PUBLICATIONS
AND
REPORTS
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
Psychonomic Society Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
Sept. 1-3, 1960
K. N. Stevens, T.
speechlike sounds
T. Sandel,
and A. S. House,
American Psychological Association
Sept. 1-7, 1960
R. R.
J.
Melzack,
Spots, specificity,
The learning of ensembles of
1960 Annual Convention,
Chicago,
Illinois
and von Frey (invited)
A. Swets, Detection theory and psychophysics:
La Semaine neurophysiologique de la Salp6tri're,
Sept. 7, 1960
A review (invited)
Paris
W. S. McCulloch, A proper logic for neurology (invited)
Physical Society Acoustics Group Symposium on Sound Propagation in the Atmosphere,
Imperial College, South Kensington, London
Sept. 8-9, 1960
U. Ingard, Some experiments on sound propagation in the atmosphere (invited)
Bionics Symposium,
Sept. 13-15, 1960
M.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
Blum, The construction of reliable circuits using unreliable neurons (invited)
J. D. Cowan, Toward a proper logic for parallel computation in the presence of
noise (invited)
L.
Stark, Signal and noise in the human pupil servomechanism (invited)
L. A.
M. Verbeek,
Reliable computation with unreliable circuitry (invited)
University Extension Statewide Series of Lectures on Microelectronic Engineering,
University of California, San Diego, Sept. 26; Los Angeles, Sept. 27; Corona, Sept. 28;
Palo Alto, Sept. 29, 1960
W.
S. McCulloch,
The human brain (invited)
American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology Meeting, Chicago,
Oct. 9-14, 1960
Illinois
N. Y-S. Kiang, The use of computers in studies of auditory neurophysiology (invited)
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
Thirteenth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference,
Monterey, California
Oct. 10-12, 1960
C.
Michelson and D. J.
D. J.
Naval Postgraduate School,
Rose, Hollow-cathode highly ionized discharge.
Rose, Hollow-cathode highly ionized discharge.
Lecture, Department of Physiology,
Oct. 14, 1960
I.
II.
University of Wisconsin,
Madison,
Wisconsin
W. S. McCulloch, A proper logic for neurophysiology (invited)
Lecture, Communications Center,
Oct. 18, 1960
W.
S. McCulloch,
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor,
Michigan
The human brain (invited)
Rand Corporation-University of California Symposium on Mathematical Optimization
Techniques, Santa Monica, California
Oct. 18-20, 1960
T. Kailath and R. Price, Adaptive matched filters (invited)
Sixtieth Meeting, Acoustical Society of America,
Oct. 20-22, 1960
San Francisco,
California
P. T. Brady, Perception of speechlike sounds characterized by a rapidly changing
resonant frequency
O. Fujimura, Spectrum matching of nasal consonants
H. Fujisaki, Automatic extraction of fundamental period of speech by autocorrelation
analysis and peak detection
D. M.
noise
J.
Green,
The effects of a background standard on the detection of a signal
M. Heinz, Spectrum matching of fricative consonants
A. S. House, K. N. Stevens, and H. Fujisaki, Automatic measurement of the
formants of vowels in diverse consonantal environments
Northern New Jersey Section IRE Meeting,
Oct. 25, 1960
M. W. P.
Strandberg,
Montclair, New Jersey
Masers (invited)
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
(continued)
Conference on Computer Techniques in EEG Analysis, Brain Research Institute,
University of California, Los Angeles, California
Oct. 29-30, 1960
J.
S. Barlow,
Correlation techniques in EEG analysis (invited)
W. A. Clark, Jr.,
Digital averaging techniques (invited)
B. Farley, Recognition of patterns in the EEG (invited)
G. L. Gerstein, Neuron firing patterns and the slow potentials (invited)
M. H. Goldstein, Jr.,
Averaging techniques applied to evoked responses (invited)
W. A. Rosenblith, Critical commentary (invited)
Thirty-sixth Annual Convention of American Speech and Hearing Association,
Los Angeles, California
Nov. 1-5, 1960
A. S. House, C. G. Bell, H. Fujisaki, J. M. Heinz, and K. N. Stevens, Automatic
reduction of speech signals by a digital computer: Application of principles of
analysis-by- synthesis
A. S. House, H. Fujisaki, and K. N. Stevens,
measured by a digital computer program
Formant frequencies of vowels
Second Annual Meeting, Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society,
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Nov. 2-5, 1960
G. Bekefi, J. L. Hirshfield, and S. C.
with non-Maxwellian distributions
Brown, Cyclotron emission from plasmas
1960 Brookhaven Conference on Molecular Beams, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Upton, New York
Nov. 3-5, 1960
H. H. Stroke, Configuration mixing and the effects of distributed nuclear magnetization on hyperfine structure in odd A nuclei (invited)
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Meeting, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov. 5, 1960
