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  1.    "The Torque Exerted on the Atmosphere by the Southern Alps" (W. J. Thompson and J. W. Hutchings), New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 5, 18-28 (1962).

 27.    "A Nuclear Optical Model Code for Small Computers" (R. J. Eastgate, R. A. Hardekopf and W. J. Thompson), Computer Physics Communications 5, 69-79 (1973).

 34.    "A Version of a Nuclear Optical Model Code for Small Computers Designed to Run on a PDP-15" (S. K. Datta, D. O. Elliott and W. J. Thompson), Computer Physics Communications 7, 343-346 (1974).

 66.    "A Program for Perspective Views of Three-Dimensional Surfaces" (E. A. Olszewski and W. J. Thompson), Computer Physics Communications 21, 185-193 (1980).

 92.    Review of Computer Simulation and Computer Algebra (D. Stauffer, F. W. Hehl, V. Winkelmann and J. G. Zabolitzky), by W. J. Thompson, Computers in Physics, May/June (1989) 83.

116.  “Cutting Corners: Fast Square Roots and Trig Functions” (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 7, 18-21 (1993).

117.  “Angular Momentum Coupling Coefficients: New and Improved Algorithms” (J. F. Shriner, Jr. and W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 7, 144-148 (1993).

118.   “Exploring the Complex Plane: Green's Functions, Hilbert Transforms, and Analytic Continua­tion” (P. P. Singh and W. J. Thompson), Computers in Physics, 7, 388–392 (1993).

119.   “Numerous Neat Algorithms for the Voigt Profile Function” (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 7, 627-631 (1993).

120.   “Discrete and Integral Fourier Transforms: Analytical Examples” (W. J. Thompson and J. R. Macdonald) Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 90, 6904-6908 (1993).

121.   “Chebyshev Polynomials: After the Spelling the Rest is Easy” (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 8, 161–165 (1994).

122.   “Mathematica & Maple: Has Champaign met its Waterloo?” (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 8, 269–278 (1994).

128.   "Mac Clones: Power Computing for Frugal Physicists" (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 9, 622-624 (1995).

129.    "Recursive Algorithms: A Mixed Blessing" (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 10, 25-30 (1996).

130.    Software review "Bibliographic Software for Scientists" (W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 84, 411-412 (1996).

131.    "How to Make a PC Talk With a Mac" (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 10, 371-373 (1996).

133.    "Uninterruptible Power Supply Delivers" (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 10, 525-526 (1996).

136.   Atlas for Computing Mathematical Functions: An Illustrated Guidebook for Practitioners, with Programs in C and Mathematica (W. J. Thompson) (Wiley-Interscience, 1997), xvi+903 pages+ CD-ROM; previewed at
 www.wiley.com/products/subject/mathematics/atlas.

137.   Software review "Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology" (W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 85, 91-92 (1997).

139.   Atlas for Computing Mathematical Functions: An Illustrated Guidebook for Practitioners, with Programs in Fortran 90 and Mathematica (W. J. Thompson), (Wiley-Interscience, 1997), xvi+888 pages+CD-ROM; previewed at
 www.wiley.com/products/subject/mathematics/atlas.

141.   Software review "Three Fortran Systems for Desktop Computers" (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 11, 370-373 (1997).

144.   "Computers in Physics" (W. J. Thompson) a lead essay for the Macmillan/Stockton Dictionary of Physics, to be published.

146.   "Principal-Value Integrals by a Simple and Accurate Finite-Interval Method" (W. J. Thompson) Computers in Physics, 12, 94-96 (1998).

148.   Software review "Five Software Packages for Scientific Graphics" (W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 86, 99-100 (1998).

150.   "Software Reviews" (W. J. Thompson) an article for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 19, 590-591 (1999).

156.  Computing in Science and Engineering, Computer Prescriptions columns in 1999 (1): January/February issue, pp.82-83; “By Way of Introduction” (F. Sullivan and W. J. Thompson). May/June issue, pp.84-87; “Spheroidal Wave Functions” (W. J. Thompson). Sept/Oct issue, pp.84-88 “Don’t Subtract the Background” (W. J. Thompson).

158.  Computing in Science and Engineering, Computer Prescriptions columns in 2000 (2): July/August issue; “Regression Lines: More than Meets the Eye” (K. D. Concannon and W. J. Thompson). November/December issue; “Visualizing Transcendental Functions” (W. J. Thompson).

161.  Invited paper “Computing Special Functions of Mathematical Physics,” in Conference on Computational Physics 2000, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Published in Computer Physics Communications, 142, 1-6 (2001).

163. Computing in Science and Engineering, Computer Prescriptions columns in 2001 (3): May/June issue, pp.78-82;  “Poisson Distributions” (W. J. Thompson). July/August issue, pp. 86-91; “Bayesian Data Analysis” (T. C. Black and W. J. Thompson).

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