Contents: Computer hardware testing (results of vendor-user interaction); CODIL (a new language for process control programing); the design and implementation of control systems utilizing CRT display consoles; the systems contractor - valuable professional or unnecessary middle man; power station digital computer applications; from inspiration to reality in batch process control; software evaluation considerations; use of the simplex technique in achieving and maintaining near-optimal operating conditions; analytical computer and satellite terminals; acquistion and processing of data from pilot plants; advanced control in the process industries; improving performance of digital control loops; pulse-width-modulated control; prediction of control valve characteristics from physical equations; excedrin headache number 1969 - remedy, expertise; project management and computer control; solution of process control problems by experimental methods; Monday morning quarterbacking of a batch unit computer control project. (Author)