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The article informs that members of the Association for Computing Machinery's annual national conference are happy with the caliber and quantity of the papers received by them for the conference which will be held on August 24-26, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. Two years ago, the intensive technical refereeing process was introduced for screening papers for ACM national conferences. Technical papers will be given importance in the conference for the educational benefit of students. Public relations chairman for the conference Raymond F. Hitti is cooperating with professor Lewis Winner in planning the conference.

Invites several research papers for conferences related to computer architecture by the Association for Computing Machinery.

This section presents news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the U.S. Editor-in-chief William S. Dorn is soliciting papers for the tutorial and survey journal of the ACM. The ACM has decided to reprint "Proceedings of the Decision Tables Symposium, 1926." Paul Armer of RAND Corp. was elected president of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies.

The article presents an overview of a series of papers presented at the third Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. They include "TENEX: A Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10," by D. G. Bobrow and colleagues, "Synchronization of Communicating Processes," by A. Nico Habermann, "Properties of the Working Set Model," by Peter J. Denning and Stuart C. Schwartz, and "An Operating System Based on the Concept of a Supervisory Computer," by R. S. Gaines.

Introduces a series of papers presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's Second Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation held on March 23-25, 1971, in Los Angeles, California. Members of the technical program committee; Titles of papers presented at the symposium.

This article presents information on the winning papers of the first annual ACM Communications Student Paper Competition organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). First place was given to the paper "Generating Parsers for Affix Grammars," by David R. Crowe of the University of British Columbia. The prize included $250 cash, a trip to ACM 72 to receive the award in person, and a three-year subscription to the ACM serial publication of his choice. Second place was given to the paper "Political Redistricting by Computer," by Robert E. Helbig, Patrick K. Orr, and Robert R. Roediger of Washington University. The prize included $150 cash, and for each author a three-year subscription to the ACM serial publication of his choice. Third place was given to the paper "An Extensible Editor for a Small Machine with Disk Storage," by Arthur J. Benjamin of Brandeis University. The prize included $100 cash, and a three-year subscription to the ACM serial publication of his choice. All of the refereeing of Competition papers was done by graduate students at various colleges and universities.

This article presents information on various activities organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The Fifth Annual Microprogramming Workshop will be held in the Illini Union of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 25 and 26. Sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Microprogramming and the 555 Computer Society, this workshop provides a leading forum where active workers in the microprogramming area can hear several formal papers and participate in informal discussion groups oriented to specific topics. Professor Daniel L. Slotnick, director of the Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be the featured speaker at a banquet on September 25; his topic will be "Parallel Processing." The 1973 San Diego Biomedical Symposium will be held January 31 through February 2, 1973, at the Sheraton-Harbor Island Hotel, San Diego, California. The Symposium theme will be "Innovations in Biomedicine." Technical papers appropriate to the following sessions are invited: aids to clinical care, modeling and analysis, interpretation and data reduction, scanning and image processing, information engineering, and general innovations.

The article presents a calendar of events related to computer science in 1972. A technical symposium will be sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) on Responsibilities of Computer Science Education in Saint Louis, Missouri, from March 24 to 25. The Fifth Annual Workshop on Microprogramming will be held in Urbana, Illinois, from September 25 to 26.

The article offers information about the 21st National Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery to be held in Los Angeles, California, from August 30 to September 1, 1966.

The article informs about some activities of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM's Washington D.C. Chapter's 1973 Technical Symposium will take place at the National Bureau of Standards, Oaithersburg, Maryland, on June 21. Program Chairman is Helmut E. Thiess. The article also informs that the 4th Annual Symposium of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Systems Installation Management is scheduled for October 18-19 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Papers are invited on the following topics: security; virtual systems evaluation; data entry systems-COM; personnel evaluation, measurement, and development; nonprofessional status of data processing personnel; job estimation; etc. The American Society of Indexers will hold its Second Annual All-Day Meeting on Saturday, April 28, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Editors, indexers, librarians and index users will participate in forums and speeches concerned with "Index Traps and Pitfalls: Human Generated/Computer Generated." Three speakers for the morning session include Jessica L. Harris, a professor.

The article offers information about activities related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). According to Micro 6 program Chairman Louise H. Jones, research papers have been received for the microprogramming workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Group of ACM. The 8th Annual Urban Symposium of the ACM will take place in New York City which aims to deliver a discussion to individuals who uses computers to solve problems of urban society. The new executive director of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies Inc. is Robert W. Rector.

