Paper Info
Title
The IBM card-programmed electronic calculator
Abstract
Tracking a guided missile on a test range now is the only way to make sure of its performance. At one Department of Defense facility this is done by planting batteries of cameras or photo-theodolites along a 100-mile course. During its flight, the missile position is recorded by each camera at 100 frames per second, together with the camera training angles. Formerly these thousands of pictures from each of many cameras were turned over to a crew of computers, to determine just what happened. It took 2 weeks to make the calculations for a single flight. Now this is done on the International Business Machines (IBM) Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator in about 8 hours, and the tests can proceed.
Year
DOI
Venue
1951
10.1145/1434770.1434775
AIEE-IRE '51 Papers and discussions presented at the Dec. 10-12, 1951, joint AIEE-IRE computer conference: Review of electronic digital computers
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
electronic calculator,single flight,100-mile course,international business machines,camera training angle,test range,card-programmed electronic calculator,defense facility,missile position,frames per second,international business
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John W. Sheldon120.53
Liston Tatum220.53