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The article presents a calendar of events and special activities for the Association for Computing Machinery. Activities include conferences and symposiums on various topics including the "First Annual Conference on Modular Computers," on February 20, 1978 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, at Stony Brook, "Personal Computing Festival," in Anaheim, California, and other activities are given.

The article focuses on a declaration filed by the U.S.-based Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the federal court as of October 2001 regarding Felten v. Recording Industry Association of America case. Researcher Edward Felten and his fellow researchers at Princeton University, had entered a contest sponsored by Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), inviting people to attempt to crack certain technologies they were considering for use in their computer system. These technologies were defeated by Felten and his fellow researchers in the challenge. The paper of the researchers "Reading Between the Lines: Lessons From the SDMI Challenge," presented by them in a symposium in August 2001, is threatened under the anticircumvention provisions of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The concern of ACM in this regard, is that one of ACM's primary goals is, in submitting a declaration to minimize the possibility of being a defendant in some future anticircumvention case. The declaration describes ACM, its scholarly activities relating to publishing and the holding of conferences, and the potential implications of the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA on what ACM does.

The article focuses on issues of interest to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) members. The ACM chapters, which will host the ACM 1981 Annual Conference from November 9 to 11, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, will sponsor a professional development seminar after the conference. A call has been issued for participation in the Office Automation Conference to be held from April 5 to 7, 1982 in San Francisco, California. The 9th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, to be held from July 26 to 30, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, has issued a call for papers.

This article presents information on some forthcoming events related to computer science. The International Symposium on Distributed Databases will be held from March 12 to 14, 1980 in Versailles, France. The 13th Annual Simulation Symposium will be held from March 19 to 21, 1980 in Tampa, Florida. The Sixth International ALLC Symposium on Computers in Literary and Linguistic Research will be held from March 28 to April 3, 1980 at the University of Cambridge in England. The 4th International IFAC Conference on Instrumentation and Automation in the Paper, Rubber, Plastics, and Polymerization Industries will be held from June 3 to 6, 1980 in Belgium. The Seventh Conference on Electronic Computation will be held from August 6 to 8, 1979 in Saint Louis, Missouri. The IFAC Symposium on Computer Applications in Large Scale Power Systems will be held from August 16 to 18, 1979 in Bangalore, India. The Silver Anniversary International Meeting of the Society for General Systems Research will be held from August 20 to 24, 1979 in London, England.

The article presents news briefs concerning the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Mostek Corp. has become Corporate Member of ACM. ACM modified its own copyright procedures with respect to papers published in ACM journals. John Tartar has been appointed ACM Chairman of the External Activities Board.

The article presents news related to computer industry. The Division of Materials Development and Research of the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Science and Engineering Education is soliciting proposals for projects that will explore the consequences of the availability of calculators and computers for the elementary mathematics curriculum. John R. B. Clement has been appointed to the new position of director of governmental activities by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. Since its founding, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) has been concerned with measurement and with determining the precise values and metrics for physical phenomena. It has also made contributions to metrology in numerous scientific and engineering disciplines. The Computer Measurement Research Facility project at NBS is developing a set of metrics and measurement techniques to characterize the performance of parallel processing systems. The Computer Measurement Group (GMG) has announced an awards program for students submitting technical papers to the GMG 86 Conference, to be held from December 9-12, 1986, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Under this program, GMG will pay the costs associated with a student's participation in the conference, including registration, hotel accommodations, and round-trip airfare.

This article offers information on the professional activities of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The theme of the 1983 Annual Conference of the ACM to be held in New York City will be "Extending the Human Resource." Papers on advances in computer communication are invited for the International Symposium on the Performance of Computer Communications to be held in Zurich, Switzerland. The possibility of travel grants from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research will be announced during the 1983 International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic in Kyoto, Japan.

The article provides information about the ten most popular downloaded papers from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s Web site. A chart is provided of the ten papers that were downloaded in August 2006 along with the rank of the articles for the year. A separate chart provides information about the most popular courses, by month and by year, at the ACM Profession Development Center on the association's Web site. Among the topics in the top ten articles are: temporal workflow management systems; dbswitches; java tutorials and scene breaks.

This article presents links to several research papers, survey articles, and popular courses that can be downloaded from the Association of Computer Machinery's (ACM) digital library. Some of the papers listed out here are: "Architectures for a Temporal Workflow Management System," by Carlo Combi and Giuseppe Pozz; "Object-Oriented Programming: Tutorial," by Manuel Alfonseca; "Modeling Software Architectures in the Unified Modeling Language," by Nenad Medvidovic, David S. Rosenblum, David F. Redmiles, and Jason E. Robbins. Some of the most popular courses at the ACM Professional Development Centre for March 2005 are: Introduction to the Java Programming Language; Introduction to C#; Project Management: Initiation and Plan Launch; Using Decision and Looping Constructs With the Java Programming Language.

