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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.

This report describes the 2012 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. Now in its sixth year, the two-day symposium (formerly a one-day workshop) was held in October in Cambridge, MA. The event brought together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government and a range of disciplines for in-depth discussions in an informal atmosphere. The symposium attracted 75 attendees, over a third of which were from industry. New for this year, we accepted full papers that will be archived and published in the ACM Digital Library. We continued the HCIR Challenge, this year focusing on the problem of people and expertise finding, five in-depth system demonstrations, and audience selection of a challenge winner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Information Retrieval and Advertising Workshop (IRA 2009) was held on July 23, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts, in conjunction with the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. The workshop covered theoretical and empirical issues in several research areas that span the intersection of computational advertising, information retrieval, and economics. The workshop consisted of 3 invited talks, 6 refereed paper presentations, 2 positions statement presentations and several discussion sessions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the highlights of a workshop on learning to rank for information retrieval at the 2009 Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Among the keynote speakers were Paul B. Kantor of Rutgers University and Olivier Chapelle of Yahoo Research. One of the paper presented during the workshop was "Efficient and Accurate Local Learning for Ranking" by Somnath Banerjee and colleagues.

The article presents information on the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBs) that was held in the mock Elizabethan setting of the Sheraton-Tara Hotel in Framingham, Massachusetts on September 22-24, 1975. The three SIGS (SIGBDP, SIGIR, and SIGMOD) along with the RAND Corp. cosponsored the conference. The conference emphasized on the large aspects of VLDB. Most of the papers focused on the issue of what distinguishes VLDBs from smaller databases. The success of the conference has urged the 2nd Annual International Conference on VLDBs to be organized in Europe in 1976.

Focuses on the copyright lawsuit filed by Lotus Development Corporation against Paperback Software in Boston, Massachusetts. Interpretation on the decision of Judge Keeton on the case; Effects of the decision on the development of competitive software products; Historical background of the companies.

On July 23, 2009 the SIGIR Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation was held as part of SIGIR in Boston. The program consisted of four keynotes, a boaster and poster session with 20 accepted papers, four breakout groups, and a final panel discussion of the breakout group reports. This report outlines the events of the workshop and summarizes the major outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the "25th Anniversary Conference" of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which would be held in Boston, from August 14-16, 1972. Adrian Ruyle, ACM 72 general conference chairman, states that meeting would be a showcase of what ACM is doing now: it will reflect the full range of ACM's presents interests and activities. The Technical Program would be a coordination of the efforts of ACM's 27 Special Interest Groups and Special Interest Committees. The Commercial Program, offered in lieu of exhibits, will aim to cover current developments in the business sector of data processing. John. J. Donovan, chairman of the ACM 72 Technical Program Committee, states that the committee planned the technical program with three goals in mind: to help the professionals and students; to serve knowledgeable professionals by providing high quality, advanced technical sessions; to reduce the time lag between the generation of results and their public presentation by having immediate state-of-the-art sessions.

The article presents a calendar of events and meetings related to the computer industry. The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) 75 annual conference will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during October 20-22, 1975. The Second National Symposium on the Management of Data Elements in Information Processing, will be held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, during October 23-24,1975. ASIS Annual Meeting will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, during October 26-30, 1975. The 13th Annual Meeting Association for Computational Linguistics will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, from October 30 to November 1, 1975.

This article announces several events related to communication, including the Advance Program Available for Summer Simulation Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, The First European Conference on Computational Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, and two Symposium on Pedagogic Languages with Small Computers in Lawrence, Kansas.

This article presents information about the upcoming meetings and events related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Association for Symbolic Logic are cosponsoring a symposium on "Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science" in New York during April 5-7, 1966. The Symposium is being held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in conjunction with the AMS Meeting. The seventh international meeting of the SDS Users Group will be held during April 28-30 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting will include panel discussions on real-time computer systems, simulation, and time sharing. Hardware and software reports will be presented by the SDS staff. Sol Zasluff, SDS manager of market support, will be one of several featured speakers. The 18th semi-annual meeting of TUG, the Philco 2000 group, will be held at Newpurter Inn in Newport Beach, California during April 13-14. Host for the meeting will be Andre White, manager of the digital computer department at the Aeronutrunic Division of Philco Corp. in Newport Beach

The article discusses the highlights of a workshop on search and social media at the 2009 Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) conference in Boston, Massachusetts. The workshop aims to bring together information retrieval and social media researchers. Joseph Konstan of the University of Minnesota discussed the creation and organization of information through online communities.

