PUBLICATIONS
AND
REPORTS
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
Fourth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,
September 4-8,
M. Halle,
Helsinki, Finland
1961
Speech sounds and sequences (invited)
Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear
Austria
September 4-9,
Fission Research,
Salzburg,
1961
S. C. Brown and G. Bekefi, Radiofrequency emission from plasmas not in thermodynamic equilibrium
First International Conference on Mechanical Translation of Languages and Applied
Language Analysis, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England
September 5-8,
1961
Elinor K. Charney, On the semantical interpretation of linguistic entities that function structurally
E. S. Klima, Structure at the lexical level and its implications for transfer grammar
G. H.
Matthews, Analysis by synthesis of sentences of natural languages
V. H. Yngve, Random generation of English sentences
Seminar, Istituto di Fisica Teorica, Universit'a di Napoli, Naples, Italy
September 11, 1961
J. S. Barlow, Some aspects of computer analysis of electroencephalographic data
(invited)
Seminar, Bell Telephone Laboratories,
September 15,
Inc.,
Murray Hill, New Jersey
1961
N. Y-S. Kiang, Stimulus coding at the periphery of the auditory system (invited)
Conference on Special Aspects of Electronic and Computer-Assisted Studies of
Biomedical Problems, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.
September 16,
1961
W. A. Clark, Jr.,
Optimal digital computers for biomedical research (invited)
Electrochemical Society Meeting, Detroit, Michigan
October 2, 1961
H. C. Weber, H. P. Meissner, and D. A. Sama, Oxygen transport and reaction
rates at an air-depolarized copper cathode
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
(continued)
Boston,
Otolarnygology Research Seminar, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary,
Massachusetts
October 5, 1961
N. Y-S. Kiang, Theories of hearing (invited)
Third IBM Medical Symposium "Advances in Medical and Biological Data Processing, "
Endicott, New York
October 9-13,
1961
M. Eden, Pattern analysis (invited)
Fourteenth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference,
October 12-14, 1961
Schenectady, New York
L. M. Lidsky, S. D. Rothleder, D. J. Rose, and S. Yoshikawa, Plasma generation
and confinement mechanisms in the hollow-cathode discharge
S. D. Rothleder and D. J. Rose, Plasma diffusion in a magnetic field
D. R. Whitehouse and H. B. Wollman, Orthogonal ambipolar diffusion currents in
a magnetized plasma
Seminar, Psychology Division, U. S. Army Medical Research Laboratory,
Kentucky
October 13,
D. C.
Fort Knox,
1961
Teas, Processing of acoustic transients by the inner ear (invited)
Fall Meeting, New York Section, American Physical Society, Niagara Falls, New York
October 13-14, 1961
W. B. Nottingham, Electron emission (invited)
Fall Meeting, American Vacuum Society, Washington, D.C.
October 16-18, 1961
W. B. Nottingham, Design parameters' influence on M. I. T.-Bayerd-Alpert Gauge
sensitivity (invited)
Internationales Seminar ftir medizinische Dokumentation und Statistik, Berlin, Germany
October 16-28,
1961
M. Eden, Lectures:
Mathematical applications to medical diagnosis (invited)
Pattern analysis of physiological signals (invited)
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
ACM Computer Language Committee on Information Retrieval Open Technical Meeting,
RCA David Sarnoff Research Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey
October 20-21, 1961
V. H. Yngve, COMIT for information retrieval
IRE Professional Group on Information Theory, Boston Chapter Meeting, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
October 23, 1961
W. McC.
Siebert, Is an analytical auditory theory feasible? (invited)
School of Aeronautical and Engineering Sciences Colloquium, Purdue University,
Lafayette, Indiana
October 23, 1961
P. A.
Willis, Neurological servomechanisms (invited)
Lecture, American Optical Society, Rochester, New York, Division
October 24, 1961
L. Stark, The pupil servomechanism (invited)
Study-Conference on the Role of Biomedical Engineering in Universities and Hospitals,
Omaha, Nebraska
October 26-27,
1961
W. T. Peake, Biomedical engineering in basic research (invited)
1961 Electron Devices Meeting, Washington, D.C.
1961
October 26-28,
W. D. Jackson and T. K. Chiang, The mercury-arc oscillator
Lecture, Department of Zoology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
November 1, 1961
L. Stark, Quantitative servoanalytic studies in comparative neurophysiology (invited)
International Conference on High Magnetic Fields, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
November 1-4, 1961
W. P. Allis, High fields in plasma (invited)
L. C. Salter, Jr., S. H. Autler, H. Kolm, D. J. Rose, and K. Gooen, A niobiumtin superconducting magnet
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MEETING
PAPERS PRESENTED
Colloquium, Department of Psychology,
November 3,
J. A.
Lecture,
(continued)
Dartmouth College,
Hanover,
1961
Theory of observers (invited)
Swets,
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness,
November 3,
New Hampshire
Bethesda, Maryland
1961
N. Y-S. Kiang, Responses of single auditory nerve fibers (invited)
American Speech and Hearing Association 1961 Convention, Chicago, Illinois
November 5-8,
A.
