The papers assembled in this book were presented at the biannual Symposium of the International Association for Statistical Computing in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in August 1992. This congress maintains the tradition of providing a forum for the open discussion of progress made in computer oriented statistics and the dissemination of new ideas throughout the statistical community. The papers are published in two volumes according to the emphasis of the topics: volume 1 gives a slight leaning towards statistics and modelling, while volume 2 concentrates on computation. This volume discusses the following topics and perspectives grouped in eight parts: programming environments; computational inference; package developments; experimental design; image processing and neural networks; meta data; survey design; and data base.