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Schmitt, William F. "The UNIVAC SHORT CODE." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 10, no. 1 (January 1988): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mahc.1988.10004.

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Johnson, L. R. "Coming to Grips with Univac." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 28, no. 2 (April 2006): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mahc.2006.27.

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Li, Jie, and Zhen Fang Teng. "Decoupling Replication from the Producer Consumer Problem in Internet QoS." Applied Mechanics and Materials 668-669 (October 2014): 1403–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.668-669.1403.

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Many theorists would agree that, had it not been for the emulation of 802.11b, the simulation of digitaltoanalog converters might never have occurred. Here, we validate the understanding of multicast solutions. In this work, we validate not only that A* search and Btrees can synchronize to address this problem, but that the same is true for the UNIVAC computer.
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Feng, Ya, Dong Liang Cui, Jun Mei Yang, and Chao He. "The Impact of Cacheable Algorithms on Cryptography." Applied Mechanics and Materials 651-653 (September 2014): 2394–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.651-653.2394.

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Extreme programming and the UNIVAC computer, while unproven in theory, have not until recently been considered private. In this position paper, we argue the study of superblocks, which embodies the essential principles of artificial intelligence. We describe an algorithm for virtual modalities, demonstrating that lambda calculus and local-area networks can interact to answer this challenge.
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Koss, A. M. "Programming on the Univac. 1. A woman's account." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25, no. 1 (January 2003): 48–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mahc.2003.1179879.

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Li, Hui Shan. "Probabilistic, Cacheable Epistemologies." Advanced Materials Research 660 (February 2013): 217–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.660.217.

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In recent years, much research has been devoted to the investigation of the UNIVAC computer; however, few have explored the simulation of 802.11 mesh networks. Given the current status of homogeneous technology, cryptographers daringly desire the refinement of systems, which embodies the important principles of steganography. KRA, our new system for e-business, is the solution to all of these problems.
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Jasim, Yaser A. "An Improvement of E-Commerce (Simpler) via Artificial Intelligence and Networks." CSRID (Computer Science Research and Its Development Journal) 10, no. 1 (March 27, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22303/csrid.10.1.2018.1-8.

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<p>Nowadays, many research has been dedicated to the distribution of expert systems; unfortunately, few have deliberated the study of <em>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</em> (DHCP). In this paper, the researcher will demonstrate the construction of vacuum tubes, which embodies the principles of software engineering. In order to classify this challenge, the researcher argues not only that <em>local-area networks</em> (LAN) can be made event-driven, stable, and random but the same is true for the <em>Universal Automatic Computer</em> (UNIVAC). </p>
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Ibrahim, M. Y., C. Cook, and K. Tieu. "Dynamic behaviour of a SCARA robot with links subjected to different velocity trajectories." Robotica 6, no. 2 (April 1988): 115–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263574700003921.

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SUMMARYThe dynamics of a mechanical manipulator have the inherent characteristics of being highly non-linear and strongly coupled due to the interaction of the inertial, centripetal, coriolis and gravitational forces.These characteristics produce difficulties in predicting the dynamic behaviour of a given manipulator's structure. These interactive forces depend largely on the geometrical configuration and operational conditions of a manipulator. Therefore, it is essential to investigate the dynamics behaviour under different conditions in order to obtain an optimal design.This paper presents a study of the dynamics behaviour of a robot's arm with particular reference to the mechanical manipulator being designed by the AEAC. A computer software package has been developed to facilitate the investigation of the potential dynamics behaviour of a robot's arm and provides the designer with useful information for the real time control of high performance robots. This package also enables the designer to closely monitor the implications of his design.The software of this package is based on the Lagrangian model, taking advantage of the recursive formulation. A brief description of the types of velocity trajectories used in this study is also included in this paper.The software for the modelling was written in FORTRAN 77 in single precision and run on a UNIVAC operating system.
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Dahl, L., and J. Klabunde. "On the Performance of Computer Automatic Tuning at the Unilac." IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 32, no. 5 (1985): 2153–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tns.1985.4333846.

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Roese, Sydnee N., Justin D. Heintz, Cole B. Uzat, Alexa J. Schmidt, Griffin V. Margulis, Spencer J. Sabatino, and Andrew S. Paluch. "Assessment of the SM12, SM8, and SMD Solvation Models for Predicting Limiting Activity Coefficients at 298.15 K." Processes 8, no. 5 (May 22, 2020): 623. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr8050623.

