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NATO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE 1968
Appendices
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A4. ADDRESSES OF WELCOME
Welcome address by Dr. Otto Schedl, Minister of Industry and Transport for Bavaria
Software engineering has become one of the most important and comprehensive aspects of the technology of Information Processing, or informatics. Developments in this area play a key role in the overall progress of technology and economy in our countries.
With a host of possible applications and many immediate necessities for its use in science and industry successful software engineering is today one of the basic conditions for competitive computer production. In Germany this aspect of computer science will be one of the main activities of the special research group Informatics which has been established at the Technische Hochschule München, following a recommendation by the German Science Council. This group at the Technische Hochschule München collaborates with the University of München and is supported by the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
The international Conference on Software Engineering in Garmisch is, therefore, an event which is hoped to stimulate the work on computer science in Munich, and the conference may very well, as the first of its kind, become a milestone in an increasing collaboration between scientists engaged in software engineering, since the explosive development in data processing techniques in all areas of modern society throughout the world constitutes a challenge to international collaboration.
It is a particular pleasure to me, as Minister of Industry and Transport for Bavaria, to welcome the participants to this international conference. The Science Committee of NATO has found with Garmisch not only a meeting place which is preferred in Germany for its scenery but it has also chosen a German state where the development of data processing techniques has always been followed with interest and given all the support possible within the available economic framework.
Allow me to take a certain pride in the fact that by 1952 computer science had already found a home in Bavaria at the Technische Hochschule München. It is hoped that the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum of the Bavarian Academy  of Sciences, when its construction is completed, will form the hub from which advances in data processing techniques will radiate to science and technology.
I wish the conference every possible success in its work and hope that all participants will have an enjoyable stay in Werdenfels country.
7th October, 1968
Translation of telegram from Mr. Gerhard Stoltenberg, Minister for Scientific Research of the Federal Republic of Germany, 7th October 1968
To Prof.Dr. F.L. Bauer, Chairman of the NATO Conference on Software Engineering.
Dear Professor Bauer,
The productivity in science, industry and public administration is to an ever increasing extent determined by the progress in data processing.
I am therefore particularly pleased that a working conference of such a high scientific level, devoted to problems in software engineering, is being held in the Federal Republic of Germany.
I wish you and all participants every success with the conference.
With best regards
Gerhard Stoltenberg
Bundesminister für Wissenschaftliche Forschung.