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Introductory remarks

Techniques for reliability in computers for weapon control: keynote address

Computers with European accents

Reliability from a system point of view

Design of experiments for evaluating reliability

Reliability and the computer

A digital system simulator

A new input-output selection system for the Florida Automatic Computer (FLAC)

The IBM 650 RAMAC system disk storage operation

The IBM 650 RAMAC inquiry station operation

An RCA high-performance tape-transport system

A medium-speed magnetic core memory

Millimicrosecond transistor current switching techniques

The utilization of domain-wall viscosity in data-handling devices

Reliability in business systems

On prediction of system performance from information on component performance

Evaluation of failure data

Accuracy control systems for magnetic-core memories

Design of a basic computer building block

Error detection in redundant systems

Analog logarithmic and antilogarithmic circuits using switching transistors

High-speed digital-to-analog conversion by integration of a variable-rate pulse train

A reliable method of drift stabilization and error detection in large-scale analog computers

A new method of verifying analog computer problems and performances

The Lincoln TX-2 computer development

A functional description of the Lincoln TX-2 computer

The Lincoln TX-2 input-output system

Memory units in the Lincoln TX-2

Transistor circuitry in the Lincoln TX-2

Diagnostic techniques improve reliability

Error detection and error correction in real-time digital computers

The FORTRAN automatic coding system

The interpretation and attainment of reliability in industrial data systems

Accuracy control in the RCA Bizmac system

Continuous computer operational reliability

Field performance of a new automatic fault-locating means

The variable word and record length and the combined record approach on electronic data-processing systems

Empirical explorations of the logic theory machine: a case study in heuristic

Programming the logic theory machine

The FORTRAN automatic coding system

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Author	Sayre, D. Stern, H. Nelson, R. A. Sheridan, P. B. Hughes, R. A. Beeber, R. J. Herrick, H. L. Best, S. Goldberg, R. Backus, J. W. Haibt, L. M. Ziller, I. Nutt, R.
Abstract	The FORTRAN project was begun in the summer of 1954. Its purpose was to reduce by a large factor the task of preparing scientific problems for IBM's next large computer, the 704. If it were possible for the 704 to code problems for itself and produce as good programs as human coders (but without the errors), it was clear that large benefits could be achieved. For it was known that about two-thirds of the cost of solving most scientific and engineering problems on large computers was that of problem preparation. Furthermore, more than 90 per cent of the elapsed time for a problem was usually devoted to planning, writing, and debugging the program. In many cases the development of a general plan for solving a problem was a small job in comparison to the task of devising and coding machine procedures to carry out the plan. The goal of the FORTRAN project was to enable the programmer to specify a numerical procedure using a concise language like that of mathematics and obtain automatically from this specification an efficient 704 program to carry out the procedure. It was expected that such a system would reduce the coding and debugging task to less than one-fifth of the job it had been.
Starting Page	188
Ending Page	198
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/1455567.1455599
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1957-02-26
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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