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1998: SPIDER -- 20th Anniversary

Although many details have changed, much of the current organization of the system (in terms of procedure definitions, document files, registers, symbolic parameters) goes back to a number of brainstorms, some 20 years ago, with Brian Shimkin and Helen Dowse, both Computer Science students at SUNY Albany. The first conference abstract describing the implementation of SPIDER was published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Electron Microscopy in Toronto, in 1978. It is reprinted below.
Source file: spider78.html     Updated: 15 Oct. 1998     ArDean Leith

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