TRIP REPORT: CODIB VISIT TO GERMANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 28, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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28 September 1962
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION
CODIB Visit to Germany.
Attached draft will be considered at the forthcoming 4 October
meeting. Although it s already fairly lengthy, it does not reflect the
content of those IFIP sessions not attended by the author. If aignificant
or interesting additional comment is missing, it should be incorporated
In the report.
Secretary
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25 September 1962
CODIB Visit to Germany
27 Aug - 5 Sept 1962
I. IFIP Con ress 62 International Federation for Information Processing),
Munich, Germany 27 ./..=gust 7.1nber 1962.
2. Congress attendees numbered 2600 from 41 countries, including the
Soviet Bloc. Formal presentations (often in 4-6 parallel sessions), symposia,
and panel discussions were held in the Technische Hochschule; opening and
closing sessions and an equipment display (IFIP Interdata) were held at the
Ausstellungspark. Social events included a party at the LOwenbraukeller;
opera (The Abduction from the Seraglio-Mozart) at the Klee Residenztheater;
banquet at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof; and excursion to Innsbruck via Lake
Starnberg, Garmish-Partenkirchen, and Mittenwald, with return via Kufstein.
3. An exhibition of relevant books and periodicals was held in the
Technische Hochschule. Preprints and abstracts of papers presented were
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obtained and, along with the Program, List of Participants, titles of books
exhibited, list of manufacturers represented at Interdata, and other related
literature, are available in the ADP Collection of the CIA Library. Con-
ference Proceedings will be published by the North-Holland Publishing Com-
pany of Amsterdam early in 1963.
4. Languages of the Congress were English and French; simultaneous
translation channel phones provided a choice of these two :plus German and
Russian. A fair amount of session-hopping was done by COD'S attendees
to get as broad a view of the Congress as possible. Sessions attended in
toto.or in part included:
Automata Theory: Fast Memory Technology; System Design;
Coding Theory; Modern Techniques of Language Translation;
Advanced Methods of Information Storage and Retrieval;
Pattern Recognition; Semantics and Syntactics; Artificial
Intelligence; Machine Learning; Programming Languages;
Languages for Processor Construction; Biological and
Psychological Aspects of Pattern Recognition; Pro-
gramming Languages and Their Processing; Real-Time
Information Processing; Information Retrieval; Linguistic
Analysis and Mechanical Translation of Languages; Digital
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Communication; and Artificial Perception.
5. No detailed summary of all the individual papers heard will be attempted
here; the pre-prints and abstracts are available. Over-all impression was that
of a preponderance of U.S. delegates and clear U.S. dominance in the field,
but with a massive potential developing in many other countries and with a
growing awareness of the need for education in the field, as reflected by the
establishment of a Chair for Information Processing at the Technische
Hoohschule? and plans to encourage inclusion of tbis subject in the students'
curricula, as well as the establishment of a new IFIP Technical Committee on
Education0 Nothing of startling consequence was noted, but several individual
papers were of interest in their presentations of theory (automata, coding,
artificial intelligence, switching, etc.) or of experimentation (pattern
recognition, programming, etc.) directly related to Community problems.
Perhaps most disappointing was the lack of challenging comment on informa-
tion retrieval and on linguistic analysis. Most controversial, as expected,
was; Prof. Bar-Hillel of Israel on mechanical translation, and most
phlegmatic, again as expected, was A.A. Dorodnitsyn of the USSR (although
one source felt that he was more frank in the presentation of his own paper
than might have been expected
6. The Automata Theory session was an extremely technical one,
including discussion of idealized automata, Turing machines? multi-plexed
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and restored nan (not/and) (see paper by A. W. Barks. USA), relieved in
part by a highly articulate presentation by L. J. Fogel, also of the U.S.
His main point was to concentrate on information from the present and
recent past and less on older material, for in the real world descriptors
change with changing experience; such an approach, he feels? allows for
predictability. Coding Theory was concerned mainly with error
detection and correction in communications, with Van Dimren of the
Netherlands scoffing somewhat at the younger authors, stressing as a
first step the need for the mathematicians to translate theory to language
understandable to engineers. The Artificial Intelligence session was quite
good, the effusiveness of V. M. Glushkov of the Computer Center of the
Uttranian Academy of Sciences being one of the surprises LOBO His
paper and subsequent comments, however, were translated by E. MO
Zaitseff of the University of Michigan although Z. said Glushkov under-
stood English very well./ Glushkov referred to another of his papers
on self-organizing systems, published in the Journal of Con__ jaLtational
Mathematics in 1962, and to published proceedings of a L962 Kiev
Symposium on Self-Organizing Theory. He stated that machine trans-
lation (MT) work was being done in his center and that a character-
reading device using a photomultiplier had been developed; he did not
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elaborate on this device, saying it would more appropriately be covered in
the session on pattern recognition.
7. The Programming Language session was disappointing, particularly
since A. P. Yershov of the USSR, who was to have spoken on "Proposed
Extension to ALGOL-60" did not show /ior, in other sessions, did V.A.
Kovelevskiy, I.A. Melchuk, 0.P. Kuznetsov, 0.F. Kulagina, A.A. Abramov,
or A bA. Spirin;* A.A. Timofeyev was the third Soviet present and read his
paper in Russian without follow-up discussion, Dorodnitsyn likewise read
Knlagina's paper and would not discuss if/. The session on Biological and
Psychological Aspects of Pattern Recognition was interesting in its reflection
of experimental work being done on stimulus generalization and symbol
recognition in animals. Papers by T. Sakai of Japan on phonetic type-
writer and by LD0 Earnest of the U.S. on machine recognition of cursive
writing were well received in the session on Artificial Perception.
8. In the equipment exhibit, the only really interesting items noted
were a Siemens & Halake AG 1500 line/minute printer and a Compagnie
des Machines Bull (Paris) analog-digital character recognition device.
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9. As always at such gatherings, new contacts developed in the off-hours,
particularly with U.S. company representatives who may be able to contribute
to the solution of individual problems in the Community's various systems.
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