PUBLICATIONS
AND REPORTS
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
Annual General Meeting, Australian Mathematical Society, Sydney, N. S. W.,
Australia
August 17, 1962
M. A. Arbib, Monogenic Normal Systems Are Universal
International Symposium on Information Theory,
September 2-7,
G.
L.
Free University of Brussels,
Belgium
1962
Gerstein, Mathematical Models for the All-or-None Activity of Some Neurons
M. C.
Goodall, Cognition as Two-Way Communication
D. A.
Huffman, The Generation of Impulse-Equivalent Pulse Trains
Fourth International Congress on Microwave Tubes, The Hague
September 3-7,
A.
1962
Bers, Waves on Electron Beams of High Charge Density
H. A. Haus, Quantum Noise in Linear Amplifiers
ACM
1962 National Conference, Syracuse,
September 4-7,
V. H.
New York
1962
Yngve,
Toward Better Programming Languages
(invited)
Symposium on Magnetoplasm adynamic Electrical Power Generation, King's College,
University of Durham, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
September 6-8,
1962
W. D. Jackson and E. S. Pierson,
Generator
Operating Characteristics of the MHD Induction
American Chemical Society One Hundred Forty-second National Meeting, Atlantic City,
New Jersey
September 9-14,
1962
G. G. Hammes and P.
Fasella, A Kinetic Study of Glutamic-Aspartic Transaminase
G. G. Hammes and J.
Aqueous Solution
L. Steinfeld,
Relaxation Spectra of Metal Complexes in
International Congress of Surgeons, New York
September 10,
1962
N. Y-S. Kiang, Electrical Responses from the Auditory Nerve Recorded by Means
of Gross and Microelectrodes (invited)
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
XXII International Congress of Physiological Sciences,
September 10-17,
L.
(continued)
Leiden, The Netherlands
1962
Stark, A Servoanalytic Concept of the Rigidity of Parkinson Syndrome
VIII t h International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Queen Mary College,
University of London, London, England
September 16-22,
1962
M. S. Dresselhaus, D. H. Douglass, Jr., and R. L. Kyhl, Measurement of the
Magnetic Field Dependence of the Surface Impedance of Superconducting Tin at Xband
High-Power Microwave Tube Symposium, U. S. Army Signal Research and Development
Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey
September 25,
1962
L. B. Anderson and A. Bers, A Broadband Megawatt Hollow-Beam Multicavity
Klystron
AIEE Fall General Meeting, Chicago,
October 7-12,
Illinois
1962
W. D. Jackson, Liquid Metal Faraday-type MHD Generators
National Electronics Conference,
October 10,
Chicago, Illinois
1962
I. M. Jacobs,
Method and Merit of Binary Coding for Analog Channels (invited)
Fifteenth Gaseous Electronics Conference,
October 10-12,
Boulder, Colorado
1962
J. F. Waymouth, The Influence of Ion Temperature on Langmuir Probe Characteristics
Otolaryngology Research Seminar,
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary,
Boston,
October 11, 1962
J. S. Barlow, Some Studies on Eye Movements in Relation to Vestibular Mechanisms
in Man (invited)
Fortieth Annual Meeting of the New England Section of the American Society for Engineering Education, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
October 13,
1962
M. H. Goldstein, Jr., Chairman and Discussant of the Engineering Life Sciences
Session on "The Biomedical Engineer - Does He and Should He Exist?" (invited)
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
AIEE Professional Group on Engineering, Writing, and Speech Meeting,
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
October 24, 1962
V. H. Yngve, Computer Programs for Translation (invited)
Symposium on Pyridoxal Catalysis, Rome, Italy
October 25-31,
1962
G. G. Hammes and P. Fasella, The Mechanism of Enzymatic Transamination
Linguistic Colloquium,
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
October 26, 1962
E. S. Klima, Problems in Grammatical Analysis (invited)
Seminar, Computation Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
October 29,
1962
M. Eden, Production and Recognition of Handwriting (invited)
Fifteenth Annual Conference on Engineering in Biology and Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
November 5-7, 1962
J. S. Barlow, Analysis of Control of Eye Movements in Man by Means of Autocorrelation and Crosscorrelation (invited)
J. C. Houk, Jr. and L. Stark, An Engineering Model of Motor Coordination in Man
(invited)
L. R. Young and L. Stark, Discontinuous Biological Control - The Eye Movement
System (invited)
Sixteenth Annual Northeast Electronics Research and Engineering Meeting, Boston,
Massachusetts
November 5-7, 1962
J. B. Dennis, Time-Shared Operation of a Small Computer
G. Fiocco, Some Applications of Optical Radar to Astronomy and Geophysics
H. A. Haus and J. A. Mullen, Photon Noise
L. D. Smullin, Strong Beam-Plasma Interactions
Sixty-fourth Meeting, Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Washington
November 7-10, 1962
D. M. Green, Masking with Two Sinusoids
U. Ingard, Sound Radiation from Perforated and Other Pervious Vibrating Surfaces
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
Lecture, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis,
November 8,
J.
