Advanced Computer Applications

This paper views applications which hold a promise of becoming important commercially, as well as many which are simply interesting and unusual. A number of important applications are appearing such as language translation, the computer as an aid in medical diagnosis and applications in the fields of education, music and history. Applications in government vary from a proposed simulation of emergency duties of the President of the United States to the evaluation by computers of bids for government contracts. Other applications include computer control of railroads, steamships and space vehicle tracking. Computers in communications are being used in speech compression and message switching. Computers in automobile traffic control show promise. Industrial process control on a large scale is also promising. In addition to a general applications survey, this report describes four application areas in some detail: communications, automobile trafflic control, language translation, and industrial process control.