Decus Proceedings

This document contains the proceedings from the Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS) Spring 1968 Symposium, held at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. It compiles various papers and presentations focused on the application of computers—specifically Digital Equipment Corporation systems like the PDP-8, PDP-9, and PDP-7—in fields such as physics, education, biomedicine, and computer-assisted typesetting.

Key topics covered include:

• Business/Management: A stimulus-response system for hotel room inventories.
• Physics: Data acquisition and analysis systems for high-energy physics, including spark chamber data analysis and proton-proton bremsstrahlung experiments.
• Education: Strategies and tools for integrating computers into high school mathematics curricula, including the use of closed-circuit TV and new languages like FOCAL and CINIC.
• Biomedicine: Using computers for biochemical system simulation, spectrophotometric identification of bacteria, and data storage on audio tape recorders.
• Typesetting: Research into input languages and conventions for computer-aided mathematical typesetting.
• General Computing: Technical descriptions of time-sharing systems (such as FASBAC and PDP-9T), display programming languages (DPL), and executive/utility programs for real-time task management.

The document includes a table of contents, a preface, the full text of several papers (often accompanied by flow charts, diagrams, and code snippets), an author/speaker index, and a list of conference attendees.