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PROCEEDINGS Computation Seminar DECEMBER 1949 EDITED BY IBM APPLIED SCIENCE DEPARTMENT CUTHBERT C. HURD, Director INTERN ATION AL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION NEW YORK + NEW YORK Copyright 1951 International Business Machines Corporation 590 Madison Avenu(!, New York 22, N. Y. Form 22-8342-0 P R I N TED I N THE U NIT E D S TAT E S o F AMERICA FOREWORD ACOMPUTATION SEMINAR, sponsored by the Inter- .n national Business Machines Corporation, was held in the IBM Department of Education, Endicott, New York, from December 5 to 9, 1949. Attending the Seminar were one hundred and seven research engineers and scientists who are experienced both in applying mathematical methods to the solution of physical prob- lems and in the associated punched card methods of computation. Consequently, these Proceedings represent a valuable contribution to the computing art. The Inter- national Business Machines Corporation wishes to ex- press its appreciation to all those who participated in this Seminar. CONTENTS The Future of High-Speed Computing -JOHN VON NEUMANN 13 Some Methods of Solving Hyperbolic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations -RICHARD W. HAMMING 14 Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations -EVERETT C. YOWELL. . . . .