C,OmPUTER
OCTOBER 24-26,1972 ß WASHINGTON, D.C.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii
PLENARY SESSIONS
Conference Luncheon
Conflict in Computer Communications (title only)
Hans J. yon Baeyer .............................................. 3
Keynote Session - Computer Conununication In
Industrially Advanced Nations: The Social,
Political and Economic Dynamics of a New
Technology ..... . ................................................... 5
Opening Remarks
Maurice Karnaugh ............................................... 7
Data Communication in Japan
Yasuo Makino .................................................. 8
Data Communication in Sweden - and some
aspects of the situation in Europe
T. Larsson .................................................... 17
Data Communication in the United States (title only)
Clay T. Whitehead ............................................... -
Computer Communication - The Quiet Revolution ............................. 27
Computer Communication - The Quiet Revolution
Stanley Winklet ................................................. 29
Computer Communications: The Future
Carl Hamme r .................................................. 31
Three Characterizations of Communications
Revolutions
Gordon B. Thompson ............................................. 36
Social and Economic Implications of Computers
and Communications (title only)
Kaoru Ando ...................................................
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Special Project ..................................................... 39
Participating Demonstrations of a Multi-purpose
Network Linking Dissimilar Computers and Terminals .................... 41
"Multi-Computer Support of Cross-Countw Interactive
Graphics", Bolt, Betarick and Newman, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MITRE Corporation,
McLean, Virginia; and University of California,
Santa Barbara, Goleta, California (Demonstration) ....................... -
"An Aid for Collaboration for Geographically Distributed
Groups", Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park,
California (Demonstration) ...................................... _
"MACSYlvIA - An Interactive Formal Mathematics System",
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts (Demonstration) ................................... -
RESPONSIBILITY, IMPACTS AND SOCIAL CONCERNS
Responsibility ...................................................... 45
Responsibility for the Humanistic Use of the Information
Revolution: Where will the Battle be Fought?
Herbert Maisel ................................................. 47
The Role of the Federal Communications Commission
Robert E. Lee .................................................. 49
Computers and Communications: Boon or Bane? Information
Technology, Freedom and Social Control
Victor C. Ferkiss ................................................ 51
Responsibility of the Technologist as an
Individual (title only)
Joseph Weizenbaum .............................................. _
Responsibility and the Information Revolution: An
Overseas Perspective (title only)
Yoneji Masuda ................................................. _
Impacts .......................................................... 53
The Impact of Wide-Spread Computer Communication
Systems and Their Use
Andrew Lipinski ................................................ 55
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Computer at Wits End Leads to Process Pattern Recognition
Barrington Nevitt ............................................... 56
Alternative Future Computer-Communication Markets
D. A. Dunn ................................................... 63
Measuring the Computer's Impact on Organizational Structure
David W. Conrath ............................................... 68
The Impact of LACES (London Airport Cargo EDP Scheme)
N. D. Hill and T. F. Wafting ......................................... 74
How the Public Perceives the Computer: Some Social-
Psychological Dimensions
Thomas L. McPhail .............................................. 80
Computer-Assisted Instruction - A System and its
Assessment in Japan
Shigeru Watanabe, Hoichi Itaya, Masayuki Shimada, and
Kazuo Yagi ................................................ 87
Impact of Computer Communications as Tools in the Social
and Economic Development of Canada (abstract only)
Hans J. yon Baeyer .............................................. 95
Computer Communication Assisted Community Project
in Japan (tide only)
Kotara Shimo (presented by Toshio Kitamura) ............................ -
Data Banks and Individual Privacy ........................................ 97
Data Banks and Individual Privacy: Developments in
the United Kingdom
Bryan Niblett .................................................. 99
Data Banks and Individual Privacy: The Situation in
the German Federal Republic
Hans P. Gassmann ............................................... 108
Data Banks and Individual Privacy: Developments in
Canada (tide only)
Calvin C. Gotlieb ................................................ -
Data Banks and Individual Privacy: Implications for the
U.S. from Foreign Developments (tide only)
Alan F. Westin .................................................