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The SMx (x = 12, 8, or D) universal solvent models are implicit solvent models which using electronic structure calculations can compute solvation free energies at 298.15 K. While solvation free energy is an important thermophysical property, within the thermodynamic modeling of phase equilibrium, limiting (or infinite dilution) activity coefficients are preferred since they may be used to parameterize excess Gibbs free energy models to model phase equilibrium. Conveniently, the two quantities are related. Therefore the present study was performed to assess the ability to use the SMx universal solvent models to predict limiting activity coefficients. Two methods of calculating the limiting activity coefficient where compared: (1) the solvation free energy and self-solvation free energy were both predicted and (2) the self-solvation free energy was computed using readily available vapor pressure data. Overall the first method is preferred as it results in a cancellation of errors, specifically for the case in which water is a solute. The SM12 model was compared to both the Universal Quasichemical Functional-group Activity Coefficients (UNIFAC) and modified separation of cohesive energy density (MOSCED) models. MOSCED was the highest performer, yet had the smallest available compound inventory. UNIFAC and SM12 exhibited comparable performance. Therefore further exploration and research should be conducted into the viability of using the SMx models for phase equilibrium calculations.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Univac computer"

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Shi, Yi. "Evaluation of network performance of Microsoft operating systems. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Computing, Unitec New Zealand /." Diss., 2009. http://www.coda.ac.nz/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=unitec_scit_di.

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Smith, Ross Travers. "Digital foam: a 3D input device." 2009. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unisa:40755.

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This dissertation investigates deformable computer input device technologies to facilitate capturing complex physical-world gestures. By capturing the physical gestures and using appropriate haptics, it is possible to create virtual models using pinching and squeezing gestures similar to those used when sculpting clay. To date, most desktop modelling applications employ pointing devices that capture a single cursor location to manipulate a model with tedious sequential steps. One reason for this is developers have focused efforts on adopting applications to work with generic two-dimensional pointing devices, such as a mouse or digitising tablet. This is due to the difficulty of developing three-dimensional input technologies. In particular, deformable sensors capable of capturing natural sculpting techniques are undeveloped.
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Maher, Carol. "Using the internet to increase physical activity in adolescents with cerebral palsy - are you kidding?" 2008. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unisa:36833.

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Participation in regular physical activity provides health, psychological and physiological benefits for people both with and without physical impairment. This thesis describes three sequential studies that were undertaken to examine current patterns of physical and sedentary behaviours and evaluate the impact of internet-based intervention (Get Set) on activity patterns of adolescents with cerebral palsy.
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Roberts, Malcolm John. "The critical success factors involved in the implementation of a digital classroom in New Zealand. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Computing, Unitec New Zealand /." Diss., 2007. http://www.coda.ac.nz/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=unitec_scit_di.

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Barretto, Sistine. "Designing guideline-based workflow-integrated electronic health records." 2005. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unisa:28366.

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The recent trend in health care has been on the development and implementation of clinical guidelines to support and comply with evidence-based care. Evidence-based care is established with a view to improve the overall quality of care for patients, reduce costs, and address medico-legal issues. One of the main questions addressed by this thesis is how to support guideline-based care. It is recognised that this is better achieved by taking into consideration the provider workflow. However, workflow support remains a challenging (and hence rarely seen) accomplishment in practice, particularly in the context of chronic disease management (CDM). Our view is that guidelines can be knowledge-engineered into four main artefacts: electronic health record (EHR) content, computer-interpretable guideline (CiG), workflow and hypermedia. The next question is then how to coordinate and make use of these artefacts in a health information system (HIS). We leverage the EHR since we view this as the core component to any HIS.
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Elian, Ryan. "Online community supporting trading functions in an online auction website. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master Computing Systems, Unitec New Zealand /." Diss., 2007. http://www.coda.ac.nz/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=unitec_scit_di.

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Teh, Anselm. "Providing quality of service for realtime traffic in heterogeneous wireless infrastructure networks." 2009. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unisa:41467.

