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    On Handling the Data
    On Handling the Data
    On Handling the Data
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    On Handling the Data

    By M. I. Mayfield

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      On Handling the Data - M. I. Mayfield

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      Title: On Handling the Data

      Author: M. I. Mayfield

      Release Date: November 10, 2007 [eBook #23429]

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON HANDLING THE DATA***

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      … ON … HANDLING THE DATA

      BY M. I. MAYFIELD

      Illustrated by Freas

      Sometimes a story is best told by omission—!

      September 16, 1957

      Dr. Robert Von Engen, Editor

      Journal of the National Academy of Sciences,

      Constitution Avenue, N. W.,

      Washington, D. C.

      Dear Sir:

      I am taking the liberty of writing you this letter since I read your published volume, Logical Control: The Computer vs. Brain (Silliman Memorial Lecture Series, 1957), with the hope that you can perhaps offer me some advice and also publish this letter in the editorial section. Your mathematical viewpoint on the analysis between computing machines and the living human brain, especially the conclusion that the brain operates in part digitally and in part analogically, using its own statistical language involving selection, conditional transfer orders, branching, and control sequence points, et cetera, makes me feel that only you can offer me some information with logical arithmetic depth.

      The questions raised in this letter are designed principally to reach the embryonic and juvenile scientists … the scientists-elect, so to speak. (I think the mature scientists are

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