IEEE ACCLAIM FOR SRI PSYCHOENERGETICS WORK

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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 26, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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DA TU 26 September 1977
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SUF)JCCT: IEEE Acclaim for Sill Psychoenergetics Work
SRI researchers Pcrt.hoif and Targ, i.ttending the Seventh Iia;l
lute rnational. Confc rence on Cybernct:ics and Sac Iet;y, were prc?saenLc~d With
the Frankii.n V, Taylor hlemorla1 Award for the Dc.-;L Pi?esentat.ion of the
Sixth International Confers nce on Cybernetic; end Society.
Further acclaim for the SRI. psyclioceenert eties work was contained in
the introduction to this year's Conference Proceedings, written by
Conference Chairman William It. von Alven of the FCC (see att:;cched).
Finally, interest at the conference In psychocnergutics research
and related brain research Waw so high that the Executive Committee of
the IEEE SEC (SysLenns, Matt, and Cybernetics Society) group formed a
Subgroup "11 iocybern.cti.c ,, devoted spec t.f i.cally to investigation of man
and his cnpab.iliti.es, viewed as a U.tocybernct.ic System.
't'herefore, although the controversial nature of psych oenergetics
-tvork at SILT has, rear t: ions: J.11. 4cm o giuartc )?S, We should
not lose sight; of the fact. that., by and large, the informed majority of
the scientific and lay communities contlnuc to respond in a very favorable
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