Comments on the policy of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Submission of a paper simultaneously to a specialized conference and to the periodical "Communications of the ACM"; Information that this is against the rules of the ACM; Belief that this rule is counter-productive; View that if a paper has important technical content and is of general interest, then it deserves appearance in both forums.

This article reports on the International Federation for Information Processing's (IFIP) 74 Congress held from August 5 to 10, 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. It is of course an understatement to term the IFIP Congress 74--or indeed any of its predecessors--merely a "meeting." Conferences in the United States may have more attendees, and/or more sessions, but the flavor imparted by the international character of these triennial events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing makes them unique. The congress had 88 sessions, in which were scheduled 41 invited papers and 174 contributed papers, the latter selected from among more than 600 submitted. There were also 18 panel sessions on the program, and a fair number of additional informally organized discussions were held. The Congress was distinguished by considerably more interest in the social problems connected with computers than was evident in its predecessors. Its setting in Sweden was particularly appropriate for this.

This article reports on recent developments related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Nominating Committee is preparing to nominate candidates for Regional Representatives to Council from the Northeast, North Central, Pacific, and South Central regions. The elected representatives--one from each region--will serve a three-year term effective from June 1, 1975. The Special Interest Group on Computer Uses in Education has proposed two sessions for ACM 74. A session of four technical papers has been proposed. These four papers exhibit a rich variety of types of computer use in learning. One emphasizes the technique of artificial intelligence. Another paper by a Japanese author describes an ambitious computer managed system. The third paper illustrates a system that couples tape recorders to a minicomputer. And the fourth paper suggests the important role of the computer in self-paced courses. A new Committee on International Scientific and Technical Information Programs has been established within the Commission on International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council.

The article presents information on the first symposium on Small Systems organized by the Association for Computing Machinery that was held on August 2-3, 1978 in New York City under the sponsorship of Small Computing Systems and Applications. The keynote speaker was Maurice V. Wilkes of the University of Cambridge. Following the keynote address, a distinguished panel session was presented. A Best Paper Award based upon the quality of the written material and oral presentation was given to Jacob Slonim, Michael Farrell, and Paul Fisher of Kansas State University for the paper "A Survey of Mini-Database Management Systems in 1977."

The article presents updates on the Association for Computing Machining (ACM). The Indiana University Student Chapter at Bloomington is seeking papers for the 4th Biennial Conference on Computing to be held in April 1980. Lee D. Erman has been elected chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) Artificial Intelligence. Karen A. Anderson has been elected vice-chairman for the SIG Computers and the Physically Handicapped. Guidelines for the submission of nominations for the awards program of the ACM are also provided.

The article presents news briefs concerning the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as of November 1979. The ACM has donated a check to the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals. The association has initiated a consulting service for colleges and universities. David L. Parnas has been chosen as the recipient of the Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award from the ACM.

Information on the conference titled History of Programming Languages is presented. The event was intended to initiate the preservation of a historical record of the development of thirteen programming languages. The conference preprints contained thirteen papers on the history of the various languages. The conference was attended by 350 people, most of whom had entered the computing field within the last ten years.

The article offers information on the awards generally given at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Annual Conference. The awards include the Turing Award, the Distinguished Service Award, the Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award, the Outstanding Contribution Award, and the Eckert-Mauchly Award. The ACM Awards Committee encourages members to send suggestions to the Subcommittee Chairmen in order to make the Awards program as meaningful as possible.

This article focuses on a declaration filed by the U.S.-based Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in federal court regarding the legal challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the Felten v. RIAA case, as of October 2001. In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey by a number of computing researchers led by Princeton University computer scientist Edward Felten, the plaintiffs are asking the court to rule portions of the DMCA unconstitutional, arguing its broad prohibitions on disseminating information and technology restrict freedom of speech as protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The declaration was filed in support of Felten and others to help the court understand the practical effect of the issues at stake in this case. ACM is also concerned that, in addition to harming the progress of research, the risk of legal liability under the DMCA threatens ACM's publication and sponsorship of professional conferences that might include scientific papers assessing the strengths and weaknesses of computer and data security measures.

Discusses developments in the periodical "Communications of the ACM". Additional reviews from experts in the particular area covered by the paper under review; Reviewers who have volunteered their energies to read and evaluate articles that have appeared in the magazine; Peer review; Major events of the association over the past years.