Tramp: An interpretive associative processor with deductive capabilities

  • Authors:
  • William L. Ash;Edgar H. Sibley

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM '68 Proceedings of the 1968 23rd ACM national conference
  • Year:
  • 1968

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Abstract

In recent years; it has become increasingly clear that there is need for a content-addressable computer memory. Larger and larger programs are being written which require a structured data base to operate with any efficiency. Many of these could well benefit by replacing tedious searches with a fast, efficient, “content-addressable” access of the data store. A good example is the “key-word” library search. If one asks for a list of the books written by J. von Neumann, we do not expect the system to look at each title in its store and save only those written by von Neumann. And, if there happens to be a catalog prepared, designed to answer this particular question, we do not want to have to do a binary search to find the correct section of the catalog—we want to retrieve the answer directly!