GAMMA(ID:5264/gam006)

CERN port of Culler-Fried System 

for Graphical Aided Mathematical MAchine

Port and enhancement of Culler-Fried System for CERN by Carlo Vandoni, in collaboration with Lyle Smith


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Culler-Fried System => GAMMA   Port
GAMMA => SIGMA   Incorporated some features of
References:
  • Smith, L. B. Drawing ellipses, hyperbolas or parabolas with a fixed number of points, CERN/DD/DH/69/9, CERN, DD Division, Geneva, Switzerland. 1969 view details
  • Smith, L. B. The use of man-machine interaction in data-fitting problems, (Ph.D. thesis), SLAC report No. 96, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California. 1969 view details
  • Vandoni, C. E. (1969). GAMMA User's Manual. CERN, DD Division, Geneva, Switzerland view details
  • Smith, L B; Vandoni, Carlo E; "Graphical man-machine interactive systems for numerical problems : PEG, a special purpose system, and GAMMA, a general purpose system" CERN 70-23. 1970 view details
  • Smith, Lyle B. "A Survey of Interactive Graphical Systems for Mathematics" view details Extract: Influences
    The Culler-Fried system has also been copied without significant modification at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland; Vandoni (1969) has programmed a copy of the Culler-Fried system called GAMMA (Graphically Aided Mathematical MAchine) for a CDC 3100 computer with a CDC 250 display. Complex and matrix arithmetic are yet to be added to GAMMA; otherwise it is a direct copy of the Culler-Fried system at Santa Barbara except for a few additional operators. Future plans are to put GAMMA on a CDC 3200 computer with four time-sharing terminals (keyboard and storage CRT). Figure 1 shows the GAMMA terminal (keyboard and CRT) currently in use with the CDC 3100 computer. The GAMMA keyboard is essentially identical with the Culler-Fried keyboards at Santa Barbara. For examples of applications of the Culler-Fried system see Culler and Huff (1962) and the chapter by B. D. Fried in Karplus (1967).

          in [ACM] ACM Computing Surveys 2(4) Dec1970 view details
  • Vandoni, C.E. "Implementation of an Interactive Mathematical Computing System", Proceedings ACM International Symposium, Bonn, 1970 (Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Birlinghoven, 1970, pp301-321 view details
          in Proceedings ACM International Symposium, Bonn, 1970 (Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Birlinghoven, 1970 view details
  • Smith, L. B. "Drawing ellipses, hyperbolas or parabolas with a fixed fixed number of points and maximum inscribed area" view details Abstract: In interactive graphical work one may want to represent curves by connecting a fixed number of points on the curves by straight lines. Parametric representations are given which lead to efficient algorithms for computing piecewise linear representations of ellipses, hyperbolas and parabolas. It is proved that the representations give inscribed polygons with maximum area in all three cases.
          in The Computer Journal 14(1) 1971 view details
  • Sammet, Jean E. "Roster of Programming Languages for 1973" p147 view details
          in ACM Computing Reviews 15(04) April 1974 view details
  • Sammet, Jean E "Roster of programming languages for 1976-77" pp56-85 view details
          in SIGPLAN Notices 13(11) Nov 1978 view details
  • Vandoni, Carlo "Scientic Data Visualization" Cern December 1995 view details pdf
          in SIGPLAN Notices 13(11) Nov 1978 view details
  • Vandoni, Carlo "Rolf Hagedorn and Interactive Graphical Computing" presented at the Hagedorn Memorial Meeting, 28 November 2003, CERN Main Auditorium view details pdf
          in SIGPLAN Notices 13(11) Nov 1978 view details
    Resources
    • GAMMA at CERN
      Rolf Hagedorn at GAMMA Console from Smith, copyright CERN
    • Cover of Gamma 1968
      GAMMA cover from Vandoni 2003, copyright CERN
    • GAMMA at CERN
      Rolf Hagedorn at GAMMA Console from Vandoni 2003, copyright CERN
    • GAMMA at CERN
      Rolf Hagedorn and Leon Van Hove at GAMMA Console from Vandoni 2003, copyright CERN
    • GAMMA at CERN
      Rolf Hagedorn demonstrating GAMMA to an Austrian Parliamentary delegation from Vandoni 2003, copyright CERN
    • GAMMA at CERN
      A function drawn on GAMMA from Vandoni 2003, copyright CERN
    • GAMMA at CERN
      The first GAMMA keyboard from Vandoni 2003, copyright CERN
    • GAMMA at CERN
      The second GAMMA keyboard from Vandoni 2003, copyright CERN
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