PUBLICATIONS
AND
REPORTS
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
Colloquium Lecture to Technical Staff of the Central Research
Instruments, Inc., Dallas, Texas
Nov. 10, 1960
W. S. McCulloch,
Laboratories,
Texas
Toward a circuit theory of brains (invited)
Lecture to Faculty and Scientific Staffs, New York University,
Nov. 21, 1960
New York
W. S. McCulloch, A proper logic for circuit theory of the nervous system (invited)
Symposium on the Dissemination
Bloomington, Indiana
Dec. 2-3, 1960
E.
of Symbolic Literature,
Indiana University,
S. Klima, Some aspects of Russian syntax (invited)
Linguistic Society of America Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut
Dec. 29-31, 1960
Elinor K. Charney, Semantical interpretation of linguistic consonants
Center for Cognitive Studies Meeting, Harvard University
Jan. 12, 1961
W. A. Rosenblith, The contribution of computer-aided electrophysiological studies
to problems in sensory communication (invited)
Conference on Mathematics in the Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts
Jan. 16-17, 1961
M. Eden, Potential applications of mathematics to the diagnosis of illness (invited)
W. A. Rosenblith, Mathematical models and computational techniques for the
analysis of neuroelectric activity (invited)
Concord Kiwanis Club,
New Hampshire
Jan. 17, 1961
"Adventures in Learning" Lecture Series, Concord,
W. S. McCulloch, Bio-Electronics (invited)
IRE, Professional Group on Biomedical Electronics,
Massachusetts
Jan. 17, 1961
N. Y-S. Kiang,
Boston Chapter Meeting,
Modern theories of hearing (invited)
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Boston,
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
Colloquium of the Department of Physiology and Pathology, University of Texas-Medical
Branch, Galveston, Texas
Jan. 18, 1961
W. A. Rosenblith, Computer-aided analytical studies of the electrical activity of
the nervous system (invited)
Sigma Xi, Galveston Chapter Meeting, Galveston, Texas
Jan. 18, 1961
W. A. Rosenblith,
(invited)
The role of electronic computers in studies of brain and behavior
Executive Engineering Forum,
Binghamton, New York
Jan. 19, 1961
W. S. McCulloch,
Link Division,
General Precision Company,
Neurons as circuit components (invited)
Lecture in a course entitled "Man and His Environment,"
Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland
Feb. 4, 1961
W. S. McCulloch,
Inc.,
University of Maryland
Brains as machines (invited)
ONR Data Processing Seminar,
Feb. 6, 1961
Washington, D.C.
W. S. McCulloch, Biomimesis - The working of real brains and the simulation of
their working (invited)
Joint Applied Mathematics-Biology Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne,
Illinois
Feb. 9, 1961
W. S. McCulloch,
brain (invited)
Toward a logical foundation for a theory of circuit action of the
Lectures to Resident Staff and Research Division Seminar, Illinois State Psychiatric
Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Feb. 10, 1961
W. S. McCulloch, A proper logic for neurology (invited)
What is new in biomimesis (invited)
Fifth Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, St.
Feb. 16-18, 1961
Louis, Missouri
M. H. Goldstein, Jr. and A. Arduini, Cortical potentials evoked by shocks to the
lateral geniculate body
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
S. Levine, Similarities in the electroencephalograms (EEG) of identical twins
R. G. Mark, Cortical responses to auditory stimuli in the guinea pig
Symposium on High-Speed Computation Techniques in Biophysical Research,
Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, St. Louis, Missouri
Feb. 16-18, 1961
Fifth
W. A. Rosenblith, The role of computer techniques in analytical studies of neuroelectric activity (invited)
Brain and Behavior Conference,
Los Angeles, California
Feb. 19-22, 1961
G.
L. Gerstein,
Brain Research Institute,
University of California,
Firing patterns of neurons in auditory cortex (invited)
Linguistic Society Meeting, Yale University,
Feb. 20, 1961
New Haven, Connecticut
N. Chomsky, Sound structure in the framework of generative grammar (invited)
Ski Meeting, Eastern
Feb. 23-25, 1961
Association
of Electroencephalographers,
Quebec,
Canada
J. S. Barlow, R. L. Rovit, and P. Gloor, Correlation analysis of EEG changes
following unilateral intracarotid injection of sodium amytal
Mitre Corporation Seminar,
Feb. 28, 1961
Bedford, Massachusetts
W. S. McCulloch, A logic for neurology (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.)
J.
S. Barlow, Autocorrelation and crosscorrelation
(Summary, EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.)
techniques
in
EEG analysis
G. Bekefi, J. L. Hirshfield, and S. C. Brown, Cyclotron emission from plasmas with
non-Maxwellian distributions (Phys. Rev.)
A. Bers, Linear space-charge theory of gap interaction between an electron beam and
electromagnetic fields (NTF)
JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (continued)
W. A. Clark, Jr.,
Digital averaging techniques (Summary, EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.)
T. H. Dupree, Dynamics of ionized gases (Phys. Fluids)
B. Farley, Recognition of patterns in the EEG
G.
(Summary, EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.)