A calendar of events for the Association for Computing Machinery from August 1973 to November 1974 is presented. The Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages to be held in Boston, Massachusetts on October 1-3, 1973. The 4th Symposium on Programming Languages Principles will be held in New York on October 15-17, 1973. The 6th National American Society of Civil Engineers Conference on Electronic Computation will be held in Atlanta, Georgia on August 7-9, 1974.

The article presents information about various conferences related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that will be held in the year 1972. The 1972 ACM Annual Conference will be held from August 14-16, 1972, in Boston, Massachusetts. A Symposium on Pedagogic Languages with Small Computers will be held from January 6-7, 1972, at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas under the joint sponsorship of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) and the KU Department of Computer Science. A USA-Japan Computer Conference will be held from October 3-5, 1972, in the Toshi Center in Tokyo, Japan. The Society for Information Display will hold its 1972 International Symposium and Exhibition in San Francisco, California from June 6-8, 1972. The ACM SIGPLAN has announced a two-day symposium on Two-Dimensional Man-Machine Communication to be held in Los Alamos, New Mexico, from October 5-6, 1972. The Third Annual Computer Chess Championship will be held at ACM 72 in Boston, Massachusetts from August 14-17, 1972.

The article presents information on various meetings to be held in the field of computing in 1971. The Southeastern Region of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is holding its Tenth Annual Conference in Mobile, Alabama on June 19, 2005 at the Admiral Semmes Hotel. The conference is being chaired by Ted E. Turner. The Washington Chapter of the ACM will hold its Tenth Annual Technical Symposium on June 24, 2005 at the National Bureau of Standards. The one-day symposium will consist of panel discussions and papers reviewing ten years of growth and change in the computing industry and looking into the future. The sixth annual ACM Urban Symposium will be held on October 29, 1971, at the New York Hilton Hotel. Sponsored by the New York Metropolitan Chapters of ACM, this Symposium brings together interested professionals from the computing field and from the urban problem areas, and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and information. The Technical Committee on Computer Architecture and the Midwest Area Committee of the IEEE Computer Society are co-Sponsoring a Workshop on Modular Computer Systems.

The article presents news related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The new position of Director of Administration has been established at ACM Headquarters and Joseph Saetta has been hired to fill it. The position collects into one department the activities of three units which were previously in different department. They are--first, the unit which handles all membership, subscription, and single copy transactions; second, the unit which handles purchasing, the stock room, and incoming and outgoing mail; and third, the accounting unit. The Second ACM Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation will be held on March 23-25, 1971, at the International Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation is sponsoring the symposium, with the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence as a co-sponsor. The symposium will cover developments in the field in the past five years. A number of sessions of contributed papers are scheduled, and approximately ten invited tutorial papers will survey key subject areas. The symposium will be of interest to users of both symbolic and manipulation systems as well as to system developers.

The article presents information on the First Student Paper Competition organized at Stanford, California by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Although launched barely two years ago, the Student Paper Competition is proving to be a constructive force in computer science education at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Editorial and refereeing activities undertaken by graduate students translate into a type of professional development experience that is enriching for the participants and healthy for the profession as a whole. The active participation of an equal if not larger number of undergraduate students who submitted papers for the competition attests to the stimulation for scientific and professional growth among students in computer science everywhere. George E. Forsythe, who was a pioneer and who encouraged many of his colleagues to work toward the development of a computer discipline of widespread scientific value, strongly favored promoting the Student Paper Competition to serve this end. As a computer science department chairman he had encouraged the active participation of students in academic and administrative affairs at Stanford University and also at ACM. This example was the inspiration for the plan that graduate students take active and major roles in the management of the Competition.

The article offers information on the 7th Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Urban Symposium to be held on October 27, 1972, the Advances in Computing symposium to be held on November 3, 1972, and the 1973 Summer Computer Simulation Conference to be held on July 17-19, 1973.

The article presents information on the conference sessions of the Association for Computing Machinery to be held in August 1971. Eight Special Interest Groups have arranged panel sessions. Topics of broad current interest will be explored. Advancements in the technology will be ensued, challenges will be issued, and solutions will be sought. Panelists will discuss the many hard economic and regulatory policy decisions which must be made within the framework of a broad overview of today's capital markets. Reports will be given on work in progress for various subjects areas and age levels, with particular attention paid to the contribution of computing professionals, techniques, or theory. A broad range of computer techniques and social applications will be considered including computer programming, data management, simulation, information retrieval, linguistic analysis, and computing systems design. The tutorial session Digital Communications Technology will cover recent advances in data communications technology. The panelists will discuss the important technical achievements of the last several years and their significance to system providers and users.

