General News and Notes.

This article presents news items related to the field of communication sciences as of June 1984. Harvard University has joined Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, and MIT in notifying the Department of Defense that The U.S. Department of Defense funding for research projects will no longer be accepted if the Pentagon insists on reviewing reports of the research results. A recent Pentagon proposal requests submission of such reports for review at least 90 days prior to publication. The proposal would restrict public access to reports containing material judged sensitive to the national defense. In another development, the Rocky Mountain Institute of Software Engineering has organized a set of tutorials to be presented in Aspen, Colorado, on July 16 to 31, 1984. The tutorial program is organized into two parts: software engineering in general and software engineering environments. A Workshop on Computing Resources in the Mathematical Sciences was recently sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences.