ACM News.

The article presents news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Focusing on 1985 regional representatives election results, it states that regional representatives have been elected to serve from July 1, 1985, to June 30, 1988. Herbert Maisel has been appointed chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on Inter-society Liaison. Maisel is also a Council Member-at-Large and the chairman of the External Activities Board. The Berlin Continuing Engineering Education Program is offering its fall series of seminars on industrial electronics and robotics in Berlin. At its March 13, 1985 meeting the Executive Committee of the ACM approved joint membership agreements with the "Beigisch Instituut voor Regeltechniek en Automatizering" (BIRA). These agreements will take effect from July 1, 1985. Members of the BIRA are accepted as voting Members of ACM. It also notes that the technical contributions appearing in the ACM journals are normally original papers that have not been published elsewhere. Widely disseminated conference proceedings and newsletters are a form of publication, although they are usually only semi archival and are often unrefered.