Errata for Second Printing of 4th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science (Wiley UK)

Errata for First
Printing of 4th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science     (Grove US)

               Editors: Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly, David Hemmenddinger

Errata for Second Printing of 4th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science


page 73 Applications Programming headwords: COMPUTER SOFTWARE -> SOFTWARE
87, Table 1: (a) The DEC VAX labels S,D,H should be S,D,G (b) The exponent bias for Vax G is 1024, not 127, and that of IEEE D is 1023, not 127 (c) In the notes under the table, "H=..." should be "G=.." 114 Fig 1 caption, last line: automation -> automaton. 156, Table 7, L-3, the two parenthesized terms should have an OR "v" symbol between them. 290, line 2 of "Derive" section: Stoutmeyer -> Stoutemyer 301 Bibliography, 2nd reference: Software Warehouse -> Soft Warehouse. 473 Bib: 1960 and 1993 entries: Yovitz -> Yovits. 501 C2 P1 L-1: Universal --> Unified 910 Insert "SOFTWARE" in the headword list before "PORTABILITY". 945 Delete "Task" from the headword list for KERNEL. 1077 C1 L-9 and page 1990 of the name index, Toothill -> Tootill 1158 Fig 2 caption: should be Pentium Pro; Fig 1: Pentium 3 after metal 1
Name Index:

Bemer, Robert William: add [1920-2004]
Berkeley: p 1968, not 1962
Boyce, R.F. -> Boyce, Raymond F. Browne, Sir Thomas: add [1605-1682] Cohen, Arnold A.: add [1914-2003] Concordia, Charles: add [1908-2003] Crick, Sir Francis H(arry) C(ompton): add [1916-2004] Dantzig, George: add [1914-2005] Evans, Bob Overton: add [1927-2004] Goldstine, Herman Heine: add [1913-2004] Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold: add [1919-2004] Iverson, Kenneth: add [1920-2004] Kilby, Jack St. Clair: add [1923-2005] Kleiner, Eugene: add [1922-2003] Larson, Judge Earl Richard: add [1911-2001] Prigogine, Ilya: add [1917-2003] Reagan, Ronald Wilson: add [1911-2004] Rhodes, Ida Laura [1884-1974] -> Rhodes, Ida {delete Laura} [1900-1986] Rosenfeld, Azriel [1931-2004] [not in 4ed index] Stoutmeyer -> Stoutemyer Toothill -> Tootill, Geof(frey) C. Tutte, William T.: correct dates are [1917-2002] Wheeler, David John: add [1927-2004]
General Index:
Magnetic core memory   Add page 1136, omit page 1141


First Printing

Front matter

v (Contents page): L7:  Between 1024/1025 -> Between 1058/1059

ix:   "Ivesson" -> "Iverson"

x: Vaughn R. Pratt -> Vaughan R. Pratt

xiii, C2, L3:  nine --> ten
             L7:  Delete "size of the"
             L8:  greater --> larger
             L8:  Delete "that of"

xv, L1:  Editor's --> Editors'
      C1, P2, L7-8:  technologists --> engineers
      C2, L9:  enyclopedia --> Encyclopedia

xxiii c2 L7: Online Info Systems --> Online Info Services

In the contributors list:

Alagic:  "Witchita" -> "Wichita"
Bhandarkar: Intel, not DEC/Compaq
Briggs: Cray, not Tera
David Caminer:  change affiliation to "Systems Analyst - retired"
Richard DeMillo: Bellcore
Mary Ellen Hanley: Kaludis Consulting Group
David Hanson: Microsoft Research
Kenneth Iverson:  change affiliation  to correct a typo, should be "Iverson Software"
David  Kahaner: Asian Technology Information Program
Arthur Karshmer: New Mexico State University, not University of New Mexico.
Lazarro -> Lazzaro
George Peters: Unigraphics Solutions, Inc.
Larry Press:   Dominguez -> Dominguez Hills
Robert Rittenhouse: McMurry University
Jean Sammet: change affiliation to "Programming Language Consultant"
Bruce Shriver: Genesis2, Inc.
Mohan Trivedi: University of California at San Diego
G. Michael Vose: Compuware Corporation
Maurice Wilkes: ATT Research, UK and University of Cambridge, UK

