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The article presents information on the Sixth Annual Computing Conference held at Florida. E.P. Miles, was the general chairman of the conference. The morning session, approved as a Special Interest Symposium by the National Program Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, was presided over by Knox Millsaps, chairman of the Southeastern Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, another sponsor for the program. Wallace Givens, director of applied mathematics division at Argonne National Laboratory and professor of mathematics at Northwestern University, spoke of "Implications of Digital Computers for Education in the Mathematical Sciences," a topic including mathematics, statistics, symbolic logic, computer science, etc. He discussed the difference between arithmetic as performed by various computer hardware configurations and that conforming to the elegant axioms of ring theory, particularly with regard to the properties of zero. The next speaker Herman Goldstine, director of scientific development for IBM and chairman of the committee on applied mathematics of the National Academy of Science-National Research Council Division of Mathematics, discussed the broad impact of the Computer Revolution of the past two decades upon all phases of human endeavor.