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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.

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.

The article presents the highlights of a roundtable involving a group of funding experts from leading Japanese borrowers held in Tokyo on August 31, 2009 in which they discussed the impact of the global financial crisis on the bond market. In particular, they talked about the impact of the crisis on their debt issuance strategy as well as on their domestic and international activities. Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) reported that they made a major return to the global bond market, pricing a 2.5 billion-dollar two year global bond issue.

The article discusses the highlights of a project meeting on the Japanese economy held on June 26 to 27, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting is sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) with other research institutes in Japan and Australia. The papers presented and discussed at the meeting include "The Industry Origins of the U.S.-Japan Productivity Gap," by Dale W. Jorgenson and Koji Nomura.

Lists several papers on unemployment presented at the United States National Bureau of Economic Research Thirteenth Annual NBER-CEPR-TCER conference in Tokyo, Japan, on December 15-16, 2000. `Transition From School to Work in Japan,' by Yuji Genda and Masako Kurosawa; `Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: An Empirical Analysis,' by Michel Belot and Jan C. van Ours; `Industry Characteristics and Unemployment Fluctuations,' by Masahiro Abe and Souichi Ohta.

Provides an overview of research papers presented during the 2004 Seventeenth Annual TRIO Conference that was hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic Policy Research and the Tokyo Center for Economic Research in Tokyo, Japan. "Information Technology and the Japanese Growth Recovery," by Dale W. Jorgenson and Koji Nomura; "Stock Prices, News, and Economic Fluctuations," by Paul Beaudry and Franck Portier; "Competition, R&D, and Productivity in Japanese Manufacturing Industries," by Yosuke Okada.

Looks at issues addressed about Japanese economy in a conference held on September 13-14, 2002 in Tokyo, Japan. Contributions of corporate affiliations to significant misallocations of credit; Effectiveness of Japanese official interventions in the foreign exchange market; Extent to which financial distress in the 1990s affected employment behavior in Japan.

Reports on a conference titled `Purchasing Power Parity Revisited: The Exchange Rate and Price Movements, Theory and Evidence' held from December 20 to 21, 1997 in Tokyo, Japan. Papers discussed at the event.

Presents information on the third annual National Bureau of Economic Research's East Asian seminar on economics entitled `Macroeconomic Linkage: Saving, Exchange Rates, and Capital Flows,' held in Sapporo, Japan on June 17-19, 1992. Sponsors of the seminar; Organizers of the conference; Topics discussed in the conference; Information on the publication of the conference papers.

Presents a list of papers that were presented during The Eighteenth Annual TRIO Conference, sponsored by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Tokyo Center for Economic Research from December 9-10, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. "Stabilization, of Effective Exchange Rates Under a Common Currency Basket System," by Eiji Ogawa and Junko Shimizu; "Invoicing Currency and the Optimal Basket Peg for East Asia: A New Open Economy Macroeconomics Perspective," by Etsuro Shioji; "A Simple Test of the Effect of Exchange Rate Defense," by Allan Drazen and Stefan Hubrich.

Information about the sixth annual U.S.-Japan Conference of Antitrust Policy that was held in Tokyo, Japan on August 1982 is presented. Topics include Japan's legal cartels, preferential purchasing policies, and administrative guidance as the heart of trade friction. It featured Assistant Attorney General William F. Baxter noting that there is no concerted efforts in Washington to get Japan.

The article provides information about the 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference entitled "Action for Sustainability," on September 27-29 in Tokyo, Japan. The assembly was attended by more than one thousand participants including government officials, researchers, architects and representatives from other sectors. Hosted by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the conference focused on the advantages of sustainable development.

The article offers information on the sixth meeting of the L9, an informal group of the label industry trade associations, that was held on April 3, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. Kurt Walker, president of FINAT, stated that recycling initiatives are significant for the success of the self-adhesive label industry. UPM Raflatac President Jussi Vanhanen addressed the depletion of the world's resources.

Presents the topics discussed at a conference on the Japanese economy sponsored by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research held in Tokyo, Japan on September 1 and 2 , 2004. Differences in the wage structure of domestic and foreign-owned establishments in Japan; Effectiveness of bank recapitalization policies in Japan; Use of monetary policy in avoiding the liquidity trap.

Information about the topics discussed during the first annual Direct Current (DC) Building Power Japan (DCBPJ) conference held in Tokyo, Japan is presented. It explores several topics pertaining to dc power architectures and the approval of the provisional standard for 380 volts (V) dc data center. It also mentions the presentations of Keiichi Hirose, senior research engineer of NTT facilities and Dennis Symanski, senior project manager of Electric Power Research Institute regarding 400V dc.