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Witli this conference wc 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 solving.
In this regard, wc are indeed pleased to present John Warfield with our Outstanding Contribution Award. John
spent the past several years grappling with a methodology for coping with complexity.
I lis concepts associated with
Interpretive
Structural Modeling have been
tested and proven
as demonstrated by
the session organized by
Raymond Fitz on this subject.
I fed
it necessary to note that wc 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 ofAcupuncture. 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 nourished in the U .S. from 1820 to 1850? 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.
Its analgesic properties are recognized but not understood. ltrucc Romeranz of the University of
Toronto, whose
article appears here, recently received international attention on
his discovery of a possible
mechanism that describes why acupuncture works. Stephen Kim, trained in both Eastern and Western medicine, is 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 Man. Clearly, acupuncture has now become a valid
research subject for biocvhc rncticists.
Our second unconventional area
is Research
in Psychocnerpetics , organized by
JIal 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 Tranklyn V. Taylor Rest
Presentation Award. Recognizing that their
professional integrity was at stake, they have gone to great lengths to assure impeccability of their work; neverthe-
less, a reviewer of their original paper which appeared in the IPPl'. Proceedings last year stated, "This is the sort of
thing
1 would not believe in even if it were true." Notwithstanding such emotional reactions, psychic phenomena arc
a reality, and Hal Puthoffs session of first-rate carefully selected papers is worthy of your consideratio n.
Finally, among the unusual presentations, I commend your reading Rill Gevarler’s excellent summary, "A Wiring
Diagram of the Human Brain as a Model for Artificial Intelligence.”
William H. eon Alven
Chairman
HI
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Its.Effect on Cei^bral Evoked Pr
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HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
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Douglas
R.
Hansman,
ChatrrJran,
Cardto-
Dynamics
Laboratories,
Inc.,
Los
Angeles,
Pnlifnmia
Acupuncture:
tentials
in
Cat,
University
T8P-II
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
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-
501
versify, Lubbock
A Theory of Motion After-Effect, Chun Chiang,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Health Care System Planning: A State Model Sim-
ulation, L. C. Agarwal and P. S. Satsangi, /nc/tVm
School of Technology
, New Delhi
On the Response Characteristics of Artificial Neural
Networks, A. K. Majumder and
J. Das, Indian
Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Use of Semantic Networks As Representation of
Patient Records, Anne-Louise Guichard Radim-
sky, University of California
, Davis
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
Response Sensitivity of Human Subjects
to ELF
Electromagnetic Fields: Critical Considerations for
Two ELF Models of Paranormal Behaviors, M. A.
f Persinger,
Laurentian
University,
Sudbury,
\ Ontario
i
! State of the Art in Remote Viewing Studies at SRI,
| E. C. May, H. Puthoff and R. Targ, Stanford
l Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
|
t 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
f
Evidence for Direct Interaction Between the Hu-
j man Mind and External Quantum Processes, Hel-
i mut
Schmidt, Mind Science
Foundation,
San
f Antonio, Texas
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Automatic Diagnosis via simulation of Physician’s
Intuition,
H.
J.
Jeffrey,
Vandebilt
University,
Nashville, Tennessee and J. D. Johannes, Uni-
versity ofAlabama
, Huntsville
550
W13P
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 ofNuclear Medicine,
University of Cincinnati
A '
High-Speed Pattern Recognition of ECG Arrhyth-
mias, Douglas Hansmann, Joseph Shepard, Car-
dio-Dynamics Laboratory, Inc., Los Angeles
554
Up-Date on Pattern Recognition Applied to Early
Diagnosis of Heart Attacks, Sam Uthurusamy and
Edward A. Patrick, MD, Purdue University
751
Computerized Diagnosis in Opthamology, Karl J
.
Fritz, MD and Carol S. Fritz, Ph.D, University
of Chicago
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W18A
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
558
*Not available at time of publication.
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