Front Cover; Advances in Computers, Volume 8; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Contents of Previous Volumes; Chapter 1. Time-Shared Computer Systems; 1. The Time-Sharing Concept; 2. Design of the Time-Shared Computer System; 3. Over-all Systems Considerations; 4. The Use of Time-Shared Systems; 5. The Future of Time Sharing; References; Chapter 2. Formula Manipulation by Computer; 1. Introduction; 2. Technical Issues in Formula Manipulation; 3. Technical Issues as Applied to Formac; 4. Applications; References; Chapter 3. Standards for Computers and Information Processing.

1. Introductory Comments2. The History of Standardization; 3. Modern Industrial Standardization; 4. Summary; References; Chapter 4. Syntactic Analysis of Natural Language; 1. Linguistic Basis for Computations; 2. A Procedure for Left-to-Right String Decomposition of Sentences; 3. The String Program; References; Chapter 5. Programming Languages and Computers: A Unified Metatheory; 1. Introduction; 2. Simple Computation Processes; 3. Hierarchical Computation Processes; 4. Relevance of the Approach to the Design of Computing Systems; 5. Concluding Remarks; References.

Chapter 6. Incremental ComputationIntroduction; 1. General Concepts; 2. Syntax; 3. Memory Organization; 4. Operation of the Incremental Computer; Appendix: Properties of Forms; References; Author Index; Subject Index.