers: some
results on resolution and renaming . . . 341--343
I. M. Khabaza \booktitleJournal of Differential
Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
A. J. Akeroyd An Application of Separable Programming 344--346
Jean Dollimore A general Fourier synthesis program for
the London University Atlas computer . . 347--351
L. T. G. Clarke \booktitleInternational Journal of
Computer Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
Paul Constantinescu The classification of a set of elements
with respect to a set of properties . . 352--357
A. R. Curtis and
M. J. D. Powell Necessary Conditions for a Minimax
Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--361
Henry C. Thacher, Jr. Closed Rational Integration Formulas . . 362--367
T. Fuller Book Review: \booktitleError in Digital
Computation, Volume 1 . . . . . . . . . 367--367
Bernd Meister On a Family of Cubature Formulae . . . . 368--371
W. Kizner Error Curves for Lanczos' ``Selected
Points'' Method . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--382
M. V. Wilkes Book Review: \booktitleThe Algebraic
Eigenvalue Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
P. H. A. Sneath A Method for Curve Seeking from
Scattered Points . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--391
Anonymous Nonlinear Programming Test Problems . . 391--391
W. Charles Mylander Correspondence: Nonlinear programming
test problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
B. T. Allen A new method of solving second-order
differential equations when the first
derivative is present . . . . . . . . . 392--394
G. F. Turnbull Book Review: \booktitleSampling Systems
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--394
A. C. Smith A lower estimate of the cumulative
truncation error in Milne's method . . . 395--397
P. A. N. Briggs Book Review: \booktitleOptimization
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--397
P. Jarratt Multipoint iterative methods for solving
certain equations . . . . . . . . . . . 398--400
F. I. Musk One man's meat: part I --- The uses of
adversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
T. K. Craig CRESTS --- Courtauld's rapid extract,
sort and tabulate system . . . . . . . . 3--10
L. C. Payne Book Review: \booktitleMathematics and
Computer Science in Biology and Medicine 10--10
Lucy Joan Slater Computing the State of the Economy . . . 11--15
R. M. Burstall Book Review: \booktitleComputer and
Information Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
G. R. Fair and
A. D. J. Flowerdew and
W. G. Munro and
D. Rowley Note on the Computer as an Aid to the
Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--20
H. D. Baecker Book Review: \booktitleComputer
Augmentation of Human Resourcing . . . . 20--20
W. M. Newman An Experimental Program for
Architectural Design . . . . . . . . . . 21--26
A. M. Andrew Book Review: \booktitleLearning Machines 26--26
A. J. Cole Plane and stereographic projections of
convex polyhedra from minimal
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
F. H. George Computer Assisted Instruction . . . . . 32--34
F. M. Hughes and
A. Brameller Digital Simulation of Analogue Methods 35--44
M. R. Osborne Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
Numerical Analysis of Elliptic Boundary
Value Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44
D. C. Cooper The Equivalence of Certain Computations 45--52
J. P. Penny An analysis, both theoretical and by
simulation, of a time-shared computer
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
G. N. Lance and
W. T. Williams Computer programs for hierarchical
polythetic classification (`similarity
analyses') . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--64
Eric L. Jones Note on an alternate method for the
computation of rotational energy levels
of rigid asymmetric top molecules . . . 65--66
B. S. Thornton Correspondence: Timetabling and
Scheduling Problems . . . . . . . . . . 66, 77
M. J. Box A comparison of several current
optimization methods, and the use of
transformations in constrained problems 67--77
A. R. Curtis and
M. J. D. Powell On the convergence of exchange
algorithms for calculating minimax
approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
Anonymous Notice: Future publication of Algorithms
Supplement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
P. Hammersley Notice: Future publication of Algorithms
Supplement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
J. T. Day A Runge--Kutta method for the numerical
solution of the Goursat problem in
hyperbolic partial differential
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--83
B. A. Carré The partitioning of network equations
for block iteration . . . . . . . . . . 84--97
R. D. Gee Book Review: \booktitleOn Retrieval
System Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
A. J. Fox and
F. A. Johnson On finding the eigenvalues of real
symmetric tridiagonal matrices . . . . . 98--105
A. Wragg The use of Lanczos $\tau$-methods in the
numerical solution of a Stefan problem 106--109
P. Keast and
A. R. Mitchell On the instability of the Crank
Nicholson formula under derivative
boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . 110--114
M. A. Wright Book Review: \booktitleComputers in
Biomedical Research . . . . . . . . . . 114--114
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115a-115
Anonymous Error Curves for Lanczos Selected Points
Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115b-115
M. J. Box Nonlinear Programming Test Problems . . 115c-116
D. J. Evans Correspondence: On ``A stable explicit
method for the finite-difference
solution of a fourth-order parabolic
partial differential equation'' . . . . 115--115
K. Wright Correspondence: On ``Error curves for
Lanczos `selected points' method'' . . . 115--115
M. J. Box Correspondence: On ``Nonlinear
programming test problems'' . . . . . . 115--116
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
E. J. Martin, Jr. and
P. C. Patton Erratum: ``Evaluation of certain
definite integrals frequently
encountered in radiational and
diffraction problems involving circular
geometry'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . xviii--xviii
Anonymous Notes on the Submission of Papers . . . xx--xx
Basil de Ferranti The Human Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--123
C. B. B. Grindley Systematics --- a non-programming
language for designing and specifying
commercial systems for computers . . . . 124--128
H. D. Baecker Analysis of a time-shared computer
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128
H. D. Baecker Correspondence: On ``An analysis, both
theoretical and by simulation, of a
time-shared computer system'' . . . . . 128--128
C. V. D. Forrington An application-oriented computer
approach to inventory control problems.
