PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
International Conference on Atomic Physics, New York
June 3-7, 1968
D. E. Pritchard, D. Burnham, and D. Kleppner, Determination of Long-Range
Interatomic Potentials between Sodium and Cesium
American Speech and Hearing Association National Conference on Noise as a Public
Hazard, Washington, D. C.
June 13-14, 1968
W. A. Rosenblith, Introductory Address (invited)
1968 IEEE Solid-State Device Research Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado
June 17-19, 1968
G. Bekefi and E. V. George, Collision-Induced Instability for Helicon Waves
A. Bers, S. R. J. Brueck, and D. Platts, Microwave Acoustic Amplification in High Mobility Semiconductor Plasma in a Magnetic Field
Fourth International Materials Symposium on "The Structure and Chemistry of Solid
Surfaces, " University of California, Berkeley
June 19-21, 1968
J. W. Gadzuk, Theory of Metallic Adsorption on Real Metal Surfaces
R. E. Stickney, Low-Energy Molecular Scattering as a Tool for Studying
Gas-Solid Intermolecular Potentials : Comparison of Theory and Experiment
Twenty-sixth Annual Conference on Electron Device Research, University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado
June 19-21, 1968
A. Bers and R. N. Wallace, Amplification of Helicons at Microwave Frequencies
P. Penfield, Jr., Large-Signal Transient Mode of Avalanche Diodes
Symposium No. 40, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research,
Burg Wartenstein, Austria
July 16-25, 1968
W. S. McCulloch, RAGNA ROKR (invited)
Sixth International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 22-26, 1968
J. C. Batty and R. E. Stickney, Simple Thermodynamic Model of Reactive
Scattering of Gas Molecules from Solid Surfaces : The Oxygen-Tungsten
Reaction
S. Yamamoto and R. E. Stickney, Molecular Beam Investigation of the
Scattering of Noble Gases from a (111) Si Crystal xiv

MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics Sixth Annual Meeting,
Champaign - Urbana, Illinois
July 24-25, 1968
K. N. Stevens, Toward a Physiological and Acoustical Basis for the Features and Rules of Phonology
Symposium on Magnetohydrodynamic Electrical Power Generation, Warsaw, Poland
July 24-30, 1968
J. L. Kerrebrock and M. A. Hoffman, The M. I. T. Nonequilibrium MHD
Generator
I. A. E. A. Third Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research
Novosibirsk, U. S. S. R.
August 1-7, 1968
D. J. Rose, On Feasibility of Controlled Fusion
III International Congress of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, New York
August 18-22, 1968
I. T. Young, Color in Automated Cell Analysis
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers National Symposium, Washington, D. C.
August 19-23, 1968
T. S. Huang, O. J. Tretiak, and G. B. Anderson, Error Analysis of Optical
Processing Systems
American Astronomical Society Special Session on High Resolution Radio Astronomy,
Victoria, B. C., Canada
August 20-23, 1968
B. F. Burke, J. M. Moran, A. H. Barrett, O. Rydbeck, B. Hansson,
A. E. E. Rogers, J. A. Ball, and D. D. Cudaback, The Sizes of the
Anomalous OH Emission Sources
W. J. Wilson and A. H. Barrett, Discovery of OH Radio Emission from the Infrared Star NML Cyg
WESCON, Los Angeles, California
August 20-23, 1968
H. L. Van Trees, A. B. Baggeroer, and L. D. Collins, Complex State
Variables : Theory and Applications
6th International Congress on Acoustics, Tokyo, Japan
August 21-28, 1968
U. Ingard and R. H. Katyl, Light Scattering from Thermal Surface Vibrations of Liquids
11th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, St. Andrews University,
St. Andrews, Scotland
August 25-27, 1968
S. R. Reznek and M. W. P. Strandberg, Surface Impedance and Boundary
Scattering in Metals for the Conditions of the Anomalous Skin Depth

MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
XXIV International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Washington, D. C.
August 25-30, 1968
N. Y. S. Kiang, Auditory Neurophysiology : Peripheral Aspects (invited)
Istituto di Fisica, Summer School on Radiofrequency Spectroscopy (organized by
Adriano Gozzini and sponsored by the Italian National Research Council (CNR)),
Perugia, Italy
August 26-September 14, 1968
M. W. P. Strandberg, Classical Theory of ESR Line Shapes (invited)
M. W. P. Strandberg, Statistical Theory of ESR Line Shapes (invited)
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)
E. E. Fetz, Pyramidal Tract Effects in Interneurons in the Cat Lumbar Dorsal Horn
(J. Neurophysiol. )
R. G. Gallager and C. W. Helstrom, Bounds on the Probability that a Gaussian
Process Exceeds a Given Function (IEEE Trans. (IT))
U. Haeberlen and J. S. Waugh, Coherent Averaging Effects in Magnetic Resonance
(Phys. Rev.)
H. A. Haus and T. K. Gustafson, Steady-State Electromagnetic Shock in Kerr
Liquid (IEEE J. Quantum Electronics)
R. R. Levin and N. L. Oleson, Ion Acoustic Wave Dispersion in a Highly Ionized
Argon Plasma in a Magnetic Field (Phys. Fluids)
W. M. Manheimer, Bremsstrahlung and Scattering at Harmonics of the Plasma
Frequency (Phys. Fluids)
W. H. Miller and G. D. Bernard, Butterfly Glow (J. Ultrastructure Res. )
W. H. Miller, G. D. Bernard, and J. L. Allen, The Optics of Insect Compound
Eyes (Science)
W. J. Wilson and A. H. Barrett, Discovery of Hydroxyl Radio Emission from
Infrared Stars (Science)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
M. Eden, A Note on a New Family of Identities (J. Comb. Theory)
U. Ingard, Absorption Characteristics of Nonlinear Acoustic Resonators (J. Acoust.
Soc. Am.)
C. Krischer, Measurement of Sound Velocities in Crystals Using Bragg Diffraction of Light and Applications to Lanthanum Trifluoride (Appl. Phys. Letters)
P. Penfield, Jr., Large-Signal Transient Effect in Avalanche Diodes (Proc. IEEE) xvi

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (continued)
P. Penfield, Jr. , Comments on "Unresolved Paradox in Circuit Theory" (Proc. IEEE)
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)
465 Bernard Gold and Lawrence R. Rabiner, Analysis of Digital and Analog Formant
Synthesizers
SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
E. P. Gyftopoulos and D. Steiner, Orbital Electronegativity and Physical Properties of Bimetallic Adsorption Systems (Report on Twenty-seventh Conference on
Physical Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, March 20-22, 1967, pp. 169-187)
W. L. Kilmer, W. S. McCulloch, and J. Blum, in collaboration with E. Craighill and D. Peterson, Towards a Theory of Reticular Formation (Chap. 6 in The
Mind : Biological Approaches to Its Functions. Edited by W. C. Corning and M. W. Balaban. Interscience Publishers, New York, 1968, pp. 177-232)
P. A. Kolers, Direction of Scan and the Nature of the Task (Asymmetries of Brain
Function, M. Kinsbourne (ed.), Tavistock)
J. Y. Lettvin, H. R. Maturana, W. S. McCulloch, and W. H. Pitts, What the Frog's
Eye Tells the Frog's Brain, Chap. 7 in The Mind : Biological Approaches to Its
Functions. Edited by W. C. Corning and M. W. Balaban. Interscience Publishers,
New York, 1968, pp. 233-258 (Reprint from Proc. IRE 47, 1940-1951 (1959)).
W. S. McCulloch, Control of Posture and Motion (Proc. First Rock Island Arsenal
Biomechanics Symposium, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, April 5-6,
1967)
W. S. McCulloch, Some Remarks on What Is New with Us (Proc. Symposium on the
Engineering Significance of the Biological Sciences, Carnegie Institute of
Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 25-27, 1967)
W. S. McCulloch, Neurophysiology (in Future Goals of Engineering in Biology and
Medicine, Academic Press, New York, 1968)
N. L. Oleson and A. W. Cooper, Moving Striations (Advances in Electronics and
Electron Physics, Vol. 24, pp. 155-278, 1968)
M. W. P. Strandberg, Superconducting Bolometers : Detection of Ambient Acoustic
Noise (Trans. Conference on Fluctuations in Superconductors, Monterey,
California, March 13-15, 1968) xvii