This article offers updates on issues concerning the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM president Walter M. Carlson announced the appointment of W. L. Konigsford as chairman of the Membership Committee. A technical conference will be co-sponsored by ACM and the U.S. Department of Commerce, which will be held during a solo exhibition of U.S. computers and services at the International Trade Center in Tokyo, Japan. Anita Cochran was appointed as chairman of the ACM Chapters Committee.

This article presents news briefs related to happenings at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). George Glaser, ACM treasurer, has reported to the Association's council at its November 1969 meeting that the financial position had improved by approximately $42,000 during the period June 30-September 30, 1969. The improvement was credited in considerable measure to Headquarters spending at less than budgeted amounts, although this involved limitations in operational capacity and resulting services. The late 1969 improved cash picture resulted in large part from the early payments of January membership renewals. Further, Gerard Salton, editor-in-chief of the "Journal of the ACM," has announced the impending retirement of four long-term editors of the journal whose terms of office expired on December 31, 1969: Professor Samuel D. Conte, who since 1964 has been an editor for numerical mathematics; Professor Robert M. Hayes, since 1960 the area editor for information retrieval; Professor E. J. McCluskey, since 1964 the area editor for switching theory and logical design; and Professor Anthony Ralston, the area editor for mathematics of computation since 1965.

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.

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.

The article presents news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery. Adrian Ruyle, chairman of the ACM 72 annual conference, reports that by the end of January 1972, the technical program committee had received more than 360 responses to the call for papers. About 60 of these came from overseas locations. Although at this time of reporting the form of the response is only the initial intention to submit a paper, the high volume augurs well for the meeting, which will be held August 14-16, 1972, at the Prudential Center in Boston. M. Stuart Lynn, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Communications of the ACM," has announced that Elliott I. Organick is the new editor for the Education department. Organick is filling the gap left when Peter Wegner resigned to accept a sabbatical at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Organick heads the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah. Frederick Hoar has been appointed chairman of the ACM Committee on Public Relations, as announced by Walter M. Carlson.

A list of upcoming conferences in computer programming as of March 1973 is provided. These include an interface conference by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) at Arden House on May 30 to June 1. The ACM North Central Region will hold a conference on virtual memories and systems at the La Salle Hotel in Chicago on May 18 to 19.

The article comments on the origin and history of publications in computing. Prior to the second World War, there was only disordered and infrequent publication about computing. The journals related to mathematics, science and engineering, carried occasional contributions concerning computations with mechanical aids. There was a scarce amount of publication concerning methods for efficient computing and the editors of the mathematical journals seemed to consider that papers concerning the process of actually dealing with complex numbers had insufficient content to justify publication by them. The publication started to increase in the early 1950s. A new journal was published in 1949, with the title "Digital Computer Newsletter of the Office of Naval Research," which provided a medium for the interchange among interested persons of information concerning recent developments in various digital computing projects. The first publications of the Association for Computing Machinery were the 1952 Proceedings of the Association meetings in Pittsburgh and Toronto.

The article presents news briefs concerning computer science and computer industry. The availability of the Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences 1970-71 is reported. The election of John Dorosk as chairman of the Joint Users Group is mentioned. The addition of new coverage as part of the expansion of the Group Insurance Program for individual Association for Computing Machinery members is revealed.

The article presents news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (AMC). A list of the newly appointed chairman of AMC chapters is presented, including Raymond R. Casey and C. D. Shephard. The AMC 70 Steering Committee is planning a data processing conference based on the concept that computers will meet the challenge of man's future. The American National Standards Committee X3, Computers and Information Processing held its first meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 22-23, 1970.

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 focuses on the Association for Computing Machinery annual conference to be held in Chicago, Illinois on August 3-5, 1971. The association will make it a memorable event with offerings to suit all the diverse tastes and interests of its broad membership and the computer community. A surprise highlight of the conference will be the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the invention of the prototype large-scale digital electronic computer ENIAC. The invention and pioneers of the industry will come together at the Conrad Hilton, where in two special sessions they will pay tribute to a quarter-century of progress and will forecast for the coming quarter-century. In addition, presentations of nine "single" papers have been individually scheduled in the program. Coordinated by nearby universities, interactive utilization of computers by high school students and continuous teaching of a Fortran subset will illustrate university-secondary school cooperation in computer education.

