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In this article, various experts on computer science (CS) offer guides relating to the best of CS research. Particular focus is given to how to determine what papers are worth taking the time to read. Additional topics discussed include the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), how datacenters are changing the way Web servers are designed and the notion of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

The article offers the author's comments on a proposal by the Publications Board of the Association for Computing Machinery to bring together conference papers and publishing of journal articles on computer science research. According to the author, compared to journal reviewing, conference process has clear advantages that this proposal maintains.

Excerpts from blogs posted on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Web site are presented, as well as reader comments related to the blogs, on topics such as reading academic research papers, encouraging students to create computer programs, and the significance of Web visibility.

The article presents information on the professional activities of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Papers describing original research are sought for the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, which is scheduled to be held from April 25, 1983 to April 27, 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: algorithms and data structures; automata and formal languages; computability; complexity theory, etc. A call for participation has been issued for the Tenth Annual Conference of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, which is scheduled to be held from July 25, 1983 to July 29, 1983 in Detroit, Michigan. Submissions are invited for both technical program paper and panel sessions. Previously unpublished papers in all areas of computer graphics and interactive techniques are sought. Appropriate topics include display techniques; graphics software systems and languages; graphics hardware; robotics; and any applications of graphics. Video or film material that is an integral component of the work must accompany the paper.

The article reports on some professional activities taking place in the United States related to computer science. As a cooperative venture undertaken by 15 organizations, the "National Educational Computing Conference," held in Kansas City, Missouri, has presented a major work regarding computers in instruction to promote interaction among all levels in computer uses in education. It also intends to develop and coordinate the various professional groups involved with computer uses in instruction and to produce a proceedings documenting the status of computers in education. Papers are invited from individuals representing all academic disciplines and research areas in educational computing. It further reports that papers describing original research in the formal analysis of computing problems are being sought for the "Fourteenth Annual Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Theory of Computing," held during May 5-7, 1982, in San Francisco, California. The Fifteenth Annual Simulation Symposium is to be held during March 17-19, 1982, in Tampa, Florida. The list contains information about some other activities as well.

The article offers advice on how to make the field of computing more inclusive. Particular focus is given to how this relates to the work of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Additional topics discussed include making technology accessible for people with disabilities, SIGCHI, the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, and a telepresence robots.

The article discusses the forthcoming events related to computer science. Focusing on "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer Science Conference," it states that software engineering, fifth generation computers, and artificial intelligence are among the topics to be covered at the 1986 ACM Computer Science Conference. The conference is to be held during February 4-6, 1986, in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is further added that the "Second Annual ACM Northeast Regional Conference" is planned for October 28-30, 1985, in Framingham, Massachusetts. The conference theme is "Integrating the Information Workplace: The Key to Productivity." Focusing on yet another conference the article states that "Eurit 86; European Conference on Information Technology in Education," is to be held during May 20-23, 1986, in Enschede, Netherlands is to deal with the development of educational software and courseware.

The article discusses work to preserve the history of the Association for Computing Machinery, which was started in 1947 to provide a platform for computer scientists to share their research. The history of the association must be examined in conjunction with the broader topics of computer science, scientific computing, and the use of computers in business. The author examines these sources for the history of the association in an effort to determine what led to its creation and why the organization has been so successful.

This article offers information on the Computing Practices section of the magazine "Communications of the ACM." The section focuses on articles with a message about general ideas and techniques that can be transferred from one place to another. Instead of technical papers, the section concentrates on discussions of how, what, why and when to use the computing methods and systems. Topics that cover areas of interest to readers of the section include improvement of the systems design process, future of computing, and implication of new theory to application systems.

The article presents a calendar of activities for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) conference will be held on November 11 to 14 in Reno, Nevada. The ACM SIGGRAPH sponsors the Computational Geometry conference on June 5 to 7 in Baltimore, Maryland. The ACM SIGOPS Workshop will be held on January 28 to 30 in Ruschlikon, Switzerland.

This article lists open computer science meetings that will be held henceforth on a no-for-profit basis. All these meeting will be sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Some of the events listed out here are: "Computers in Elementary Education," on March 20-21, 1980; "Conference on Mathematical Models for Energy and Public Policy," on May 19-23, 1980; "12th Annual Conference of the Society for Management Information Systems," on September 22-25, 1980; "Eighteenth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing," on October 8-10, 1980.

The article presents a review of the changing image of the periodical "Computing Surveys." During the last 2 years, Computing Surveys has introduced short, 2-page papers to complement the long 30- to 50- page traditional papers. Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)'s 50th anniversary year was commemorated with two special issues, one on perspectives in computing (March, 1996), examining current technology and one on strategic directions in computing (December, 1996) looking towards the future. The December, 1996 issue of the periodical demonstrates the feasibility of joint hard copy/electronic publication. It is economically feasible to publish a 1000-page special issue of which about 300 pages appear in hard copy and the remainder electronically. The ACM electronic repository in www.acm.org will increasingly supplement its hard-copy publications with electronic value. One of the side effects of short articles is to make "Computing Surveys" more participatory. Another participatory activity designed to recognize student talent is the ACM student paper competition.

The article presents some abstracts of papers related to computer science which appeared in the publications of the Association for Computing Machinery. The first abstract entitled "A Complexity Theory Based on Boolean Algebra," by S. Skyum and L.G. Valiant, was published in the April 1985 issue of the "Journal of the ACM." According to the paper, a projection of a Boolean function is a function obtained by substituting for each of its variables a variable, the negation of a variable, or a constant. The abstract entitled"Optimal Static Load Balancing in Distributed Computer Systems," by Asser N. Tantawi and Don Towsley, was published in the April 1985 issue of the "Journal of the ACM." According to this paper, a distributed computer system that consists of a set of heterogeneous host computers connected in an arbitrary fashion by a communications network is considered. A general model is developed for such a distributed computer system, in which the host computers and the communications network are represented by product-form queuing networks.

A calendar of events for the Association for Computing Machinery is offered. The Sixth Australian Computer Science Conference will be held in Sydney from February 10-12, 1983. From August 23-26, the International Conference on Parallel Processing will take place in Michigan. National Computer Conference will be conducted in California from May 16-19, 1983.

The article lists several publications from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Some of them are Proceedings of the Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems; Abstracts of the 1982 ACM Computer Science Conference; The Papers of the Thirteenth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education; 1981 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings; ACM 81 Conference Proceedings; Proceedings of the 1981 Conference on Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture.

The article presents information on forthcoming events related to computer science. A two-day Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Workshop in microprogramming will be held in Bedford, Massachusetts, October 7-8,1968. The ACM is sponsoring the workshop in cooperation with the Mitre Corp. The purpose of the workshop is to answer a need for discussing developments in microprogramming and its application with third generation equipment. The Instrumentation Society of America will sponsor the 1968 Research Conference on Instrumentation Science, July 29 - August 2, 1968, on the campus of Quinnipiac College, Hamden, Coinnecticut. The preliminary program and call for papers for the International Congress on Scientific Information, to be held in conjunction with the 34th International Federation for Documentation Conference in Moscow, Soviet Union, September 9-18, 1968 have been announced by the Soviet Organizing Committee. All individuals concerned with problems of scientific information are invited to participate.

The article presents abstracts of research papers related to computer science, which have been published in various publications of the Association for Computing Machinery. The research paper "Complexity of Network Synchronization," examines the problem of simulating a synchronous network by an asynchronous network. A new simulation technique, referred to as a synchronizer, which is a new, simple methodology for designing efficient distributed algorithms in asynchronous networks, has been proposed. The synchronizer exhibits a trade-off between its communication and time complexities, which is proved to be within a constant factor of the lower bound. The article "How to Assign Votes in a Distributed System," discusses distributed processing. In a distributed system, one strategy for achieving mutual exclusion of groups of nodes without communication is to assign to each node a number of votes. Only a group with a majority of votes can execute the critical operations, and mutual exclusion is achieved because at any given time there is at most one such group.