A. L.
Loeb, Crystalgebra and moduledra, A problem in pattern recognition
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics,
Baltimore, Maryland
Nov. 21-23, 1960
(continued)
American Institute of Physics,
R. C. Gesteland, B. Howland, W. H. Pitts, and A. S. Richardson, Jr., Use of
luminescence for visualizing fields of flow
W. D. Jackson, Measurement of motionally induced voltage in some magnetohydrodynamic channel flows
American Physical Society 1960 Thanksgiving Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
Nov. 25-26, 1960
R. J. Hull and H. H. Stroke,
thallium 199 and 200
Hyperfine structure and isotope shift in radio-
R. H. Kohler, Heavy absorption of a spectral line
American Institute of Electrical Engineers and Institute of Radio Engineers Student
Branch Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nov. 28, 1960
M. H. Goldstein, Jr., The role of communication engineering in studies of the
nervous system (invited)
The Symposium on Flow Visualization, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Annual Meeting, New York
Nov. 30, 1960
R. C. Gesteland, Comments on the electrochemical technique of flow visualization
(invited)
JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
(Reprints, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room,
26-327, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts.)
W. P. Allis, Propagation of waves in a plasma in a magnetic field (Trans. IRE, PGMTT)
G. Ascarelli and S. C. Brown,
germanium (Phys. Rev.)
Recombination of electrons and donors in n-type
E. J. Baghdady, Linear cancellation technique for suppressing impulse noise (IRE
WESCON Convention Record, Part 7, 1960)
JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
G. Bekefi and S. C. Brown, Microwave measurements
plasmas (J. Appl. Phys.)
(continued)
of the radiation temperature of
G. Bekefi, J. L. Hirshfield, and S. C. Brown, Kirchhoff's radiation law for plasmas
with non- Maxwellian distributions (Phys. Fluids)
S. Castellano and J. S. Waugh, Strong coupling in nuclear response spectra. IV. Exact
analysis of three-spin spectra (J. Chem. Phys.)
D. M. Dix and L. Y. Cooper, The magnetohydrodynamic Rayleigh problem (Phys. Fluids)
D. H. Douglass, Jr. and M. W. P.
ganous chloride (Physica)
M.
Strandberg, Antiferromagnetic resonance in man-
Eden, Storage and retrieval of the results of clinical research (Trans. IRE,
B. W. Faughnan and M. W. P. Strandberg,
relaxation (J. Phys. Chem. Solids)
The role of phonons in paramagnetic
C. W. Garland and J. Silverman, Analysis of specific heat data for zinc:
) discrepancy (J. Chem. Phys.)
of the calorimetric and elastic
C.
W. Garland and J.
(Phys. Rev.)
Resolution
Silverman, Elastic constants of cadmium from 4. Z2 K to 300*K
Thermal noise in dissipative media (J.
H. A. Haus,
PGME)
Appl. Phys.)
W. D. Keidel, U. O. Keidel, and N. Y-S. Kiang, Peripheral and cortical responses to
mechanical stimulation of the cat's vibrissae (Arch. Internat. Physiol.)
R. H. Kohler,
Hg
20 1
Detection of double resonance by frequency change:
Application to
(Phys. Rev.)
M. Minsky,
Steps toward artificial intelligence (Proc. IRE)
H. H. Stroke, High-resolution grating monochromator for simultaneous observation of
more than one wavelength (J. Opt. Soc. Am.)
R. Weiss,
Molecular beam electron bombardment detector (Rev. Sci. Instr.)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
A.
G. Baker, Liquid-contact substrate heat sink (Rev. Sci. Instr.)
J.
G. King,
R. L.
Search for a small charge carried by molecules (Phys. Rev. Letters)
Kyhl, Correction to "Negative
L and C in Solid-State Masers" (Proc. IRE)
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TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED
(These and previously published technical reports, if available,
may be obtained from the Document Room, 26-327, Research
Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts.)
355
D. A.
357
R. D. Mattuck and M. W. P.
netic Crystals
365
W. T. Peake, An Analytical Study of Electric Responses at the Periphery of the
Auditory System
369
V. H. Yngve, A Model and an Hypothesis for Language Structure
374
B. Reiffen, Sequential Encoding and Decoding for the Memoryless Channel
379
W. B. Nottingham and F. L. Torney, Jr.,
Principles of Ion-Gauge Calibration
George, Continuous Nonlinear Systems
Strandberg,
Spin-Phonon Interaction in Paramag-
A Detailed Examination of the
SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
M. Eden, A two-dimensional growth process (Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1960)
U.
Ingard, Current problems in noise research (Trans. Swedish Academy of Engineering
Sciences (in Swedish))
R.
M. Morse and U. Ingard, Acoustic linear theory (HandbuchderPhysik, Vol. 11, 1960)
W. B. Nottingham, The thermionic conversion of heat to electricity (Proc.
National Conference on Tube Techniques)
Fifth
J.
A. Swets and D. M. Green, Sequential observations by human observers of signals
in noise (Information Theory, edited by C. Cherry, Butterworths Scientific Publications, London, 1961)
J.
S. Waugh, The analysis of nuclear resonance spectra (Proc. Fourth Conference on
Molecular Spectroscopy, Bologna, Italy, Sept. 7-12, 1959, Pergamon Press, 1960)
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