Abstract :
The community of engineers, programmers, and physicists who support data-acquisition, control, and post processing activities in nuclear and particle physics had an opportunity to meet in Berkeley on May 16-20, 1983 for the "Conference on Real-Time Computer Applications...". It was the third such conference, held every other year. In May, 1979 Dennis Perry of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory hosted the "Topical Conference on Computerized Data-Acquisition Systems in Particle and Nuclear Physics" in Santa Fe. David Hensley brought the conference to Oak Ridge in May, 1981. And this year\´s conference underwent a name change by it\´s host, Creve Maples of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, but remained very much the same in spirit and direction.
