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Title
Proceedings of National Physical Labroatory Synosium 'Mechanisation of Thought Processes' Volume 1
Reference
DENI/B/01
Production date
1959 - 1959

Creator

National Physical Laboratory Biography Biography
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) was founded in 1900 at Bushy House, Teddington, London "for standardising and verifying instruments, for testing materials, and for the determination of physical constants." It is one of the oldest standardising laboratories in the world. It was originally conceived as an extension of Kew Observatory, which was situated round the corner in Old Deer Park at Richmond, and for the first 18 years of its existence, NPL was under the control of the Royal Society. Since its establishment, the research work at NPL has included all branches of physics, light, electricity and magnetism, radio communication, engineering, metallurgy, aeronautics and ship design. Many of Britain's most renowned scientists have been involved in work at NPL, including Alan Turing, Louis Essen and Donald Davies. Some of the most notable achievements carried out at NPL include the invention of the Automatic Computer Engine (ACE), packet switching, radar and the atomic clock. Their current address is National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW.

Scope and Content
A book containing proceedings of a symposium held at the National Physical Laboratory on 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th November 1958. It includes the following papers divided into sections: General Principals 1. Some methods of artificial intelligence and heuristic programming, Dr M.L. Minsky 2. Operational aspects of intellect, Dr D.M. Mackay 3. Programs with common sense, Dr J. McCarthy 4. The mechanism of habituation, Dr W Ross Ashby 5. Conditional probability computing in a nervous system, Dr A.M. Uttley Automatic Programming 1. Automatic programming: present status and future trends, Dr Grace Hopper 2. Some technical features of the Manchester Mercury autocode programme, Mr R.A. Brooker 3. Automatic programming: properties and performance of FORTRAN systems I and II, Mr J. Backus 4. The work of the Computing Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the field of automatic programming, Dr A.P. Ershov 5. Tigris and Euphrates - A comparison between human and machine translation, Mr R.H. Richens 6. Pronoun reference in German, Mr L. Brandwood 7. Automatic translation in the USSR, Dr A.P. Ershov Speech Recognition 1. Sensory mechanisms and sensation, Dr I.C. Whitfield 2. An analogue of the speech recognition process, Prof D.B. Fry and Mr P. Denes 3. The perception of speech, Mr P. Ladefoged 4. Two theorems of statistical separability in the Perceptron, Dr F. Rosenblatt 5. Learning machines, Dr A.M. Andrew 6. Pandemonium: A paradigm for learning, Dr O.G. Selfridge
Extent
1 item
Language
English
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Conditions governing access
Open Access
Conditions governing Reproduction
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