Main Pages

 9   C1 P2 L9  "acutator" -> "actuator"

14   C1, P1, L6-7:  Should be process-ing

       C2:  asterisks not centered
               rule not added above Figure 1
              L-3:  Opening quote in wrong font

32 C1 P5 L3  Remove umlaut over 'u' of Hochschule

46 C2 L-4  Remove one of the three consecutive 's's in "processsors"

47  "Dynamic Programming" section,  line 4: "As" -> "An"

48  C1 L-1   No two xs ... -> No two xis ...

50 C2 1st bullet, L4  "transofrm" -> "transform"

56 C2 P3 L3 "amplifer" -> "amplifier"

59 C2 P1 L1 "occured" -> "occurred"

60 C1 P1 L3  Add hyphen to "capa" at end of line.

72 C1, P4, L-2:  "nothing went for Amelio" -> "nothing went right for Amelio"

85 C1, P2, L3  "four-bit plus sign" -> "four-bit-plus-sign"

93 C2 P2 L2   "succesful" -> "successful"

113   C1, L9:  First asterisk is the wrong font.  This is the only asterisk that was already high and did not have to be raised.  The others were all raised correctly but a different asterisk was used.

118  C1 If it can be done without affecting pagination, split P3 in two by starting a new para at its line 13:
        "Planning algorithms....

