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The article presents several deadlines related to higher education. The abstracts of papers for possible presentations at the conference on International Congress for Individualized Instruction will end on Sept 20, 1977. The deadline of grants for handicapped will be on October 14, 1977. The deadline for computer science program proposals will be on November 1, 1977.

Discusses opportunities for computer science graduate students from the University of California-Berkeley in the field of research. Benefits of computer science departments' close ties to industry; Criticism of graduates unprepared for the real world; Description of NOW project at the university.

Introduces the pocket-sized World-Wide Web server, created by computer science professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford University. Embedded systems versus general-purpose computers; The single circuit board.

Profiles professor of computer-science at University of California at Los Angeles, Leonard Kleinrock. Love for teaching and inventing, especially anything having to do with the Internet; Reasons he loves being a professor; First to describe queuing principles used in designing every type of computer network.

Profiles computer scientist Ken Goldberg of the University of California at Berkeley. His development of projects involving both computer science and art; Creation of online artwork, including a virtual garden that users tend with a robotic arm; Development of `Ouija 2000,' an online Ouija board that allows users to act simultaneously; Goldberg's career background.

TWELVE years ago, Keith Uncapher, a computer scientist at the RAND Corporation, was shocked to discover that the Johnniac, a behemoth of a computer he had helped develop in the [...]

Presents information on a course in computer programming and ethics for students who are not majoring in computer science offered by professor Richard Weiss at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Aim of the course; Comments from professor Weiss; Book that must be read for students of the course; View of students on the course.

Reports on the computer forensics courses offered at U.S. universities and colleges as of April 2004. Impact of legal issues on the courses; Overview of the course offered at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Recounts the efforts of Northwestern University students and professors to trace the development of Chicago, Illinois through the use of urban history and computer science. Specific goal of the project; Use of the book "Plan of Chicago" to track Chicago's development; Approaches used in the research; Outcome of the research project; Academic achievements of the research.

The article presents information according to which Ed Brent, a professor of sociology at the University of Missouri in Columbia has developed a computer program that not only grades his students' essays but also gives feedback on how they can improve their work. The program simply runs through the students' papers to see if those elements are thoroughly presented, analyzing the semantics and assessing the writer's understanding of the topic. If a student leaves something out or gets something wrong, the program will flag those mistakes, to help the student improve the next draft.