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Vol. 22, No. 11
November, 1973
Editor
Edmund C. Berkeley
Assistant Editors
Barbara L. Chaffee
Linda Ladd Lovett
Neil D. Macdonald
Software Editor
Stewart B. Nelson
Advertising Director
Edmund C. Berkeley
Contributing Editors
John Bennett
Moses M. Berlin
Andrew D. Booth
John W. Carr III
Ned Chapin
Leslie Mezei
Bernhard W. Romberg
Ted Schoeters
Richard E. Sprague
Advisory Committee
Ed Burnett
James J. Cryan
Bernard Quint
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computers and automation
STARTING JANUARY 1, 1974
computers and people
The Computer Industry
8 Cooperative Facilities to Obtain the Advantages of Computers [T A]
by Michael J. Cerullo, State University of New York, Albany, N.Y.
How to plan, before operations begin, a cooperative service bureau that will provide its sponsors with all the advantages of electronic data processing, plus the advantages of greatly reduced expenses.
10 Control in Time-Sharing Systems [T A]
by Fermin Caro del Castillo, Fort Worth, Texas
How time-shared computer systems should be controlled, made secure, and protected against incursions and hazards.
14 Alienation and the Systems Analyst [T A]
by Alan E. Brill, The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, N.Y.
How systems analysts are often looked upon as in a “computer department” and outside of the firm — and what might be done to correct this practice.
Computers and Art
18 Computer Art: The Search Beyond Manipulation [T A]
by Grace C. Hertlein, California State University-Chico, Chico, Calif.
How computer art is ranging through variation in patterns, variations in design, and varying philosophies of art — and where it may go.
Computers and the Future
20 Computers in Science Fiction — II [NT A]
by Marcia Ascher, Professor of Mathematics, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y.
A survey of some two dozen themes of importance in the real world that are reflected in science fiction when astute writers explore the significance of computers to human beings.
6 The Understanding of Natural Language by Computers [NT E]
by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor, Computers and Automation
Some rather convincing evidence suggests that before long some large areas of ordinary natural language will be understood by computers.
World Affairs and Social Policy
15 Strategy and Action on World Trade [NT A]
by James H. Binger, Chairman, Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.
Why it is important for the well-being of the people of the United States to aid the international division of labor and production: — a discussion by the head of a