SAMPAM SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATION OF MATERI EL

PLANS FOR ARMY MATERIEL -- This redundant mouthful, acronymized to SAMPAM

(which sounds something like a Chinese junk) , i s one of the most important projects that CUC has ever had to handle.

Project SAMPAM was begun in January, 1966

at the Philadelphia office. CUC's job on the pro- ject is to automate the Army Materiel Plan by which

-the Army reviews i ts principat items of supply. d - ~ r o m pistols to paint brushes and trucks to tooth-

brushes, the Army's enormous inventories have I kept scores of clerks bogged down for years.

The system being developed wil l perform more than just clerical functions, however. I t wi l l also be able to project requirements so that Army pro- curement wi l l know in advance how current and future manpower needs wil l affect i ts buying.

The size of this project has helped the Philadel- phia office, managed by Sam Elpern, in i ts initial operations. I t has played a major role in the growth of the office - to more than five times i ts size in less than a year.

Charles Noench has been in charge of the project and Charles Milton has been incharge of the sec- wd half ~f projwt SAW AM.

- Boston NEW PEOPLE AND PRDMO- TIONS: Les Conkl in, Barbara Elizabeth Greytak, Mike Gross, Jerry Mansbach, Art McCray, John Moran, Susan Ramsey, B i l l Shillue, B i l l Silver to Program-

; mer, Virginia landiorio, Jim Wood to Analyst.

r PROJECTS: Apollo Project at M.I.T. involving programming a special purpose computer to cal- culate, modify, instruct space vehicle in orbit around the moon.

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Chicago NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO- TIONS: George Kostecki, William Kuh, Jerome Martin, Roland Nor- ed. Donald Spapperi , Daewon Yang; Jack Pearson, Richard Nastaz to Analyst.

PROJECTS: For Ford Motor Company's Vehicle l nformat ion Dept., participating in the de- sign of a vehicle information system, and for Ford's Gen. Parts Division, participating in implementation of an inventory system. Consulting for an IBM 7070 System Design for Time, Inc.; Conversion of subscription and prospect f i les for McGraw- Hi l l ; Designing a bil l ing and accounts receivable system for The Whiting Clinic; Medicaid claims system for isc cons in Blue Cross.

Houston NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO- TIONS: Jim Allen, Gail Corn- wall, Jim Carroll, Sam Cross- land, Marilyn Hughes, Van Lew- ing; Bob Murray to Programmer; Bob Walker to Senior Program- mer; Buck Bonner, At Browning, Jerry Felkins to Analyst.

PROJECTS: Supporting CUC Washington on operating system for the IBM 360/44; Studying application of Geo Space DP 203 Plotter to various comput- ers; QUl P tabulations for Belden

[ Assoc. and Gelb Marketing Re- 1 ities p r ~ j e c t for Prudential; search Co. Designing an Income Tax System

for N.Y.C.; Completing work for

10s Angeles NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO- TIONS: Jerry Blackwell, Jan Humphrey, Hal Martin, B i l l San- ders, Jerry Schein, Steve Smith, Jay Taylor, Evan Williams; Arnold Herbert, Mi tzie Lansdale to Senior Staff Ana!yst; Hans Nintzel, Rorrie Ratkevich to Staff Analyst; Darl Wallace to Analyst.

PROJECTS: A JOVIAL model. J3 Compiler to operate under the IBM 360-0s for Litton Indus- tries; a special purpose compil- er and a multiprogramming pack- age for a hybrid system for Beckman Instruments; A Comput- er Time Distribution System for the IBM 360 in P L I for No. American Aircraft; Supporting Scientific Data Systems in im- plementing i ts Real-Time Disc Monitor on the SDS 9300; Con- verting business applications to IBM 360 assembly language and implementing accounting routines in IBM 360 COBOL for Rocketdyne.