119  C1,P2,L-2,-1:  Should be sched-ule

129 C1 Bibliography: Reverse order of the first two entries.

162 C2 L8  "similiar" -> "similar"

190 C2 P2 L11 "Willigodt" ->  "Willgodt"

192 C2 P1 L8  "adaptors" -> "adapters"

195  The caption for Fig. 3 should be "Fenced segment memory"

208 C2, L-3  "twice" -> "two more times than"

219 C2 L-5 "thoughput" -> "throughput"

220 C2 L2  It has had -> It has

238 C2 P1 L5 "repesenting" -> "representing"

239 C2 P4 L1  "combinatorical" -> "combinatorial"

266 C2 P2 L9 AND L12v -> D

266 C2 P2 L-5  "currently at" -> "under consideration"

271 C2 L4 "funcional" -> "functional"

336 C1 P1 L-13 "circuity" -> "circuitry"

346 C1 L3   "a follows" -> "as follows"

346 C2 P2 L5  (a0=,a1=0) -> (a0=0, a1=0)

370 C2 P3 L-1   "also of part" -> "also part"

371  C2 P1 L2   rasterdevices -> raster devices

371 C2 P3 L1 "There are the two" -> "There are two"

373  C2 P2 L7 "are then use" -> "are then used"

403  C1, P1, L7:   "Honig" should be "Honing"

418 C2 P1 L2  "profesion" -> "profession"

423 C2 At CHINESE COMPUTER SOCIETY, L5:  "exhanges" -> "exchanges"

426 C2 L-4   "commerical" -> "commercial"

432 C1 L5 "protheses" -> "prostheses"

447 C1 L21  "the the" -> "the"

453 C1 P2 L12 Delete " (see Fig. 1)" {Correct ref to Fig. 1 is on line 18}

461 C2 P1 L13  Nayon -> Nayan

462 C1 P1 L14  Remove the "q.v." from "electronic commerce (q.v.-distributed auctions)" and place a comma after its ")".

469 C2 L-16  "cyrptography" -> "cryptography"

469 C2 L-10 "cryptogaphic" -> "cryptographic"

470 Bibliography 1978 ref:  "Sigital" -> "Digital"

471 C2 P2 L-1  "homeostatsis" -> "homeostasis"

495 L-2 of Bibliography: "Compresion" -> "Compression"

496 C1 L2 {C}ompressing -> Compressing

512 C1 Table 1 Caption:   DCCL -> DLCL

517 C2 L-3    DEDUCTIVE DATABASES; -> DEDUCTIVE DATABASE;

521 C2 L8 "resemblence" -> "resemblance"

528 C1 Headword list:  SYSTEMS -> SYSTEM

535 C1 L3,4  process\-zing  -> process-ing

536 C1 L-6 "accidently" -> "accidentally"

542 C2 P1 L3  "has of one" -> "has one"

566 C1 P1 L6   "decade" -> "decades"

588 C2 L11   p.000 -> p. xvii

593 C2 L10 "Combinatrics" -> "Combinatorics"

594 Fig. 1 caption:  "back of 3.5" diskette" -> "back of a 3.5" diskette"

594 Fig. 1  caption, L6:  "The small" -> "A small"

628 C1 P1 L4,5  "plain old telephone system" -> "plain old telephone service"

637 C1 Bibliography L-1:   "Boco" -> "Boca"

658 C2:  The photo of "Rod Canion" on page 658 is actually a photo of Compaq co-founder Bill Murto. 

724 C2 P3 L10 "instrinsic" -> "intrinsic"

735 Third entry under Bibliography should be:http://www.digibuy.com/cgi-bin/history.html

754 Fig. 1:  Left parsable -> Left-parsable

759 C1 P3 L-2 "polynimial" -> "polynomial"

767 headword list: In "and MEMORY: AUXILIARY." omit the "and," change the final period to a semicolon, and then append "and REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INEXPENSIVE DISKS."

768 C2 "Bibliogaphy" -> "Bibliography"

777: C2 Bibliography, L2:  Organisms -> of Organisms

778 C2 L3    I -> (I

787  C2, L7: Change "the"  to "with"

798 In Bibliography at year 1987: Place comma after Rudall, B.H.

798 In Bibliography at year 1990:  Rundall -> Rudall

816  C2 L-13   "out out" -> "out"

824 C2 Table 2: In the 3rd column, change the numbers for the IBM 701 and IBM 702 from 50 and 52 to 19 and 14 respectively.

825  C1, 1891, L2:   "Ozia" should be "Ozias"

827 C2 P3 L4 "expandibility" -> "expandability"

835 C1 P2 L3  IBMs  -> IBM's

835  C2:   "Laurence" should be "Larry"

844, Fig. 5, L1:   "Weiner" should be "Wiener"

851: C1 P1 L-6:  roundoff errors (q.v.), -> roundoff errors - q.v.),

851  C1 L-2  "For, example" -> "For example"

855  C1 P2 L6  (1984) -> (1985)

897 (1) Fig 5:The dashed line in the upper left should be labeled "Projected," not "Protected."
       (2) Table 1 L4: SLT -> STL

902 C1 P1 L10,11  ASYNCRONOUS -> ASYNCHRONOUS

913 C1 P1 L7  "interoperabilty" -> "interoperability"

946: Add new last sentence, in brackets as shown:  [Ed. note: Tom Kilburn died on 17 January, 2001.]

1014 C2 Table 1(d): Omit the line above A [circled plus sign] B.

1018 C2 L6,7 under "The Sorting Problem":  "defines the sorting.... ready:" should be in normal text font

1034 C2 end of bib:  Vaughn R. Pratt -> Vaughan R. Pratt {first name was misspelled}

1060 C2 P1 L-5  "tradtional" -> "traditional"

1067 C1 L4  "it it" -> "it is"

1082 Replace each of the cited nonblank lines with the new one given. {Line citation assumes that blank lines were also numbered.}

         L1:   <HTML> <!-- Comments begin and end as this one does. -->
         L3:   <HEAD>  <!-- Nothing in the scope of the HEAD will be displayed. -->
         L4:   <!-- List nonprinting keywords for use by search engines. -->
         L7:   <!-- Choose a title for the Web page: --> <TITLE>Platonic Solids</TITLE>
         L10: <!-- Start BODY and choose colors for text, background, and links. -->
         L14: <!-- Choose style, color, and size for first line displayed; B=Bold: -->
         L19: <!-- Break to next line to create a blank line: --> <BR>
         L27: <!-- Insert two images, side by side, with 160 pixels to left
         L28:       and right of the first: -->
         L35: <!-- Start an Unordered (unnumbered) List of links;
         L36:        items begin and end with bracketed LI and /LI -->
         L44: <!-- Set up a link to an email form: -->

1086:  C1 P2 L5  system area -> storage area

1099:  C2 L2,3      "pyrimidal" -> "pyramidal"

1109: C1 Bibliography, 1998 entry:  Matix ->  Matrix

1130: C2 L7,8 "optical disks" -> optical discs"

1134:  C2 L9         "asynchonously" -> "asynchronously"

1135:  C1 P1 L13  "Futhermore" -> "Furthermore"

