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Volume 1, Number 1, April, 1958
Volume 1, Number 2, July, 1958
Volume 1, Number 3, October, 1958
Volume 1, Number 4, January, 1959
Volume 2, Number 1, April, 1959
Volume 2, Number 2, July, 1959
Volume 2, Number 3, October, 1959


The Computer Journal
Volume 1, Number 1, April, 1958

                        S. Gill   Parallel Programming . . . . . . . . . . 2--10
                     E. S. Page   A Note on Round-off  . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
                  D. T. Caminer   --- And how to avoid them  . . . . . . . 11--14
                  R. A. Brooker   The autocode programs developed for the
                                  Manchester University Computers  . . . . 15--21
                R. G. Dowse and   
                  H. W. Gearing   Mathematics in Business  . . . . . . . . 22--24
                     A. Gilmour   The solution of railway problems on a
                                  digital computer: 1  . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
                  A. J. Barnard   The First Year with a Business Computer  29--36
               R. A. Fairthorne   Automatic Retrieval of Recorded
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--41
                      Anonymous   Computers and Process Plant  . . . . . . 41--41
          S. H. Hollingdale and   
                  M. M. Barritt   An application of a computer to wind
                                  tunnel design: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47

The Computer Journal
Volume 1, Number 2, July, 1958

                   F. Yates and   
                     D. H. Rees   The use of an electronic computer in
                                  research statistics: four years'
                                  experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
                  H. W. Gearing   Statistical Foundations for Business
                                  Forecasts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
          S. H. Hollingdale and   
                  M. M. Barritt   An application of a computer to wind
                                  tunnel design: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--68
                  A. S. Douglas   Computers and Commerce: 1  . . . . . . . 69--70
                      Anonymous   British Computer Society Conference:
                                  June 1959  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
                     D. A. Bell   The Principles of Sorting  . . . . . . . 71--77
                     A. Gilmour   The solution of railway problems on a
                                  digital computer: 2  . . . . . . . . . . 78--83
                  W. E. Thomson   A modified congruence method of
                                  generating pseudo-random numbers . . . . 83--83
                        S. Gill   A Binary Form of Horner's Method . . . . 84--86
                  P. Shackleton   A Model for Weekly Shop Loading  . . . . 87--89
                J. H. Wilkinson   The Calculation of the Eigenvectors of
                                  Codiagonal Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 90--96

The Computer Journal
Volume 1, Number 3, October, 1958

                   M. V. Wilkes   The Second Decade of Computer
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--105
                      Anonymous   International Conference on Information
                                  Processing Paris 15--20 June 1959  . . . 105--105
                 T. R. Thompson   Four Years of Automatic Office Work  . . 106--112
                        A. Muir   Automatic Sales Forecasting  . . . . . . 113--116
                        F. Beck   Harmonic Analysis Using a Digital
                                  Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
                   D. W. Martin   Runge--Kutta methods for integrating
                                  differential equations on high speed
                                  digital computers  . . . . . . . . . . . 118--123
                     J. L. Venn   Correspondence: the Principles of
                                  Sorting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
                  R. A. Brooker   Further autocode facilities for the
                                  Manchester (Mercury) computer  . . . . . 124--127
         J. A. Fotheringham and   
               M. de V. Roberts   An input routine for the Ferranti
                                  Mercury computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--131
                  A. S. Douglas   Computers and Commerce: 2  . . . . . . . 132--137
                  A. S. Douglas   Computers and commerce: 3 --- stock
                                  recording and control  . . . . . . . . . 137--141
                      Anonymous   First British Computer Society
                                  Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--141
                    J. C. Gower   A Note on an Iterative Method for Root
                                  Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--143
                  R. H. Richens   Interlingual Machine Translation . . . . 144--147
                J. H. Wilkinson   The Calculation of Eigenvectors by the
                                  Method of Lanczos  . . . . . . . . . . . 148--152

The Computer Journal
Volume 1, Number 4, January, 1959

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Halsbury   Ten Years of Computer Development  . . . 153--159
                 W. G. Moorhead   Aircraft Route Analysis on a Digital
                                  Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--162
                     J. M. Watt   A Note on the Evaluation of
                                  Trigonometric Series . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
                  J. H. Wensley   A Class of Non-Analytical Iterative
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--167
                  A. S. Douglas   Computer and commerce: 4 --- management
                                  and control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--171
               R. A. Fairthorne   Correspondence: the Principles of
                                  Sorting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--171
                    C. Robinson   DEUCE interpretive programs  . . . . . . 172--176
                   K. M. Howell   A New Programming Technique for Rational
                                  Fractions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--178
              R. H. Gregory and   
                  H. W. Gearing   Electronic computers as tools for
                                  management in the United States of
                                  America: 1956  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191
                  B. Clarke and   
                   G. E. Felton   The Pegasus autocode . . . . . . . . . . 192--195
                    C. D. Allen   A method for the reduction of empirical
                                  multi-variable functions . . . . . . . . 196--200


