1968 Proceeding- Editor:
- Robert Blechen
The Sixth Annual Computer Personnel Research Conference was sponsored by The Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research (SICGCPR) of the Association of Computing Machinery (SIGCPR was formerly the Computer Personnel Research Group) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Conference was held at the Earth Sciences Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 20 - 22, 1968.The purpose of the annual computer personnel research conferences is to identify and discuss the common problems and needs of those individuals concerned with the selection, training, evaluation and other aspects of computer personnel management. Research and problems reported are of interest to personnel managers, computer installation managers and researchers involved with personnel administration of computer centers.Representative papers are presented throughout the Conference followed by open discussion. The papers are published in these Proceedings and constitute what is considered by the SIGCPR Steering Committee to be the most significant work brought forth this past year.SIGCPR seeks to explore computer personnel problems and provide access to a constantly growing body of computer personnel data gathered nationally at all levels in the computer field. Its membership includes representatives of large corporations, university groups, government organizations, small companies and service bureaus whose interests include scientific, business, and research programming and computing. Further information on the group's activities may be obtained from Mr. David B. Mayer, International Business Machines, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York, (914) 945-3000.
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Keynote address: the role of the computer programmer in society
It is, of course, a fleeting role. Things happen so quickly around here. I notice in the program that I'm listed as President of the Association for Computing Machinery. Since this was printed, I have been booted out. The term expired on May 31st, so it'...
Emotion, appetite and thought
A programming manager typically has only a few minutes of personal contact with a candidate for a senior programming position. This is indeed a short period of time for objectively determining whether or not there is a proper match between such an ...
Activated applicants: development of participation of applicants in selection and training
After hearing Mr. Sibley's intriguing paper, I found it necessary to rewrite my entire introduction. There are many similarities between his paper and mine. We both use a personal approach. We both are concerned with the need for more effective dialogue ...
Selection of systems analysts and programmer trainees
The subject of this talk is primarily the selection of Systems Analysts. Time permitting, I shall also discuss work done on the selection of programmer trainees. The research program, as many of you have heard described in previous talks, was divided ...
The selection and training of computer personnel in the United Kingdom
We have in Rolls-Royce for a number of years read with interest the reports of the work of the Computer Personnel Research Group, now a Special Interest Group of ACM. We have all been impressed by the determination with which the group has tackled the ...
A working measured development plan for computer personnel
Realistically, our Employee Development Plan for computer personnel consists of 187 working, measured, individual plans -- one for each employee within our Computer Systems Department.
Man-computer communication: experimental investigation of user effectiveness
Everyone talks about the computer user, but virtually no one has studied him in a systematic, scientific manner. There is a growing experimental lag between verified knowledge about users and rapidly expanding applications for them. This experimental ...
Educating the experienced systems analyst
Education is the "in" word these days in the information systems arena. It's "in" with the government, "in" with the colleges and universities, "in" with the manufacturers, and "in" with the professional societies.
System design for the human factor
The performance of total business oriented electronic data processing systems is not simply a function of good computer programming because the computer is still only one component in the middle of the system as many scarred veterans of data processing ...
Time sharing in training business systems analysts in simulated information systems design: use and evaluation
The Advanced Systems Analysis and Design Course provides business systems analysts an opportunity to simulate the design of a corporate management information system. The students are given access to time sharing conversational terminals to aid their ...
- Proceedings of the Sixth SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIGMIS-CPR '19 | 30 | 20 | 67% |
| SIGMIS-CPR '15 | 47 | 26 | 55% |
| SIGSIM-CPR '14 | 35 | 26 | 74% |
| SIGMIS-CPR '13 | 33 | 29 | 88% |
| SIGCPR '02 | 32 | 15 | 47% |
| SIGCPR '01 | 41 | 22 | 54% |
| SIGCPR '99 | 50 | 32 | 64% |
| SIGCPR '98 | 60 | 45 | 75% |
| SIGCPR '97 | 33 | 28 | 85% |
| SIGCPR '96 | 65 | 36 | 55% |
| SIGCPR '95 | 54 | 21 | 39% |
| Overall | 480 | 300 | 63% |