1970 Workshop on Pattern Recognition

A workshop on pattern recognition was held the first day (October 14) of the 1970 Systems Science and Cybernetics Conference, Pittsburg, PA, USA. There were five discussion leaders who conducted serial sessions. Each session included invited key participants who had prepared summaries of their technical positions on a topic covered in that session. The summaries for each session were made available to the audience at the beginning of each session. The discussion leaders conducted their sessions in such a way that the audience could interact, interjecting their viewpoints. Approximately 85 people were present initially, and about 40 people remained until the workshop ended. The Workshop Chairman was L.N. Kanal, Chairman of the Pattern Recognition Committee, and the Workshop Organizer was E.A. Patrick. Other workshops that have been held include the IEEE Workshop on Pattern Recognition, Delft, The Netherlands, August 1968, and the International Conference on Frontiers of Pattern Recognition, Hawaii, January 1971. The next workshop planned by the Pattern Recognition Committee will be all day Wednesday, October 27, 1971, the second day of the 1971 Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, the Joint Conference on Major Systems with the Operations Research Society of America, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, CA, USA. The summaries for the 1970 conference held in Pittsburgh, written by the key participants and grouped according to session, are presented.