ABSTRACT
Rather than attempting to summarize or evaluate the material presented in this volume, I shall give one user's reaction to what he learned, without trying to mention explicitly all of the interesting and worthwhile contributions. By and large, the state of the art as revealed in these papers is encouraging. In my paper "On the User's Point of View" I listed 10 desiderata for an on-line system. Three years ago, one could look in vain for any system, other than those developed by Glen Culler, which satisfied an appreciable number of these. Today there are several which do, and it is clear that the direction of their evolution is such as to satisfy more of these criteria. Those concerned with such systems might consider an additional figure of merit: the number of Ph.D. theses in user areas; or, the number of technical papers published by users (in journals of applied mathemathics, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc.), whose results have been obtained, in part, using such interactive systems; or, in industrial environments, the number (or value) of proposals for technical contract work won by virtue of such systems' help to users.
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