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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 Previously unpublished papers in all areas of computer graphics and interactive techniques are sought.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 presents information on the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) study of the offshoring of software jobs, a large and thorough examination that summarizes current research in the field. The impressive effort is the culmination of work from ACM's Job Migration Task Force led by Moshe Varde and Frank Mayadas with Bill Aspray as editor and main author. 30 volunteers--both computer scientists and social scientists--from eight countries and many disciplines, were included in the committee contributing to this report. A third of ACM's members live outside of North America, and that fraction is likely to grow in the future. Some jobs will be lost, even if a nation as a whole gains from offshoring. New jobs are also being created in information technology, however, they may require new skill sets. The report offers hints at what individuals can do in developed and developing nations either to benefit from offshoring or not be harmed by it. The risks that offshoring may pose to privacy, security and intellectual property are also explored by the report.

The ACM Fellows Program was established by the U.S.-based Association of Computing Machinery's (ACM) Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership as the world of information technology evolves. The ACM Council endorsed the establishment of a Fellows Program and provided guidance to the ACM Fellows Committee, taking the view that the program represents a concrete benefit to which any ACM Member might aspire and provides an important source of role models for existing and prospective ACM Members. A list of 34 men and women honored as ACM Fellows is presented. These ACM Fellows have made critical contributions toward and continue to exhibit extraordinary leadership in the development of Information Age and will be inducted at the ACM Awards Banquet on May 15, 1999, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.