Coverage is accessible to practitioners and academic readers alike.* Features end-of-chapter problems with answers provided in an appendix.* Includes discussions of rule-based systems not available in any other book.* Includes problem sets and tutorial programs available on the Wiley ftp site.

Coverage is accessible to practitioners and academic readers alike. * Features end-of-chapter problems with answers provided in an appendix. * Includes discussions of rule-based systems not available in any other book. * Includes problem sets and tutorial programs available on the Wiley ftp site.

45 certainty about Federal policy concern­ the University of Alabama cardiac in­ ing the support of training contribute tensive care monitoring system on "ob­ to these difficulties. The problems are solete 1800 computers." Another re­ too broad and too complex to address sponded most efficaciously pointing out here. They are difficult for both aca­ that it is too bad that people lose sight of demia and government, and warrant the fact that a system on which a pro­ the active concern of the entire research gram is developed will always be able community. to do the job; change is not indicated Dr. Robert Macey introduced to the until the system ceases to be appropri­ ate. conference the exciting world of model development describing an application In another vein, the question opens to the area of membrane transport. The up a wide range of problems that can be discussion of his paper exposed the prob­ summarized as problems in the diffusion lern the modeler has of gaining ac­ of computer-based technology. At this ceptance of his particular approach, but juncture biomedical computing joins all mainly it provided a taste of the intellec­ the rest of biomedicine. The problems of tual excitement that modeling generates diffusion of advances in health research, among both doers and observers.

Coverage is accessible to practitioners and academic readers alike.* Features end-of-chapter problems with answers provided in an appendix.* Includes discussions of rule-based systems not available in any other book.* Includes problem sets and tutorial programs available on the Wiley ftp site.

Coverage is accessible to practitioners and academic readers alike. * Features end-of-chapter problems with answers provided in an appendix. * Includes discussions of rule-based systems not available in any other book. * Includes problem sets and tutorial programs available on the Wiley ftp site.

45 certainty about Federal policy concern­ the University of Alabama cardiac in­ ing the support of training contribute tensive care monitoring system on "ob­ to these difficulties. The problems are solete 1800 computers." Another re­ too broad and too complex to address sponded most efficaciously pointing out here. They are difficult for both aca­ that it is too bad that people lose sight of demia and government, and warrant the fact that a system on which a pro­ the active concern of the entire research gram is developed will always be able community. to do the job; change is not indicated Dr. Robert Macey introduced to the until the system ceases to be appropri­ ate. conference the exciting world of model development describing an application In another vein, the question opens to the area of membrane transport. The up a wide range of problems that can be discussion of his paper exposed the prob­ summarized as problems in the diffusion lern the modeler has of gaining ac­ of computer-based technology. At this ceptance of his particular approach, but juncture biomedical computing joins all mainly it provided a taste of the intellec­ the rest of biomedicine. The problems of tual excitement that modeling generates diffusion of advances in health research, among both doers and observers.