R.
Lecture,
The application of sound spectrography to cineradiography (invited)
Moller,
AIEE-IRE,
November 7,
W. T.
1961
M. I. T. Student Branch, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
1961
Peake, Communications Biophysics (invited)
Conference on Rhythmic Functions in the Living System,
New York
New York Academy of Sciences,
November 8-11, 1961
J. S. Barlow, A phase-comparator model for the diurnal rhythm of emergence of
drosophila
Sixty-second Meeting,
November 8-11,
Acoustical Society of America,
Cincinnati, Ohio
1961
G. C. Maling, Jr. and U. Ingard,
oscillations
Some measurements on heat-maintained
G. C. Maling, Jr. and U. Ingard, The effect of a plane boundary on sound propagation in a turbulent medium
W. T. Peake and J.
nerve responses
F.
Buoncristiani, Short--time aftereffects of noise on auditory
Lecture, New York Academy of Sciences Meeting on Biological Rhythms,
November 9,
1961
L. Stark, Biological rhythms:
ations (invited)
Seminar,
M.
Linear and nonlinear oscillations and noise fluctu-
Downstate Medical Center,
November 9,
New York
State University of New York, Brooklyn, New York
1961
Eden, A model for the physiology of handwriting production (invited)
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
Research Department Seminar, Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis, Missouri
November 14, 1961
A. R. Moller, Contraction of the middle-ear muscles in Man (invited)
Neurological Science Seminar, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland
November 15, 1961
L. Stark, A servoanalytic interpretation of the rigidity of Parkinson syndrome
(invited)
Third Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society,
Colorado Springs, Colorado
November 15-18, 1961
D. J. Rose, J. S. Tulenko, and R. C.
with Corkscrew trap
Wingerson, Proposed thermonuclear mirror
R. C. Wingerson, J. S. Tulenko, and D. J. Rose, Analytic description of a Corkscrew trap
Lecture, U. S. Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratory, Edgewood,
Maryland
November 16, 1961
L. Stark, The pupil and the hand (invited)
Seminar, Aerospace Medical Laboratory, Wright Air Development Center, Ohio
November 16, 1961
A. R. Moller, Contraction of the middle-ear muscles in Man (invited)
Conference on Application of Information Extraction Techniques to Human Scanning,
Princeton, New Jersey
November 20-22, 1961
W. A. Rosenblith, Recognition of patterns of electrical activity in the human brain
(invited)
Lecture, Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York
November 21, 1961
L. Stark, Linear control system theory applied to the pupil light reflex (invited)
NEREM Convention, Boston, Massachusetts
November 21, 1961
S. Weinreb, An attempt to detect the galactic deuterium line using digital autocorrelation techniques
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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.)
M. A. Arbib, Turing Machines,
puting Machinery)
Finite Automata, and Neural Nets (J.
Assoc. Com-
D. J. BenDaniel and W. P. Allis, A Theory of Scattering Loss from a Magnetic-Mirror
System, Part I (J. Nuclear Energy, Part C)
F.
Bitter, Magnetic Resonance in Radiating or Absorbing Atoms (Appl. Opt.)
R. Blinc, M. Brenman, and J. S. Waugh, Proton Magnetic Resonance Study of Ferroelectric Potassium Ferrocyanide Trihydrate (J. Chem. Phys.)
S. Waugh, Proton Spin-Lattice Relaxation
(J.
Phys.
R.
Blinc, M. Brenman, and J.
Chem. Solids)
P.
H. Carr and M. W. P. Strandberg, The Generation of Microwave Phonons for
Studying the Spin-Lattice Interaction (J. Phys. Chem. Solids)
L. J. Chu, Growth of Antennas and Propagation Field between World War I and World
War II (Proc. IRE)
J.
Darlington, Interlingua and MT, A Discussion (MT)
M. Eden, Handwriting and Pattern Recognition (Trans. IRE,
P.