New York NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO- TIONS: Tony Atkins, Betsy Bid- erman, Ralph Fredericks, B i l l McKeon, Ed Maloney, B i l l Roh- isen, Randy Ruffin, Tom Tighe, Rita Walton; Mari Pinto, Ralph Wells to Project Assistant; Tom Ryan, Tom Vatti to Pro- grammer; Dick Clarken, Jim Cummings, Larry Fein, June Lonberg to Senior Programmer; Harold Gordon, Richard Mc Evoy, Mary Olivetti, Stan Peters, Al Rosenberg, William Won to Ana- lyst; Harry Leslie, Gretchen Remick, Sam Williams to Staff Analyst.

PROJECTS: Consulting services on software avai Iabi I i ty and reliability to help Xerox with thei r 360 install at ion; Support 2311 Project and Pension Annu-

Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Hayden- Stone and Standard Packagin~

' SPO NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO- TIONS: James Albert, Roy Ber- caw, Celia Cohen, Holger Eric- son, James Keen, Lynne Kli- german, El izabeth Lewis, Thom- as Neal, Mary Stevens, Israel Teicher, Nancy Wiatt, Ann Yu, Pamela Wassberg; Transferees-- Doris Carlton, James Cummings, Gerry Fahnestock, Loretta Foye, ' I Arleen Kulok, June Lonbe

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Amiel Lowenstein, Tha va Vatti; Pat Carey to Programmer, Andy Gacs to AI lyst, Howard Kass to

I Writer.

PROJECTS: Continuing wi thi I BM's TSS/360 Command Langu- age, aided by Boston and Wash-

Palo Alto NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO- TIONS: Ben Abington, Elizabeth Baldwin, Milton Coleman, Jc w' Crawford, Sam Daram, Da Donahoe, Steve Hagerth, E1aip.r Haml in, J i l l Hoopes, R a y m c i j Jablonn, Bruce Mooney, B i l l Murrin, Charles Perry, Marta Perry, Muriel Pflieger, Bob Red- mond, John Reed, Bruce Temple- ton, Eleanor Tolnay, Bob Werner; Stan Isaacs, Lloyd Rice to Analyst.

PROJECTS: Creating a f i le man- ager system for Control Data Corp.; Implementing a sales analysis system for Varian Associates. Simulation of an automated warehouse for Mobi l i ty Systems; Programming a transfer and board bi l l ing analysis appl i- cat ion for Saga Food Service.

Philadelphia -d I NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO-

TIONS: Neldon Adams, William I

I Balcksher, Phi l ip Bonnet., Fran- cis Brown, Leonard Chasen. Deborah Clowney, Arlene Cole- man, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Cusack, Barbara Feaster, Carl Freeman, Mitchell Greenspan, Barbara Jacobson, Gai I Jones, Diane Kalman, Vernon Kech, James Kirkpatrick, Stel la Loti- erzo, Yvette Madres, Jeanne Mantz, William Miller, Lowell Nurenberg, Diehl Pyfer, George Riechner, Joseph Rydzewski, Susan Rubenfein, Edward Sahey, John Schmitt, Jerry Segal, Frank Smith, Patricia Stel le, Lawrence Walowi tz, Nelson West, Kathy

C Wilmeth; Ron Coscia, James Morton, William Tyson to Pro- grammer; Paul Firing, Tom Holt,

' Noe Santamarina, Ed Tenthoff, % ~ o h n Varnay to Senior Program-

mer; Don Drozd to Analyst; James Aylmer, Joseph Dariano, Sam Sutton to Staff Analyst; Charles Moench, John Trenery to Senior Staff Analyst.

I PROJECTS: An IBM 1401 pro-

7 ject for the Philadelphia Board of Education; Programming in NCR 315 COBOL and studying data communications require- ments for Electric Storage Bat-

4 tery; Consultation and revision of previous CUC programs done

C for Pa. Highway Dept.; Program- ming in RCA 3301 COBOL for the Broadcasting and Communi-

1 cations Dept. of RCA.

San Francisco NEW PEOPLE: William Clarke

PROJECTS: General Systems Study and Payroll Contract for Dohrmann Company.

