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This article presents news and events related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The advance program for the International Conference on Software Engineering, September 13-16, 1982, in Tokyo, includes sessions on language processing; software configuration management; quantitative aspects of software; requirement techniques; programming environments; maintenance evaluation and tools; specification techniques; testing and tools; software notations; and program analysis. Up to two $1000 prizes for best submitted papers are to be awarded by the Technical Committee on Software Engineering. The Symposium on Programming Language Issues in Software Systems sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, to be held during June 27-29, 1983 in San Francisco, California, is to focus on innovation in two major areas: new programming language constructs and abstraction mechanisms; and the application of programming language principles to the design of software systems. Relevant topics in the first area encompass languages or language constructs; abstraction techniques; specification methods; and techniques for supporting concurrency or exception handling. In the second area topics include the application of programming language principles and techniques to the design and organization of software systems.

A calendar for computer science meetings is presented. The 1977 Annual Conference of the Association of Public Data Users will be held in the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. from September 14 to 16, 1977. The International Conference on Management of Data sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Italy Chapter will be held in Milan, Italy on June 29 and 30, 1978. The 4th International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition will take place in Kyoto, Japan from November 7 to 10, 1978.

The article reports that at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Association for Computing Machinery has recently cosponsored a three-and-one-half day technical conference in Tokyo, in conjunction with Commerce's six-day exhibition of U.S. computer equipment. Computer '70 and the Computer '70 Colloquium, as the show and conference were called, were held at Tokyo's Harumi Pier, from October 12-14, 1970. Over 19,000 members of Japan's data processing community queued up to view at the open admission exhibition the products of 65 U.S. manufacturers. In addition, over 350 persons, most in key managerial and research positions, attended the Colloquium where, to defray expenses, attendance was on a fee basis--about $100 for the full conference and $25 for one day. Also participating in the seven half-day sessions were 27 U.S. computing experts and 10 leading Japanese professionals, whose papers were presented simultaneously in English and Japanese. The timeliness of the topics and the caliber of the participants can be recognized from the program.

A calendar of events related to the Association for Computing Machinery from 1983 to 1984 is presented. The International Communications Association's 36th Annual Conference & Exposition will be held in Anaheim, California. The 1983 Rochester Forth Applications Conference will be conducted in Rochester, New York. International Conference and Exhibition on Computers in Design Engineering will be held in Sussex, England.