Models of Circadian Rhythms (invited)
Cambridge State School and Hospital, Cambridge,
November 9,
J.
196Z
S. Barlow,
Lecture,
Minnesota
Minnesota
1962
S. Barlow, Studies on Periodic Phenomena in the EEG (invited)
Seminar, Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University Medical School,
Baltimore, Maryland
November 12,
1962
N. Y-S. Kiang, Analysis of Responses in Single Auditory Nerve Fibers (invited)
American Rocket Society Meeting, Los Angeles,
November 13,
California
1962
L. Stark and L. R. Young, Defining the Human Equation (invited)
Hot Springs, Virginia
First Congress on the Information System Sciences,
November 19-21,
R. M.
1962
Fano, A Heuristic Discussion of Probabilistic Decoding (invited)
L. Stark, M. Okajima, and G. H. Whipple, Computer Pattern Recognition
Techniques; Electro-Cardiographic Diagnosis (invited)
American Physical Society Meeting, Cleveland,
Ohio
November Z3-Z4, 1962
T. S. Jaseja, A. Javan, J.
of He-Ne Masers
Murray, and C.
H.
Townes,
Stability and Resettability
Long Island Chapter IRE Professional Group on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Meeting, Long Island City, New York
November 27,
P.
1962
Penfield, Jr.,
Some of the Less Exotic Varactor Applications
Seminar on Theoretical Biology,
November 28,
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
1962
M. Eden, Generative Models of Biology (invited)
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
Fourth Annual Meeting, Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society,
Atlantic City, New Jersey
November 28 -December 1, 1962
S. C. Brown, Far Infrared Studies of High-Density Plasmas (invited)
T. H. Dupree, Kinetic Theory of Plasma and Electromagnetic Field
G. Fiocco and E. Thompson, Thomson Scattering of Optical Radiation from an
Electron Beam
W. D. Getty, B. Hartenbaum, H. Y. Hsieh, and L. D. Smullin, The Beam-Plasma
Discharge
W. G. Homeyer, A. J. Impink, Jr., D. J. Rose, and I. Kaplan, Thermal and
Material Problems in a Controlled Fusion Blanket
W. G. Homeyer, I. Kaplan, and D. J. Rose, Tritium Regeneration in a Controlled
Fusion Blanket
L. M. Lidsky and D. J. Rose, The Interaction of a Directed Plasma with a Magnetic
Mirror
S. D. Rothleder and D. J. Rose, Diffusion of a Finite Cylindrical Plasma in a
Magnetic Field
Applied Science and Computation Center Colloquium, Tufts University, Medford,
Massachusetts
November 29,
1962
V. H. Yngve, Language Translation by Machine (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 and S. J. Buchsbaum, Coupling between Electromagnetic and Electron
Waves in a Plasma (Nuclear Fusion)
M. Clark, Jr., D. Luce, R. Abrahms, H. Schlossburg, and J. Rome, Results of Preliminary Experiments on the Aural Significance of Segments of Tones of Orchestral
Instruments and of Choral Tones (Audio Engr.)
H. Fields, G. Bekefi, and S. C. Brown, Microwave Emission from Non-Maxwellian
Plasmas (Phys. Rev.)
O. Fujimura, Analysis of Nasal Consonants (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.)
J. V. Gaven, J. S. Waugh, and W. H. Stockmayer, Self-diffusion and ImpurityControlled Proton Relaxation in Liquid Methane (J. Chem. Phys.)
G. L. Gerstein, Review of "Electroencephaloscopy" by M. N. Livanov and V. M. Anan
(EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.)
F. T. Hambrecht, P. D. Donahue, and R. Melzack, A Multiple-Channel EEG Telemetering System (EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.)
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JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (continued)
G.
G. Hammes and P. Fasella, A Kinetic Study of Glutamic-Aspartic Transaminase
(J. Am. Chem. Soc.)
G. G. Hammes and J. L. Steinfeld,
plexes (J. Am. Chem. Soc.)
U. Ingard and D.
Relaxation Spectra of Some Ni(II) and Co(II) Com-
S. Wiley, Instabilities of a Liquid Conductor (Phys. Fluids)
T. Ogawa, A Circularly Polarized Maser Oscillator (J.
P.