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In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in deployment and usage of realtime network applications, such as Voice-over-IP, video calls/video conferencing, live network seminars, and networked gaming. The continued increase in the popularity of realtime applications requires a more intense focus on the provision of strict guarantees for Quality of Service (QoS) parameters such as delay, jitter and packet loss in access networks. At the same time, wireless networking technologies have become increasingly popular with a wide array of devices such as laptop computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and cellular phones being sold with built-in WiFi and WiMAX interfaces. For realtime applications to be popular over wireless networks, simple, robust and effective QoS mechanisms suited for a variety of heterogeneous wireless networks must be devised. Implementing the same QoS mechanisms across multiple neighbouring networks aids seamless handover by ensuring that a flow will be treated in the same way, both before and after handover. To provide guaranteed QoS, an access network should limit load using an admission control algorithm. In this research, we propose a method to provide effective admission control for variable bit rate realtime flows, based on the Central Limit Theorem. Our objective is to estimate the percentage of packets that will be delayed beyond a predefined delay threshold, based on the mean and variance of all the flows in the system. Any flow that will increase the percentage of delayed packets beyond an acceptable threshold can then be rejected. Using simulations we have shown that the proposed method provides a very effective control of the total system load, guaranteeing the QoS for a set of accepted flows with negligible reductions in the system throughput. To ensure that flow data is transmitted according to the QoS requirements of a flow, a scheduling algorithm must handle data intelligently. We propose methods to allow more efficient scheduling by utilising existing Medium Access Control mechanisms to exchange flow information. We also propose a method to determine the delay-dependent "value" of a packet based on the QoS requirements of the flow. Using this value in scheduling is shown to increase the number of packets sent before a predetermined deadline. We propose a measure of fairness in scheduling that is calculated according to how well each flow's QoS requirements are met. We then introduce a novel scheduling paradigm, Delay Loss Controlled-Earliest Deadline First (DLC-EDF), which is shown to provide better QoS for all flows compared to other scheduling mechanisms studied. We then study the performance of our admission control and scheduling methods working together, and propose a feedback mechanism that allows the admission control threshold to be tuned to maximise the efficient usage of available bandwidth in the network, while ensuring that the QoS requirements of all realtime flows are met. We also examine heterogeneous/vertical handover, providing an overview of the technologies supporting seamless handover. The issues studied in this area include a method of using the Signal to Noise Ratio to trigger handover in heterogeneous networks and QoS Mapping between heterogeneous networks. Our proposed method of QoS mapping establishes the minimum set of QoS parameters applicable to individual flows, and then maps these parameters into system parameter formats for both 802.11e and 802.16e networks.
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Tamati, Diane. "Engaging the Māori e-learner : instructional technology, design & delivery. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education, Unitec New Zealand /." Diss., 2008. http://www.coda.ac.nz/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=unitec_educ_di.

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Fitch, Phillip. "A model of pulsed signals between 100MHz and 100GHz in a Knowldege-Based Environment." 2009. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unisa:37947.

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The thesis describes a model of electromagnetic pulses from sources between 100MHz and 100GHz for use in the development of Knowledge-Based systems. Each pulse, including its modulations, is described as would be seen by a definable receiving system. The model has been validated against a range of Knowledge-Based systems including a neural network, a Learning systems and an Expert system.
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Daya, Raseela. "Digital literacy : an investigation into perceived competencies of open distance learning students in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26914.

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The aim of this study was to investigate and describe the perceived digital literacy competencies of Unisa Open Distance Learning students in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The association between the socio-demographic variables of the students and their perceived digital literacy competencies was statistically tested. The study examined whether there is a statistically significant relationship between the independent variables: attitudes towards digital technology for academic purposes, usage of the Learner Management System and attendance at regional digital literacy workshops, and the dependent variable, perceived digital literacy competencies. A quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional survey design was adopted using a census sampling method. The study concluded that the majority of students have high self-perceived digital literacy competencies. Statistically significant positive relationships were found between attitude towards digital technology for educational purposes, usage of the Learner Management System and attendance at regional digital literacy workshops and perceived digital literacy competencies.
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Books on the topic "Univac computer"

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UNIVAC programmer's handbook. [Washington, D.C.?]: Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 1985.

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A, Kelly Jennifer. Computer operations for 1100 systems. Fairfax, Va: Datametrics Systems Corp., 1985.

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Lundstrom, David E. A few good men from Univac. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1987.

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Lundstrom, David E. A few good men from Univac. Bridgewater, NJ: Replica Books, 1997.

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A few good men from Univac. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1988.

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Lundstrom, David E. A few good men from Univac. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1987.

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A, Kelly Jennifer. Computer operations for 1100/90 systems. Burke, Va: Datametrics Systems Corp., 1988.