The article presents some abstracts of papers related to computer science which appeared in other publications of the Association for Computing Machinery . The abstract entitled "Generating Binary Trees Using Rotations," by David Zerling, was published in the July 1985 issue of the "Journal of the ACM." In this paper, the authors developed a new algorithm that, for the first time, exploited the rotational geometry of binary trees to enable to lexicographically generate the computer representations of these trees in average time O(1) per tree. The abstract entitled "Uniform Hashing is Optimal," by Andrew C. Yao, was published in the July 1985 issue of the "Journal of the ACM." The abstract entitled "Adding Range Restriction Capability to Dynamic Data Structures," by Dan E. Willard and George S. Lueker, was published in the July 1985 issue of the "Journal of the ACM." According to this paper, a database is said to allow range restrictions if one may request that only records with some specified field in a specified range be considered when answering a given query.

A calendar of events related to computer science in North America from March 1984 to June 1985 is presented. The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Southeast Region is holding its 1984 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data will be held in Boston, Massachusetts.

This article reports on recent developments related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Nominating Committee is preparing to nominate candidates for Regional Representatives to Council from the Northeast, North Central, Pacific, and South Central regions. The elected representatives--one from each region--will serve a three-year term effective from June 1, 1975. The Special Interest Group on Computer Uses in Education has proposed two sessions for ACM 74. A session of four technical papers has been proposed. These four papers exhibit a rich variety of types of computer use in learning. One emphasizes the technique of artificial intelligence. Another paper by a Japanese author describes an ambitious computer managed system. The third paper illustrates a system that couples tape recorders to a minicomputer. And the fourth paper suggests the important role of the computer in self-paced courses. A new Committee on International Scientific and Technical Information Programs has been established within the Commission on International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council.

The article presents information on various chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) across the U.S. The Greater Rio Grande Chapter of ACM has recently extracted from its files a list of the titles of all technical papers presented at Chapter meetings since its inception in 1957. Using a program developed by D.K. Robbins of Sandia Corp., a KWIC-type listing of permuted titles of these papers has been made. This listing has been distributed to all members of the Chapter. Topics and speakers at ACM Chapters across the U.S. indicate the current trends of interest in computer science and data processing. The ACM Tidewater Chapter is sponsoring this spring a professional development course on "Real-Time Computing." The course is given by the Chapter's professional development chairman, Cecil Frost, who is applications staff specialist for Control Data Corp. At its April 21, 1966 meeting, the Westchester-Fairfield Chapter heard William Orchard-Hays speak on "Linear Programming of Computational Techniques."

The article presents news related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Charles W. Gullotta has been appointed Chairman of the ACM Accreditation Committee by President Walter M. Carlson, to succeed Carl Hammer. The Accreditation Committee has been particularly active in the programmer training area, concerning itself with the creation of proper guidelines for trade school accreditation. The enthusiasm generated by the call for papers issued in early November 1970, for ACM 1971, the ACM annual conference, is evidenced by an unusually large early response. According to Melvyn H. Schwartz, Technical Program Chairman, 265 notices of intentions to submit papers have been received. Alan J. Perlis has been appointed by Yale University to be the first Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science. He will join the university's computer science department, effective July 1, 1971. The chair which he will occupy is named after Eugene Higgins, who was responsible for the establishment of trusts for the advancement of science at several major universities.

A list of the special reports of the proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is presented. The list includes Proceedings of the SIGIR-SIGARCH-SIGMOD Third Workshop on Computer Architecture for Non-Numeric Processing, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Computer Personnel Research Conference and Proceedings of the Fifth Data Communications Symposium.

Presents several letters to the editor. Comment on the article "Approximating Block Accesses in Database Organizations," published in the April 1977 issue of the periodical; Provision of an advanced test in Computer Science by the Graduate Record Examination Board; View that the decisions made about the Association of Computing machinery publications may have a great impact on the future of the Association.