Part 1: Facilities of the system . . . . 129--136
A. S. Douglas Book Review: \booktitleIFIP-ICC
Vocabulary of Information Processing . . 136--136
J. N. Buxton Writing simulations in CSL . . . . . . . 137--143
G. H. Stearman Switching Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
A. G. Fraser and
J. D. Smart The COMPL language and operating system 144--156
Joseph T. Ryan A direction-independent algorithm for
determining the forward and backward
compute point for a term or subscript
during compilation . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160
M. R. Wetherfield A Technique for Program Monitoring by
Interruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166
K. B. Haley Programming, Games and Transportation
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
R. W. L. Trundle LITHP --- an ALGOL list processor . . . 167--172
P. Hammersley A note on the implementation of LITHP on
the I.C.T. 1905 . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
S. R. Clark and
W. F. Lunnon Correspondence: Multiple precision
arithmetic (real and complex) . . . . . 174--174
S. R. Clark and
W. F. Lunnon Multiple precision arithmetic in Atlas
Autocode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Paul A. Samet Correspondence: On ``The Egdon system
for the KDF9'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Paul A. Samet Progress? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174a-174
M. M. Baum and
R. G. Blake and
R. J. Smale Use of digital analogue simulator (DAS) 175--180
A. H. J. Bishop Analogue Computing Methods . . . . . . . 180--180
E. B. James God and Golem, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 180a-180
J. Pedoe Sequential Methods in Statistics . . . . 180b-180
J. L. Dineley and
C. Preece KALDAS, an algorithmically based digital
simulation of analogue computation . . . 181--187
J. C. P. Miller and
D. J. Spencer Brown An algorithm for evaluation of remote
terms in a linear recurrence sequence 188--190
K. Wright Series Methods for Integration . . . . . 191--199
L. A. G. Dresel Elementary Numerical Analysis . . . . . 199a-199
V. E. Price Numerical Methods and Computers . . . . 199--199
J. K. Reid A method for finding the optimum
successive over-relaxation parameter . . 200--204
H. C. Johnston Numerical Solution of Partial
Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 204--204
B. T. Allen An investigation into direct numerical
methods for solving some calculus of
variations problems. Part 1 --- Second
order methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210
B. J. Duke Correspondence: On the computation of
rotational levels of rigid asymmetric
top molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
B. J. Duke Computation of rotational levels . . . . 210--210
P. Hammersley Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 211--212
F. I. Musk One man's meat: part 2 --- Now let's
pretend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
A. T. Clementson Extended Control and Simulation Language 215--220
R. M. Paine Preparation for Optical Character
Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--229
Anonymous ``Systematic'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
D. A. Burbridge and
A. Robert Brown and
A. d'Agapeyeff and
F. G. Duncan Correspondence: Systematics . . . . . . 229--229, 237--237
Norman Smith Systems analysis problems encountered
during a large computer application . . 230--237
A. J. T. Colin A simple program for use in the
`conversational mode' . . . . . . . . . 238--241
R. F. Rosin An approach to executive system
maintenance in disk-based systems . . . 242--247
D. W. Barron Correspondence: On ``The Egdon system
for the KDF9'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
D. W. Barron ``Progress'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
M. O'Halloran and
W. M. Waite Note on Rapid Instruction Analysis by
Table Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--248
D. C. Phillips Programming Real-Time Computer Systems 249--249
J. Cohen and
X. Nguyen-Dinh Note on ordering of grammar rules in
syntax-analyzers . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
R. E. Berry Grader Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--256
P. M. Woodward The Synthesis of Music and Speech . . . 257--262
R. M. Burstall Computer design of electricity supply
networks by a heuristic method . . . . . 263--274
K. L. Smith Signals and Noise in Communication
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
T. A. J. Nicholson Finding the shortest route between two
points in a network . . . . . . . . . . 275--280
Alan Jennings A compact storage scheme for the
solution of symmetric linear
simultaneous equations . . . . . . . . . 281--285
C. W. Clenshaw Book Review: \booktitleApproximation of
Functions, edited by H. Garabedian,
1965; 215 pages . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--285
Alan Curtis and
M. R. Osborne The construction of minimax rational
approximations to functions . . . . . . 286--293
J. B. Rashba The Application of Matrix Theory to
Electrical Engineering . . . . . . . . . 293--293
J. Lindley and
A. Wragg The numerical solution of sequential
decision problems involving parabolic
equations with moving boundaries . . . . 294--297
James Doran Pattern Recognition . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
G. Fairweather and
A. R. Mitchell Some computational results of an
improved A.D.I. method for the Dirichlet
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--303
P. M. Woodward Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303a-303
P. M. Woodward Information Transmission . . . . . . . . 303c-303
P. M. Woodward Principles of Coding, Filtering and
Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 303b-303
P. Jarratt A Rational Iteration Function for
Solving Equations . . . . . . . . . . . 304--307
Abbas I. Abdel Karim Stability of the fourth order
Runge--Kutta method for the solution of
systems of differential equations . . . 308--311
David Mayne An algorithm for the calculation of the
pseudo-inverse of a singular matrix . . 312--317
T. Fuller Book Review: \booktitleError in Digital
Computation, Volume II . . . . . . . . . 317--317
Ian Barrodale and
Andrew Young A note on numerical procedures for
approximation by spline functions . . . 318--320
H. H. Rosenbrock Correspondence: On the stability of
Crank and Nicholson's procedure . . . . 320, 324
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 321--324
W. Kizner Correspondence: ``Error curves for
Lanczos' `selected points' method'' . . 324--324
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv--xiv
C. V. D. Forrington and
Sheila M. Grey and
M. M. Reid An application-oriented computer
approach to inventory control problems.
