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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 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 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.

This article presents a list of various upcoming events and conferences related to the field of computer sciences. Some of these events are sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) or a sub-unit of ACM. The Workshop on the Attainment of Reliable Software will be organized at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, on June 17 and 18, 1974. The 11th Annual Design Automation Workshop is to be held at the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colorado, during June 17-19, 1974. The 1974 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications will be held during June 17-19, 1974, at the Leamington Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The ALGOL 68 Conference will be held at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, during June 18-20, 1974. The Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is scheduled to be held during July 15-17, 1974, at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. The 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts, on July 26 and 27, 1974.