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Oral history interview with Douglas T. Ross
No full textTranscript, 37 pp.Ross begins with a discussion of his early involvement with John Ward on the Cape Cod project and his early experimentation in gestalt programming with Air Force and Emerson Electric Company programmers on the 1103 at Eglin Air Force Base. He then talks about the work he directed for the Air Force under Frank Reintjes at the MIT laboratories. He discusses the APT (Automatically Programmed Tools) and AED (Automated Engineering Design) projects which were early precursors of the languages and systems of modern CAD and CAM systems. Although these projects were not supported directly by DARPA, they were run in close connection with the WHIRLWIND, TX-0, TX-2, Project MAC, and CTSS projects that were running simultaneously at MIT. Ross discusses his use of programmers from industry in these projects. He also mentions the distribution of APT through the Fortran Monitor System and discusses the relationship between AED and PL-1.Ross, Douglas T.. (1989). Oral history interview with Douglas T. Ross. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107611
Oral history interview with Douglas T. Ross
No full textTranscript, 75 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95105Ross, the founder of SofTech Corporation, recounts some of his early experiences working on MIT's Whirlwind computer in the 1950s. He explains how a summer job at MIT's Servomechanisms Laboratory operating a Marchant calculator led him to use the Whirlwind for greater computing power--and to seventeen years in the MIT computer labs. Ross reports on his first use of Whirlwind for airborne fire control problems. Soon after that the Whirlwind was used for the Cape Cod early warning system, a precursor to the SAGE Air Defense System. Ross describes improvements made to Whirlwind, including the introduction of the first light pen and the replacement of the paper tape reader with a photoelectric tape reader (PETR). Ross also discusses some of the programs he wrote or used on Whirlwind, such as the Initial Data Processing Program (IDPP), the Servo Lab Utility Program (SLURP), and the Mistake Diagnosis Routine (MDR). He describes the IDPP as particularly interesting, because it involved pattern recognition and was thus an early example of artificial intelligence research.Ross, Douglas T.; Aspray, William. (1984). Oral history interview with Douglas T. Ross. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107610
Douglas, T B, 42628
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/382365Surname: DOUGLAS. Given Name(s) or Initials: T B. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 42628. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: SEA-3576.213510
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Mrs. Emily T. Douglas
No full textTexas State College for Women. Mrs. Emily T. Douglas, at dinner.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/11109/thumbnail.jp
Mrs. Emily T. Douglas
No full textTexas State College for Women. Mrs. Emily T. Douglas, at dinner.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/12109/thumbnail.jp
Letter from W. T. Johnson to J. H. Culpeper, Vice President of Smith-Douglas Company
No full textLetter from W. T. Johnson to J. H. Culpeper, Vice President of Smith-Douglas Company, concerning scholarship and NFA camp
Portrait of Douglas Stewart, 1983 [picture] /
No full text(P2192/297); Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an14262722-1
Douglas
No full textVoce di enciclopedia che descrive le caratteristiche prestazionali del legno prodotto a partire da quelle della specie di provenienza (abete di Douglas, altro nome di abete di tipo americano)
Translation as creative retelling : constituents, patterning and shift in Gavin Douglas' Eneados
No full textThe Thesis analyses and evaluates how Gavin Douglas (Eneados, 1513) has refocused Virgil's Aeneid, principally by giving more emphasis to the serial particularity inherent in the story, loosening the narrative structure and involving the reader in its retelling.
Chapter I pieces together (from the evidence not merely of what Douglas explicitly says, but of what his words imply) what for him a "text" in general is, and what accordingly it means for a translator or a reader to be engaged with it. This sets the scene for what follows.
The next four Chapters look in turn at how he re-expresses important (metaphysical) characteristics of the story. In Chapter II his handling of time is discussed, and compared with Virgil's: the Chapter sets out in detail how Douglas consistently refocuses temporal predicates, foregrounding their disjunctiveness and making them differently felt. In Chapter III spatial position and distance are analysed, and Douglas' way of dealing with space is found to display parallels with his treatment of time: networks are loosened and nodal points are accentuated. In Chapter IV the way in which he presents individuals is compared with Virgil's, and a similar repatterning and shift reveals itself: Douglas provides his persons with firmer boundaries. Chapter V deals with fate, where Douglas encounters special difficulties but maintains his characteristic way of handling the story. The aim of these four Chapters is to characterise formally how Douglas concretises and vivifies the tale of Aeneas, engaging his readers throughout in the retelling.
Finally, Chapter VI looks at certain general principles of translation theory (notably connected with the ideas of faithfulness and accuracy) and argues for a way in which Douglas' translation can be fairly experienced by the reader and fairly evaluated as a lively retelling which (albeit distinctive) is fundamentally faithful to Virgil
"A Theory of Production" The Estimation of the Cobb-Douglas Function: A Retrospective View
No full textThe Cobb-Douglas production function is still today the most ubiquitous form in theoretical and empirical analyses of growth and productivity. The estimation of the parameters of aggregate production functions is central to much of today's work on growth, technological change, productivity, and labor. This paper has taken up Samuelson's [1979] invitation to verify empirically his claim that all the regression of the Cobb-Douglas [1928] production function does is to reproduce the income accounting identity according to which value added equals the sum of the wage bill plus total profits. This paper concludes that Samuelson was right, and believes that this argument has very serious implications for today's work in macroeconomics.
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