AN ON-LINE COMPUTING CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC PROBLERS

Abstract
An on-line digital system allowing an unusually direct coupling between the user (physicist, mathematician, engineer) and the computer is described. This system, which has been successfully operated during the past six months, was designed principally to provide assistance for problems whose structure is partially unknown (and frequently surprising). These typically require the development of new methods of ATTACK, AND HENCE AN AMOUNT OF PROGRAM EXPERIMENTATION NOT FEASIBLE WITH CLASSICAL COMPUTER CENTER ORGANIZATIONS. With the system described here, the interaction between user and computer is close enough to permit effective use of a scientist's intuition and of his detailed understanding of techniques and procedures, machine representations of those tools he considers essential to his area, and then use these, on-line, to study or solve problems of interest.

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