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Social Concerns ..................................................... 115
EMISARI - An On-Line Management System in a Dynamic
Environment
Robert H. Kupperman and Richard H. Wilcox ............................. 117
The Nature of Computer-Related Crime
Donn B. Parker ........................................... '. ..... 121
AFOS: A Program for National Weather Service Field
Automation
Gerald A. Petersen ............................................... 127
Integrated Municipal Information Systems: Some
Potential Impacts
James W. Evans and Robert A. Knisely ................................. 132
NETWORKS AND RELATED PROBLEMS
Teleconferencing: The Computer, Communication, and Organization ................. 143
Teleconferencing: The Computer, Communication, and
Organization
David W. Conrath ............................................... 145
Computer-Assisted Expert Interrogation: A Report on
Current Methods Development
A. J. Lipinski, H. M. Lipinski and R. H. Randolph .......................... 147
ORACLE: Computer Conferencing in a Computer-Assisted-
Instruction System
James A. Schuyler and Robert Johansen ................................ 155
PARTY-LINE and DISCUSSION: Computerized Conference
Systems
Murray Turoff ................................................. 161
Computer-Mediated Human Communications in an Air
Traffic Control Environment: A Preliminary Design
M. L. Constant and P. L. Seeley ...................................... 1'72
Networks - Recent Developments ......................................... 179
Implementation of International Data Exchange Networks
N. G. Anslow and J. Hanscott ....................................... 181
The Network Control Center for the ARPA Network
A. A. McKenzie, B. P. Cosell, J. M. McQuillan, and M. J. Thrope ................ 185
The European Computer Network Project
D. L. A. Barber ................................................. 192
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Mixed Computer Networks: Benefits, Problems and Guidelines
B. T. Smith ................................................... 201
Computer Communication Networks for Higher Education ....................... 211
Computer Communication Networks for Higher Education
Martin Greenberger .............................................. 213
The Integrated Computer Network System
R. H. Howell .................................................. 214
The Canadian Universities Computer Network - Topological
Considerations
John deMercado, Ren Guindon, John DaSilva, and Michel Kadoch ............. 220
NSF Activities Related to a National Science Computer Network
D. D. Aufenkamp and E. C. Weiss ..................................... 226
Teleprocessing- The Utility of the Computer Utility ............................ 233
Teleprocessing - The Utility of the Computer Utility - New
Problems? New Challenge!
Max P. Beere .................................................. 235
The Future of Computer Utilities
George J. Feeney ................................................ 237
On the Development of Computer and Data Networks in Europe
Peter T. Kirstein ................................................ 240
Public Data Communication Networks: Need, Technology and Policy ................. 245
Public Data Communication Networks: Need, Technology and
Policy
Lynn Hopewell ................................................. 247
Potential Impact of User/Author Relationships on Public Data
Network Design
Gordon B. Thompson ............................................. 248
Planning of Data Communications Networks-Economic,
Technological and Institutional Issues
Dieter Kimbel .................................................. 251
Summary of the Existing Data Communications Services in
Western Europe and Tentative Forecast of New Services for
the Next Decade
August Ohtmer ................................................. 260
Public Telephone Network and Computer-Communication
Ken'ichiro Hirota ............................................... 267
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TECHNOLOGY
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Computers and a Telephone Communication System of the Future .................... 273
Structure and Internal Communications of a Telephone
Control System
J. Crompton .................................................... 275
A Capability Oriented Multi-Processor System for Real-Time
Applications
D.C. Cosserat ................................................... 282
Fault Resistance and Recovery within System 250
K. J. Hamer-Hodges ............................................... 290
Reliability Assurance for System 250: A Reliable, Real-
Time Control System
C. S. Repton .................................................... 297
Data Network Design Problems I .......................................... 307
Signaling and Frame Structures in Highly Decentralized
Loop Systems
P. Zafiropulo and E. H. Rothauser ..................................... 309
A Subscriber-Loop Signaling Technique for Synchronous
Data Networks
C. S. Nokes .................................................... 316
A Linear Programming Approach to the Design of Efficient
Multiplexed Wideband Transmission Systems
M. Millman ..................................................... 324
Comparison of Network Topology Optimization Algorithms
V. Kevin Moore Whitney ............................................ 332
