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PROCEEDINGS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
CYBERNETICS AND SOCIETY
September 19-21, 1977
Sponsored by:
IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
With the cooperation of:
College of American Pathologists
Human Factors Society
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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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 solving.
In this regard, we 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. 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 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. Bruce Pomeranz 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 acupuncturest. 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 Psychoenergetics, organized by 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 to great lengths to assure impeccability of their work; neverthe-
less, a reviewer of their original paper which appeared in the IEEE Proceedings last year stated, "This is the sort of
thing I would not believe in even if it were true. " Notwithstanding such emotional reactions, psychic phenomena are
a reality, and Hal Puthoff's session of first-rate carefully selected papers is worthy of your consideration.
Finally, among the unusual presentations, I commend your reading Biff Gevarter's excellent summary, "A Wiring
Diagram of the Human Brain as a Model for Artificial Intelligence."
F.C.C.
William II. von Alven
Chairman
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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
501
A Theory of Motion After-Effect, Chun Chiang,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
506
On the Response Characteristics of Artificial Neural
Networks, A. K. Majumder and J. Das, Indian
Statistical Institute, Calcutta
741
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
508
Multiple Subject and Long Distant Precognitive
Remote Viewing of Geographical Locations, J. P.
Bisaha and B. J. Dunne, Mundelein College,
Chicago, Illinois
512
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
517
State of the Art in Remote Viewing Studies at SRI,
E. C. May, H. Puthoff and R. Targ, Stanford
Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
519
Some Comments on the Subjective Nature of
Psychic Research, the Subject, Experimenter Re-
lationship and the Psychic Type of Personality,
I. Swann, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo
Park, California
530
Evidence for Direct Interaction Between the Hu-
man Mind and External Quantum Processes, Hel-
mut Schmidt, Mind Science Foundation, San
Antonio, Texas
535
T12A
HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Douglas R. Hansman,
Chairman,
Cardio-
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
746
Health Care System Planning: A State Model Sim-
ulation, L. C. Agarwal and P. S. Satsangi, Indian
School of Technology, New Delhi
540
Use of Semantic Networks As Representation of
Patient Records, Anne-Louise Guichard Radim-
sky, University of California, Davis
545
Automatic Diagnosis via simulation of Physician's
Intuition, H. J. Jeffrey, Vandebilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee and J. D. Johannes, Uni-
versity of Alabama, 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 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
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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