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FOREWORD The Panel on Telecommunications Research of the Committee on Telecommunications, with support from the National Science Foundation, made a preliminary survey of telecommunications research in this country and a comparison of it with similar research in other technologically advanced countries. The goal was to determine its adequacy, balance and relevance to U.S. national needs. The Panel effort has resulted in a two volume study. Volume I summarizes the various aspects of telecommunications which the Panel reviewed and contains the Panel's conclusions. Volume II is a collection of original papers on a number of telecommunications-related topics which the Panel requested from its members and from outside experts in order to provide it with background material for its study. The Panel concluded that these individual papers should be printed so that other readers besides the Panel members could have access to them. However, the individual authors accept sole responsibility for the content of their papers. The views expressed therein are not to be attributed to the Panel, the Committee on Tele- communications, or to the National Academy of Engineering. The Panel wishes to express its great appreciation for the thoughtful effort that went into these individual papers, both by Panel members and other volunteers. The latter included: G. C. Bacon, IBM; L. R. Bloom, GTE Laboratories, Inc.; P. S. Dauber, IBM; S. W. Dunwell, IBM; H. F. Olson, RCA Laboratories; E. F. O'Neill, BTL; E. N. Pinson, BTL; L. G. Roberts, ARPA; D. P. Rogers, NASA; S. N. Roscoe, University of Illinois; Jared S. Smith, General Electric Co., and P. D. Welch, IBM. The Panel also wishes to express its great appreciation to the National Science Foundation for the financial and sub- stantive support which the Foundation gave to make possible this study of the status and trends of telecommunications research in the United States.
