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Content: Planning an approach to laboratory automation / Joseph G. Liscouski -- Robots and robotics in the laboratory : what does it mean? / Charles H. Lochmüller -- General laboratory data management and specific laboratory needs / W. Kipiniak and W. Finnerty -- Applying database management in the analytical chemistry laboratory / Fred Baumann, Kenneth A. Lewis, and Arthur C. Brown, III -- Network and communications / Douglas St. Clair -- Introduction to graphics / Joseph G. Liscouski -- Chemists and computers in the Corps of Engineers / Richard E. Enrione -- Computer generation of structure-effect relationships from text databases / Rudolph J. Marcus -- Coping with the information explosion provided by modern chemical instrumentation / Sam P. Perone -- The universe is stochastic and nonlinear / Larry M. Sturdivan and Barbara A.B. Seiders.
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Publication Date: October 5, 1984 | doi: 10.1021/bk-1984-0265.fw001 Computers in the Laboratory Current Practice and Future Trends In Computers in the Laboratory; Liscouski, J.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1984. Publication Date: October 5, 1984 | doi: 10.1021/bk-1984-0265.fw001 In Computers in the Laboratory; Liscouski, J.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1984. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES 265 Computers in the Laboratory Current Practice and Future Trends Publication Date: October 5, 1984 | doi: 10.1021/bk-1984-0265.fw001 Joseph G. Liscouski, EDITOR Digital Equipment Corporation Based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Computers in Chemistry at the 186th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., August 28-September 2, 1983 American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 1984 In Computers in the Laboratory; Liscouski, J.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1984. Publication Date: October 5, 1984 | doi: 10.1021/bk-1984-0265.fw001 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Computers in the laboratory. (ACS symposium series, ISSN 0097-6156; 265) "Based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Computers in Chemistry at the 186th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., August 28-September 2, 1983." Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Chemical laboratories—Data processing— Congresses. 2. Chemical laboratories—Automation— Congresses. 3. Chemistry, Analytic—Data processing— Congresses. I. Liscouski, Joseph G., 1945. II. American Chemical Society. Division of Computers in Chemistry. III. Series. QD51.C65 1984 ISBN 0-8412-0867-0 542'.028'54 84-18518 Copyright © 1984 American Chemical Society All Rights Reserved. The appearance of the code at the bottom of the first page of each chapter in this volume indicates the copyright owner's consent that reprographic copies of the chapter may be made for personal or internal use or for the personal or internal use of specific clients. This consent is given on the condition, however, that the copier pay the stated per copy fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 21 Congress Street, Salem, M A 01970, for copying beyond that permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law. This consent does not extend to copying or transmission by any means—graphic or electronic—for any other purpose, such as for general distribution, for advertising or promotional purposes, for creating a new collective work, for resale, or for information storage and retrieval systems. The copying fee for each chapter is indicated in the code at the bottom of the first page of the chapter. The citation of trade names and/or names of manufacturers in this publication is not to be construed as an endorsement or as approval by ACS of th