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The article presents several research papers relating to algorithms. The paper "Greatest Common Divisor of n Integers and Multipliers" presents an algorithm which calculates the greatest common divisor, IGCD, of n integers. Details of the method and comparisons to other algorithms are also given. The algorithm is a new version of the Euclidean algorithm for n integers. The n-1 calculations of the greatest common divisor of two integers is accomplished by means of a modified version of the Blankinship algorithm. The paper "Exponential Integral Ei (x)" presents the results of one phase of research carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under Contract NAS7-100, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It presents an algorithm which was compiled and executed without any modification on a UNIVAC 1108 computer. An unfortunate precedent has been set in several recent algorithms of using an illegal FORTRAN construction.

the article offers information on the Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference held in the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Virginia from April 17–19, 2018. Topics include role of libraries in digital communities; community impact of digital transformation; and trend in web search. It featured professionals from the industry including Greg Notess, Jeanne Holm and Rick Huijbregts.

The article presents information about candidates for members at large for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Scholar Roscoe C. Giles's formal education is in theoretical physics. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1975 and graduation honors in 1970. His dissertation focused on extended string-like models of strongly interacting particles and was titled "Quarks and Bubble: A Field Theory Model of Hadron Structure." His research focuses on the application of high performance and parallel computing to physics and materials problems. He has developed parallel algorithms for large scale micromagnetic modeling and molecular dynamics simulations. As an outgrowth of these computational science research efforts, he has become committed to prototyping and building computational and educational infrastructure that will enable broad participation of scholars, students and communities in computing. James Jay Horning from Inter Trust Technologies Corp., California, believes that 35 years of academic and industrial computing research have prepared him to help guide ACM programs that serve the research community, without neglecting needs of ACM's other members. ACM is currently doing many things right; several initiatives are making things better. ACM's publications have always been one of its greatest strengths.