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Preface
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... The motivation was spelled out in the call to the symposium as follows: Crystallographers are among the major users of computers in chemistry and physics; they have also had a long history of innovative uses of computers, both in computation and in on-line control of experiments. In view of the continually expanding number of scientists engaged in structural crystallography, the increasing amount of computer usage by these scientists, and the realization of shrinking research budgets, the time seems ripe to bring together a group of crystallographers and representatives of the federal funding agencies to explore together questions such as the following: 1.
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... The discussion has received a minimum amount of editing from the participants and the editors, and gives a flavor of the current state of thinking of crystallographers concerning their computing activities. The sponsors of the symposium hope this document will be useful to all concerned with the support of scientific computing, as an example of where computation stands today in one segment of physical science.


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