This article presents information on the technical meetings and workshops held by a number of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Groups and Committees during the Fall 1970 Joint Computer Conference in Houston, Texas. Among the more ambitious ACM-related events held in Houston was an evening panel session on Social Implications of Computer Technology. Sponsorship support came jointly from the ACM Special Interest Committee on Computers and Society, the Social Implications Committee of the IEEE Computer Group, and the AFIPS Social Implications Committee. The high caliber of the panelists was matched by that of the discussion which took place during the session. Shortly before the ACM Council authorized its conversion into a Group, the Special Interest Committee on File Description and Translation brought together representatives from commerce, industry, government and universities, meeting to exchange technical information on data description and access. Papers and discussions alike reflected interests going from the theoretical to the practical, and efforts ranging from individual projects to large committee undertakings.

The article presents information related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Jay Wright, technical program chairman for ACM66, has reported that the response to the "Call for Papers" has been good. Wright stated that 105 papers were submitted. David F. Weinberg, general conference chairman, has announced that plans for the meeting are taking shape under the able handling by the Conference Committee. The 1966 ACM Roster of membership information came off the press on April 8, 1966 reflecting the full membership as of the first of the year. The new Roster is a significant improvement over previous issues. Each entry, clearly and compactly printed, now gives the individual's title of address and also the earliest year when his present uninterrupted span of membership in ACM started. Auxiliary information includes ACM officers and Council members, ACM chapters with chairmen's names, a list of ACM Institutional members, and a listing of the geographical areas where ACM members are located--by country, state and city.

The article reports on the new policy recommended by Mario L. Juncosa, chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Editorial Board, at the ACM Council's meeting in Cleveland, Ohio over the concerns related to limited availability of papers presented at ACM national conferences that are published in ACM's journals. It mentions that the ACM policy is not in favor of duplicate publications and thus not allow publication in other journals that are widely available. The guidelines of the new policy recommended by Juncosa are mentioned.

The article offers news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the U.S. The United States of America Standards Institute Inc. (USASI) changed its name to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). A symposium on mathematical software will be held at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana will be held from April 1 -3, 1970. The Second Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing will be held in Northampton Massachusetts from May 4-6, 1970.

The article presents the program schedule of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference to be held in San Francisco, California on August 26-28, 1969. The opening remarks will be delivered by Conference Chairman Solomon L. Pollack, while ACM President Bernard Galler will deliver an address. Doctor Marvin Minsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present this year's A. M. Turing lecture. Topics to be discussed include visual prosthesis and generalized database management system.

The article focuses on the 29th annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM 74, to be held at the San Diego Convention Center, in November 1974, promises to be one of the most accommodating and exciting conferences ever held. The technical program chairman, David Bulman has designed the program to inform through controversy as well as exposition. ACM 74 will be a particularly well-balanced conference with virtually each special interest group (SIG) sponsoring one or more technical sessions. However, unlike previous ACM conferences, this one has more sessions provided through the SIG for Business Data Processing. The ACM SIG for Computers and the Physically Handicapped will underline the role of the computer in medicine with papers on "Modes of Information Presentation for the Blind Programmer," and "Computer Applications in Artificial Limb Research." For the fifth year, ACM will host the annual U.S. Computer Chess Championship Tournament in which computer programs meet in open competition.

The article presents information about recent developments in the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). For its 1973 Fall Scientific Meeting the ACM Northern New Jersey Computer Clubs and the Northern New Jersey Chapter presented a working demonstration of a Computer-Based Learning Center for the year 2001. Responsible for organizing the program was Phyllis Kaminer, who is chairman of the Northern New Jersey Chapter's Secondary School Club Program. Although the professional development seminars sponsored by the ACM Professional Development Committee have been discontinued, chapter sponsored seminars continue to flourish in New York and Washington. These seminars have been successful because they seldom compete with commercially offered seminars, the subjects are relevant to members' needs, good instructors are available locally and fees are relatively low.

The article offers news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM national chairman George Heller has certified the New Milford High School Computer Club as the first Secondary School Computer Club in Connecticut assisted by the association. Christophe Dupont and A. Kuevangueven were announced as winners of a student paper competition hosted by the French National Institute for Research in Computing and Automation.

The article focuses on the objectives of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 1970. The ACM's literature is its most basic service to its members. Not every ACM member attends chapter meetings regularly; only a fraction of the members attend national conferences. But every member regularly receives the ACM publications. It is suggested that a fair fraction of the issues for the next two years be assigned to the largest and most active Special Interest Groups (SIG). Each designated SIG would be responsible for selecting and obtaining subject matter for one such special issue. The process of organizing the technical program for national conferences needs overhauling. The "call for papers" philosophy too often results in mish-mash sessions. Panel sessions can be simply excuses for delivering full papers--which escape refereeing and do not appear in the proceedings. The Professional Development program has had a very successful first year. It has brought high quality technical seminars to many cities throughout the country. It needs continued support, so as to offer more subjects in more cities. How can the ACM better serve the business data processing community, which represents over one-half of the computer field, for this the ACM needs a much more vigorous program addressed to supporting the technical competence of these people.

