The availibility of low cost microprocessors, memories and ancilliary circuits has made the construction of large networks of such devices feasible where each microcomputer is dedicated to a specific task. The parallel computation of the diffusion equation is a particular application of such a...

A preliminary design is outlined for a hybrid computer utilizing both digital and analog techniques. In essence it consists of a small stored program digital computer controlling and interacting with a large network of analogue elements. The network components are nodes, each composed of a...

Information technology, a recently coined term, remains susceptible to varying interpretations by different people. The intention, clearly, is to emphasize the emergence of a new technological era which manifests itself in so many unrelated disciplines and activities. The French have the...