Penfield, Jr.,
Appl. Phys.)
The Minimum Noise of Varactor Amplifiers (Trans. IRE,
PGMIL)
H. C. Praddaude, A Perturbation Solution of the Equation of Motion for the Density
Matrix (Ann. Phys.)
L.
Stark, Biological Rhythms, Noise, and Asymmetry in the Pupil-Retinal Control
System (Ann. New York Acad. Sci.)
L.
Stark, Environmental Clamping of Biological Systems:
(J. Opt. Soc. Am.)
L.
Stark and H. T. Hermann, Prerequisite for a Photoreceptor Structure in the Crayfish
Tail Ganglion (Anat. Record)
L.
Stark and H. T. Hermann,
Organ (J. Neurophysiol.)
L.
Stark, H. T. Hermann, and P. A. Willis, Instrumentation for Processing Neural
Signals (EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.)
Pupil Servomechanisms
Single-Unit Responses in a Primitive Photoreceptor
L. Stark, M. Okajima, and G. H. Whipple, Computer Pattern Recognition Techniques:
Electrocardiographic Diagnosis (Communs. Assoc. Computing Machinery)
L. Stark, R. Payne, and Y. Okabe, On-line Digital Computer for Measurement of a
Neurological Control System (Communs. Assoc. Computing Machinery)
L.
Stark, L. R. Young, and G. Vossius,
Movements (Trans. IRE, PGHFE)
Predictive Control of Eye-Tracking
G. W. Stroke and H. H. Stroke, Tandem Use of Gratings and Echelles to Increase
Resolution, Luminosity, and Compactness of Spectrometers and Spectrographs
(J. Opt. Soc. Am.)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
P.
Penfield, Jr.,
The Prime-Number Paradox in Multiplier Chains (Proc. IRE)
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.)
399
Jacob Ziv, Coding and Decoding for Time-Discrete Amplitude-Continuous Memoryless Channels
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TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED (continued)
400
G6ran Einarsson, A Communication Analysis of High-Frequency Ionospheric
Scattering
402
David Ellis Baldwin, The Effect of Close Collisions on the Two-Body Distribution
Function in a Plasma
406
John F.
407
Ward D.
Plasma
Waymouth,
Perturbation of a Plasma by a Probe
Getty, Investigation of Electron-Beam Interaction with a Beam-Generated
SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
G. Bekefi, Emission of Microwaves from Plasmas
Engineering Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics,
Publishers, New York)
F.
(Proc. Third Symposium on the
Gordon and Breach, Inc., Science
Bitter, Flows in a Steady Plasma (Lecture to be published by Cornell University
Press)
N. Chomsky and M. P. Schiitzenberger, Algebraic Theory of Context-free Languages
(Studies in Logic, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
J.
B. Dennis, Computer Control of an Analog Vocal Tract (Proc. Speech Communication Seminar, Stockholm, Sweden, 30 August - 1 September 1962)
R. C. Gesteland,, Odor Specificities of the Frog's Olfactory Receptors (Proc. First
International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, Stockholm, Sweden,
September 2-5, 1962)
J.
M. Heinz, An Analysis of Speech Spectra in Terms of a Model of Articulation (Proc.
Fourth International Congress on Acoustics, Copenhagen, 21-28 August 1962)
A. S. House, A. P. Paul, K. N. Stevens, and Jane B. Arnold, Acoustical Description
of Syllabic Nuclei: Data Derived by Automatic Analysis Procedures (Proc. Fourth
International Congress on Acoustics, Copenhagen, 21-28 August 1962)
A. S. House and K. N. Stevens, Acoustical Description of Syllabic Nuclei: An Interpretation in Terms of a Dynamic Model of Articulation (Proc. Fourth International Congress on Acoustics, Copenhagen, 21-28 August 1962)
S.
Inomata, Program for Active Segmentation and Reduction of Phonetic Parameters
(Proc. Fourth International Congress on Acoustics, Copenhagen, 21-28 August 1962)
W. S. McCulloch, The Colloquy of Living Things (Bio-Telemetry, edited by
L. E. Slater, The Foundation for Instrumentation Education and Research,
New York)
Inc.,
W. B. Nottingham, The Energy Distribution for Electrons in a Thermionic Diode Plasma
Cannot Be Truly Maxwellian
Ionization of Cesium at Surfaces
(Advanced Energy Conversion,
V.
Pergamon Press,
Oxford,
1962)
H. Yngve, Toward Better Programming Languages (Digest of Technical Papers,
ACM 1962 National Conference, Syracuse, New York, September 4-7, 1962)"