1147:  C2 P2 L8    "mangement" -> "management"

1155:  C1 Bib. L-5 "Peliminary" -> "Preliminary"

1155: C2 list of headwords for METRO.... :   "ATM;" -> "ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE;"

1157 C2 P3 L4   signals -> signal lines

1170: C1 P2 L8      "micrprogramming" -> "microprogramming"

1170: C2 P2 L1:     "vestigal" -> "vestigial"

1172:  C1, P2, L6    "along" -> "a long"

1176: C1 Mobile Networking, L4:  "esssential" -> "essential"

1177: C1 L19         "basestation" -> "base station"

1181 C1 Headword list: In ERROR CORRECTING AND DETECTING CODES;    CODES -> CODE

1182:  Clean up Fig. 2 by smoothing all lines and making lines on all three
curves the same thickness.

1186 Item 5 L1  Eric -> Erik

1193: P1 L3            "protudes" -> "protrudes"

1200: C1 L4           "intepreted" -> "interpreted"

1201: C2 P2 L6   Java (q.v.) -> Java-q.v.)

1201: C2 P3 L12   digital libraries-q.v.   ->  digital libraries (q.v.)

1212  Fig. 1 caption L3: assembler -> interpreter

1222: C2 Bib. at 1980, L4:   "Artifical" -> "Artificial"

1232: C1  11th bullet, L2:  "bandwith" -> "bandwidth"

1235: Fig. 1: The three definitions below the figure should be places above the caption; they are part of the figure.

1236: Fig. 2(b):  Thicken horizontal line of negative x-axis.

1239: C2 Bib. L-7:  Sckalkoff => Schalkoff

1248 C1 L-1   RESULT PROJECT ->   RESULT <- PROJECT  [i.e., insert a left arrow b/t those words]

1255: C2 P3 L-3   "occuring" -> "occurring"

1256: C2, L-4:  Hajnatwala -->  Hajratwala

1270: C1 L-2 above Eq. (20): "evalution" -> "evaluation"

1273: C1 Bib. L-1:   Alberquerque -> Albuquerque

1330:  C1, L-3:   "M. Sheppard" should be "David Shepard"

1330:  C1, L-2:   "Rainbow" should be "Rabinow"

1336: C1 Bibliograpy. The 1993 reference is out of chronological order.

1342:  C2 L-6    "signficantly" -> "significantly"

1348:  C2 P1 L4  "zis" -> "is"

1373: Fig. 1: L21   (1) div -> div   [bold]  (2) At L6, Prime: boolean should end with a semicolon. (3) At L-1, the final end should end with a period.

1396:  C2 Bib. L12  "Applicances" ->  "Appliances"

1405:  C2 P3 L4           delete the second "each"

1411 C1 P4 L3     Voter Research and Surveys (VSR) -> Voter Research and Surveys (VRS)   [VRS, not VSR]
                              And change each of the four additional instances of VSR in that paragraph to VRS.

1452: Fig. 1 L3     on the list -> in the list

1472: C1 L-1     "chararacterizing" -> "characterizing"

1486 C1 P1 L11   "implementors" -> "implementers"

1488 C2 P2 L-1   "IBM introduce" -> "IBM introduced"

1493: Headword List: LIMITS OF COMPUTING -> LIMITS OF COMPUTATION

1501: Table 1, Lines 4, 5:  "x_n -" --> x_n =  (as in the other lines)
           Line 16: "mod" is in the wrong font

1503:  2nd 1995 reference:  http://www.csis.hku.kh/internet/randomCD.html  ->
                                               http://www.stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard

1512: C1 headword list:  Last item, RAID, should be spelled out:
                                                                          REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INEXPENSIVE DISKS

1515  In Fig. 1, the line running from UPi (active) to a point between I1 and I2 at the right should be solid, not
          broken.

