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Some selected papers:

• Decimal floating-point support on the IBM System z10 processor
  (Schwarz, Kapernick, and Cowlishaw), IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 53 #1, pp4:1–4:10, IBM, January 2009.

• Decimal Floating-Point: Algorism for Computers
  Proceedings 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (Arith16), ISBN 0-7695-1894-X, pp104-111, IEEE Comp. Soc., June 2003 (Softcopy is also available in PostScript. The presentation charts and handouts are also online.)

• Densely Packed Decimal Encoding   (A summary is available here.)
  IEE Proceedings – Computers and Digital Techniques ISSN 1350-2387, Vol. 149, No. 3, pp102-104, IEE, May 2002

• A Decimal Floating-Point Specification (Cowlishaw, Schwarz, Smith, and Webb)
  Proceedings 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (Arith15), ISBN 0-7695-1150-3, pp147-154, IEEE Comp. Soc., June 2001 (The charts are available here.)

• NetRexx – an alternative for writing Java classes
  Proceedings of IEEE CompCon 97, ISBN 0-8186-7804-6, pp200-205, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, Spring 1997

• The Early History of REXX
  IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, ISSN 1058-6180,  Vol 16, No. 4, Winter 1994, pp15-24

• A large-scale computer conferencing system (Chess and Cowlishaw)
  IBM Systems Journal, Vol 26, No. 1, 1987, IBM Reprint order number G321-5291

• LEXX – A programmable structured editor (or from IBM)
  IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol 31, No.  1, 1987, IBM Reprint order number G322-0151; somewhat better quality images of the illustrations in this paper are available here.

• Fundamental requirements for picture presentation
  Proc. Society for Information Display, Volume 26, No.  2 (1985).

• The design of the REXX language
  IBM Systems Journal, Volume 23, No. 4, 1984, IBM Reprint order number G321-5228

• The Characteristics and Use of Lead-Acid Cap Lamps (research for Speleogroup)
  Trans. British Cave Research Association, Vol 1, No.  4, pp199-214, December 1974

Books:

• The NetRexx Language
  ISBN 0-13-806332-X, Prentice-Hall, 1997

• The REXX Language
  In English:  ISBN 0-13-780651-5, (second edition) 1990; ISBN 0-13-780735-X, (first edition) 1985
  In German:  ISBN 3-446-15195-8, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1988
  In Japanese:  ISBN 4-7649-0136-6, Kindai-kagaku-sha, 1988
   
  More than 110,000 copies of this book have been sold, to date.

Patents and related IBM Technical Disclosures (author or a co-author):

• Automatic Checking of Computer Terminals
• Binary to decimal coder/decoder
• Colour Display Apparatus and Method of Coding a Colour Image
• Damped Error Diffusion in Binary Display
• Data Display and Proportional Spacing
• Decimal Floating-point Quantum Exception Detection
• Decimal to Binary Coder/Decoder
• Editing of Test Cases
• Detection of potential need to use a larger data format
• General Purpose Assembler for Microprocessors
• Generation of Test Cases for Terminals
• Improvements in Text Processing Systems
• Logic Card Wire-Embedding Technique
• “Microlink” – a Bus Architecture
• Multiprocessor Communication System
• A Numeric Processing Mechanism (division by approximation)
• A Numeric Processor (fast decimal division)
• Order-preserving encoding formats of floating-point decimal numbers for efficient value comparison
• Remote Link Between Two Processors
• Round for reround mode in a decimal floating point instruction
• Symbolic Keyboard Interface
• Synchronisation and Alternate Path Control

Most of the patents were granted in multiple countries.

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