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New York Port Engineers Meeting

Hears Paper on Computer Uses

The first meeting of the 1984-85 season for The Society of Marine

Port Engineers (SMPE) New York,

N.Y., Inc. was held at the Union

Club in Hoboken, N.J. A good turn- out of members and guests heard a

Principals at a recent meeting of the New

York Port Engineers Society included (L to

R): David A. O'Neil, author, president of

Seaworthy Systems; John Antonetz, chair- man, Papers & Technical Committee; Ed- ward English, secretary-treasurer; Thomas

J. Young, chairman of the board; and

Charles Hoetzl, meeting coordinator. presentation titled "Computer Ap- plications for the Marine Port Engi- neer" by David A. O'Neil, presi- dent of Seaworthy Systems, Inc. of

Essex, Conn.

Mr. O'Neil discussed the capabil- ities of the microcomputer and the quickly expanding library of soft- ware in the ship operating area. He pointed out several significant trends in that field, as well as pit- falls to be avoided.

Five demonstrations with au- dience interaction were given, using two computers and three large mon- itors dispersed within the audience.

One demonstration dealt with use- ful port engineer-oriented routines that could be custom-generated on "spread sheets" without any re- quirement to be able to program.

Other demonstrations included: us- ing portions of "canned" programs to generate heat balances; analyze plant, hull, and boiler preformance; and to rank for purchase the most acceptable steam plant fuels on an automatically screened technical/ economical basis.

Mr. O'Neil concluded by sum- marizing specific programs pro- duced for a number of operators by several firms. He also praised the work of the Maritime Administra- tion in this area, and distributed copies of MarAd's "Catalog of Com- puter Software Applications for

Maritime Transportation," June 1984.

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