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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.

The article presents a list of forthcoming events related to the Association for Computing Machinery. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science would be held at the University of California from December 29-30, 1966. Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society will be held in Chicago, Illinois from January 24-28, 1966. 1966 Annual Symposium on Reliability will be held in San Francisco, California from January 25-27, 1966. International Symposium on Information Theory will be held in Los Angeles, California from January 31, 1966-February 3, 1966.

The article presents information on the forthcoming events related to the Association for Computing Machinery. The Association for Computing Machinery has arranged two programs that will be held as part of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which will be held at the University of California, Burkeley, during the last week of December 2005. A Symposium has been arranged by Professor Harry D. Huskey, past president of ACM, on "New Developments for the Use of Computers in Scientific Computation, With Particular Emphasis on On-Line Systems." The second ACM program has been arranged by Professor Anthony G. Oettinger as a Symposium on "Application of Computers to Natural Language Processing." A Symposium on the "Recommended Impact of Computer Related Applications on the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum" is scheduled for March 12, 1966 and March 14, 1966 to be held on the campus of the Florida State University, in Tallahassee.

Examines the implications of digital computer in mathematical sciences curricula. Expropriation of mathematics; Disintegration of the logic; Description of a floating-point arithmetic; Identification of undetected errors in computation due to computer applications.