Part 2: Implementation and operational
experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--329
M. Davies Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329
S. H. Lavington and
L. E. Rosenthal Some Facilities for Speech Processing by
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--339
D. Barton A Scheme for Manipulative Algebra on a
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--344
Beresford Parlett Letter to the Editor: On finding the
eigenvalues of real symmetric
tridiagonal matrices . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
R. A. Brooker and
D. Morris and
J. S. Rohl Experience with the Compiler Compiler 345--349
R. A. Brooker and
D. Morris and
J. S. Rohl Compiler Compiler facilities in Atlas
Autocode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--352
H. D. Baecker Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
A. T. McEwan An Atlas Autocode to ALGOL 60 translator 353--359
F. R. A. Hopgood and
A. G. Bell The Atlas ALGOL preprocessor for
non-standard dialects . . . . . . . . . 360--364
F. G. Duncan Readings in Automatic Lanuage Processing 364--364
J. B. Hext Compile-Time Type-Matching . . . . . . . 365--369
A. T. Clementson An assembly and loading system for
computers with parallel peripheral
operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--372
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
H. B. Humpidge Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--372
G. N. Lance and
W. T. Williams A general theory of classificatory
sorting strategies 1. Hierarchical
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--380
J. S. Gatehouse Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
G. N. Lance and
W. T. Williams Note on the Classification of
Multi-Level Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
P. A. B. Hughes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--382
Keith M. Howell Multiple Precision Arithmetic Techniques 383--387
A. T. Fuller Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387
N. R. Morgenstern and
V. E. Price A numerical method for solving the
equations of stability of general slip
surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--393
G. H. Tee Correspondence: On coding values of
mathematical constants . . . . . . . . . 393--393
G. J. Tee Correspondence: $\pi$ and pi . . . . . . 393--393
James Thomas Day Note on the numerical solution of
integro-differential equations . . . . . 394--395
G. J. Tee Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--395
M. D. Stern Optimal Quadrature Formulae . . . . . . 396--403
H. W. Pakes Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
H. W. Pakes Correspondence: On ``An investigation
into direct numerical methods for
solving some calculus of variations
problems'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--403
M. J. D. Powell On the maximum errors of polynomial
approximations defined by interpolation
and by least squares criteria . . . . . 404--407
P. Jarratt A note on the asymptotic error constant
of a certain method for solving
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--409
G. Hall The Stability of Predictor-Corrector
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--412
M. M. Chawla A note on the estimation of the
coefficients in the Chebyshev series
expansion of a function having a
logarithmic singularity . . . . . . . . 413--413
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
K. J. Overholt Note on Algorithm 2: Fibonacci search 414--414
K. J. Overholt Algorithm 16: GOLD . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415
K. J. Overholt Algorithm 17: GOLDSEC . . . . . . . . . 415--415
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 18: SUMFAC . . . . . . . . . . 416--416
I. D. Hill and
M. C. Pike Note on Algorithm 4: TWO BY TWO . . . . 416--416
M. C. Pike and
I. D. Hill and
F. D. James Note on Algorithm 2: Fibonacci search,
and on Algorithm 7: MINX . . . . . . . . 416--417
Anonymous \booktitleThe Computer Journal . . . . . 419--420
E. N. Mutch Editorship of \booktitleThe Computer
Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--420
M. V. Wilkes The design of multiple-access computer
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
H. G. M. Pullen and
M. H. J. Webb A computer application to a transport
scheduling problem . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13
J. Sharp Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--13
J. Lions The Ontario school scheduling program 14--21
R. D. Gee Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
D. J. Harris and
A. K. Kent The computer as an aid to lawyers . . . 22--28
W. Ashworth Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
K. Sparck Jones and
D. Jackson Current approaches to classification and
clump-finding at the Cambridge Language
Research Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
J. C. Matthewman The crystallographers' friend . . . . . 38--45
R. J. Ord-Smith Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
R. J. Ord-Smith Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
C. S. E. Phillips Networks for real-time programming . . . 46--52
A. R. Curtis Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--52
L. Lukaszewicz EOL --- a symbol manipulation language 53--59
V. E. Price Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--59
R. A. Brooker and
S. R. Clark An index directed compiler . . . . . . . 60--63
C. S. Wallace and
B. G. Rowswell Competition for memory access in the
KDF9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--68
H. T. Burley A programming language for linear
algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--73
M. J. Box Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
D. Y. Downham and
F. D. K. Roberts Multiplicative congruential
pseudo-random number generators . . . . 74--77
J. H. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleThe Matrix
Analysis of Vibration, by R. E. D.
Bishop, G. M. L. Gladwell, and S.
Michaelson, 1965; 404 pages (London:
Cambridge University Press, 100s) . . . 77--77
F. H. Deist and
L. Sefor Solution of systems of non-linear
equations by parameter variation . . . . 78--82
P. Jarratt An Iterative Method for Locating Turning
Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--84
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
D. J. A. Welsh and
M. B. Powell An upper bound for the chromatic number
of a graph and its application to
timetabling problems . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
L. Fox Romberg integration for a class of
singular integrands . . . . . . . . . . 87--93
G. J. Cooper The evaluation of the coefficients in
the Chebyshev expansion . . . . . . . . 94--100
M. K. Jain and
K. D. Sharma Numerical solution of linear
differential equations and Volterra's
integral equation using Lobatto
quadrature formula . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107
J. D. Roberts Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
J. A. T. Bye A new method of determining eigenvalues
and eigenfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
B. H. Rudall Algorithm 19: Complex . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 112--115
I. D. Hill and
S. A. Joyce and
A. Bergson and
P. Hammersley Note on Algorithm 13: \tt normalarea . . 113--115
P. J. H. King Discussion and correspondence: some
comments on systematics . . . . . . . . 116--119
J. W. Grady The National Giro . . . . . . . . . . . 121--125
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--125
F. I. Musk One man's meat: part 3 --- It's all good
grist that comes to our mill . . . . . . 126--127
W. O'Brien COSMOS --- Courtauld's own system for
matrix operations and statistics . . . . 128--134
Anonymous An Audit Approach to Computers . . . . . 134--134
P. J. H. King Decision tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--142
J. C. Wilkinson Computer Simulation Techniques . . . . . 142--142
R. W. Hiorns Seasonal adjustment and forecasting in
the presence of trend . . . . . . . . . 143--149
L. Rowell Huesmann and
Robert P. Goldberg Evaluating Computer Systems through
Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--156
J. C. Ranyard and
A. Wren The optimum arrangement of towers in an
