The connection machine
Design of a Massively Parallel Processor
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Hexagonal Parallel Pattern Transformations
IEEE Transactions on Computers
The CELLSCAN system - T.M. a leucocyte pattern analyzer
IRE-AIEE-ACM '61 (Western) Papers presented at the May 9-11, 1961, western joint IRE-AIEE-ACM computer conference
AFIPS '62 (Fall) Proceedings of the December 4-6, 1962, fall joint computer conference
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The history of the development of parallel computation methodology is closely linked with the development of techniques for the computer processing of images. In the early 60s, research in high energy particle physics began to generate extremely large numbers of particle track photographs to be analysed and attempts were made to devise automatic or semiautomatic systems to carry out the analysis. This stimulated the search for ways to build computers of increasingly higher performance since the size of the image data sets exceeded any which had previously been processed. At the same time, interest was growing in exploring the structure of the human visual system and it was felt intuitively that image processing computation should bear at least some resemblance to its human analogue. This review paper traces the simultaneous progress in these two related lines of research and discusses how their interaction influenced the design of many parallel processing computers and their associated algorithms.