The article discusses the latest developments related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). An interdepartmental Federal Government panel or task force has been organized by Burton W. Adkinson of the National Science Foundation's Office of Science Information Service to look into the scientific information activities of the U.S. The ACM Southeast region will offer prize for the best paper presented by an undergraduate at the national conference which is going to be held on August 24-26, 1965.

The article discusses the acceptance of National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) director Abe Silverstain to be the luncheon keynote speaker of Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) national conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Silverstain's scientific career has been entirely in the Federal government, devoted to aeronautical research and sciences. He helped formulate the organization and programs of the NASA. ACM expected that his remarks in the conference will concern man and machine.

The article offers news briefs regarding Association for Computing Machinery employees. ACM Council meeting changed to May 23, 1965. The Computing Reviews (CR) four-year KWIC Index offered free to new ACM members only until May 1, 1965. The Chairman of the Chapters Committee of ACM Dr. Robert W. Rector announces change of address.

The article provides news briefs concerning the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as of August 1970. The ACM Committee on Computing and Disadvantaged has received a grant from the Columbia University Urban Center in New York City. The association has established the ACM Distinguished Service Award. The 9th Annual Southeastern Regional Conference of the ACM was held in May.

This article presents information events related to the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). At ACM Professional Development Seminars offered during the past year, employees of Corporate Institutional Members were accorded to special discount price. The ACM Northeast Region will hold its first annual meeting on Friday, October 17, 1969, and Saturday morning, October 18, at the State University of New York at Albany. The theme of the conference will be "Programming Language Tutorials." A lecture series organized by the Johns Hopkins University and the Brookings Institution will be presented during 1969-1970 on the subject "Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest." The Second Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Committee on Automata and Computability Theory, will be held at Northampton, Massachusetts, on May 4-6, 1970. A three-day meeting beginning August 31, 1970, will be held at Purdue University, emphasizing the application of computers to problems involving the interaction between structural design and other aspects of civil engineering practice.

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.

Presents the author's views on the process and implications of standardization in the computer industry. Discussion of the process of standardization from the point of view of a professional individual; Discussion on the procedure, criteria, and settings of evaluating standards; Significance of the ability to use computers efficiently and economically from the perspective of national interest; Views of environmentalist J.A. Haddad on the need for insight into the so-called "ecology of standards"; Arguments against the desire of professionals for freedom to explore innovative solutions to their tasks without being forced to use standards; Role that the Association for Computing Machinery's Standards Committee has played for standardization in the concerned field.

The article focuses on the spring Joint Computer Conference that would be organized by Association for Computing Machinery on May 14-16 in Boston, Massachusetts. In this tempestuous age of societal upheaval, reawakening responsibility, and involvement, people everywhere are demanding solutions to, or relief from, the problems which beset the society. Another area the technical program emphasizes is computer graphics. Believed to be of greatest potential as the mechanism for man-machine communication, techniques and applications of computer graphics will be described. It will be pointed out that present hardware and software techniques for its use are being developed in an uncoordinated manner. The result is that communication about the level of achievement and development in computer graphics, particularly software, is poor. Increasingly, the forces, actions, and reactions propagated throughout the land by information processing technology are accelerating in social impact-- for better and for worse. At a panel entitled "URGENT--Increased Dialogue with Society" participants will establish the bases for the need for such discussions and will recommend specific actions to implement the expanded discourse.

This article presents news developments related to activities of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), as of June 1, 1966. All ACM members as of June 30, 1966 will automatically become full, professional, voting Members when the new membership qualifications of ACM go into effect on July 1st. To be eligible a candidate must have bachelor's degree or equivalent level of education from an accredited educational institution, or at least four years of full-time experience in the arts and sciences of information processing. In another development, Bill Eichelberger and his committee on Copyrighting and Patenting of Computer Programs have been active writing letters expressing concern that the new copyright bill now in the U.S. Congress Committee is unduly restrictive of the use of computers in information retrieval. The services of the ACM committee in providing technical information on the subject have been offered to the House Subcommittee preparing the bill. The bill, H.R. 4347, was introduced last year to the First Session of the 89th Congress, and is being considered in the Second Session.

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.