electric power transmission line . . . . 157--161
G. C. Cuddeford Computer Control of Industrial Processes 161--161
B. K. Haddon and
W. M. Waite A compaction procedure for
variable-length storage elements . . . . 162--165
A. G. Fraser Data Compression and Automatic
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--167
C. L. Hamblin An Algorithm for Polynomial Operations 168--171
M. Bell Automata Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
M. R. Osborne and
G. A. Watson On the Best Linear Chebyshev
Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--177
F. M. Larkin Some Techniques for Rational
Interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--187
Anonymous The Memory System of the Brain . . . . . 187--187
J. K. Reid A Note on the Least Squares Solution of
a Band System of Linear Equations by
Householder Reductions . . . . . . . . . 188--189
A. Nathan and
R. K. Even The inversion of sparse matrices by a
strategy derived from their graphs . . . 190--194
E. J. Davison A high-order Crank-Nicholson technique
for solving differential equations . . . 195--197
Wilfred Ashworth Library Planning for Automation . . . . 197--197
Donald Greenspan A Numerical Approach to Biharmonic
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--201
G. M. Phillips Numerical Integration in two and Three
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--204
H. Tompa Gaussian numerical integration of a
function depending on a parameter . . . 204--205
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 20: Permutations of the Rows
or Columns of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 206--210
J. M. Watt Algorithm 21: Solution of the Polynomial
Equation Using the Method of Bairstow 207--208
B. H. Rudall Note on Algorithm 19: Complex . . . . . 208--209
I. D. Hill Correspondence: On ``Efficiency of
computer use should not be a
consideration'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--209
P. Hammersley Statement of Policy . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Anonymous Discussion and correspondence: One-day
symposium on PL/1 held at National
Physical Laboratory, 18 May 1967 . . . . 211--215
Bryan Higman Correspondence: Paging and Segmentation 216--216
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 216--217
A. J. Cole Correspondence: Chromatic numbers and
timetabling problems . . . . . . . . . . 217--217
I. D. Craddock Correspondence: On analogue computers 217--217
Anonymous Notes on the Submission of Papers . . . 218--218
J. N. G. Brittan The nature and structure of man-computer
communication in team control systems 219--226
B. C. Vickery Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
B. C. Vickery Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
D. Morris and
J. S. Rohl The Atlas compiler system . . . . . . . 227--230
R. B. E. Napper Some proposals for SNAP, a language with
formal macro facilities . . . . . . . . 231--243
C. M. Reeves Description of a syntax-directed
translator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--255
J. R. Ullmann Algebraic inference of pattern
similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--264
J. P. Cleave Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--264
L. E. Rosenthal Analytic algebraic manipulation . . . . 265--270
E. L. Albasiny Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
G. N. Lance and
W. T. Williams A general theory of classificatory
sorting strategies II. Clustering
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--277
H. W. Gearing Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
W. E. Howden A program for the construction of PERT
flow charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--281
D. A. Bell Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
M. L. V. Pitteway Algorithm for drawing ellipses or
hyperbolae with a digital plotter . . . 282--289
A. K. Obruca Correspondence between two types of
trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--292
W. I. Zangwill Minimizing a function without
calculating derivatives . . . . . . . . 293--296
G. M. Phillips Numerical integration over an
$N$-dimensional rectangular region . . . 297--299
J. Doran Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
R. P. Tewarson Row-column permutation of sparse
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--305
J. Boothroyd Algorithms: Author's note on Algorithms
22, 23, 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--306
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 306--306
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 22: Shortest path between
start node and end node of a network . . 306--307
Anonymous Algorithms supplement . . . . . . . . . 306--312
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 23: Shortest path between
start node and all other nodes of a
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
J. Boothroyd Algorithms: Author's note on Algorithms
25, 26, 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 24: The list of nodes on the
shortest path from start node to end
node of a network . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 25: Sort a section of the
elements of an array by determining the
rank of each element . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 26: Order the subscripts of an
array section according to the
magnitudes of the elements . . . . . . . 309--310
J. Boothroyd Algorithms: Author's note on Algorithms
28, 29, 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 27: Rearrange the elements of
an array section according to a
permutation of the subscripts . . . . . 310--310
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 28: Permutations of the
elements of a vector in lexicographic
order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 29: Permutation of the
elements of a vector . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 30: Fast permutation of the
elements of a vector . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
E. L. Willey Discussion and correspondence: an
established U.K. software development 313--314
Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--314
M. V. Wilkes and
R. M. Needham The design of multiple-access computer
systems: part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320
R. Milner String Handling in Algol . . . . . . . . 321--324
Eric Foxley and
Peter King The implementation of syntax analysis
using ALGOL, and some mathematical
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--335
F. J. M. Laver Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
J. S. Rohl A note on Backus Naur Form . . . . . . . 336--337
N. E. Wiseman and
J. O. Hiles A Ring Structure Processor for a Small
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--346
J. J. Florentin Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
G. Mitra and
K. Wolfenden A computer technique for optimizing the
sites and heights of transmission line
towers --- a dynamic programming
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--351
K. Wolfenden Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
K. G. Beauchamp The simulation of wave filters having
polynomial transfer functions on an
analogue computer . . . . . . . . . . . 352--359
A. P. Yule Extensions to the heuristic algorithm
for University timetables . . . . . . . 360--364
E. H. Lloyd Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
P. D. Groves Marking and evaluating class tests and
examinations by computer . . . . . . . . 365--367
J. A. Nelder Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
J. F. Temperly and
Barry W. Smith A Grading Procedure for PL/1 Student
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--373
Alex K. Obruca Spanning tree manipulation and the
travelling salesman problem . . . . . . 374--377
R. J. Ord-Smith Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
A. R. Gourlay The acceleration of the
Peaceman--Rachford method by Chebyshev
polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--382
M. R. Osborne and
G. A. Watson Note on two methods of solving ordinary
linear differential equations . . . . . 383--384
Z. Bohte Numerical solution of the inverse