The article focuses on the death of Edmund C. Berkeley, principal founder of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the preservation of Berkeley's records and papers at the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) in the University of Minnesota. The records date from the 1940s and contain correspondence, memoranda and subject files on the ethical use of computers, education in computing and computer programming languages. The author described the aim of the CBI to preserve valuable historical records and collections relating to computer organizations and professionals.

The article presents news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Focusing on 1985 regional representatives election results, it states that regional representatives have been elected to serve from July 1, 1985, to June 30, 1988. Herbert Maisel has been appointed chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on Inter-society Liaison. Maisel is also a Council Member-at-Large and the chairman of the External Activities Board. The Berlin Continuing Engineering Education Program is offering its fall series of seminars on industrial electronics and robotics in Berlin. At its March 13, 1985 meeting the Executive Committee of the ACM approved joint membership agreements with the "Beigisch Instituut voor Regeltechniek en Automatizering" (BIRA). These agreements will take effect from July 1, 1985. Members of the BIRA are accepted as voting Members of ACM. It also notes that the technical contributions appearing in the ACM journals are normally original papers that have not been published elsewhere. Widely disseminated conference proceedings and newsletters are a form of publication, although they are usually only semi archival and are often unrefered.

Discusses a proposed reorganization of the Computer Systems Department of the Association for Computing Machinery. Information that the department has been divided into two sub-departments: Computer Architecture and Measurement, and Performance Evaluation; Functions and roles of the departments; Information on the steps taken by the association for the publication of valuable papers related to the field of computer science in the periodical "Communications of the ACM."

The article offers news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Council approved a new annual Doctoral Dissertation Award which will be eligible for doctoral theses in computer science and related fields. David Gries, an American scientist, was chosen to participate in a Distinguished Scholar Exchange Program with the People's Republic of China. A Chapter Officers Training workshop to be held on February 8, 1982 is offered by the ACM Committee.

A calendar of professional activities by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1981 is presented. The ACM will conduct its International Workshop on Chinese Library Automation in February 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan. The association's 16th Annual Western Regional Conference will take place in San Francisco, California from March 25-27, 1981. Saint Louis, Missouri will host the ACM Annual Computer Science Conference from February 24-26, 1981. The association will also conduct its Thirteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in May 1981.

The article presents a list of papers, courses and magazines downloaded, in July 2005, from the Association of Computing Machinery's digital library. Some of the papers that were downloaded are: "Architectures for a Temporal Workflow Management System," by Carlo Combi, Giuseppe Pozzi and published in the March 2004 issue of the journal "Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing"; and "The Google File System," by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff and Shun-Tak Leung and published in the October 2003 issue of the journal "Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles." Some of the courses that were downloaded are: Introduction to the Java Programming Language; UML Fundamentals; Data Modeling; Beginning to Program With the Java Programming Language; Project Management: Initiation and Plan Launch; and Basic Programming in C.

The article presents information on recent developments related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Nominating Committee is preparing to nominate candidates for Regional Representatives to Council from the North Central, Northeast, Pacific, and South Central regions. The elected representatives--one from each region--will serve a three-year term effective July 1, 1981. Bernard A. Gailer, professor of Computer and Communication Sciences and Associate Director of the Computing Center at the University of Michigan, is this year's recipient of the ACM Distinguished Service Award, given to an individual each year in recognition of long-term service to the computing community and to ACM. Robert M. Metcalfe, President, 3Com Corp. of Menlo Park, California, is the recipient of the 1980 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to recognize computing achievements by persons before their 30th birthday. Joyce Currie Little has been elected chairman of the ACM Nominating Committee by its members for a one-year term ending June 30, 1981.