Newhall Loops and Programmable TDM: Two Facets of Canadian
Research in Computer Communications
Eric G. Manning ................................................. 338
Data Network Design Problems II ........................................... 343
A Packet Switching Network with Graceful Saturated Operation
R6mi F. Despres ................................................ 345
Some Effects of Switched Network Time Delays and Transmission
Speed on Data Based/Data Communication Systems
J. F. Marchese and W. Gerhard ........................................ 352
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Current and Near Future Data Transmission Via Satellites
of the Intelsat Network
John M. Husted .................................................. 358
The Structure of a Distributed Computer System -
The Distributed File System
David J. Farbet and Frank R. Heinrich .................................. 364
The Use of Distributed Data Bases in Information Networks
Grayce M. Booth ................................................. 371
Software Aspects in Computer Communication ................................. 377
Software Aspects in Computer Communication
Wayne B. Swift .................................................. 379
Programmable Communication Processors
J. S. Sobolewski ................................................. 380
The Approach of Software Problems in the SOC Experimental
Computer Network
Monique Somia .................................................. 390
The User Department and the Computer
C. R. M. Singer .................................................. 397
Protection of Proprietary Software Programs in the United
States
Roy N. Freed ................................................... 403
TOOLS IN RESPONSE TO A SOCIAL NEED
Computer Communications- An Emerging Tool in Response to Society's
Needs? ........................................................... 411
Computer Communications - An Emerging Tool in Response to
Socie ty's Needs?
Reg A. Kaenel .................................................. 413
Global Gaming - Simulation with Computer Communication for
International Cooperation (abstract only)
Takeshi Utsumi ................................................... 414
The Wired City ...................................................... 415
The Wired City: The Role of an Independent Telephone Company
R. M. Alden .................................................... 417
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The Wired City: Services for Home Delivery via Interactive
Cable TV
W. F. Mason and R. K. Lay .......................................... 420
The Wired City: Commercial Services to be Provided by
Broadband Telecommunications Systems
John P. Thompson ................................................ 425
The Role of Competition ............................................... 429
Access to Large Computer Systems
Donald I. Baker .................................................. 431
The Promise and Peril of Competition in Intercity
Communications
Kenneth A. Cox ................................................. 434
Competition in the Fields of Computers and Communications
in Japan
Yasuo Makino ................................................... 441
Interconnection: Impact on Competition-Carriers and
Regulation
William H. Melody ................................................ 445
Beyond the Computer Inquiry: Who Should be Regulated in
Computer/Communications
Charles R. Cutler ................................................. 453
Computen, Communications and Distributed Health Care Systems .................... 461
Computers, Communications and Distributed Health Care
Systems
Martin Elliot Silverstein ............................................ 463
Health Care Communication Systems
Maxine L. Rockoff ............................................... 465
A Modular Hospital Information Utility (title only)
Morton E. Ruderman .............................................. -
A Regional Hospital Information Utility (title only)
Melville H. Hodge ................................................ -
The Use of Interactive Clinical Algorithms for the
Education and Performance Audit of Physician Assistants (title only)
Richard K. Tomkins ............................................... -
Effective Use of a Computer for Neurological Patient Screening (title only)
Edward F. Vastola ................................................ -
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Computers and Libraries of the Future ...................................... 469
Computers and Libraries of the Future
Lawrence P. Grayson .............................................. 471
Computer Technology and Libraries of the Future
Carlos A. Cuadra ................................................. 472
Notes on Social Considerations that May Affect Future
Libraries
Warren L. Ziegler ................................................. 477
Library Economics - The Future (abstract only)
Frederick G. Kilgour .............................................. 480
Legal Considerations that May Affect Future Libraries (title only)
John B. Farmakides ............................................... -
Conference Committees ................................................ 483
Title Index ........................................................ 493
Participant Index .................................................... 499
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