This article gives details about a computer software that allows physicians in one hospital to instantly access patient records in another. A utility that seems obviously desirable and long overdue, is being developed by W3Health Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts. The software is designed to overcome the medical profession's myriad standards barriers that complicate data transfer as well as concerns about medical-record privacy by integrating disparate systems with a simple web browser while running a sophisticated security protocol. The software is still far from a market analysts and health-care executives estimate will be worth over $1 billion in the next few years.

The article offers information on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1972 Conference that was held in Boston, Massachusetts on August 14-16, 1972. About 1,600 attended the event, who were offered a broad technical program, tutorial sessions, panels and workshops. The sessions that drew crowds were the Turing Lecture during the opening session, the Silver Anniversary dinner, and a panel discussion on user experience with virtual memory systems. Among speakers featured were Turing Lecturer Edsger W. Dijkstra and editor and publisher of "Computers and Automation," Edmund C. Berkeley.

The article focuses on computer hardware hacking and the methods and rationales for this practice. A computer hardware hacker operates in a mode that is the opposite of an academic researcher, the author argues. The author focuses on the hacking work of Andrew Huang while he was a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Huang worked on taking apart the hardware of Microsoft's original Xbox game device in 2001. His work identified potential security vulnerabilities of the device and gave Microsoft insight into what computer hackers may choose to do with such devices.

The article focuses on the Fourth annual computer bowl, a quiz competition presented by the Association for Computing machines (ACM) at the Park Plaza Castle in Boston, Massachusetts. This quiz is devoted to raising funds for the Computer Museum's educational programs. Half of the questions were contributed by ACM members. The quiz comprises of eight rounds. Some of the questions asked in the quiz are: In the movie 2001: Space Odyssey the HAL 9000 computer indicated when it first started operating. According to the movie, would HAL be operational right now?; Toy company giant MatteI tried to enter the personal computer business many years ago but its entry died an early death. What was the name of the Mattel computer?; C ++ has become a popular programming language. Where was C ++ first developed?; What is the name of the DOS command that finds logical errors in the file system?; A well known computer industry personality stated famous software development law as follows: "Adding manpower to a software project makes it later." Who said that?

The article presents a type of distributed computer system that looks toward the time when computers will be used by everyone everywhere. This new system is designed to provide sophisticated information services to an entire metropolitan area. The engineers have combined digital broadcast channels and duplex communication channels in a polychannel system that uses predicate based database content labels to automatically route queries. The thesis is that a polychannel system produces substantial cost and system scaling advantages while retaining the flexibility of client-server style duplex communication. Experimental data from a two year test of the Boston Community Information System (BCIS) with hundreds of users supports this thesis. The overall goal of the BCIS project is to explore a new type of computer system architecture capable of providing sophisticated information services to every home and office in a city of perhaps a million people. As part of the project the engineers have designed and implemented a system that addresses this goal, and tested it on a sample population in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

This article presents information about meetings which will be held in the year 1985. The Ada Fair 85 will be held on June 15 in Los Angeles, California. The 12th International Symposium on Computer Architecture will be held during June 17-19 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Fourth International Conference on Systems Documentation will be held during June 19-21 in Ithaca, New York. The 1985 American Control Conference will be held during June 19-21 in Boston, Massachusetts. The FTCS-15: 15th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing will be held in June 19-21. The ACM SIGOA Workshop Fundamental Issues in Office Automation will be held in June 23-25. The 22nd Design Automation Conference will be held during June 23-26. The SIGPLAN 85: Symposium on Language Issues in Programming Environments will be held during June 28-29 in Seattle, Washington. The IEEE Workshop on Languages for Automation: Cognitive Aspects in Information Processing will be held during June 28-29 in Palma de Mallorca Island, Spain. The International Workshop on Times Petri nets will be held during July 1-3 in Torino, Italy.

