Announcement: Graphics and Image Processing-- A New Department in Communications.

The article offers information on the introduction of a new department, Graphics and Image Processing, by the journal "Communications of the ACM." William Newman has been appointed as the editor and the department is stated to cover five principal areas. Key areas include hardware and software techniques for producing pictorial output, methodology for the digitization and input of pictorial information, languages and techniques for interacting with graphical systems, methodology for the digital processing and storage of such information, and so on.