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1952-, Madrid Parra Agustín, Guerrero Lebrón Ma Jesús, and Alvarado Herrera Lucía, eds. Derecho patrimonial y tecnología: Revisión de los principios de contratación electrónica con motivo del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Contratación Electrónica de 23 de noviembre de 2005 y de las últimas novedades legislativas. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2007.

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(Editor), Ernesto M. Pernia, ed. The Economic Impact of Demographic Change in Thailand, 1980-2015: An Application of the Homes Household Forecasting Model. East-West Center, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "Univac computer"

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Singh, Surya Pratap, Ramalingam Anantharaj, and Tamal Banerjee. "UNIFAC Group Interaction Prediction for Ionic Liquid-Thiophene Based Systems Using Genetic Algorithm." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 195–204. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17298-4_20.

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Yang, Zhengyuan, Zhe Gan, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaowei Hu, Faisal Ahmed, Zicheng Liu, Yumao Lu, and Lijuan Wang. "UniTAB: Unifying Text and Box Outputs for Grounded Vision-Language Modeling." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 521–39. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20059-5_30.

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Nurhikmah, H., Abdul Saman, Pattaufi, Sujarwo, and Sella Mawarni. "Blended Learning and Computers Self-efficacy Towards Students Learning Outcomes." In Proceedings of the Unima International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (UNICSSH 2022), 106–14. Paris: Atlantis Press SARL, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-35-0_14.

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"The Large Computer Business." In A Few Good Men From Univac. The MIT Press, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2983.003.0015.

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"Oops, I Lost the Computer!" In A Few Good Men From Univac. The MIT Press, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2983.003.0022.

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Swade, Doron. "The computer boom." In The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction, 92—C5.P55. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198831754.003.0005.

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Abstract This chapter traces the emergence of the computer from the workshop into the workplace. It describes the role of the corporate mainframe from the early 1950s to the late 1970s and IBM’s dominance. It starts with IBM’s response to the threat, to its office automation interests, posed by UNIVAC and a new generation of electronic computers. It describes the impetus given to innovation by the Cold War through the Whirlwind project and the SAGE air defence system for the US military. It describes innovative technologies including magnetic-core memory, interactive screen display, reliability protocols and techniques, double-sided printed circuit boards, real-time operating software, duplex standby, digital communication over standard telephone lines, time sharing, and software/programming disciplines. The account shows how SAGE gave IBM a head start in computing, networking, and communications, and how the migration of expertise into the private sector fuelled commercial spin-offs. It describes two sectors transformed by the new technologies: automated banking (ERMA) and the introduction of the credit card, and airline reservation (SABRE). It describes the shakeout in the computer industry in the 1960s in which IBM saw off its competitors (the ‘seven dwarves’) to secure its dominance following the radical introduction of the System/360.
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Swade, Doron. "Electronic computing." In The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction, 66—C4.P80. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198831754.003.0004.

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Abstract This chapter traces the history of the first generation of electronic computers defined as those that used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes in the US) as logic elements. It describes the development of experimental one-of-a-kind machines at universities and by governments that led to computers as commercial products in the early 1950s. It describes seminal machines including the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer), Colossus, ENIAC, EDSAC, the ‘Baby’, EDVAC, UNIVAC, and LEO. It traces the emergence of commercial computers for both business and scientific and engineering calculation. It discusses vacuum-tube reliability, computer architecture, memory technologies, and how these were variously realized. It identifies the internal stored program as the defining feature of the new paradigm of computer design, why historicizing this feature was delayed, and describes the contested contributions of Atanasoff, von Neumann, Eckert, and Mauchly. It traces the spread of the new paradigm from the US. It briefly relates the systematization of programming practices and principles by the EDSAC team led by Wilkes, and the beginnings of programming as a profession. It re-evaluates, in the light of recent studies, the claims that ENIAC and Colossus were programmable general-purpose computers.
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Copeland, Jack, and Jason Long. "Computer music." In The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747826.003.0032.

