PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED Houston, Texas Rice University, Electrical Engineering Graduate Seminar, December 3, P. 1962 A. Willis, Computer Utilization in Biomedical Engineering Problems (invited) Symposium on Neural Modelling (sponsored by the Librascope Division of General Precision, Inc., and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research), Ojai, California December 4-6, B. G. 1962 Farley, Simulation of Neuron Networks by Digital Computers (invited) L. Stark, Retinal Operations in Accommodative Tracking - Non-linear Describing Function Approach (invited) Texas Medical Center, University of Texas, December 4-6, P. A. Houston, Texas 1962 Willis, Communication Characteristics of Nerve (invited) Neurological Control Systems (invited) Stanford Research Institute, December 5, L. Stanford, California 1962 Stark, Automatic Adaptive Pattern Recognition in Electrocardiograms (invited) Basic Sciences Group of Boston Section of AIEE, Boston, Massachusetts December 18, 1962 W. T. Peake, Research on the Auditory Nervous System - The Role of Engineers (invited) American Association for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania December 26, the Advancement of Science, Biometrics Division, 1962 M. Eden, A Critical View of Computers in Medical Diagnosis (invited) Modern Language Association Meeting, Washington, December 27, D. C. 1962 E. S. Klima, Relatedness between Grammatical Systems (invited) xiii MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) American Physical Society Winter Meeting in the West, Stanford University, Stanford, California December 27-29, 1962 W. M. Whitney and C. E. Chase, Ultrasonic Dispersion in Liquid Helium below 1" K Annual Meeting, Linguistic Society of America, New York December 28, 1962 P. M. Postal, The Formal Characteristics of Grammatical Agreement Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts January 7, 1963 L. Stark, On-line Digital Computation in Neurological Experiments (invited) American Chemical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio January 16, 1963 G. G. Hammes, Studies of Fast Reactions in Enzymatic Systems New York Meeting, American Physical Society, New York January 23-26, 1963 J. F. Cochran and M. Yaqub, Magneto-resistance Effects in Small Gallium Single Crystals D. H. Douglass, Jr., M. S. Dresselhaus, and R. L. Kyhl, Measurement of the Magnetic Field Dependence of the Surface Impedance of Superconducting Tin at 9 kmc W. D. Jackson, C. R. Phipps, and R. A. Reitman, A-C Properties of Superconducting Wires and Ribbon C. A. Shiffman, M. Garber, J. F. Cochran, E. Maxwell, and G. W. Pearsall, The Specific Heats of Tin-Lead Alloys W. W. Smith, Hyperfine Structure and Magnetic Moments of Hg195 and Hg95* in the 63PI State by Level Crossing S. H. Wemple, Electric Field Effects on EPR Spectra in KTaO3:Fe 3+ Association for Symbolic Logic Meeting, University of California, Berkeley January 26, 1963 T. More, Jr., Calculi of Sequences of Propositional Formulas On the Modification of Modus Ponens xiv MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) Universit6 Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Two Lectures, February 4, Y. 1963 W. Lee, Statistical Theory of Nonlinear Systems (invited) The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Symposium on Engineering for Major Scientific Programs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia February 5-6, 1963 W. A. Rosenblith, Computers and Brains: (invited) Third Quantum Electronics Conference, February 11-15, Competition and/or Co-existence Paris 1963 G. W. Stroke, Theory, Production, and Use of Optical Gratings for High-Resolution Spectroscopy Conference on Sensory Evoked Response in Man (sponsored by The New York Academy of Sciences, Division of Biological and Medical Sciences, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine), New York February 14-15, 1963 J. S. Barlow, Evoked Response in Relation to Visual Perception and Reaction Times in Man Biophysical Society Seventh Annual Meeting, New York February 18-20, 1963 B. G. Farley, Similarities between the Behavior of a Neuron-like Network Model and "Slow-Wave" Phenomena on the Brain (invited) J. L. Hall II, Binaural Interaction in Single Units of Accessory Superior Olivary Nucleus of Cats L. Stark, Control of Pupillary and Eye Movements (invited) A. Troelstra, A Non-linear Model for the Calculation of the DC Component in the Human Electro-retinogram (ERG) T. F. Weiss, A Model for Firing Patterns of Auditory Nerve Fibers 1963 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania, February 20-22, 1963 J. Y. Lettvin, Considerations Underlying the Study of Sensory Elements (invited) MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland February 25, M. H. 1963 Goldstein, Jr., The Role of Hearing in Animal