professional activities.

The article announces several events related to the computing industry in the United States. The editors of "Operations Research," the quarterly periodical of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA), is soliciting papers exploring the theme On Interfaces With Computer Science for a special issue of the journal. The Seventh U.S. Computer Chess Championship will be held during the 1976 Annual Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to be held in Houston, Texas from October 19 to 21, 1976. Robert R. Korfhage has been named program chairman of the 1977 National Computer Conference to be held in Dallas, Texas from June 13 to 16, 1977.