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One of Turing’s contributions to the digital age that has largely been overlooked is his groundbreaking work on transforming the computer into a musical instrument. It is an urban myth of the music world that the first computer-generated musical notes were heard in 1957, at the Bell Laboratories in the United States. In fact, computer-generated notes were heard in Turing’s Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University about nine years previously. This chapter establishes Turing’s pioneering role in the history of computer music. We also describe how Christopher Strachey, later Oxford University’s first professor of computing, used and extended Turing’s note-playing subroutines so as to create some of the earliest computer-generated melodies. A few weeks after Baby ran its first program (see Chapter 20) Turing accepted a job at Manchester University. He improved on Baby’s bare-bones facilities, designing an input–output system based on wartime cryptographic equipment (see Chapter 6). His tape reader, which used the same teleprinter tape that ran through Colossus, converted the patterns of holes punched across the tape into electrical pulses and fed these to the computer. The reader incorporated a row of light-sensitive cells that read the holes in the moving tape—the same technology that Colossus had used. As the months passed, a large-scale computer took shape in the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory. Turing called it the ‘Manchester Electronic Computer Mark I’ (Fig. 23.1). A broad division of labour developed that saw Kilburn and Williams working on the hardware and Turing on the software. Williams concentrated his efforts on developing a new form of supplementary memory, a rotating magnetic drum, while Kilburn took the leading role in developing the other hardware. Turing designed the Mark I’s programming system, and went on to write the world’s first programming manual. The Mark I was operational in April 1949, although additional development continued as the year progressed. Ferranti, a Manchester engineering firm, contracted to build a marketable version of the computer, and the basic designs for the new machine were handed over to Ferranti in July 1949. The very first Ferranti computer was installed in Turing’s Computing Machine Laboratory in February 1951 (Fig. 23.2), a few weeks before the earliest American-built marketable computer, the UNIVAC I, became available.
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Dasgupta, Subrata. "“The Best Way to Design . . .”." In It Began with Babbage. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199309412.003.0016.

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In February 1951, the Ferranti Mark I was delivered to the University of Manchester. This was the commercial “edition” of the Manchester Mark I (see Chapter 8, Section XIII), the product of a collaboration between town and gown, the former being the Manchester firm of Ferranti Limited. It became (by a few months) the world’s first commercially available digital computer (followed in June 1951 by the “Universal Automatic Computer” [UNIVAC], developed by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation). The Ferranti Mark I was unveiled formally at an inaugural conference held in Manchester, June 9 to 12, 1951. At this conference, Maurice Wilkes delivered a lecture titled “The Best Way to Design an Automatic Calculating Machine.” This conference is probably (perhaps unfairly) more known because of Wilkes’s lecture than for its primary focus, the Ferranti Mark I. For during this lecture, Wilkes announced a new approach to the design of a computer’s control unit called microprogramming, which would be massively consequential in the later evolution of computers. Wilkes’s lecture also marked something else: the search for order, structure, and simplicity in the design of computational artifacts; and an attendant concern for, a preoccupation with, the design process itself in the realm of computational artifacts. We have already seen the first manifestations of this concern with the design process in the Goldstine-von Neumann invention of a flow diagram notation for beginning the act of computer programming (see Chapter 9, Section III), and in David Wheeler’s and Stanley Gill’s discussions of a method for program development (Chapter 10, Section IV). Wilkes’s lecture was notable for “migrating” this concern into the realm of the physical computer itself. We recall that, in May 1949, the Cambridge EDSAC became fully operational (see Chapter 8, Section XIII). The EDSAC was a serial machine in that reading from or writing into memory was done 1 bit at a time (bit serial) ; and, likewise, the arithmetic unit performed its operations in a bit-by-bit fashion. Soon after the EDSAC’s completion, while others in his laboratory were busy refining the programming techniques and exploring its use in scientific applications (see Chapter 9, Sections V–VIII; and Chapter 10), Wilkes became preoccupied with issues of regularity and complexity in computer design and their relation to reliability.
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Copeland, Jack. "Baby." In The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747826.003.0029.

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The modern computer age began on 21 June 1948, when the first electronic universal stored-program computer successfully ran its first program. Built in Manchester, this ancestral computer was the world’s first universal Turing machine in hardware. Fittingly, it was called simply ‘Baby’. The story of Turing’s involvement with Baby and with its successors at Manchester is a tangled one. The world’s first electronic stored-program digital computer ran its first program in the summer of 1948 (Fig. 20.1). ‘A small electronic digital computing machine has been operating successfully for some weeks in the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory’, wrote Baby’s designers, Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn, in the letter to the scientific periodical Nature that announced their success to the world. Williams, a native of the Manchester area, had spent his war years working on radar in rural Worcestershire. Kilburn, his assistant, was a bluntspeaking Yorkshireman. By the end of the fighting there wasn’t much that, between them, they didn’t know about the state of the art in electronics. In December 1945 the two friends returned to the north of England to pioneer the modern computer. Baby was a classic case of a small-scale university pilot project that led to successful commercial development by an external company. The Manchester engineering firm Ferranti built its Ferranti Mark I computer to Williams’s and Kilburn’s design: this was the earliest commercially available electronic digital computer. The first Ferranti rolled out of the factory in February 1951. UNIVAC I, the earliest computer to go on the market in the United States, came a close second: the first one was delivered a few weeks later, in March 1951. Williams and Kilburn developed a high-speed memory for Baby that went on to become a mainstay of computing worldwide. It consisted of cathode-ray tubes resembling small television tubes. Data (zeros and ones) were stored as a scatter of dots on each tube’s screen: a small focused dot represented ‘1’ and a larger blurry dot represented ‘0’. The Williams tube memory, as the invention was soon called, was also used in Baby’s immediate successors, built at Manchester University and by Ferranti Ltd.
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Conference papers on the topic "Univac computer"

