PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED American Astronomical Society Meeting, Lexington, March 14-17, Kentucky 1965 D. H. Staelin and A. Wavelength H. Barrett, Radio Measurements of Venus near 1-cm IEEE International Convention, New York March 22-25, 1965 Bede Liu and R. Read-in Jitters E. Kahn, Optimum Prefiltering in Sampled Data Systems with Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Minneapolis, March 24-27, Minnesota 1965 Paula Menyuk, A Further Evaluation of Grammatical Capacity in Children Symposium on Communication Theory and Research, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri March 24-26, 1965 W. S. McCulloch, Lekton - An Introduction to "The Logical Structure of Mind" by Eilhard von Domarus (invited) American Physical Society Meeting, March 24-27, Kansas City, Missouri 1965 C. W. Garland and R. Renard, Pressure Dependence of Ultrasonic Velocities in Ammonium Chloride near the X Line R. Geick, C. H. Perry, and S. S. Mitra, Lattice Vibrational Spectra of Cadmium Selenide Lecture, April 8, P. Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Missouri 1965 S. Rosenbaum, On the Role of Linguistics in the Teaching of English Communication Sciences Colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan April 8, 1965 W. A. Rosenblith, The Coding of Sensory Information (invited) American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C. April 19-22, G. 1965 Fiocco, Correlations of Optical Radar Echoes and Ionospheric Sporadic E G. Grams, G. Fiocco, K. Urbanek, and R. Breeding, Optical Radar Observations of the Upper Atmosphere in Alaska and Sweden Sixth Symposium on Engineering Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics, Pennsylvania April 21-23, Pittsburgh, 1965 E. S. Pierson and W. Generator D. Jackson, Real Machine Effects in the MHD Induction xvi MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1965 April 22-24, P. A. Kolers, Bilingual Facilitation of Short-Term Memory Lawrence Controlled Thermonuclear Research Engineering Problems Symposium, Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California May 5-7, 1965 L. M. Lidsky, Summary Paper - Work at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (Subjects covered: Thermonuclear System Engineering Studies, Plasma Turbulence, Nonadiabatic Scattering, Laser Diagnostics) (invited) Seminar, Bell Telephone Laboratories, May 19, Inc. , Murray Hill, New Jersey 1965 A. Bers, Stability Criteria for Waves from Their Dispersion Relation (invited) Symposium on Planetary Atmosphere and Surfaces, Arecibo, Puerto Rico May 24-27, 1965 A. H. Barrett, Passive Radio Observations of Mercury, Venus, and Uranus Mars, Saturn, American Otological Society Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado May 25-26, 1965 N. Y. S. Kiang, R. R. Pfeiffer, W. B. Warr, and Ann S. N. Backus, Stimulus Coding in the Cochlear Nucleus: An Electrophysiological Study of Its Anatomical Subdivisions IFIP Congress 65, New York May 27, 1965 J. L. Darlington, Machine Methods for Proving Logical Arguments Expressed in English R. S. Fabry, A COMIT Generating and Parsing Program for Left to Right Subscript Grammars with Discontinuous Constituents JOURNAL PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (Reprints, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room, 26-327, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139.) R. S. Badessa, V. J. Bates, and C. L. Searle, Frequency-Impulse Modulation as a Means of Attaining Accuracy in Cesium Atomic Clocks (IEEE Trans. (I)) A. H. Barrett, Passive Radio Observations of Mercury, Venus, Uranus (Radio Science) J. J. H. S. Mars, Saturn, and Burke, G. G. Hammes, and T. B. Lewis, Ultrasonic Attenuation Measurements in Poly-L-Glutamic Acid Solutions (J. Chem. Phys.) Colburn and N. I. Durlach, Time-Intensity Relations in Binaural Unmasking (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.) xvii JOURNAL PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (continued) C. W. Garland and J. S. Jones, Ultrasonic Attenuation in Ammonium Chloride (J. Chem. Phys.) R. C. Gesteland, J. Y. Lettvin, and W. H. Pitts, Chemical Transmission in the Nose of the Frog (J. Physiol.) J. L. Hall II, Binaural Interaction in the Accessory Superior Olivary Nucleus of the Cat (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.) N. Y. S. Kiang, R. R. Pfeiffer, W. B. Warr, and Ann S. Backus, Stimulus Coding in the Cochlear Nucleus (Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol.) S. G. Kukolich, Measurement of Hyperfine Structure of J = 3, K = 2 Inversion Line of N 14 H 3 (Phys. Rev.) D. L. Morse, Low-Frequency Instability of Partially Ionized Plasma (Phys. Fluids) Paul Penfield, Jr. , Rotational-Beam Power Theorems (IEEE Trans. (ED)) C. H. Perry, D. J. McCarthy, and G. Rupprecht, Dielectric Dispersion of Some Perovskite Zirconates (Phys. Rev.) P. S. Rosenbaum, On the Role of Linguistics in the Teaching of English (Harvard Educ. Rev.) D. H. Staelin and A. H. Barrett, Radio Measurements of Venus near 1-cm Wavelength (Abstract) (Astron. J.) P. D. Wall, Impulses Originating in the Region of Dendrites (J. Physiol.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION V. R. Algazi, Generalized Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Performance Index of Filters for Waveform Estimation (Proc. IEEE) T. H. Crystal, Orthogonal Detection to Reduce Common Channel Interference (Proc. IEEE) H. A. Haus, Amplitude Noise in Laser Oscillators (J. Quantum Electronics) T. S. Huang, Bounds on Two-Element-Kind Impedance Functions (Electronics Letters) U. Ingard and K. W. Gentle, Longitudinal Waves in a Weakly Ionized Gas (Phys. Fluids) 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, Massachusetts, 02139.) 430 J. L. Holsinger, Digital Connection Over Fixed-Time-Continuous Channels with Memory - with Special Application to Telephone Channels 431 J. R. Sklar, Sequential Measurement of Multidimensional Transducers xviii TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED (continued) Impink, Jr. , Neutron Economy in Fusion Reactor Blanket Assemblies 434 Albert J. 435 William G. Homeyer, Blanket Problem 436 Laszlo N. Lontai, Study of a Thermonuclear Reactor Blanket with Fissile Nuclides 437 Patrick S. Spangler, Fusion Reactor Blanket Experiment 438 Lester M. Petrie, Jr., Thermal and Chemical Properties of the Thermonuclear Gamma-Ray Spectra in Fusion Blanket Mock-ups SPECIAL TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED (These books are available from The M. I. T. Press, Room 765, 50 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139.) Number 11 Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS P. A. Kolers, "Reading Temporally and Spatially Transformed Text," in The PsychoLinguistics Nature of the Reading Process, edited by Kenneth N. Goodman (Wayne University Press, Detroit, Mich.) W. S. McCulloch, "What's in the Brain That Ink May Character?" (Proc. International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Jerusalem, Israel, August 28, 1964) W. A. Rosenblith and J. Wiesner (contribution to "Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964") I. From Philosophy to Mathematics to Biology: The Life Sciences and Cybernetics (J. Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 140, No. 1, pp. 3-8, 1965) xix