Election projection seminar

From April 30 to May 2 of this year, the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Group and the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS), presented 21 technical sessions designed to provide a broad view of the latest developments in computer hardware, software, and applications. Included in the Atlantic City, N.J., meeting was a special panel, chaired by Dr. I. E. Fang, formed to discuss the advances made by the computing, communications, and broadcasting industries that have made it possible to predict the outcome of elections, based in part on returns from a limited number of preselected areas. The four presentations of this session are given here, and include, as an illustration, an overview of the design and operation of the election reporting system now being used by the American Broadcasting Company in this critical election year.