PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED American Physiological Society April 6-10, 1953, Chicago W. S. McCulloch: The Effects of Taste and Sham Feeding on the Blood Sugar Level of Dogs Symposium on Microwave Optics The Eaton Electronics Research Laboratory, McGill University June 22-25, 1953, Montreal M. V. Cerrillo: The "Cliff" Method of Approximate Integration and the Radiation from a Dipole over a Finite Conductive Ground Gordon Conference on Nuclear Chemistry June 22-25, 1953, New Hampton, New Hampshire V. Jaccarino: The Atomic Beam Method Applied to Radioactive Nuclei (invited paper) Public Lecture, University College June 29, 1953, London W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Some New Techniques for the Electrophysiological Study of the Central Nervous System Committee of the Philosophy of Science, June 30, 1953, London W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: University College Through the Den of the Metaphysician Department of Physics, King's College July 2, 1953, London W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Information in the Head The Ratio Club July 2, 1953, London W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Microelectrode Studies in Mapping Sources and Sinks of Current in the Central Nervous System Institute of Neurology, National Hospital July 3, 1953, London W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Studies in Carbohydrate Metabolism and its Regulation in Health and Disease of the Central Nervous System The E.E.G. Society July 3, 1953, London W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Show What the Electroencephalogram Can Never University Staff Club, University of Birmingham July 4, 1953, Birmingham, England W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: viii The Circuitry of Ethical Robots MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) Royal Medico- Psychological Association July 7-10, 1953, Gloucester, England W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: The Functional Organization of the Central Nervous System for the Control of Posture and Motion Colloquium, University of Glasgow July 13, 1953, Glasgow W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Nervous System Studies of the Electrical Activity of the Conference on Ionization Phenomena July 21, 1953, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford S. C. Brown: Studies of Plasma Oscillations Colloquium, Edinburgh University July 22, 1953, Edinburgh W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Studies of the Nervous Structure Controlling Posture and Motion, with Emphasis on the Brain Stem The Physiological Society July 25, 1953, Cambridge, England J. Lettvin, W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts, P. D. Wall: On Microelectrodes for Plotting Currents in Nervous Tissue (presented by McCulloch and Pitts) Clinic for Diseases of the Nervous System, Hopital de la Salpetriere July 29, 1953, Paris W. S. McCulloch: Controles Posturaux et Controle de Mouvement W. S. McCulloch: Lieux d'Origine des Potentiels dans le Tissu Nerveux Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Leiden University August 5, 1953, Leiden W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: On the Inhibitory Half of the Extrapyramidal System with Special Attention to Negative Feedback The E.E.G. Society, August 6, 1953, Amsterdam W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Electrical Studies of Nervous Activity Psychiatric Neurological Clinic, University of Groningen August 8, 1953 W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Carbohydrate Mechanisms and Schizophrenia 9th International Significal Summer Conference August 10-15, 1953, Amersfoort W. S. McCulloch: Varieties of Coding of Information in the Nervous System with Attention to Pulse-Interval Modulation Seminar on Cybernetics, University of Groningen August 12, 1953 W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts: Applications of Information Theory MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) IRE - ONR University of California Joint Symposium on Statistical Methods of Communication Engineering August 17-18, 1953, Berkeley B. Mandelbrot: Games of Communication F. A. Muller: Communication with Discrete Symbols through a Linear Channel Adding Gaussian Noise International Electroencephalographic Congress August 17-21, 1953, Boston W. S. McCulloch: Chairman (paper also presented) of Symposium on New Developments in Electroencephalographic Techniques IRE West Coast Convention August 19-21, 1953, San Francisco R. E. Scott, R. L. Blanchard: An Iterative Method for Network Synthesis I 1th International Congress of Philosophy August 20-26, 1953, Brussels Y. Bar-Hillel: On Recursive Definitions in Empirical Sciences 19th International Congress of Physiology August 31-September 4, 1953, McGill University and the University of Montreal J. Lettvin, W. S. McCulloch, W. H. Pitts, P. D. Wall: Potentials in the Spinal Cord (presented by McCulloch) The Origin of American Mathematical Society Summer Meeting August 31-September 5, 1953, Kingston, Ontario F. M. Reza: Some New Application of the Theory of a Polynomial in a Complex Variable to the Electrical Network Theory National Electronics Conference September 28-30, 1953, Chicago E. A. Guillemin: Computational Techniques Which Simplify the Correlation Between Steady-State and Transient Response of Filters and Other Networks E. A. Guillemin: An Introduction to Modern Filter Theory R. E. Scott: Potential Analog Methods for Solving the Approximation Problem of Network Synthesis JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION Y. Bar-Hillel: Can Translation be Mechanized? B. Mandelbrot: Games of Communication Information Theory (American Scientist) (Trans. IRE, Professional Group on F. M. Reza: F. M. Reza: Some New Applications of the Theory of a Polynomial in a Complex Variable to the Electrical Network Theory (Proc. Am. Math. Soc.) F. M. Reza: RLC Canonic Forms (J. Appl. Phys.) Deux the/oremes sur les dip1les ele/ctriques (Compt. rend.) JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION R. Eshbach: (continued) Apparatus for Microwave M. W. P. Strandberg, H. R. Johnson, J. Spectroscopy (Rev. Sci. Instr.) M. K. Wilkinson: Crystallographic Variations of Field Emission from Tungsten (J. Appl. Phys.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION F. M. Reza: Synthesis of One Terminal-Pair Passive Networks Without Ideal Transformers (Proc. I.R.E.) TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED No. 209 W. H. Kautz: Network Synthesis for Specified Transient Response No. 231 L. S. Christie, R. D. Luce, J. in Task-Oriented Groups No. 238 D. Gabor: No. 255 D. W. Macy, Jr. : Communication and Learning Lectures on Communication Theory Posener: Microwave Spectrum of the Water Molecule