Decus Proceedings Spring 1967

This document contains the papers and presentations from the Spring 1967 Symposium of the Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS), held at Rutgers - The State University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on April 14–15, 1967. The focus of the symposium was "Display Applications."

Key topics covered in the proceedings include:

• Software and Hardware for Displays: Papers discuss software support for PDP-4/340 configurations, systems analysis of the DEC 338 programmed buffered display, and general approaches to efficient display software.
• Scientific and Industrial Applications: Research on using CRT display systems for signal detection, pattern recognition, biological image processing, and numerical control for machine tools.
• Operating Systems and Languages: Discussions on enhancing time-shared operating systems, as well as an introduction to "TracD," an experimental graphic programming language.
• Speech Analysis: Research regarding the characteristics of speech displayed by the PDP-8 and the development of electronic speech recognition systems.

The document also includes a preface by the meetings chairman, a program schedule for the symposium, and an attendance list.