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Prolog computer programming: ASCII and Cobol

On Tuesday 22/06/2004, died in the U.S. Robert W.

Bemer, a pioneer in computer programming. Among his professional accomplishments have contributed count the instrumental in the establishment of the standard ASCII

[

1] [2 ] representation of information exchange, and development of the COBOL programming language

. On the occasion of his death, the daily El Pais

published in yesterday's edition 27/06/2004 A brief biographical note, translation of original text

published in The New York Times

, from which we extract the paragraphs that refer to Bemer work in the field of computer programming: Robert W.

Bemer, a pioneer in computer programming Robert W.

Bemer, an early computer programmers, who helped devise

ASCII, a system that remains in use to represent letters and numbers in [...] code started working with computers when doing engineering work on military aircraft for the Rand Corporation in California, in 1949. "There I met early IBM computers and fell in love with his technique. I knew I was done for the world of computers. This business was in its infancy, and programming was a job that hacíaa the measure, usually involved preparing machines for calculations made one at a time. Until 1958 there was published the first mention of the word as a term computer software. The software was not a separate activity, but simply something that had to pay to get the computers, which were then the size of a room, could make their work, "he wrote in a series of memories in your web page .

Bright, articulate and irreverent, Bemer seemed to fit exactly in the role during the early years programming crazy . Worked for aircraft manufacturers in California, until 1955, he joined the research department of IBM's programming in New York. There was no formal training for programmers, and for a time was Bemer recruiting manager.

Bemer played

an important role helping to develop a standard system for translating letters and numbers to a digital code that could be processed by a computer, known as American Standard Code for Information Interchange, or ASCII (acronym in English). Before

ASCII, computer manufacturers had their own systems for encoding letters and numbers, making it difficult or impossible to exchange data between machines from different computer manufacturers. A final fifties and early sixties, Bemer was one of the leading advocates and supporters of the standard, under the guidance of

American National Standards Institute (later adopted by the International Standards Organization). ASCII

was implemented in 1963, expanded and modified over the years [...]. Bemer firmly supported ASCII

, although the direction of IBM defended his own standard of coding. In 1962, Bemer left IBM to join the Sand's Sperry Univac division. In its way, the standard ASCII

was a precursor of standards for exchanging and reading data that enable communication through the Internet and web

world. the late fifties, Bemer played a role in another important computer standard, the Cobol programming language. The Defense Department wanted a common language Data management and accounting, and the result at the end of 1959 was Cobol, stands for Common Language Oriented Management. [...] As its name suggests, COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language ) was a programming language created in 1959-1960 , within CODASYL committee ( Conference on Data Systems Languages \u200b\u200b

)-sponsored since 1957 by the Department of Defense-US-for application in administrative tasks and accounting.

ease of reading, thanks to a syntax very close to the natural language expression in English, but is blamed for

COBOL language

be too rigid in its format of writing very long sentences, and not suitable for structured programming techniques ( Pascal and C, to name a few, are examples of languages \u200b\u200boriented structured programming ). Moreover, the high standardization adopted since the start of development, and the special attention of the proper language to express data structures [ 1] [2

], among other features, has allowed even today continue operating in the banking, commercial and business applications with 40 years standing, showing a remarkable solidity and stability, for once the problems that the so-called "year-2000

" (consisting on the problems of using two digits to store dates in older systems) involved in some cases, for operational and functioning properly. more about the language COBOL : [1 ] [ 2] [3 ] [ 4] [5 ] [ 6] [7

]

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human consciousness and artificial intelligence

To break the long period of time without leaving anything written in these parts, and waiting, among other things, higher levels of inspiration, following are some articles and annotations I have called attention pleasantly recent weeks: Self Organizing Maps (for T. Germano, description of the application of artificial neural networks to display clasificacióny information.) Fuzzy Logic - Fuzzy Logic

(by Hector Garcia Kirai.Net

). A Prolog Introduction for Hackers (comment on Through the blogging-glass at

Prolog tutorial published in

kuro5hin.org ). How does a search engine? [ 1], [2 ], [3

] and [4

] (by Hector Garcia Kirai.Net ). timetabling problem (practical implementation of certain aspects of graph theory, A. Arranz Cuesta Ordonez and E. Guzman, Programming in Castilian ). Multi-Backpropagation Network: Concept and Modeling (Backpropagation network is one of the Well Known NN model. However, large network is too complex and Takes a long time to train in Generation5 ...";

).

George Boole (on Boolean logic

, digital or binary, by Hector Garcia Kirai.Net
• ).
• As can be seen, a special place of mention in this short list, it certainly takes Hector Garcia, and at this point it seems pertinent to comment that it is very commendable so that has to address the issues that is usually on his blog ( Kirai.Net ), apart from those of character and interest maso less strictly personal and private, to know: fundamentals of computing, artificial intelligence and its applications, programming in general ... It'll note his remarkable effort to make accessible and understandable, for "ordinary mortals, such matters. In another of his notes, "
The Turing Test and Intelligent Computer
• " addresses a topic which has traditionally raised, and should continue rising, much controversy and diverse opinions: basically, that which concerns how to define what might be called as true artificial intelligence , what are the defining characteristics, and an autonomous system, to see who is endowed with the properties and functions inherent to human intelligence (if it ever reached to know and understand all of these properties and functions, from a joint perspective) is those that express the nature and operation of cognitive processes, reasoning and learning that occur in the minds of human beings. In comments to this entry , we can read interesting opinions, and at this point I would make a reflection made by the English writer and critic David Lodge [1 ] [
2
• ] in the context of an interview published in the edition of the newspaper supplement Babelia The Country of May 1 ("In Defense of fiction, "basically deals with the importance of gender in the novel, fiction, as an instrument of representation of human consciousness, which varies according to different periods over time). Question the interviewer (Lourdes Gomez): "Do you think that consciousness is the software of the human mind?" and Lodge replied: "In the literary sense is good metaphor to describe consciousness. Another question is whether the human mind works like a computer. I think the computer is a type of brain rather limited. There are similarities in performance, but also important differences. Mainly in the connectivity of the human mind and the execution of simultaneous tasks. A computer can never replicate these characteristics despite what the experts assure us in artificial intelligence. Computers are much faster than the human brain, but I do not think intuitively be able to remove irrelevant elements of a function. We win at chess, but never in the decision-making requires an intuitive ability. " aside a reflection of both the Lodge, which in any case no longer an opinion, backed by the knowledge that if laid up in two years of study devoted to cognitive science, artificial intelligence and the phenomenon of consciousness, with an eye toward preparing your secret thoughts novel (Anagrama
• , 2002, ISBN: 84-339-69893-8) the author explains in the interview, and without wishing to enter into great depth in regard to this issue, it is clear that hardly may transfer the characteristics of human intelligence and their cognitive processes to autonomous artificial system, thereby creating artificial intelligence, if not clearly understand the full functioning of these processes, and it seems Unless the scientific disciplines that deal with these matters (in respect to physical and chemical processes, such as those on the transfer and information processing) are quite far from reaching an optimal state of knowledge and "global" about the apparent complexities over which it was initially thought to approach its study of the human mind.