algebraic eigenvalue problem . . . . . . 385--388
R. Taylor Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--388
R. Taylor Correspondence: Orion FORTRAN compiler 388--388
L. M. Delves The numerical evaluation of principal
value integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--391
Michael Bell Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
R. Fletcher Generalized Inverse Methods for the Best
Least Squares Solution of Systems of
Non-Linear Equations . . . . . . . . . . 392--399
P. A. Samet Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
T. J. Randall A note on the estimation of the optimum
successive overrelaxation parameter for
Laplace's equation . . . . . . . . . . . 400--401
Peter McManus Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--401
S. H. Storey The Convergence of Fourier--Bessel
Expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--405
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405
William C. Davidon Variance Algorithm for Minimization . . 406--410
J. J. Florentin Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
R. P. Tewarson A Computational Method for Evaluating
Generalized Inverses . . . . . . . . . . 411--413
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 414--414
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 414--416
J. Boothroyd Algorithm 31: Complex Fourier Series . . 414--416
J. A. Guin Discussion and correspondence:
modification of the complex method of
constrained optimization . . . . . . . . 416--417
I. J. Good Correspondence: Gödel's theorem . . . . . 417--417
I. J. Good Gödel's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417
W. E. Thomson Correspondence: Solution of linear
differential equation . . . . . . . . . 417--418
H. W. G. Management Information Systems . . . . . 418--418
C. H. Hunt and
M. M. Ryder and
S. H. Storey Computers and the small firm: 1 . . . . 1--4
P. C. Poole and
T. Lang The development of on-line computing
facilities for the KDF9 part 1; COSEC
--- a single on-line console . . . . . . 5--11
G. J. S. Ross Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
A. G. Fraser User control in a multi-access system 12--16
E. E. Boyles Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--16
D. C. Knight An algorithm for scheduling storage on a
non-paged computer . . . . . . . . . . . 17--21
M. Finkelstein A compiler optimization technique . . . 22--25
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
G. F. Coulouris and
T. J. Goodey and
R. W. Hill and
R. W. Keeling and
D. Levin The London CPL1 compiler . . . . . . . . 26--30
L. Fox Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
J. M. Foster A syntax improving program . . . . . . . 31--34
J. Howlett Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
J. G. Laski Segmentation and virtual address
topology --- an essay in virtual
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
D. C. Wood A system for computing university
examination timetables . . . . . . . . . 41--47
T. A. J. Nicholson and
R. D. Pullen A permutation procedure for job-shop
scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--56
A. Young Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
M. J. Shepherd and
A. J. Willmott Cluster analysis on the Atlas computer 57--62
J. Doran Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
W. M. Newman A graphical technique for numerical
input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
I. Aleksander and
R. C. Albrow Adaptive logic circuits . . . . . . . . 65--71
R. W. Hiorns Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
J. L. Riley and
P. H. Walker Generation of time delays on analogue
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
E. L. Albasiny Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
J. M. Watt Convergence and stability of
discretization methods for functional
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--82
P. Jarratt and
C. Mack A least squares method for Laplace's
equation with Dirichlet boundary
conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--87
G. R. Garside and
P. Jarratt and
C. Mack A new method for solving polynomial
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
G. Loizou An empirical estimate of the relative
error of the computed solution $x$ of $A
x = b$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
A. R. Gourlay and
J. L. l. Morris Deferred approach to the limit in
non-linear hyperbolic systems . . . . . 95--101
R. Cranley and
T. N. L. Patterson The evaluation of multidimensional
integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--110
G. M. Phillips Estimate of the maximum error in best
polynomial approximations . . . . . . . 110--111
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 112--112
J. Grad and
K. A. Redish and
M. A. Brebner Algorithm 32: Calculation of eigenvalues
of real matrices by the $QR$ method
using double $QR$ step . . . . . . . . . 112--114
Anonymous Algorithms supplement . . . . . . . . . 112--115
H. Späth Algorithm 33: Fitting data to an
exponential with a straight line as
background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
J. Boothroyd Special note on Algorithm 31. Complex
Fourier Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115
R. F. Churchhouse Discussion and correspondence: note on
the twenty-five most cited papers in
some leading journals . . . . . . . . . 116--120
Bernard Smith SPECOL --- a computer enquiry language
for the non-programmer . . . . . . . . . 121--127
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--127
C. B. B. Grindley The Use of Decision Tables within
Systematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--133
D. V. Lindley Prediction Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Caxton C. Foster Sorting Almost Ordered Arrays . . . . . 134--137
F. O'Brien and
R. C. Beckwith A Technique for Computer Flow Chart
Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
N. E. Wiseman A note on compiling display file from a
data structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--147
Wladyslaw M. Turski SODA --- a dual activity operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--156
J. J. Florentin Machine Intelligence 2 . . . . . . . . . 156--156
B. E. Cooper Basic subroutine for the input of
numbers, words and special characters 157--159
A. Gibbons K Autocode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--168
R. M. Burstall Automation Theory and Learning Systems 168--168
M. J. R. Healy Towards Fortran Vi? . . . . . . . . . . 169--172
W. E. Thomson Correspondence: Generation of time
delays on analogue computers . . . . . . 172--172
W. E. Thomson Letters to the Editor: Generation of
Time Delays on Analogue Computers . . . 172--172
H. P. Williams The synthesis of logical nets consisting
of NOR units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--176
D. C. Cooper Sequential Machines and Automata Theory 176--176
N. Jardine and
R. Sibson The construction of hierarchic and
non-hierarchic classifications . . . . . 177--184
J. M. Nightingale Process Control Systems . . . . . . . . 184--184
C. S. Wallace and
D. M. Boulton An Information Measure for
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--194
J. P. O'Brien Correspondence: On ``A new method for
solving polynomial equations'' . . . . . 194--194
J. P. O'Brien Letter to the Editor: a New Method for
Solving Polynomial Equations . . . . . . 194--194
G. N. Lance and
W. T. Williams Note on a new information-statistic
classificatory program . . . . . . . . . 195--195
L. G. Noronha and
C. Y. Po and
J. W. Womack Hybrid computation of the dynamics of a
distributed system . . . . . . . . . . . 196--205
W. G. Bickley Piecewise cubic interpolation and
two-point boundary problems . . . . . . 206--208
H. D. Miller Combinatorial methods in the theory of
stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
T. Ashby A modification to Paulson's
approximation to the variance ratio
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
G. M. Phillips Algorithms for piecewise straight line
approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
F. H. George Computers and the Human Mind . . . . . . 212--212
H. O'Hara and
Francis J. Smith Error estimation in the Clenshaw--Curtis
