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AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies

Fall Joint Computer Conference 1966 Summaries for Discussion Sessions

AFIPS, San Francisco CA 1966; 35 pages, stapled wraps, 8.5x11,
Condition: Very Good, white stapled binding paper covers, toned and yellowing along outer margins, prev. owner's name rubberstamp at upper righthand corner front cover. stapled binding is secure, pages are clean and unmarked.
Price: $35.00
Item no. M456
Item Description
One to two-page summaries (outlines, paragraphs, key points) detailing the discussion sessions at the Fall Joint Computer Conference, November 8-10 1966, in san Francisco, California

Contents include -- Summaries for Discussion Sessions 10, 13 and 21 -- MANAGEMENT OF MULTI-ACCESS SYSTEMS --
The Dimensions of Time Sharing (John W Well)
MultiAccess Systems for Business Users (Charles W Adama)
Management of a Commercial Time Shring System (T J O'Rourke, Tymshare Inc)
The C-E-I-R Experience, management of multi-access system (L H Garbrick)

ERROR ANALYSIS IN ANALOG AND HYBRID COMPUTATION -- Interrelation of Error analysis, Sensitivity Analysis, and Parameter Identification (Hans F Meissinger)
Automated Computing-Error Studies in Fast Hybrid Computation (Granino A Korn)
Error Analysis of Hybrid Solutions of Partial Differential Equations (Walter J Karplus)
Error Analysis of Hybrid Computer Loops (Elmer G Gilbert)
Spectral Analysis of Hybrid Subroutines (M C Gilliland)
THe Analysis of Errors due to Sampling Rate Variation (George A Bekey)

COMPUTER-ORIENTED DATA ANALYSIS -- Personal Position Regarding Display-Computer Working Aids (Douglas C Engelbart)
Computer-Oriented Data Analysis (Hreman P Friedman) On-Line Pattern Recognition using a Man-Computer Display Facillity (David Hall)
A Data Analysis System for Biological Research (Dan Keehn and Peter Lockemann)
Automatic Off-Line Multivariate Data Analysis (George S Sebestyen)
Data Analysis and Statistics (J W Tukey and M B Wilk, Bell Telephone Laboratories)

Especially interesting is Englebart's summary, which makes these prediction points -- 'real-time computer aids -- I am convinced that within a decade (from the perspective of 1966) aids of this type will be an integral part of their working life for a large fraction of the symbol-pushing workers in our country... By the end of this period, a significant fraction of these workers will be doing essentially all of their daily work in this fashion... Within a decade after that, this kind of aid, evolved to provide power of kinds we now can only barely sense, will represent the standard full-time working environment for essentially everyone who handles symbols in a significant part of his work... And just as today, anyone who needs to be geographically mobile, as a significant feature of his work... so will our person of the future, to whom mobility in symbol space is significant, be equipped with 'symbol-auto-mobile aids' and our society will be even more profoundly affected by this...'