General News and Notes.

The article offers updates on the computer industry in the U.S. San Diego State University will be opening its Remote User Access Center (RUAC) which will give researchers the capability to access high-speed super-computing power and a national scientific communications network. The National Bureau of Standards has issued Password Usage as a Federal Information Processing Standard that describes basic security criteria for using passwords in computer systems. The Technical Achievement Award was received by Irwin W. Sandberg from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.