quadrature formula . . . . . . . . . . . 213--219
R. W. Hiorns Modern Factor Analysis . . . . . . . . . 219--219
C. F. Price An offset vector iteration method for
solving two-point boundary-value
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--228
A. H. J. Sale The calculation of $e$ to many
significant digits . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 231--235
P. A. Samet Discussion and correspondence: software
requirements of universities . . . . . . 236--240
Uwe Pape Correspondence: On ``Some computational
notes on the shortest route problems'' 240--240
Uwe Pape Letter to the Editor: Some Computational
Notes on the Shortest Route Problem . . 240--240
P. S. Davison and
P. Giles and
D. A. R. Matthews Ageing of magnetic tape: a critical
bibliography and comparison of
literature sources . . . . . . . . . . . 241--246
J. W. Murphy Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
D. F. Hartley and
B. Landy and
R. M. Needham The structure of a multiprogramming
supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--255
J. Larmouth and
C. Whitby-Strevens MLS --- the Titan mixed language system 256--259
M. V. Wilkes The outer and inner syntax of a
programming language . . . . . . . . . . 260--263
B. C. Brookes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
E. Foxley and
K. Lockyer The construction of examination
timetables by computer . . . . . . . . . 264--268
D. F. Barnard and
D. F. Holman The use of Roth's decomposition
algorithm in multi-level design of
circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--276
S. L. Hurst An extension of binary minimisation
techniques to ternary equations . . . . 277--286
P. J. Landin Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
P. A. V. Hall Pattern classification as interpolation
in N dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--292
D. Barton and
S. R. Bourne and
C. J. Burgess A simple algebra system . . . . . . . . 293--298
A. Young Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--298
W. E. Howden The sofa problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301
P. A. Samet Appeal from the Book Review Editor . . . 301--301
M. J. D. Powell On the Calculation of Orthogonal Vectors 302--304
V. E. Price Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
G. J. Makinson Stable high order implicit methods for
the numerical solution of systems of
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 305--310
C. W. Clenshaw Book Review: \booktitleChebyshev
Polynomials in Numerical Analysis, by L.
Fox and I. B. Parker, 1969; 205 pages
(Oxford University Press) . . . . . . . 310--310
D. B. Hunter Neville's method for trigonometric
interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
P. Jarratt The Use of Comparison Series in
Analysing Iteration Functions . . . . . 314--316
J. Eve Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
G. M. Birtwistle The explicit solution of the equation of
heat conduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--323
P. C. Chakravarti Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
A. Hadjidimos On a generalised alternating direction
implicit method for solving Laplace's
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--328
T. Lloyd and
H. McCallion Bounds for the optimum over-relaxation
factor for the S.O.R. solution of
Laplace type equations over irregular
regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--331
I. F. Currie Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
T. J. Randall Note on a general finite-difference
formula for the solution of axially
symmetric fields . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
M. A. Wolfe and
G. M. Phillips Some methods for the solution of
non-singular Volterra
integro-differential equations . . . . . 334--336
T. J. Rivlin Polynomial approximation and the
$\tau$-method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
J. M. Watt Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
M. M. Chawla Asymptotic estimates for the error of
the Gauss--Legendre quadrature formula 339--340
G. A. Dirac Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--340
J. C. P. Miller and
M. J. Prentice Additive congruential pseudo-random
number generators . . . . . . . . . . . 341--346
D. C. Gilles Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--346
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
R. J. Prescott Algorithm 35: Best rational
approximation to a real number . . . . . 347--348
Anonymous Algorithms supplement . . . . . . . . . 347--350
G. J. Makinson Algorithm 36: Evaluation of the complex
arcsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--350
D. P. Owen Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
David P. Owen and
John Laski Correspondence: An argument against
paging hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351
P. J. H. King and
P. R. King Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
E. W. Solomon Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
Eric W. Solomon Correspondence: Basic data input
routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
A. G. Fraser Integrity of a Mass Storage Filing
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
D. Q. Mayne Book Review: \booktitleConditional
Markov Processes and their application
to the Theory of Optimal Control . . . . 5--5
P. J. H. King Systems Analysis Documentation:
Computer-Aided Data Dictionary
Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--9
J. Westcott Book Review: \booktitleOptimisation in
Control and Practice . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
D. G. R. Buckle and
C. H. Hunt and
Maureen M. Ryder and
S. H. Storey Computers and the Small Firm: 2 . . . . 10--14
R. J. W. Housden The definition and implementation of \sc
Lsix in BCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--23
G. L. Watson Book Review: \booktitleIndices and
Primitive Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
P. T. Cameron A language for chemical plant design and
simulation programs . . . . . . . . . . 24--28
D. C. Cooper Book Review: \booktitleTheory of
Recursive Functions and Effective
Computability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
A. J. Lerner Formal methods of diagnosis in
engineering and medicine . . . . . . . . 29--32
T. Hagan Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Linguistics in Eastern Europe . . . . . 32--32
Ottis W. Rechard and
Richard H. Stark Equivalence of two algorithms for
Cooper's generalised factorial function 33--37
D. S. Jones Book Review: \booktitleField Computation
by Moment Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37
D. Nudds Methods of Computing Event Times in
Project Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
Rod M. Burstall Proving Properties of Programs by
Structural Induction . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
R. M. Burstall A Program for Solving Word Sum Puzzles 48--51
M. O'Neill and
I. G. Sinclair and
Francis J. Smith Polynomial curve fitting when abscissas
and ordinates are both subject to error 52--56
J. Oliver An error estimation technique for the
solution of ordinary differential
equations in Chebyshev series . . . . . 57--62
M. R. Osborne and
G. A. Watson An algorithm for minimax approximation
in the nonlinear case . . . . . . . . . 63--68
J. R. Palmer An improved procedure for
orthogonalising the search vectors in
Rosenbrock's and Swann's direct search
optimisation methods . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
J. K. Reid Book Review: \booktitleSemi-Groups of
Operators and Approximation . . . . . . 71--71
A. J. Cole and
A. J. T. Davie Local Smoothing by Polynomials in $n$
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
R. P. Tewarson Projection Methods for Solving Sparse
Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80
H. H. Robertson and
M. J. McCann A note on the numerical integration of
conservative systems of first-order
ordinary differential equations . . . . 81--81
M. R. Osborne The numerical solution of the heat
conduction equation subject to separated
boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Donald Greenspan Numerical Studies of Prototype Cavity