This article presents a list of various upcoming events and conventions related to the field of computer science. Some of the events, listed here, are sponsored and cooperated by the Association for Computing Machinery. The convention titled "Computers in Cardiology" is reported to be held during September 26-28, 1979, in Geneva, Switzerland. The SIGUCC User Services Conference VII will, reportedly, be held in Los Angeles, California, during September 30-October 3, 1979. A symposium under the title "Dynamics and Modeling of Reactive Systems," reportedly, will be held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, during October 22-24, 1979. The Conference on Application Development Systems is scheduled to be held in Santa Clara, California, during March 9-11, 1980. The 5th Workshop on Computer Architecture for Non-Numeric Processing will be held in Pacific Grove, California, during March 11-14, 1980. The Symposium on Research and Development in Information Retrieval will be held in Cambridge, England, during June 23-27, 1980.

A calendar of international events related to computing from March to November 1982 is presented. The First Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Security, Audit and Control in Office Systems will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri. The Computer Network Performance Symposium will be held in Washington, D.C. The ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing will be held in Ottawa, Ontario.

The article offers news briefs on issues related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as of March 1972. Experts who attended a conference to review the report of the ACM Curriculum Committee for Computer Education for Management have agreed that ACM's proposed graduate curriculum programs in information systems are relevant to industry needs. The Columbia River Basin Chapter of the ACM has voted to disband since the chapter has been inactive.

The article discusses the Association for Computing Machinery, which was founded in 1947 to promote the sharing of research between computer scientists working in the United States. The association was founded after Howard Aiken from the Harvard Computational Laboratory organized a symposium to gather people who were interested in sharing their activities and knowledge about computer science. The popularity of the conference revealed that a method to promote robust communication in the field was required.

The article discusses the role of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers--Computer Society (IEEE-CS) in the education and professionalization of computer scientists. It mentions the growth of subdisciplines in the field. the spread of computing into other disciplines, and the conflict between academic and practical applications.

The article presents information on several conferences of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the U.S. in 1985, including the 23rd Annual Conference of the Southeast Region in Nashville, Tennessee from April 14 to 16, the 2nd Annual Computer Science Symposium on Computer Vision: Motion and Representation in Columbia, South Carolina on April 18 and the International Test Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 1 to 3.

The article presents information on the professional activities of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). An ad hoc Joint Committee on Retraining for Computer Science has been established by the ACM and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The committee is charged with advising persons who wish to develop retraining programs and offering guidelines to the ACM and the MAA on the institution of additional retraining programs. A conference sponsored by the Sloan Foundation gave impetus to forming the committee. The conference addressed specific training programs. Selected on the basis of significant service to the ACM, the Outstanding Contribution Award recipient is professor Fred Harris of the University of Chicago. The ACM cited Harris for helping insure the Association's effective and valuable participation in establishing and operating the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals. The Institute is a nonprofit organization established for the purpose of testing and certifying the knowledge and skills of computing personnel.

The article presents information related to the winners of various awards in computer science. The winner of the 1977 Turing Award is John Backus of International Business Machines Corp. Presented to an individual selected for his contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community, the Turing Award is Association of Computing Machinery's (ACM) most prestigious technical award. It is being given to Backus for profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on Fortran, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages. The ACM Council has voted to double the amount of the Turing Award to $2000 effective with the next winner. The requirements on the part of the recipient, to give a lecture at the annual ACM meeting and to present a paper for publication, remain the same.

The article offers news briefs related to computers. Charles Bradshaw, director of the Computer Center at Vanderbilt University, has been named chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Awards Committee. The ACM Constitution has been designed for such public activities such as computer science information programs, fellowship awards, analyses of manpower requirements, and general interest publications.

A calendar of events for the Association for Computing Machinery is presented. The 1975 Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science will take place in California from October 13-15. From November 19-21, 1975, the 5th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles will be conducted in Austin, Texas. The Compcon 76 Spring will be held in California from February 24-26, 1976.

The editor-in-chief of the scholarly publication "Communications of the ACM" announces that the June 2022 edition would be his last in that position, and discusses highlights from his time as editor-in-chief including the establishment of Regional Special Sections (RSS), the "Computing Enabled Me To..." feature, and the quality of regular features and research-oriented articles.