A view of the world of computing as seen at the 1976 National Computer Conference

ABSTRACT

The twenty-fifth anniversary of joint computer conferencing and the bicentennial of the United States of America are celebrated during this 45th in a series of joint conferences. The Conference also commemorates the 25th anniversary of the introduction of commercial computing. The state of the computer profession and industry is mirrored in the conference program and these conference proceedings are a selected distillation of the program. The spirit of the American Revolution is reflected in the attention given to Computers and People in general and Societal Concerns in particular. About one third of the Conference is devoted to Computers and People and the remaining two thirds is divided almost equally between Systems and Science and Technology. The quality, scope and diversity of the papers in this volume, as they represent the state-of-the-art today, augurs well for the future.

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• 3: References to papers which appear in this volume will not be given. The reader is referred to the Contents or the Author Index for any individual paper.