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The article focuses on the annual spring meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. The meeting took place at the National Museum from April 16-18, 1912. George E. Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, described the new tower telescope of that observatory. The usual types of telescopes have been the refractor, consisting of a lens set in a tube mounted equatorially, that is, carried upon an axis parallel to that of the earth, and forming an image of the heavenly body that moves about, as the earth revolves, and, secondly, of a reflecting concave mirror similarly mounted, and torming likewise a moving image.

The article focuses on the spring Joint Computer Conference that would be organized by Association for Computing Machinery on May 14-16 in Boston, Massachusetts. In this tempestuous age of societal upheaval, reawakening responsibility, and involvement, people everywhere are demanding solutions to, or relief from, the problems which beset the society. Another area the technical program emphasizes is computer graphics. Believed to be of greatest potential as the mechanism for man-machine communication, techniques and applications of computer graphics will be described. It will be pointed out that present hardware and software techniques for its use are being developed in an uncoordinated manner. The result is that communication about the level of achievement and development in computer graphics, particularly software, is poor. Increasingly, the forces, actions, and reactions propagated throughout the land by information processing technology are accelerating in social impact-- for better and for worse. At a panel entitled "URGENT--Increased Dialogue with Society" participants will establish the bases for the need for such discussions and will recommend specific actions to implement the expanded discourse.

This article presents information on various activities organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The Fifth Annual Microprogramming Workshop will be held in the Illini Union of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 25 and 26. Sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Microprogramming and the 555 Computer Society, this workshop provides a leading forum where active workers in the microprogramming area can hear several formal papers and participate in informal discussion groups oriented to specific topics. Professor Daniel L. Slotnick, director of the Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be the featured speaker at a banquet on September 25; his topic will be "Parallel Processing." The 1973 San Diego Biomedical Symposium will be held January 31 through February 2, 1973, at the Sheraton-Harbor Island Hotel, San Diego, California. The Symposium theme will be "Innovations in Biomedicine." Technical papers appropriate to the following sessions are invited: aids to clinical care, modeling and analysis, interpretation and data reduction, scanning and image processing, information engineering, and general innovations.

The article presents information on the chronology of events related to the field of computer industry. The Association for Computing Machinery will present a program at the AAAS meeting in Washington D.C. in December on "Current Advances Toward Better Computing for Researchers." The Seventh Annual Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems will be held at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, during March 22-23, 1973. Authors are invited to submit papers describing new advances, applications, and ideas in the fields of computer science, communication theory, system and circuit theory including contributions which explore the application of these and related disciplines to current societal issues. The First International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition will be held from October 30-November 1, 1973, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. The conference will cover all aspects of theoretical and applied pattern recognition, including classification theory and complexity, non-parametric methods, image processing, and character recognition.

This article offers updates on issues concerning the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM president Walter M. Carlson announced the appointment of W. L. Konigsford as chairman of the Membership Committee. A technical conference will be co-sponsored by ACM and the U.S. Department of Commerce, which will be held during a solo exhibition of U.S. computers and services at the International Trade Center in Tokyo, Japan. Anita Cochran was appointed as chairman of the ACM Chapters Committee.

This article focuses on the Association for Computers Machinery (ACM) 1968 National Conference and Exposition that was held during August 27-29, 1968 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A keener recognition of member interest and professional responsibilities characterizes the spirit in which the Conference Program for ACM68 was organized. Appropriately, technical and special sessions of timely and practical concern to the information processing; community have been planned for Conference attendees. The Program Committee has worked with ACM Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Special Interest Committees (SIC) in an effort to integrate SIG/SIC efforts with the aim of presenting a distinguished program. By developing sessions with the cooperation of ACM SIG's and SIC's, the Program Committee has attempted to evolve a program which is most responsive to the needs of the ACM membership. SIG and SIC also assisted the Program Committee by encouraging their members to develop and submit papers, and by advising the SIC on the newest developments in each special interest area. Further, they were able to provide knowledge and guidance to the SIC for the selection of session chairmen and technical paper referees.

The article offers news briefs related to the use of computers in education and academic institutes. The first international conference on programming was held in Colorado to stimulate wider use of mathematical programming techniques in control system design and optimization. "Computer Literature Bibliography 1946-1963" edited by W.W. Youden provides computing indexes. The tenth annual data processing conference of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, was held on April 20-21, 1965.

The article discusses the latest developments related to the teaching of computers in universities and colleges worldwide. I.I. Rabi, Nobel Laureate in Physics, at a symposium marking the centennial of New York city based Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, said that the nation's strength and prestige rest on the vigor of its science and technology. The costs of education and research were bound to increase and the largest share of funds should come from the Federal Government. The School of Medicine of the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, is using Raytheon 440 computer, which is an integral part of a real time biomedical data acquisition and processing system to provide fast answers to the complex problems fed into it.

The article presents information on the eighth quarterly meeting of the 50 U.S. companies sponsoring the Diebold Group Inc. research program that was held in Boston, Massachusetts in August 1965. The meeting was attended by the representatives of the companies including Douglas Aircraft Co., General Foods Corp., and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.

The article presents a calendar of events related to computing machinery in the U.S. from September to November 1971. The Third Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, will be held at Stanford University from October 18 to 20. The Fourth Annual Workshop on Microprogramming will be held at Crown College, University of California on September 13 and 14. A conference on two-dimensional digital processing will be held at the University of Missouri-Columbia from October 8 to 10.

This article presents information about meetings related to computing. The Joint Fall Conference of the Univac Users Association and the Univac Scientific Exchange will be held at Shamrock Hilton Hotel, Houston, Texas during September 9-13, 1968. The 34th International Federation for Documentation Conference and International Congress on Scientific Information will be held in Moscow, Russia during September 9-18. The 1968 International Information and Automation Assembly will be held in Versailles, France during September 23-25. The 16th Joint Engineering Management Conference will be held at Marriott Motor Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during September 30-October 1. The Hazard and Race Phenomena in Switching Circuits Symposium will be held in Bucharest, Romania during October 6-10. The 1968 Systems Science and Cybernetics Conference will be held in San Francisco, California during 14-16. The Ninth Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory will be held in Schenectady, New York during October 15-17. The ACM Annual symposium on the Application of Computers to the Problems of Urban Society will be held at New York Hilton Hotel, New York on October 18.