Decus Proceedings Spring 1968

This document contains the proceedings from the Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS) Spring 1968 Symposium, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The publication includes papers and presentations covering various applications of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computers in fields such as physics, education, biomedicine, and computer typesetting.

Key themes and topics addressed include:

• Business Management: Use of PDP-8/S computers for hotel booking and inventory control.
• Time-Sharing and Remote Access: Development of the FASBAC remote access system, PDP-9T time-sharing, and techniques for efficient remote terminal communication.
• Physics Research: On-line data acquisition systems for high-energy physics, wire spark chamber data analysis using PDP-7/PDP-9, and the use of hybrid computer systems (PDP-9 linked with IBM 360/65).
• Education: Implementation of computer usage in high school classrooms (e.g., using PDP-8/S and closed-circuit TV), as well as educational software and compilers like FOCAL and CINIC.
• Biomedical Applications: Computer-based simulations of biochemical systems and automatic bacterial identification using spectrophotometric data.
• Typesetting: Research into the input language problem for computer typesetting of complex mathematical text.
• Film Analysis: Use of PDP-9 for controlling and recording film measurements in high-energy physics.

The document also provides administrative information, including the symposium program, a list of meeting attendees, and an author/speaker index for the included papers.