1764	 Panel Discussion on Computer Appreciation	 Session of the ACM th Anniversary Conference on August was entitled Education Design Experiments and Computer Appreciation. Its second half consisted of a panel discussion on computer appreciation organized and chaired by Elliot I. Organick. The four panelists were Charles H. Davidson Bernard A. Galler Richard W. Hamming and Alan J. Perlis. After making prepared statements the panelists were joined in discussion by Andries van Dam and Arthur B.Kohn who had presented papers in the first half. This is a transcript of the panel discussion condensed by Dr. Organick and edited by him and the panelists. Some remarks referred to papers by van Dam and Kahn or to the discussion during the first half of the session. Pertinent papers are included in the references. computer appreciation students liberal arts courses survey courses beginning programming course content computer courses dropout rates college versus precollege teaching and social responsibility
