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...'