Extrait de la préface Marshall C. Yovits
This volume comprises the Proceedings of the Symposium on Large-Capacity Memory Techniques lor Computing Systems sponsored by the Information Systems Branch of the Office of Naval Research, May 23-25, 1961. The meeting was held in the Department of Interior Auditorium and was attended by about 600 people representing industry, universities, and government laboratories in the United States. Also attending were scientists from Japan as well as a number from several European countries.
High-speed computers have become considerably faster and larger in the last few years. Despite the increase in complexity of these computers, there remain large numbers of problems which it is possible to solve only with great difficulty. Indeed the number and importance of these problems are rapidly increasing. In many cases the major reason for this difficulty is the limited random access memory of the computing system.
With computers in some sense reaching an ultimate limitation on size and complexity in the next few years, more and more effort is currently going into the area of large, random-access, high-density memories in order to improve measurably the capabilities of computing systems. It is apparent that the development of an efficient high-speed access, high-density memory for use with current or planned digital computers will greatly enhance the problem-solving ability of these computing systems with little additional modification.
At the same time the increased research effort now proceeding in the basic sciences, in mathematics, in metallurgy, and in various phases of engineering has engendered many more suggested ways in which large-capacity memories might be effected. Many of these techniques are novel, clever, powerful, and appear to show much promise. At the very least these are intriguing to think about.
It was the purpose of this Symposium to bring together at a single meeting most of the more promising novel techniques for achieving large-capacity storage. While the term "large capacity" has purposely been left vague, inasmuch as the techniques rather than operational capability are of interest, it is hoped that stores of the order of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of bits will eventually result. Further, the access times to the store should be commensurate with the fastest computing systems now on the horizon. It is hoped that, by presenting these related papers at a single symposium, relative evaluation of these techniques with regard to their probable future utilization in the computing field will be possible.
All of the papers presented at this Symposium were invited by the Committee from individuals and organizations who had made contributions which the Symposium Committee was aware of...
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