1518: C2 P1 L16  "expressions" -> "expression"

1523: C2 (1) Lines 25 and 26: K9 -> K'    (2) Lines 29, 30, 32  CK -> K

1567: C1 L4 under Table 3:   "Table    we define"  -> "Table 3 we define"

1569 C2: (1) In the last of the first sequence of 4 SETL statements:  ...['a','b'} -> ...['a','b']}
                (2) In the line following the second set of 3 statements:
                           where * represents intersection,   ->   where * represents intersection;

1571: C1 Add new last sentence just above the Bib.: [Ed note: Claude Shannon died on 24 February 2001]

1575: Replace last sentence with:  [Ed note: Herb Simon died on 9 February 2001]

1591: In the headword list, delete "SYSTEMS" from "HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS"

1599: bib, 1991 entry:  Dunlap --> Dunlop

1637 Give Fig. 1 this caption:  The software prototyping process.

1642: In the Fig. 2 caption, capitalize the first letter of "java" and "javaDoc"

1669 C1 P1 L10: On the right-hand-side of the equation: B(.|t...  -> B(t..   [ Omit the .| ]

1684: C2 P2 L8  "structually" -> "structurally"

1685:  C1 P1 L2 of Statistical Applications:  "packages". -> "packages."

1688: C1 P1 L4: "and assembly" -> "and an assembly"

1689:  C1 Bibliography, L4 of the 1993 entry:  "Company" should be italic.

1689:  C2 L-6 to L-4: Omit repeated phrase, i.e., starting in L-6, the passage should read:
               ... that have been referenced (or can reasonably be expected to be referenced shortly).
          [ Add whitespace as needed between paragraphs to preserve pagination. ]

1706 Fig. 8: L11 of procedure Quicksort: while A[I] > PIV ...    -> while A[J] > PIV ...

1712:  C1   Replace Fig 3(a) [which is identical to Fig. 3(b)] with the correct Fig. 3(a), which is on page 3 of the
                   PostScript file that was sent with the original article. It should look like the following:

1729: C1 P2 L1 Omit "that"

1735: C1 Item-5 L-1 "reponses" -> "responses"

1740: C1 L-4   access-ing -> accessing

1742 C1 P4 L3   expendabil-   -> expandabil-

1773: C1 Websites L5  "processsors" -> "processors"

1783 C1 headword list: Replace the hyphen of PATTERN-RECOGNITION with a space.

1798: C2 L3 "thought of an" -> "thought of as an"

1819:  C1 L13  "commerical" -> "commercial"

1819:  Bib. year 1996 L2 "Quarterman" -> "Quartermain"

1819:  C2, 1996 ref:  44. --> 4.4

1837: C2 L7 "shows and" -> "shows an"

1840:  C2 P3 L3: Robert Morris, Jr. -> Robert T. Morris

1854 C2 P3 L5   ... written , electronic ...  -> ... written, electronic ...   [ omit spurious space after "written"]

1858 C1 P3 L2   "A few American..."  -> "Some"

1864 Bibliography   In the 2nd ref., Processor -> Processing. Then change date to 1984 and reverse the 2 refs.

Color Pages

CP-12, Fig. 1, L3:  6 should be in bold but not italic.

Appendixes

1895:  At MULTICS     Computer -> Computing

1900: At SAN:  System Area Network -> Storage Area Network

1901: SLT Schottky Transistor Logic -> STL Schottky Transistor Logic AND move to correct alphabetic place.

1908: Add just after .xbm :    .xls      Excel spreadsheet file  [ Maintain blank line between this and .zip ]

1923, C2, Software Engineering L4:  "stone" --> "store"

1927:   C1 P1 L6  The URL given should be  http://www.cra.org/reports/forsythe.html

1938: C2 L11  sceintific -> scientific

1962: At years 80 BC and 44 BC:  Antikytera -> Antikythera

1965:  There are two 1880 entries, one out of order.  The second one should just be tacked onto the first.

1966:  In 1928 "Comrie" should be in bold.

1967:  At year 1943, L2:   Enigma -> Lorenz

1968:  At years 1949 and 1952, EDSAC and EDVAC, respectively, should be in italic.

1968:  L-1: Flow-matic -> Flow-Matic  [and move whole entry to year 1958 on next page.]

1970:   At year 1963, move "American Airlines reservation system" right after SABRE, separated from it by a comma.

1970:  At year 1963, remove the entry that starts "HP 150..."

1970: At year 1964, L6, add an umlaut to the 'o' of Bohm.

1970: At year 1965, L2:  Scarott -> Scarrott

1971:  Move the following entry from year 1968 to the end of the list at year 1965:
           first Ph.D. in computer science is awarded to Richard Wexelblat by the University of Pennsylvania.

