Review of "What Can be Automated by Bruce W. Arden", MIT Press, 1983, ISBN 0-262-51026-x.
Keith Price · ACM SIGART Bulletin · 1984
What Can be Automated is a massive tome that reports on the Computer Science and Engineering Research Study (COSERS). In about 1K pages, it presents a record of research in computer science with some evaluation of the past results and projections of the future directions for research. The title comes from the fact that most of Computer Science is concerned with the problems of automating various manual tasks, be it numerical computations, database management, weather forecasting, industrial processes, or language understanding.