The theme of this conference - Information Implications into the Eighties - has brought forth papers on a wide variety of topics, but all point to the inescapable conclusion of an explosion of information management problems and opportunities. Movement is occurring in many directions - toward large networks and simultaneously toward personal systems. The Eighties will bring challenges to long-held ideas such as how the modern office does its paperwork (or whether it should use paper at all). These and other problems will provide exciting opportunities for real progress.ACM-SIGIR scheduled this conference in conjunction with the meeting September 28 and 29, 1979, of the Texas Chapter of the American Society for Information Science entitled, "Microcomputers and Information Processing." The Panel Discussion, "Information Implications into the Eighties," was sponsored by both organizations and served as the closing session of the ACM-SIGIR conference and the opening session of the Texas ASIS conference.
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