The Computer Journal
Volume 2, Number 1, April, 1959

                  A. S. Douglas   Techniques for the Recording of, and
                                  Reference to data in a Computer  . . . . 1--9
                 J. M. Harrison   Some Helicopter Simulation Studies . . . 10--23
                  D. J. Wheeler   Note on the Runge--Kutta method of
                                  integrating ordinary differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--23
                 D. C. Hemy and   
                    W. J. Kease   The study of the application of a
                                  computer to production control . . . . . 24--38
                 B. J. Loopstra   The X-1 Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--43
                  A. D. Woolner   Test programs for HEC  . . . . . . . . . 44--47
                  P. F. Windley   Transposing Matrices in a Digital
                                  Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48

The Computer Journal
Volume 2, Number 2, July, 1959

                  P. F. Windley   The influence of storage access time on
                                  merging processes in a computer  . . . . 49--53
                   J. P. Cleave   Algorithms for Formula Translation . . . 53--54
                    F. J. Berry   Intercode, a simplified coding scheme
                                  for AMOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
                   R. Neate and   
                    W. J. Dacey   A Simulation of Melting Shop Operations  59--67
                     P. M. Hunt   The Ferranti Perseus data-processing
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--75
              R. C. Brigham and   
                     C. G. Bell   A translation routine for the DEUCE
                                  computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
                      G. Cuttle   Where next? Some conjectures on the
                                  future of the large-scale computer in
                                  integrated commercial work . . . . . . . 85--86
              E. E. Bernard and   
                  P. D. A. Mole   Generating strategies for continuous
                                  separation processes . . . . . . . . . . 87--89
                    C. Strachey   On Taking the Square Root of a Complex
                                  Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
                     F. I. Musk   A Monte Carlo simulation of a production
                                  planning problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--94
                R. W. Jones and   
                  A. S. Douglas   Correspondence: Sorting by Merging . . . 95--96
              Thos. H. O'Beirne   Correspondence: Gray or Gros?  . . . . . 96--96
              Thos. H. O'Beirne   Gray or Gros?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--96

The Computer Journal
Volume 2, Number 3, October, 1959

                J. A. Goldsmith   The state of the art --- (a) Commercial
                                  computers in Britain, June 1959  . . . . 97--99
                  A. S. Douglas   The state of the art --- (b) Computers
                                  in British universities  . . . . . . . . 100--102
                F. L. Bauer and   
              A. S. HouseHolder   Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
                   A. G. Wright   A Business Application of a Digital
                                  Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
                C. H. D. Harper   Conference on Automatic Computing and
                                  Data Processing in Australia . . . . . . 104--104
                C. W. Mallinson   Problems of Local Authorities in Data
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
                  H. W. Gearing   Symposium on the selection and training
                                  of programmers --- 1: a business user's
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--109
                        S. Gill   Current Theory and Practice of Automatic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--114
                 J. F. A. Bryen   The introduction and establishment of a
                                  system of computer production control in
                                  a light engineering factory  . . . . . . 115--118
                G. B. Griffiths   Symposium on experiences with the use of
                                  magnetic tape --- 1: magnetic tapes on a
                                  Ferranti Pegasus . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--119
                  P. B. Livesey   Symposium on experiences with the use of
                                  magnetic tape --- 2: magnetic films on a
                                  National-Elliott 405 . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
                   S. Takahashi   Development of Japanese digital
                                  computers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--129
                   L. B. Wilson   Solution of certain large sets of
                                  equations on Pegasus using matrix
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--133
                        J. Vine   Application of a combination of analogue
                                  and digital computers to electron
                                  trajectory tracing . . . . . . . . . . . 134--144
                  J. P. O'Brien   Note on decomposition into first order
                                  of multi-order linear differential
                                  equations with constant coefficients . . 144--144
                    G. S. Galer   The use of computers for economic
                                  planning in the petroleum chemical
                                  industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--150