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Lu, Kangjie, Chengyu Song, Taesoo Kim, and Wenke Lee. "UniSan." In CCS'16: 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2976749.2978366.

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Finster, Eric, David Reutter, Jamie Vicary, and Alex Rice. "A Type Theory for Strictly Unital ∞-Categories." In LICS '22: 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3531130.3533363.

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Yafi, Majd Zohri, and Arooj Fatima. "Syntax Recovery for Uniface as a Domain Specific Language." In 2018 UKSim-AMSS 20th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/uksim.2018.00023.

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Privat, Romain, Jean-Noël Jaubert, and Michel Molière. "Ethanol and Distillate Blends: A Thermodynamic Approach to Miscibility Issues: Part 3 — Generalization to Other Alcohols (Methanol, Isopropanol and 1-Butanol)." In ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2012-68561.

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In the framework of a multistep program devoted to the ternary gasoil/alcohol/water system, the authors investigated the miscibility of anhydrous and hydrated ethanol qualities with four classes of industrial gasoil having different compositions and densities. To that end, they considered a pseudo binary system made by the various hydrocarbon species on one hand and the alcohol/water sub-system on another hand. Using the UNIQUAC thermodynamic theory and the Group Contribution approach, the team computed the Minimum Miscibility Temperature (“MMT”) for a series of the gasoil/ethanol/water system having water concentrations in ethanol comprised between 0 and 10%. The TMM is the temperature above which the various components of the system form a sole phase. This work is summarized in two papers already published (Part 1: GT 2010-22126; Part 2: GT2011-45896). In the continuity of this prior work and considering the potential interest of alternative alcohols as “gasoil extenders”, the team has generalized this approach to selected C1-C4 alcohols: methanol, isopropanol (or 2-propanol) and n-butanol (or 1-butanol). While methanol is an interesting “energy vector” of coal and biomass via the CTL and BTL processes, isopropanol is a widespread commodity produced by the classical petrochemistry and 1-butanol is a promising biofuel candidate of the second, “lingo-cellulosic” generation. This third part of the project shows that the introduction of these alternative alcohols and their respective interactions with water lead to considerable changes in the liquid-liquid equilibria and important shifts of the MMTs, trends that were difficult to anticipate beforehand.
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Patel, Yusef. File to Factory: A case study of automated prefabrication house-building methods for small-to-medium enterprises. Unitec ePress, December 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/ocds.0823.

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The Eco-Digital Fabrication (EDFAB) research project aimed to investigate how automated prefabrication technologies and off-the-shelf construction products can be employed to disrupt building industry norms. The aim of this research – conducted at the University of Auckland and Unitec Institute of Technology from 2014 onward – was to provide small-to-medium enterprises in the construction industry with a pathway to upskill and increase construction productivity through the use of these processes. The availability of automated machines and easy-to-use fabrication software is increasing dramatically and this can be paired with readily available construction products to produce novel mass-customised housing solutions. The application of basic automated technologies – such as CNC (Computer Numerical Control) routers – allowed researchers to create ‘recipes’ that can be adopted and adapted relatively easily. By no means did the research favour digital manufacture or assembly processes over traditional analogue construction techniques – the goal was to provide logical, productive and accessible blended solutions for greater affordability and flexibility in design. For example, the designed experiments were required to be built from readily available products, and used simple readymade screw fixings rather than digitally produced custom fixings or joining mechanisms. The research project aimed to generate discussion and provide recommendations on how the construction industry might support the adoption of automated prefabrication technology in small-to-medium enterprise (SME).
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