Flow Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
C. G. Broyden A New Method of Solving Nonlinear
Simultaneous Equations . . . . . . . . . 94--99
C. N. J. Tily Algorithm 37: Fitting data to an
exponentially damped linear function . . 100--101
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 100--103
A. C. Day Algorithm 38: a searching algorithm . . 101--102
P. Hammersley Note on Algorithm 34: Procedures for the
Basic Arithmetical Operations in
Multi-Length Working . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
D. W. Barron Discussion and correspondence: a note on
program debugging in an on-line
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
D. W. Barron A note on Program Debugging in an
On-Line Environment . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
Peter Fellgett Correspondence: What is an analyst? . . 104--104
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
A. Bergson Correspondence: Note on the calculation
of $e$ to many significant digits . . . 105--105
W. G. Bickley Correspondence: Piecewise cubic
interpolation and two-point boundary
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
Tad Pinkerton and
D. W. Barron Correspondence: Paging . . . . . . . . . 105--105
R. M. Paine O.C.R. --- benefits and pitfalls . . . . 108--113
B. J. Gladwin The utilisation of graphic display units
as the main form of computer input . . . 114--117
M. C. Bonney Some considerations of the cost and
value of information . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
R. A. d'Inverno ALAM --- Atlas Lisp Algebraic
Manipulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
B. Landy and
C. Whitby-Strevens TSAS --- the time-shared supervisor
assembly system . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
N. W. Bellamy and
M. J. West Methods of profile optimisation by
iterative analogue computation . . . . . 132--138
D. Wood The normal form theorem --- another
proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
I. Aleksander Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
D. G. Hayes A method of storing the orthogonal
polynomials used for curve and surface
fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--150
L. Francis Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
E. L. Albasiny and
W. D. Hoskins Cubic spline solutions to two-point
boundary value problems . . . . . . . . 151--153
E. Lloyd Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
L. B. Winrich Note on a comparison of evaluation
schemes for the interpolating polynomial 154--155
M. J. Seaton Diagonalisation of complex symmetric
matrices using a modified Jacobi method 156--157
J. Eve Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
R. P. Tewarson The Crout reduction for sparse matrices 158--159
R. F. Churchhouse Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
W. M. Gentleman An error analysis of Goertzel's (Watt's)
method for computing Fourier
coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--164
R. England Error estimates for Runge--Kutta type
solutions to systems of ordinary
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 166--170
Anonymous Honorary Editor --- The Computer Journal 170--170
J. D. Pearson Variable metric methods of minimisation 171--178
H. O'Hara and
Francis J. Smith The evaluation of definite integrals by
interval subdivision . . . . . . . . . . 179--182
D. A. Bell Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
C. F. Haines Implicit integration processes with
error estimate for the numerical
solution of differential equations . . . 183--187
J. L. Douce Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
D. J. Fyfe The use of cubic splines in the solution
of two-point boundary value problems . . 188--192
M. A. Wolfe The numerical solution of non-singular
integral and integrodifferential
equations by iteration with Chebyshev
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 197--197
A. G. Adams Algorithm 39: Areas under the normal
curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 197--199
H. Späth Algorithm 40: Spline interpolation of
degree three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
D. Bruyendonck and
D. Hirschberg Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
D. Bruyendonck and
D. Hirschberg Correspondence: Convex differentiable
curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
J. Larmouth and
C. Whitby-Strevens Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
J. Larmouth and
C. Whitby-Strevens Correspondence: Paging . . . . . . . . . 200--200
A. R. Brown Selling Television Time: an Optimisation
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--207
M. J. D. Powell Nonlinear Programming-Sequential
Unconstrained Minimization Techniques 207a-207
W. Grey Walter Modelling of Thinking and the Mind . . . 207b-207
P. Giles Mini-COBOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--214
Mary Almond A University faculty timetable . . . . . 215--217
D. F. Hendry and
P. A. Samet Towards FORTRAN VI? Part 2. FORTRAN in
the modern world . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--220
Michael Bell Mathematical Theory of Switching
Circuits and Automata . . . . . . . . . 220--220
K. A. Mulholland Software to translate TELCOMP programs
into KDF9ALGOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
A. J. Fox and
P. W. Edwards Implementation of a syntax-driven
interpreter for data retrieval . . . . . 225--232
G. P. D. Morris Advanced Linear-Programming Computing
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--232
H. R. Simpson A Compact Form of One-Track Syntax
Analyser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--243
P. J. Wexler Computers in Humanistic Research . . . . 243--243
P. E. Williams and
D. C. Menzies The Windscale on-line computing system 244--250
J. K. Iliffe Elements of BLM (Basic Language Machine) 251--258
Miguel A. Marin Synthesis of TANT networks using a
Boolean analyser . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--267
L. Fox Computer Evaluation of Mathematical
Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
M. J. Savage Junction Optimisation Technique . . . . 268--272
J. C. P. Miller Computer Approximations . . . . . . . . 272--272
N. E. Gough and
J. B. A. Epton A general procedure for evaluating the
controllability of time delay feedback
control systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--276
M. J. Box and
R. M. Box Computation of the Variance Ratio
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
J. N. Lyness The effect of inadequate convergence
criteria in automatic routines . . . . . 279--281
S. E. El-gendi Chebyshev solution of differential,
integral and integro differential
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--287
Anonymous Notice to Members of the British
Computer Society . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
M. J. D. Powell A Theorem on Rank One Modifications to a
Matrix and Its Inverse . . . . . . . . . 288--290
