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The article focuses on the first world computer chess championship organized at the IFIP Congress in 1974. After four years of domination of computer chess in the Association for Computing Machinery sponsored U.S. Computer Chess Championships, CHESS 4.0 of Northwestern University fell to defeat at the teletype of CHAOS from Univac. In winning this first-of-a-kind international tournament, the Soviet team represented by Mikhail Donskoy, took home a gold medal. The tournament site was the Hotel Birger Jarl in central Stockholm. The games were analyzed for the audience by David Levy, the tournament director, on display boards supplied by the Swedish Chess Federation. At each teletype cathode-ray tube terminal, or telephone was a flag showing the competing country. Thirteen programs were entered in the tournament and were run on computers located all over Europe. The most exciting game of the tournament was the final one between KAISSA and OSTRICH from Columbia University. The tournament was organized by professor Benjamin Mittman of Northwestern University, David Levy, an international chess master from London, and professor Monty Newborn.

The article focuses on U.S. telecommunications company American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)entering the data communications market as of July 1, 1969. Topics discussed include automation processes planned by AT&T and business prospects of the advance of computers in telephone equipment industry. Details related to AT&T's corporate profits are provided as well.

The article discusses the next goal of computer industry which is to acquire centralized control of all stages of production in the U.S. It focuses on the progress of computer services which have broadened the scope of control from automated accounting to inventory control and production scheduling. Data Communication networks or systems are addressing the procedures for control links with manufacturing operations thus facilitate on the transmission of data through telephone lines.

The article features several systems that speed up transmission between computer centers, including the Magnetic Tape Terminals from Radio Corp. of America, the DEFT system from the General Dynamics/Electronics Division of General Dynamics Corp. and the IBM 1945 from International Business Machines Corp.

The article reports on the rising popularity of electron tubes in U.S. industries. It highlights some of the useful contributions of the tubes including its use in modern sound pictures, long distance telephony and picture transmission. It also features its uses in the general industry and science including automatic production processes in factories, the self-leveling of elevators, and in heart therapy. It also describes its contributions to peacekeeping and law-and-order situations.

This article presents news briefs related to the computer industry in several countries. A contract to design and manage the implementation of a COBOL compiler for the Electrologica ELX 8 computer has been awarded to Informatics Inc. The total value of the contract will exceed $200,000. The Postgraduate School of Librarianship, University of Sheffield, England, has been awarded a substantial grant by the Office for Scientific and Technical Information, Department of Education and Science in London, to carry out an 18 months study of the education and training requirements for scientific and technological library and information work. Proposed American Standard "Character Structure and Character Parity Sense for Parallel-by-Bit Data Communication in ASCII" will appear in the September 1966 issue of the journal "Communications of the ACM." John G. Honig of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency began his term as president of the Washington Operations Research Council in June 1966.

Deals with evolution of a method for transmitting data of a type originating in many laboratory situations direct to a central computer. Utilization of any ordinary telephone on a 'callup' basis; Present applications of data transmission system.

The article reports on Telesat, the first communications satellite system that will be operated by Canada in which it would broadcast telephone and communications services throughout the nation. It states that the Canadian system is being developed carefully to prevent any type of legislative complications which hinders the plans of the U.S. to develop a domestic satellite system. It says that Telesat would offer various channels and ground lines needed for data and telephone transmission.

The article discusses a forecast on U.S. telecommunications company American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)'s stock prices after its entering the data communication market as of July 1, 1969.

The article focuses on developments related to data transmission systems in Great Britain. British communications services are intended to remain under the firm control of GPO, the Great Britain Post Office. GPO control of data transmission has raised the fear that a nationwide network will not materialize if data transmission services continue to be provided at the present slow rate. Underlying much of the GPO's need for gradualism is the limited capacity of the national telephone network. This network, which is used by at least two thirds of installed terminals, was originally designed to accommodate vocal messages averaging three minutes in length. This time period has served as a standard in determining future investments in equipment. However, the average duration of a single computer/teletype interexchange is 25 minutes. Thus, the operation of a single computer linked to 80 terminals going through the same switchboard would be the equivalent of 600 to 700 voice communications. The British telephone network's capabilities are being increased to serve the expansion of data traffic.