This article reports that the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC) will be held at Prudential Center in Boston, Massachusetts during April 26-28, 1966. All of the SJCC activities will be carried on in the Sheraton-Boston Hotel and War Memorial Auditorium, which are adjoining buildings with direct, interior connection. Registration booths, exhibits, the Science Theatre and most technical sessions will be located in the auditorium. All registration fees include admission to the technical sessions and exhibits. Members and non-members will receive a copy of the conference proceedings at no additional cost. The proceedings may be claimed any time during the conference at a distribution counter near the registration area by presenting the proceedings stub attached to the registration badge. A highlight of every Joint Computer Conference is the opportunity to view the latest wares of leading manufacturers and industry service organizations. Many new products and concepts have been introduced to the public at these key gatherings, providing attendees with first-hand information that can have an important bearing on their work and the plans of their firms.

The article presents news items related to the computer industry. Research institute, SRI International, is working with the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories on a research project related to supercomputers. International Business Machines Corp. has awarded state-of-the-art computer systems to 20 universities. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts are trying to develop a multi-processing computers.

The article discusses the highlights of the Redundancy, Diversity and Interdependent Document Relevance workshop at the 2009 Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) conference in Boston, Massachusetts. The workshop aims to address how ranking, performance assessment and learning to rank can progress beyond the assumption that the relevance of a document is independent of other documents. The workshop was divided into four sessions including Axioms and Evaluations, Algorithms, Evaluation and Collection Building.

This article focuses on the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) of the National Science Foundation/Industry University Collaborative Research Centers program. CIIR was started at the University of Massachusetts in 1993 to do research and technology transfer in the area of distributed, text-based information systems. The center relies on government and industrial partners, in addition to federal funding. The goals of the CIIR include the development of advanced techniques for text analysis and retrieval, and the integration of those techniques with other data management techniques in distributed environments. The term text-based information system is used to describe a system which supports applications with databases containing mainly text. The CIIR supports research projects in areas such as advanced retrieval techniques, indexing and natural language processing, routing and filtering and browsing and query formulation. A number of digital library projects involving collaboration between the CIIR and its members are underway. For CIIR, a digital library application is synonymous with a distributed, text-based, multimedia information system. The initial prototype of the American Memory project with the Library of Congress has used a Mosaic interface that incorporates some aspects of an advanced text retrieval. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Commerce is working with the CIIR to provide access to the National Trade Database and related information.

The article presents a calendar of international events related to computing machinery from July 1971 to November 1972. The International Symposium on the Theory of Machines and Computations will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel from August 16 to 19, 1971. The Summer Computer Simulation Conference will be held at the Sheraton-Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts from July 19 to 21, 1971. The First European Conference on Computational Physics will be held in Geneva, Switzerland from April 10 to 14, 1972.

Web appliances stripped-down computers primed for Internet access-"won't deliver" and aren't cheap enough, says Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts. Forrester says the electronic devices, costing about $500 and touted by Oracle, Sun Microsystems and other computer makers, are simply overpriced and underpowered.

This article presents news and events related to computing products. A new, large scale memory system operating at 3 cycle time of 650nsec will he demonstrated for the first time at the Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC) in Boston, during April 20-28, by Electronic Memories. Visitors at the SJCC Conference in Boston, Massachusetts April 26-28, will be invited to participate in a demonstration of a Control Data computerized information system. The demonstration will utilize Control Data 210 Visual Display System, with six Control Data 211 Entry/Display Stations, and Control Data 160A Computer. Demonstrations at the Control Data exhibit will also feature four Control Data 6060 Remote Calculators linked to a computer in Los Angeles; Control Data 915 Page Reader; and the Control Data 6090 Remote Station, linked to computer in Minneapolis.