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
P. J. Le Riche Algorithm 41: a curve plotting procedure 291--292
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 291--295
H. Späth Algorithm 42: Interpolation by certain
quintic splines . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
M. L. V. Pitteway and
R. W. Parry Note on Algorithm 35: Best rational
approximation to a real number . . . . . 293--293
S. M. Cobb Note on Algorithm 35: Best rational
approximation to a real number . . . . . 293--295
Anonymous Future Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
M. J. O'Carroll Discussion and correspondence: S.O.R.
and membranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
P. A. Ongley Examinations by Computer . . . . . . . . 297--298
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 298--300
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . viii--viii
G. S. Marliss and
W. A. Murray William G. Bickley --- an appreciation 301--302
K. Jackson and
J. R. Prior Debugging and assessment of control
programs for an automatic radar . . . . 303--306
N. L. Lawrie An integer linear programming model of a
school timetabling problem . . . . . . . 307--316
M. V. Wilkes Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
D. C. Wood A technique for colouring a graph
applicable to large scale timetabling
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--319
P. J. H. King The interpretation of limited entry
decision table format and relationships
among conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--326
A. J. Mitchell Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326
P. J. Brown Using a macro processor to aid software
implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--331
R. J. W. Housden A note on list-processing in BCL . . . . 332--341
S. Gill Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
W. A. Zaremba A syntax for Algol input/output formats 342--348
D. Wood The theory of left factored languages:
Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--356
M. S. Goldman Computer-aided typesetting with a CRT 357--364
Anonymous \booktitleThe Computer Journal ---
Honorary Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
P. Sipala Formatting and display of Algol
expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
J. D. Beasley and
K. Wilson Design and testing of the System 4
random number generator . . . . . . . . 368--372
D. Y. Downham The runs up and down test . . . . . . . 373--376
D. A. Bell Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
W. F. Lunnon A postage stamp problem . . . . . . . . 377--380
J. L. Byrne and
L. G. Proll Initialising Geoffrion's implicit
enumeration algorithm for the zero-one
linear programming problem . . . . . . . 381--384
P. W. Throsby A finite element approach to surface
definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--387
R. P. Tewarson A least squares iterative method for
singular equations . . . . . . . . . . . 388--392
Anonymous Alston S. Householder Award . . . . . . 392--392
P. Linz Numerical methods for Volterra integral
equations of the first kind . . . . . . 393--397
G. Peters and
J. H. Wilkinson Eigenvalues of $A x = \lambda B x$ with
band symmetric $A$ and $B$ . . . . . . . 398--404
Anonymous Future papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--404
P. Hammersley Algorithms supplement: Previously
published algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 405--406
Anonymous Algorithms Supplement . . . . . . . . . 405--409
A. D. Woodall Algorithm 43: a listed radix sort . . . 406--406
C. G. Broyden Algorithm 44: Solution of nonlinear
simultaneous equations . . . . . . . . . 406--408
I. D. Hill Note on Algorithms 25, 26. 25: Sort a
section of the elements of an array by
determining the rank of each element.
26: Order the subscripts of an array
section according to the magnitudes of
the elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
R. S. Scowen Note on Algorithm 40. Spline
interpolation of degree three . . . . . 409--409
G. C. Temes Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
G. C. Temes Correspondence: Note on ``An algorithm
for minimax approximation in the
nonlinear case'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
W. P. L. Whitby and
R. M. Paine Correspondence: OCR --- benefits and
pitfalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
A. M. Andrew Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
A. M. Andrew Correspondence: The calculation of
orthogonal vectors . . . . . . . . . . . 411--411
I. H. Gould and
R. W. Bemer Correspondence: On the use of the term
`processor' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--412
R. W. Bemer Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
E. S. Deutsch Correspondence: Comments on a line
thinning algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
David S. Watkins Francis's Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 387--403
A. H. J. Sale Note on Algorithm 42: Interpolation by
certain quintic splines . . . . . . . . 115--115
P. B. Fellgett Correspondence: What is an analyst? . . 118--119
R. L. Allen and
The Editor Correspondence: What is an analyst? . . 119--120
M. J. Savage Erratum: ``Junction optimisation
technique'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--120
M. Wells Correspondence: Towards Fortran VI? . . 120--120
B. W. Dawkins and
H. C. Dawkins Correspondence: On ``A University
faculty timetable'' . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Jan V. Garwick and
J. N. Lyness Correspondence: On ``The effect of
inadequate convergence criteria in
automatic routines'' . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
K. Fielding Note on Algorithm 44: Solution of
nonlinear simultaneous equations . . . . 219--219
P. Hammersley and
J. Larmouth Correspondence: Towards Fortran VI? . . 220--220
D. A. Carrick Correspondence: Interpretation of
limited entry decision table format . . 220--221
J. G. Fraser Correspondence: Further comments on a
line-thinning scheme . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
A. D. Woodall Note on Algorithms 25, 26. 25: Sort a
section of the elements of an array by
determining the rank of each element.
26: Order the subscripts of an array
section according to the magnitudes of
the elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326
P. J. H. King Correspondence: Interpretation of
limited entry decision table format . . 54--54
K. A. Redish Correspondence: (Note on) Algorithm 44 64--64
J. L. Seldon Correspondence: The postage stamp
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
J. Boothroyd Certification of Algorithm 2: Fibonacci
search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
M. C. Pike and
J. Pixner Algorithm 2: Fibonacci search . . . . . 86--86
I. D. Hill and
M. C. Pike Algorithm 4: TWOBYTWO . . . . . . . . . 87--88
David S. Watkins The $QR$ Algorithm Revisited . . . . . . 133--145