Editorial

OUR Group´s Conference on the Psychology of Technical Communications, held in Philadelphia this past February, served to dramatically display the widening scope of professional communications. Just as the many disciplines of science and engineering are merging to an extent where boundaries are obscured, so have the subdivisions of communications overlapped to a point where distinctions become very difficult. John Phillips, now our President, organized the Conference into its three major sessions: Communications among Engineers and Scientists, Communications to Engineers and Scientists, and Communications from Engineers and Scientists. The list of speakers included, in addition to professional communicators who specialize in the support and education of technical personnel, workers in the field of sociology, psychology, and communications research.