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2 PANEL ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Dr. Henri G. Busignies, Chairman Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation W. Ross Adey, M.D. School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Dr. George H. Brown RCA Princeton Dr. Solomon J. Buchsbaum Executive Director Research Communications Sciences Division Bell Laboratories Dr. Marvin Chodorow Director, Microwave Laboratory Stanford University Dr. Lee L. Davenport President GTE Laboratories, Incorporated Mr. Lynn Ellis Director - Telecommunications International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation Dr. William L. Everitt* Dean Emeritus College of Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Mr. Richard P. Gifford Vice President and General Manager Communications Systems Division General Electric Company Mr. Robert A. Henle IBM Fellow International Business Machines Corporation *Ex Officio as Chairman of the Committee on Telecommunications during the preparation of this Report
Mr. Leonard Jaffe Deputy Associate Administrator Office of Applications National Aeronautics and Space Administration Dr. Edward C. Jordan Professor and Head Department of Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Dr. Armig G. Kandoian Telecommunications Consultant Ridgewood, New Jersey Dr. Richard B. Marsten Director, Communications Programs Office of Applications National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mr. Sidney Metzger Assistant Vice President and Chief Engineer Communications Satellite Corporation Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin Assistant Secretary of Defense - Telecommunications Department of Defense Dr. Richard B. Roberts Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution of Washington Dr. Jack P. Ruina Vice President for Special Laboratories, and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mr. R. V. Mrozinski Executive Secretary Committee on Telecommunications Miss Helen Fennell Administrative Assistant Committee on Telecommunications
4 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ................ 1 PANEL ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH .................... 2 THE SYSTEMS APPROACH An Analytical Approach to the Study of Tele- communications Research - R. P. Gifford and Jared S . Smith ................ 6 Interdisciplinary Research and Development Problems in Telecommunications - A. G. Kandoian .................. H Research on Spectrum, Propagation and Related Areas of Telecommunications Technology - A. G. Kandoian ....... 17 The Effect of Standards on Research and Development in Telecommunications - Lee L. Davenport ................ 24 HUMAN FACTORS Biomedical and Sociological Implications of U.S. Telecommunications Research - W. R. Adey ................ 34 Excessive Communication - W. L. Everitt ............ 43 Interface Man-Computer Data Entry - R. A. Henle, G. C. Bacon and P. D. Welch ............................. 48 Interactive Cable Television Systems - II. Busignies ................ 64 Training and Education of Professional Telecommuni- cations Engineers - A. G. Kandoian ...................... 70 TERMINALS, SENSORS AND DISPLAYS Computer Terminals - S. W. Dunwell ................. 79 Future Use of Communications and Terminals in Education - S . W. Dunwell ............................... 85 TRANSMISSION, MODULATION/DEMODULATION AND CODING The Prospect for U.S. Terrestrial Communications in the l980's - E. F. O'Neill .............................. 103 Optical Communications - Sol Buchsbaum Optical Communications - In the 70 's and Beyond - Louis R. Bloom. ........ ................ 118
R&D Trends for Communications Satellites: Compar- ison of U.S. and Other Programs - S. Metzger l30 Earth Stations - S. Metzger 141 ATS Alaska Telemedicine Experiment - Richard B. Marsten and Donald P. Rogers l47 SWITCHING, ROUTING AND CONTROL Computer Communications Networks - E. N. Pinson.... 152 Research Directions in Networks of Computers - P. S. Dauber 158 ARPA Network Rationale: A 5-Year Reevaluation - Lawrence G. Roberts 160 Research in Telecommunications Switching - Lynn W. Ellis l66 Research on the Command and Control of Rail Trans- portation - Lynn W. Ellis l81 PROCESSING AND STORAGE Microprogramming - E. Rechtin 200 Speech Analysis and Synthesis - H. F. Olson 204 MISCELLANEOUS Telecommunications Research Study - E. C. Jordan... 211 Comments by E. Rechtin on "Telecommunications Research Study" 2l5