Washington I NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO-

TIONS: D. Richard Artis, Eric Back, Connie Be1 I, Jaclyn But- ton, John Coatti, John Craw-

-ford, Thomas Cuddington, Hywel b D a v i e s , Ted Dobson, Robert

Fern, John Fitzgerald, J. Pat Gardes, Joseph Gueron, Mayola Guthrie, Veronica Handleman,

John Jolin, Carolyn Kohl, David Long, Frank Marafioti, Bob Pan-

I igel, Jerry Patterson, Obie Pin- / ckney, Herbert Reines, Robert ' Rosenthal, Guy Rucker, Todd

Scroggins, Marie Shannon, W i l l- i am Sommerfeld, Robert Shortel I, Judith Stevens, J. Adolpho Villa- lobos, Melvin Vogelsang, T. lrvin Willingham, Carolyn Willis, Clare Winslow, Blair Zajac; Benjamin Barlow, Helen Gardner to Sr. Programmer, Nanette Dett- laff, Evelyn McDonald, Jim Mauchly, Lew Myrick, Nancy Robinson, Jim Thomas to Ana- lyst, Ed Abramowitz, Howard Cedarblade, Jim Mulligan, B i l l Ulrey to Staff Analyst; B i l l Cook to Assistant Manager, Adminis- tration; Ron Ontko to Assistant Manager OEO SPO, Jack Mac- Kay to Manager of OEO SPO.

PROJECTS: Training and in- struction for Internal Revenue Service; Continuation of Trade Reports, analysis and programm- ing for General Services Admin- istration; Access methods for data cell for IBM; 1966 Nielson area sales report for Noxzema Chemical Co.; Personnel Ser- vices for Reed Drug and Chemi- cal; Telecommunications for Page Communications; Gravita- tion Coefficients for NASA; Ana- lytical Assistance for Westat; Inventory Control System of drug development for Dept. of Army Medical Research; Fast Deploy- ment Logistic Ship Project for Litton Industries; Adding four COBOL elements to the IBM D-level COBOL compi ler; Real time mu1 ti-processing system for data acquisition and process control application for IBM Mod 44; General programming and analysis for - U. S. Navy Bureau of Weapons, Office of Economic Opportunity, Food and Drug Administration, National Inst- itutes of Health, TRW Systems.

CUBS NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO- TIONS: Donna DeNardo, Jane Hal I, Gene Sul I i van

CUE NEW PEOPLE AND PROMO- TIONS: Edward Immerbl um, Sha- ron Hedlich, Howard Rice, Simon Rosenfeld, Marlene Schonbrun.

Babble Houston held an August 5 Open

House to show i ts sleek new building to employees and local businessmen; Buck Bonner has en1 isted George Worm, Bob Walker and Gary McCullough as crew on his sailboat, "Nocturne," in the Houston Yacht Club races...L.A . fishermen were serious about their annual July trip - A1 Ogawa caught the most - fish(?) ... Thomas O'Rourke of TYMSHARE Corp. was the featured speaker at Palo Alto's annual staff dinner. Among the diners were Dr. Hurd and his secretary, Sheila Thomp- son. Congratulations to Palo Alto on signing their 100th con- tract! ... CUE misses their former Technical Librarian, Eleanor Crouse.. I i brary and a1 I, she's moved to the Communicat i'ons Dept., Corporate.

Most offices tell of wild and/ or wonderful picnics or promise that the best are yet to come: Chicago feasted at Pheasant Run Lodge, St. Charles, Ill.; Phila- delphia found a Flying W Ranch in the wilderness of N. J.; Wash- ington's outing at Lake Sugar Loaf Mount Resort, Md. drew a happy mob of 300.

CU-bitzer Our September problem has two

parts; (1) Given a six inch cube of wood, drill a hole of any shape you like in sucha way that a lar- ger cube can be passed through the hole. (2) What is the largest cube you can pass through the hole?

Congratulations to Roy Sewal I of our Washington office! He's the winner of the June CU-BIT- ZER. I t was a tough problem, and the solution i s long - too long to print here. I f you'd like a copy of the answer, write to CU-BITS; we'll be happy to send i t to you.

