Computational chemistry, as a discipline, is still growing steadily. Although it has historically been aligned with physical chemistry, computational chemistry
has taken on a vibrant life of its own and spread into other domains of chemical
research and education. In some disciplines such as organic chemistry, molecu-
lar modeling has almost become a part of the regular routine of research. Other
disciplines, such as polymer chemistry, have only recently begun to integrate
computational approaches to solving problems. At the 1992 Spring National
American Chemical Society meeting, 20% of the 636 presentations in the
polymer division were classified as modeling and computer simulation. At that
same meeting, fully 70% of the exposition workshops involved computational
chemistry. One may argue that this is because computers are easy to carry to
conventions, but we maintain that there is great interest in computational
chemistry because it is a "hot" field. This ACS meeting is not exceptional.