PROCEEDINGS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERNETICS & SOCIETY

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PROCEEDINGS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CYBERNETICS AND SOCIETY
September 19-21, 1977
Sponsored by:
IEEE. Syrte.ms, 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
Mayflower Hotel, Washington, Q.C.
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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 its 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 me thodolog'y 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 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 cl/'Acuputretur?e. Acupuncture, as you know. originated thousands Of
years ago in the orient and only recently received serious attention by ?testern medical scientists. Did you know that
acupuncture flourished in the U.S. from 1820 to I85O?According to a researcher at the National Library of Medicine,
acupuncture hid been introduced to the U.S. from 1 urope 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. 't'oday, 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
`Foronto, whose article appears here, recently received international attention on his discovery of a possible
mechanism that describes why acupuncture works. Stephen Kin), trained in both !:astern and Western medicine, is it
trained acupuncturist. lie departs from traditional methods by making use of art electronic device for locating
acupuncture points. IIis paper reports striking success over the traditional methods. The session is rounded out by
'recent research by other investigators: Lee, Clifford and Mau. Clearly, acupuncttrrc has now become a valid
-research subject. for biochcrne deists.
Our second unconventional area is Research in I'cvc?hoc'tter'etic's, organized by Jlal I'trthoff of SRf. The
presentation of this session is the outgrowth of the spectacular lutrcheon talk by Iint and Russ Targ at last year's
conference for which they received our Franklyn V. Taylor Best Presentation Award. Recognizing that their
professional integrity `,vas at stake, they have gone to great lcng,tlis to assure impeccability of (heir work: neverthe-
less, a reviewer of their original paper which appeared in the !!.'F.l: I'ruceeditr,r,+ last year stated, "This is the sort of
thing I would not bclievc in even if it were tale." Not withstanding such emotional reactions, psychic phenomena are
W_... a reality and I1 -i Puthottssession of first-rate carefully selected papers is worthy of your consideration.
Finally, among, the unusual presentations, I commend your reading Bill C;cvarter's excellent summary, "A Wiring.
Diagram of the I loman Brain as a Model for Artificial Intelligence.
William It. Mutt A11?ett
Chairman
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Douglas R. Hansman,hair1. an, Carclio-
University 498 Dynamics Laboratories Inc., Los Angeles,
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
A Theory of Motion After-Effect, Chun Chiang,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
506
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 ofTechnology, New Delhi
540
On the Response Characteristics of Artificial Neural
Networks, A. K. Majumder and J. Das, Indian
Statistical Institute, Calcutta
741
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
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
Intuition, H. J. Jeffrey, Vandebilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee and J. D. Johannes, Uni-
versity of Alabama, Huntsville
W 13P COMPUTER-ASSISTED
MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
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.
512
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
Persinger, Laurentian University, Sudbury,
Ontario
517
j State of the Art in Remote Viewing. Studies at SRI,
E. C. May, H. Puthoff and R. Targ, Stanford
California
Menlo Park
'Research Institute
519
Up-Date on Pattern Recognition Applied to Early
Diagnosis of Heart Attacks, Sam Uthurusamy and
Edward A. Patrick, MD, Purdue University
,
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Some Comments on the Subjective Nature of
is Psychic Research, the Subject, Experimenter Re-
lationship and the Psychic Type of Personality,
I. 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
530
535
Computerized Diagnosis in Opthamology, Karl J.
Fritz, MD and Carol S. Fritz, Ph.D, University
of Chicago
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
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