Communication (invited) Symposium on Metallurgy of Electron Emitting Materials, February 25, Baltimore, Dallas, Texas 1963 W. B. Nottingham, Electron Emitting Materials 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, Monogenic Normal Systems Are Universal (J. Australian Math. Soc.) D. E. Baldwin, Close Collisions in a Plasma (Phys. Fluids) J. S. Barlow, R. L. Rovit, and P. Gloor, Correlation Analysis of EEG Changes Induced by Unilateral Intracarotid Injection of Amobarbital (EEG Clin. Neurophysiol.) J. S. Bross, Problems (MT) of Equivalence in Some German and English Constructions S. C. Brown, G. Bekefi, and R. E. Whitney, Far Infrared Interferometer Measurement of High Electron Densities (J. Opt. Soc. Am.) for the D. H. Douglass, Jr. and M. W. P. Strandberg, Stages in the Education of a Physicist: An Attempted Solution of a Pedagogical Problem (Am. J. Phys.) R. M. Fano, A Heuristic Discussion of Probabilistic Decoding (IRE Trans., M. C. Goodall, Realizability of Inductive Logic (IRE Trans., J. L. Hirshfield and G. Bekefi, J. J. Katz and J. A. PGIT) PGME) Decameter Radiation from Jupiter (Nature) Fodor, The Structure of a Semantic Theory (Language) S. J. Keyser, Review of "The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States" by Hans Kurath and Raven I. McDavid, Jr. (Language) K. Kornacker, Some Properties of the Afferent Pathway in the Frog Corneal Reflex (Exptl. Neurol.) C. L. Liu, A Property of Partially Specified Automata (Information and Control) D. J. Sakrison, Iterative Design of Optimum Filters for Non Mean-Square Performance Criteria (IRE Trans., PGIT) xvi Error JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (continued) The Relaxation Spectrum of Nickel-Triglycine Com- J. I. Steinfeld and G. G. Hammes, plexes (J. Phys. Chem.) K. N. Stevens, T. T. Sandel, and A. S. House, Bursts (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.) Perception of Two-Component Noise M. W. P. Strandberg, Book Review of "Elementary Solid State Physics: Course" by Charles Kittel (Proc. IRE) M. W. P. Strandberg, IRE Millimeter and Submillimeter Conference, January 7-10, 1963 (Appl. Optics) G. W. Stroke, L. Tisza and P. A Short Orlando, Florida, Interferometric Method of Velocity of Light Measurement (Appl. Optics) M. Quay, The Statistical Thermodynamics of Equilibrium (Ann. Phys.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION F. T. Barath, A. H. Barrett, J. Copeland, D. E. Jones, and A. E. Lilley, Preliminary Results of the Mariner II in Microwave Radiometer Experiment (Science) G. Fiocco and E. Thompson, Thomson Scattering of Optical Radiation from an Electron Beam (Phys. Rev. Letters) Diamond, Letter to the Editor (concerning varactor multi- P. Penfield, Jr. and B. L. pliers) (Microwave J.) P. Penfield, Jr. and R. P. Rafuse, Frequency Multipliers and Harmonic Generators Using Varactor Diodes (Semiconductor Products and Solid State Technology) P. Penfield, Jr. and R. P. Rafuse, List of Corrections for "Varactor Applications" (The M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1962) (Microwave J.) Tomlinson III and H. H. Stroke, Hyperfine Structure, Isotope and Isomer Shifts 193m 194 195m 195 - Comments on the Paper of Kleiman and Davis , Hg 9 5 m , Hg , Hg in Hg (J. Opt. Soc. Am.) W. J. 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.) 408 William H. Heiser, Axial Field Effects in a Magnetically Driven Shock Tube 409 Laszlo Tisza, The Conceptual Structure of Physics 410 James L. Massey, Threshold Decoding xvii SPECIAL TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED (These monographs are available from The M. I. T. 238 Main Street, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts.) Number 8 W. P. Allis, S. J. Buchsbaum, Press, and A. Bers, Waves in Anisotropic Plasmas SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS W. P. Allis, Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Plasmas (Proc. Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory and Antennas, The Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, June 25-30, 1962) J. S. Barlow, Evoked Response in Relation to Visual Perception and Reaction Times in Man (Ann. New York Acad. Sci.) G. O. Barnett and W. D. Jackson, Measurement of Instantaneous Blood Flow (Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases) A. H. Barrett, Microwave Spectral Lines as Probes of Planetary (M6moires de la Socidt6 Royale des Sciences de Liege) Atmospheres W. S. McCulloch, A Historical Introduction to the Postulational Foundations of Experimental Epistemology (a chapter in Epistemology in Anthropology, edited by Helen L. Livingston) R. Melzack, Effects of Early Experience on Behavior: Experimental and Conceptual Considerations (Psychopathology of Perception, edited by P. Hoch and J. Zubin, American Psychopathological Association, New York) xviii