Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080004-0 w A NOTE FROM THE CHAIRMAN With this conference we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of this Society, even though our current name has been with us only for the past seven years, Our worldwide membership of about 5000 members represent many disciplines all brought together by the unifying thread of the ‘systems’? approach to problem salving. In this regard, we are indeed pleased to present John Warfield with our Outstanding Contibution Award. John spent the past several years grappling with a methodology for coping with complexity. His concepts associated with Interpretive Structural Modeling have been tested and proven as demonstrated by the session. organized by Raymond Fitz on this subject. I feel it necessary to note that we have departed slightly from the conventional in this conference and have introduced two sessions which, to some of our readers, may appear controversial. The first is the session, Scientific Studies of Acupuncture, Acupuncture, as you know, originated thousands of years ago in the orient and only recently received serious attention by Western medical scientists. Did you know that acupuncture flourished inthe U.S. from 1820 to [8502 According to a researcher at the National Library of Medicine, acupuncture had been introduced to the U.S. from Europe and a substantial number of articles appeared on this subject in the U.S, medical literature of the period; however, interest waned as he found only six articles for the period 1850~1900. Today, the situation has changed. Western medicine now agrees there is something to acupuncture. Hts analgesic properties are recognized but nat understood. Bruce Pomeranz of the University of Toronto, whose article appears here, recently received international attention on bis. discovery of a possible mechanism that describes why acupuncture works. Stephen Kim, trainedin both Fastern and Western medicitie, ts a trained acupuncturist. He departs from traditional methods by making use of an electronic device for locating acupuncture points. His paper reports striking success over the traditional methods. The session is rounded out by recent. research by other investigators: Lee, Clifford and Mau. Clearly, acupuncture has now become a valid ___ research subject for biocyberneticists. Our second unconventional area is Research in Psyc hoe nergetics, organized by I Hal Puthoff of SRI. The presentation of this session is the outgrowth of the spectacular luncheon talk by Hal and Russ Targ at last year’s conference for which they received our Franklyn V. Taylor Best Presentation Award. Recognizing that their professional integrity was at stake, they have gone fo great lengths to assure impeccability of their work; neverthe- Iess, a reviewer of their original paper which appeared in the (EEL Proceedings last year stated, This is the sort of thing E would not bclicve in even ifit were Que.” Notwithstanding such emotional reactions, psychic phenomena arc __ a reality, and Hal Puthoff's session of first-rate caretully selected papers is worthy of your consideration. F inally, among. the unusual presentations, | commend your reading Bill Gevarter's excellentsummary, “A Wiring Diagram of the Human Brain as a Model for Artificial Intelligence. Williant Ho von Alven Chairman iH} Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080004-0 a og: |
“ a HEALTH CARE SYSTPMS -— Acupuncture: Its, Effect_on d For Relea: Pe T12A lentinls in. Cat, APPHOMGE Wor R@leasego01/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787RQB0200080004-0 D alraran, ardto- University T8P- PERCEPTION AND NEURAL MODELING Andrew U. Meyer, Chairman, New Jersey Insti- tute of Technology On a State Variable Approach to Neural Modeling and Indentification, A. K. Majumdar, Indian Sta- tistical Institute, Calcutta, and A. H. Nevis, University of Florida, Gainsville A Theory of Motion After-Effect, Chun Chiang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan On the Response Characteristics of Artificial Neural Networks, A. K. Majumder and J. Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta osteneaneint nt T11B RESEARCH IN PSYCHOENERGETICS | Harold E. Puthoff, Chairman, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California The Einstein-Paradox, O. Costa de Beauregard, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, France Multiple Subject and Long Distant Precognitive Remote Viewing of Geographical Locations, J. P. Bisaha and B. J. Dunne, Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois PERSONA BERNARD TE ION: TEER: Response Sensitivity of Human Subjects to ELF _ Electromagnetic Fields: Critical Considerations for : Two ELF Models of Paranormal Behaviors, M. A. ; Persinger, Laurentian University, Sudbury, : Ontario & i i State of the Art in Remote Viewing Studies at SRI, 7E. C. May, H. Puthoff and R. Targ, Stanford i Research Institute, Menlo Park, California : Some Comments on the Subjective Nature of : Psychic Research, the Subject, Experimenter Re- lationship and the Psychic Type of Personality, “1. Swann, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo : Park, California Evidence for Direct Interaction Between the Hu- ‘ man Mind and External Quantum Processes, Hel- ;mut Schmidt, Mind Science Foundation, San > Antonio, Texas 498 501 506 TAL 508 512 517 ak ART RR iae _eRINIR Aiae  RR LM LLN ae RSM 519 530 He OOS Ye: AOA a aad AE hon abt APO. SL smn 4 LA wo wa j XV Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080004-0 ouglas R. Hansman, Dynamics Laboratories, Inc., Los Angeles, California Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcomes at Different Patient States, E: A. Patrick, MD and R. Uthur- susamy, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana Health Care System Planning and Evaluation, Robert F. Powers, Dwane E. Anderson, Blair A. Rowley, James M. Cameron and Thomas A. Nicholas, MD. M. M. Ayoub, Texas Tech Uni- versity, Lubbock Health Care System Planning: A State Model Sim- ulation, L. C. Agarwal and P. S. Satsangi, Indian School of Technology, New Delhi Use of Semantic Networks As Representation of Patient Records, Anne-Louise Guichard Radim- sky, University of California, Davis Automatic Diagnosis via simulation of Physician’s Intuition, H. J. Jeffrey, Vandebilt University, Nashville, Tennessee and J. D. Johannes, Uni- versity of Alabama, Huntsville Wi3P COMPUTER-ASSISTED MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS Chairman—To Be Announced Computer Applications in Nuclear Medicine, M. L. Gelfand, MD, Eugene Sanger, MD, Edward Sil- berstein, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Cincinnati High-Speed Pattern Recognition of ECG Arrhyth- mias, Douglas Hansmann, Joseph Shepard, Car- dio-Dynamics Laboratory, Inc., Los Angeles Up-Date on Pattern Recognition Applied to Early Diagnosis of Heart Attacks, Sam Uthurusamy and Edward A. Patrick, MD, Purdue University Computerized Diagnosis in Opthamology, Karl J. Fritz, MD and Carol S. Fritz, Ph.D, University of Chicago WI8A ARTIFICIAL ORGANS Dov .Jaron, Chairman, University of Rhode Island In-Series Cardiac Assistance: Recent Experimental and Theoretical Observations, D. Jaron and W. J. Ohley, University of Rhode Island, Kingston 746 540 545 550 554 751 558 *Not available at time of publication.