1973:  At year 1988, change Robert Morris Jr. to Robert T. Morris

1974:  At 1992:  Michaelangelo --> Michelangelo

1987: Pratt, Vaughn Ronald, 1034, 1962 -> Pratt, Vaughan Ronald, 1034, 1972  {Fix 1st name & 2nd page #}

Name Index:

Baldauf, David -> Baldauf, David R.
Beatie, H.S. -> Beattie, Horace S. [1909-1993] { note: two 't's }
Benford Change dates to [1883-1948]
Bigelow, Julian Himely     Add dates [1913-2003]
Bloch, Richard M.            Add dates [1922-2000]
Bolt, Richard H.               Add dates [1911-2002]
Borg (Wilcke), Anita Neffz [1949-2003]  {Add this entry}
Britton, Lionel -> Britton, Lionel Erskine Nimmo [1887-1971] { Expand name and correct dates }
Bromley, Allan G. -> Bromley, Allan George [1947-2002]
Carr, John Weber III Change year of birth to 1923
Bezier, Pierre Etienne    Add dates [1910-1999]
Cheatham, Thomas E. -> Cheatham, Thomas E. Jr.  and add dates [1929-2001]
Cocke, John  Add dates [1925-2002]
Codd, Edgar Frank  Add dates [1923-2003]
Cohen, I. Bernard      Add dates [1914-2003]
Connery, Sean -> Connery, Sir Sean
Conte, Samuel D.  Add dates [1917-2002]
Coxeter                   Add dates [1906-2003]
Dahl                    Add dates [1931-2002]
Dijkstra               Add dates [1930-2002]
Doyle, Arthur ConanIndex as Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur   and add dates [1858-1930]
Evans, David C. -> Evans, David Cannon [1924-1998]
Felker, Jean H.             Add dates [1919-1994]
Floyd, Robert W.        Add dates [1936-2001]
Fluegelman, Andrew  Add dates [1945-1985]
Glaser, Edward L. -> Glaser, Edward Louis [1929-1991]
Gould, Stephen Jay    Add dates [1941-2002]
Grant, George Bernard   "Bernard" -> "Barnard" and add dates [1849-1917]
Gusafson -> Gustafson
Hajratwala, Nayan, 461, 1969 -> 461, 1256, 1975
Hartley, R.V.L. -> Hartley, R(alph) V. L.  and add dates [1888-1970]
Hays, David Glenn    Birth year should be 1928, not 1929.
Hebb, Donald O.         Add dates [1904-1985]
Herrick, Harlan L.     Add dates [1922-1997]
Hewlett, William Redington    Add dates [1913-2001]
Higinbothan -> Higinbotham {final 'm'} and add dates [1910-1994]
Hoenri, Jean A.           Add dates [1924-1997]
Holberton, Frances "Betty" Snyder   Add dates [1917-2001] and full name if not there.
Huffman, David Albert   Add dates [1925-1999]
Huskey, Velma...   Change year of death to 1991
Khintchin -> Khintchine AND add dates: [1894-1959]
Kilburn, Tom  Add dates [1921-2001]
Lockspeiser      Add dates [1891-1990]
Kister, J., 357-> Kister, James, 357
Markkula, A.C. -> Markkula, A(rmas) C(lifford) Jr.
Meadows, Donella H., 472,473 -> Meadows, Donella Hager [1942-2001], 472, 473
McPherson, John C. Add dates [1908-1999]
Moore, J. Strother -> Moore, J Strother     {J doesn't stand for anything }
Morganstern, Oskar    Add dates [1902-1976]
Morris, Robert Jr. -> Morris, Robert Tappan
Needham                -> Add dates [1935-2003]
Nygaard, Kristen   Add dates [1927-2002]
Odhner, Willigodt   First name should be "Willgodt"
Orr, --                 -> Orr, Kenneth
Osborne, Adam       Add dates [1939-2003]
Parnas, David L.  -> Parnas, David Lorge
Pask, Gordon           Add dates [1928-1996]
Pearcy, Trevor Add dates [1919-1998]
Philbrick, George A.   Add dates [1911-1992]
Pierce, John R. -> Pierce, John Robinson ("J.J. Coupling") [1910-2002]
Pinkerton, John M.M.  Add dates [1919-1997]
Pollaczek  Add dates [1892-1981]
Pratt, Vaughn Ronald -> Pratt, Vaughan Ronald
Prigogine, Ilya  -> Add dates [1917-2003]
Puskas       Add dates [1844-1893]
Quine, Willard Van Orman   Add dates [1908-2000]
Rau, B. Ramakrishna-> Rau, B(antwal) Ramakrishna [1951-2002]
Rochester, Nathaniel               Add dates [1919-2001]
Rosenblatt, Frank                 Add dates [1928-1971]
Rosenbleuth, Arturo             Add dates [1900-1970]
Rosin, Robert F.  -> Rosin, Robert Fisher [1936-2003]
Samelson, Klaus                   Add dates [1918-1980]
Scarott-> Scarrott  and           Add dates [1916-1996]
Schrayer, Michael   Omit, he's there later (and correctly) as "Shrayer"
Shannon, Claude Elwood      Add dates [1916-2001]
Sharpless, T. Kite                   Add dates [1913-1967]
Simon, Herbert Alexander     Add dates [1916-2001]
Smith, Henry John Stephen        Omit entry
Solomon, Les -> Solomon, Les(lie) [1922-2002]
Stein, Dorothy   The only page number should be 1006
Stein, P., 357 -> Stein, Paul, 357
Sturgis, H.E. ->   Sturgis, Howard E.   and add dates [1936-1990]
Thomson, James        Add dates [1822-1892]
Tukey, John Wilder   Add dates [1915-2000]
Tutte, William T.   Add dates [1918-2002]
Uncapher, Keith -> Uncapher, Keith William [1922-2002]
von Forster, Heinz -> von Foerster, Heinz [1911-2002]
Waldon, W., 357  -> Walden, William, 357. {Ed note: Walden with 'e', not 'o'}
Wang, Hao              Add dates [1921-1995]
Warnier, Jean-Dominique    Add dates [1920-1990]
Welty, Eudora         Add dates [1909-2001]
Wempen, Faithe      Omit second instance, the one following Wenner-Gren
Winfree, Arthur Taylor        Add dates [1942-2002]
Winfree, Eric -> Winfree, Erik
Woltman, George, 461, 1974 -> 461, 1975
Xenakis, Iannis                   Add dates [1922-2001]