PGIT)
Elias, A. Gill, R. Price, N. Abramson, P. Swerling, and L. Zadeh, Progress in
Information Theory in the U. S.A., 1957-1960 (Trans. IRE, PGIT)
M. Halle and K. N. Stevens,
(Trans. IRE, PGIT)
Speech Recognition:
A Model and a Program for Research
L. L. Isaacs and C. W. Garland, Heat Capacity of Crystalline Polyethylene from 1.8°K
to 5. 3K (J. Phys. Chem. Solids)
J.
M.
J.
Katz, Review of "Semantic Analysis" by Paul Ziff (Cornell University Press,
1961) (Language)
S. Lipsett and M. W. P. Strandberg, Mode Control in Ruby Optical Masers by
Means of Elastic Deformation (Appl. Opt.)
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JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
R. Melzack and P.
A.
D.
(continued)
Wall, On the Nature of Cutaneous Sensory Mechanisms (Brain)
R. Moller, Sensitivity of the Tympanic Muscle Reflex in Man (Ann. Otol. Rhinol.
Laryngol. )
W. T. Peake and N. Y-S. Kiang, Cochlear Responses to Condensation and Rarefaction
Clicks (Biophys. J.)
P.
Penfield, Jr.,
M.
R. Quillian, A Revised Design for an Understanding Machine (MT)
L.
G. Roberts,
Fourier Coefficients of Power-Law Devices (J.
Franklin Inst.)
Picture Coding Using Pseudo-Random Noise (Trans. IRE, PGIT)
Elizabeth F. Shipley, Dependence of Successive Judgments in Detection Tasks:
rectness of the Response (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.)
Cor-
J.
A. Swets, D. M. Green, and W. P.
(J. Acoust. Soc. Am.)
P.
D. Wall and R. Melzack, Neural Mechanisms Which Discriminate Events on the
Skin (Trans. IRE, PGIT)
P.
D. Wall and A. Taub, Four Aspects of the Trigeminal Nucleus and a Paradox (J.
Neurophysiol. )
Tanner,
Jr.,
On the Width of Critical Bands
V. H. Yngve, COMIT as an IR Language (Commun. Assoc. Computing Machinery)
LETTERS
C.
TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
W. Garland and K. C. Park, Low-Temperature Elastic Constants of Gallium
Arsenide (J. Appl. Phys.)
C. D. Geisler and W. A. Rosenblith, Average Responses to Clicks Recorded from the
Human Scalp (J. Acoust. Soc. Am. )
J.
L. Hirshfield, G. Bekefi, and S. C.
Fluids)
C.
S. Johnson, Jr., J. S. Waugh, and J. N. Pinkerton, On the Mechanisms of Nuclear
Relaxation in Gaseous and Liquid CMF1 (J. Chem. Phys.)
J.
Brown, Reply to Comments of L.
S. Waugh and S. Castellano, Erratum and Further Comments:
Three-Spin NMR Spectra (J. Chem. Phys.)
Oster (Phys.
Exact Analysis of
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.)
370
G. Zames,
Nonlinear Operators for System Analysis
372 H. R. Hirsch, Hyperfine Structure in the
mer of Mercury 197
P
1
Level of the Twenty-four Hour Iso-
388 K. F. V0yenli, Local Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities in a Collisionless Plasma
with Anisotropic Pressure
Hull and H. H. Stroke, Hyperfine-Structure Separations, Isotope Shifts, and
199
zoo
201
202
T 0 1 , T1
Nuclear Magnetic Moments of the Radioactive Isotopes T1199, T00,
204
and T1
393
R.
J.
395
G. W. Hughes,
The Recognition of Speech by Machine
SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
A.
Arduini and M. H. Goldstein, Jr., Localizzazione E Meccanismo Dell'effetto
Chang (Del Bollettino Della Societ'a Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale, Vol. XXXVI,
Fasc. 24, 1960)
Mechanical Translation Group (RLE) and the M. I. T. Computation Center
The COMIT System - an IBM 709-7090 Program (823 binary cards)
An Introduction to COMIT Programming
COMIT Programmers' Reference Manual
COMIT Operators' Manual
(Published as SHARE Distribution No.
1961)
1198, SHARE,
IBM, New York, September
W. B. Nottingham, E. S. Candides, and L. R. Koller, Quantitative Analysis of a
Photoemissive Solar-Energy Converter (Report on Twenty-first Annual Conference
on Physical Electronics, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., March 29-31, 1961)
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