L. Gerstein, Neuron firing patterns and the slow potential (Summary, EEG. Clin.
Neurophysiol.)
M. H. Goldstein, Jr., Averaging techniques applied to evoked responses (Summary,
EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.)
S. Gruber, Statistical analysis of radio star scintillation (J.
Phys.)
J.
M. Heinz and K. N. Stevens, On the properties of voiceless fricative consonants
(J. Acoust. Soc. Am.)
H. R. Hirsch,
Hyperfine structure in the 3P
mercury 197* (J.
J.
1
level of the twenty-four hour isomer of
Opt. Soc. Am.)
L. Hirshfield and S. C. Brown, Incoherent microwave radiation from a plasma in
a magnetic field (Phys. Rev.)
R. J.
Hull and H. H. Stroke,
201
T1 01,
C.
Atmospheric and Terrest.
T1
202
, and TI
204
Nuclear moments and isotope shifts of T1 1 9 9 ,
T12 0 0 ,
- Isotope shifts in odd-odd nuclei (Phys. Rev.)
S. Johnson, Jr.,
M. A. Weiner, J. S. Waugh, and D. Seyferth, The nuclear
resonance spectra of allyllithium and vinyllithium (J. Am. Chem. Soc.)
N. Y-S. Kiang, J. H. Neame, and Louise F. Clark, Evoked cortical activity from
auditory cortex in anesthetized and unanesthetized cats (Science)
W. A. Rosenblith, Critical commentary on "Computer Techniques in EEG Analysis"
(Summary, EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
A. G. Baker and W. C. Morris, Deposition of metallic films by electron-impact
decomposition of organometallic vapors (Rev. Sci. Instr.)
A. S. House, Discussion of relation of linguistic theory, speech therapy (J.
Hearing Res.)
Speech
W. B. Nottingham, Comments on the Barnes cold-cathode gauge (Rev. Sci. Instr.)
S. Weinreb, Digital radiometer (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.)
353
G.
Rosen, Dynamic Analog Speech Synthesizer
366 D. A. Chesler, Nonlinear Systems with Gaussian Inputs
377
Jane H. Dennis,
Anisotropy of Thermoelectric Power in Bismuth Telluride
SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
M. Blum, The construction of reliable circuits using unreliable neurons (Proc. Bionics
Symposium, September 1960)
S. C. Brown, High-frequency waves in ionized gases (Proc. Fourth International
Conference on Ionization Phenomena in Gases, N. R. Nilsson, ed., North-Holland
Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1960)
N. Chomsky, On the notion "Rule of Grammar" (Proc. Symposia in Applied Mathematics,
Vol. 12, American Mathematical Society, 1961)
J.
D. Cowan, Many-valued logics and reliable automata (Principles of Self-Organization,
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois)
J.
D. Cowan, Toward a proper logic for parallel computation in the presence of noise
(Proc. Bionics Symposium, September 1960)
M. Eden, On the formalization of handwriting (Proc. Symposia in Applied Mathematics,
Vol. 12, American Mathematical Society, 1961)
M. Eden and M. Halle, A characterization of cursive writing (Information Theory,
edited by C. Cherry, Butterworths Scientific Publications, London, 1961)
B. G. Farley and W. A. Clark, Jr., Activity in networks of neuron-like elements
(Information Theory, edited by C. Cherry, Butterworths Scientific Publications,
London, 1961)
M. Halle, On the role of simplicity in linguistic descriptions (Proc. Symposia in Applied
Mathematics, Vol. 12, American Mathematical Society, 1961)
U.
Ingard and L. W. Dean III, Excitation of acoustic resonators by flow (Proc. Second
Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, August 25, 1958)
T. Kailath, Adaptive matched filters (Proc. Rand Corporation-University of California
Symposium on Mathematical Optimization Techniques, Santa Monica, California,
Oct. 18-20, 1960)
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SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
(continued)
T. Kailath, Optimum receivers for randomly varying channels (Information Theory,
edited by C. Cherry, Butterworths Scientific Publications, London, 1961)
N. Y-S. Kiang, The uses of computers in studies of auditory neurophysiology (Trans.
Amer. Acad. Ophthalmol. Otolaryngol.)
W. S. McCulloch, Where is fancy bred? (Lectures on Experimental Psychiatry,
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1961)
W. S. McCulloch, Abracadabra (Mental Patients in Transition, edited by M. Greenblatt,
Charles C. Thomas, Publishers, Springfield, Ill., 1961)
P.
Penfield, Jr., Generalization of the frequency-power formulas of Manley and Rowe
(Proc. International Symposium on Active Networks and Feedback Systems, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, April 1960)
W. A. Rosenblith and Eda Berger Vidale, A quantitative view of neuroelectric events
in relation to sensory communication (Psychology: A Study of a Science, Vol. 4,
edited by S. Koch, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York)
L.
A. M. Verbeek,
Reliable computation with unreliable circuitry (Proc.
Symposium, September 1960)
J.
M. Wozencraft and M. Horstein, Coding for two-way channels (Information Theory,
edited by C. Cherry, Butterworths Scientific Publications, London, 1961)
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