NEW LEGISLATION ADDS CONTRACTS ,* . Medicare claims as they are f i led by hos- stein has been named project

Medicare, i t was predicted, was ~i tal s, doctors and subscribers; leader.

going to pose problems in ac- counting and record keeping t hat Would bog down government clerks throughout the United States. The accounting job on this new legislation i s indeed becoming a monumental task but to keep i ts clerks from being involved in a new morass of records, the Government has retained Blue Cross-Blue Shield to handle some of the Medicare data processing. Blue Cross, in turn, has contracted with CUC to lighten the load.

The project i s being handled by the Boston office. The Boston project, which began in April, i s concerned with T i t l e 18 of the Social Security Act - Medicare and Medicare extension claims. Phyl l is Rye, Project Leader and Hank Adleman, who did init ial designing, have headed a staff of eight Bostonians. They have designed and implemented a programming system wllich en- ables Blue Cross to process

check coverage of subscribers; prepare payment checks, maintain associated records; and commun- icate with the Social Security Administration through a comput- er based at the Blue Cross Asso- ciation in Chicago. The 7074 and 1401 machines are processing the data.

Medicaid Blue Cross of Wisconsin has

assumed responsi bi l i ty of pro- cessing Medicaid data throughout Wisconsin. In August, CUC Chi- cago was awarded the contract to design the Wisconsin sys- tem. This project involves Med- icaid claims ...p ayments to the needy for medical care as an im- plementation of T i t le 19 of the Social Security Act.

The system, to be designed for the 360/40 256K, wi l l have three phases: maintenance of ei igibi l i ty fi les, payment and processing of claims; and pre- paration of state and eventual- ly federal statistics. Al Gold-

Revenues & Earnings *.: Up For First Nine Months

Revenue from Services

Net Earnings Net Earnings per

share*

This summer stockholders received word of CUC1s marked financial growth during the f irst nine months of fiscal 1966. Revenue from ser- vices increased 41% and earnings increased 16% over the same period last year. The following operat- ing results were achieved between TO S clctober 1 and June 30:

1966 Published $ 6 ~ 1 ~ ~ 1 ~ ~ ~ Tape Operating System for the

IBM System/360. Computer Us- 2551551 age Development Corporation's

.37 latest programmers' guide i s en- closed in CU-BITS this month.

1965 Recently our Washington office Revenue from $4,320,017 went through the throes of gen-

Services erating the Tape Operating Sys- Net Earnings 218,916 tem (TOS) for the 360 and record- Net Earnings Per .34 e d deviations of the actual pro-

share* cedure from the published speci- fications. They did the same for

"Based on average number of the use of the generated system. shares outstanding in each period. And our TOS Handbook resulted.

New York City Income Taxes *d

Tne new ci ty income tax which wi l l bs, hopefully, a tonic to Mayor L i ndsay's troubled treas- ury, has introduced a new set of bookkeeping demands on the City of New York. CUC New York i s now happily coming up with some answers to these de- mands - our first important job for the city.

Aided by a staff of eight, Pro- ject Leader Frank Geiger and his assistant, Marlene Buratti ij are in the throes of designing a system for the 360/30 which wi l l ,, have the abil i ty to process re- d turns covering the city's eight mill ion residents and more than 600,000 commuters.

This initial contract cal ls for fourteen programs, debugging and documenting. The system wi l l effect not only the Depart- ment of Finance Administration, but also New York banks which wi l l keypunch returns and act

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as tax collection agents.

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Editor: Jack Clarke Associate Editor: Mary Can- ning Correspondents: Susan Mi llman, Boston; Diane Peterson, Chicago; Marilyn Hughes, Houston; Alan Gersman, Los An- geles; Fran Orlando, New York; Elaine Veneziano, SPO, New York; Nancy Douglas, Palo Alto; Pat Stelle, Philadelphia; Ann Monteski, San Francisco; Jan Stevens, Washington; Carol Meyer, CUBS; Mae Palumbo, CUE.