Add these names in proper alpha position:

Asch, Alfred, 221
Bemer, Robert William, 221
Block, Ned, 1802
Discount, Norman, 222
Hocquenghem, Alexis, 676
Lenkov, Dmitry, 176
Norberg, Arthur, 207
O'Neill, Judith, 207  {She is not the J.A. O'Neill that is already there.}
Smith, Robert [1689-1768], 127, 1803
Stepanov, Alex, 176

Add additional page number(s) to these names in proper numerical order:

Aspray, William F.  Prepend 207 to page list.
Cortada, James W.  Prepend 207 to page list.
Gray, Frank, 226
Hopper, Grace         Add 221 after 119
Taylor, David, 221

Omit this name:

Kurowski, Scott, 1975
 

General Index

Antikytera -> Antikythera
Arithmometer:  should also have a reference to page 545.
Artificial Intelligence:  227, 232 --> 227-232
C++:  Delete 1284
CAI:  COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION -> Computer-Assited Instruction (no italic).
          COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING AND TEACHING -> boldface, not italic
Database, L4:  Indent BASE with respect to prior line
Doubly-Linked Circular List (after Double Precision): Omit entry, but add page 994 to "Double-Linked Circular List" about 5 lines above.
Game tree:  Add page 366
Icon [language] 466  -> Icon [language] 466, 1698-1700
Magnetic core memory   Add page 1136, omit page 1141
nqthm:  proven --> prover

OEM:  Shouldn't be all caps after "See"
OTTER:  proven --> prover
P/=NP:  Should be a slash through the = sign, not a vertical line.
PalmPilot:  Add pages 1416-1417 to end of list.
Request for Comments:  (RFC638), 917, 924  --> (RFC) 638, 917, 924
Signal / Wait:  Remove spaces around "/".
Systers, 1859   {Add this entry}
TEX:  Lower the E as in other TEX references.