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The article presents information about several conferences related to the computer industry. Technical Symposium on Computer Science and Education, will be held in Anaheim, California, during February 12-13, 1976 and the conference will be organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The Fifth Biennial International Codata Conference will be held in Boulder, Colorado, on November 1, 1975. 1976 International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1975.

This article presents news and events related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The advance program for the International Conference on Software Engineering, September 13-16, 1982, in Tokyo, includes sessions on language processing; software configuration management; quantitative aspects of software; requirement techniques; programming environments; maintenance evaluation and tools; specification techniques; testing and tools; software notations; and program analysis. Up to two $1000 prizes for best submitted papers are to be awarded by the Technical Committee on Software Engineering. The Symposium on Programming Language Issues in Software Systems sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, to be held during June 27-29, 1983 in San Francisco, California, is to focus on innovation in two major areas: new programming language constructs and abstraction mechanisms; and the application of programming language principles to the design of software systems. Relevant topics in the first area encompass languages or language constructs; abstraction techniques; specification methods; and techniques for supporting concurrency or exception handling. In the second area topics include the application of programming language principles and techniques to the design and organization of software systems.

A calendar for computer science-related activities in 1975 is presented. A conference on computer science sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will be held in Washington, D.C. from February 18 to 20. A conference on revised dates for reliable software will be held in Los Angeles, California from April 21 to 23. A conference on computer graphics, pattern recognition and data structure will be held in Los Angeles, California from May 14 to 16.

This article reports the Santa Clara County, California, recently became the first county in the U.S. to purchase voting machines that produce paper receipts, a move that reflects the concern over the trend toward electronic voting machines. Santa Clara's Board of Supervisors agreed to invest $20 million for 5,000 voting machines from Sequoia Voting Systems, Oakland, California, which provide voter-verified paper backup.

The article announces several events related to the computing industry. The biennial conference of the British Computer Society will be held at the Cunard International Hotel in London, England from October 4 to 6, 1977. The second conference of the European Cooperation in Informatics, which will be held in Venice, Italy from October 10 to 12, 1978, has the theme Information System Methodology. Papers and demonstrations are being solicited for the 1978 National Computer Conference on June 5 to 8, 1978 in California.

The article presents a calendar of events of professional activities related to computing machineries in 1985. The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems will be held in San Francisco, California, from April 14 to 18. The National Computer Conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois, from July 15 to 18. The International Conference on Modeling Techniques and Tools for Performance Analysis will be held in Sophia-Antipolis, France, from June 5 to 7.

The article reports on the software maintenance workshop hosted by the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in December 1983. Attendees include people from the Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, and Japan. The major issues addressed were about the software maintenance technology and how to use it to solve current maintenance problems. Information about several papers discussed during the gathering, and the arguments and suggestions related to the issues, are offered.

The article presents a calendar of events related to computing and computing machinery. The Third International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming will be held in Edinburgh University in Edinburgh, Scotland from July 20 to 23, 1976. The 13th Design Automation Conference will take place in San Francisco, California from June 28 to 30, 1976. The Third International Conference on Computers in Chemical Education and Research will be held in Caracas, Venezuela from July 25 to 31, 1976.

This article presents an announcement for the formation of Special Interest Group (SIG) on multimedia. The SIC Board recently gave preliminary approval for the formation of a new SIC on multimedia. This coincided with the very positive response to Multimedia 1993, the first Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Multimedia held at Anaheim, California. More than 200 papers have been submitted to Multimedia 1993. The conference, which will be co-located with SIGGRAPH 1993, was an exciting event with top-quality papers, a series of helpful courses, and three special workshops on distributed, medical and sound processing applications. Complimentary membership in the SIC on multimedia was being offered to all those who attend the 1993 Multimedia Conference.

A calendar of events related to the computing industry is presented. From July 20 to 22, 1981, the Seventh South African Symposium on Numerical Mathematics will be held in Durban, South Africa. The International Electrical, Electronics Conference and Exposition will be held from October 5 to 7, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario. The Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society will be conducted from January 5 to 6, 1981 in San Francisco, California.

The section presents a schedule of conferences and related events concerning the Association for Computing Machinery from 1980 to 1981. The Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society will be held in San Francisco, California. The Seventh Symposium in Microprogramming and Microprocessing is scheduled in Paris, France. The International Symposium on Algorithmic Languages will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The article presents a list of events related to the computer industry. The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) 1976 Annual Conference will be held during October 20-22, in Houston, Texas. The Eighth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, organized by the ACM Special Interest Group for Automata and Computability Theory will be held during May 3-5,1976, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The 1976 International Conference on Management of Data will be the sixth annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data, and it will be held during is June 2-4, 1976, in Washington D.C. The 1975 Winter Computer Simulation Conference, organized by the Society for Computer Simulation, will be held during December 18-19, 1976, in Sacramento, California.

This article focuses on the events and activities related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and the Design Automation Technical Committee are sponsoring the 13th Design Automation Conference that will be held during June 28-30, at Jack Tar Hotel, San Francisco, California. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum whereby developments in the field of design automation can be presented and discussed. The conference aim is to improve and expand the quality and quantity of design automation developments. The three-day technical program has been arranged so that the technical papers are presented concurrently in different disciplines of design automation. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) announced that the next of the triennial IFIP Congresses will be held in Toronto, Canada during August 8-12, 1977. The theme of the Congress is "The Maturing Profession--Perspectives and Prospects." IFIP Congress 77 will be the first North American gathering of international computer professionals under the aegis of IFIP since 1965.

The article presents a calendar of events related to educational and scientific meetings for public having the knowledge of computing, in the year 1975. Sixth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing will be held in Florida on 17-20 February, 1975. Computer Science Conference 1975 will be held in Washington, D.C. on 18-20 February, 1975. Second International Conference on Computers and the Humanities will be held in Los Angels, California, on 3-6 April, 1975. Conference titled "Symposium on Structured Programming in COBOL: Future and Present" will be held in Los Angels on April 4, 1975.

The article offers a look at the highlights of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) congress in 1974 that was held in San Diego, California. The congress is considered a successful one with 60 percent more attendees than expected. A keynote speech by Robert S. Barton highlighted the opening session and a lecture was given by Donald E. Knuth on the tendency to dwell on numbers. A session was also held on the use of unpopular and unacceptable ideas in computing which generated mixed reactions from conference attendees.

A new fax compression technique that can squeeze 200 pages of text or software code onto a single piece of paper has been developed by Palo Alto, California-based InfoImaging Technologies Inc. 3D Fax compresses pages to be faxed into a single indecipherable image that can be sent via fax machine or computer to its destination, where it can then be scanned, allowing 3D fax software to separate out the various pages of text or code. Limited capability versions of the software can be found at the company's Web site.

A review is offered for the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California and the Heinz Nixdorf Forum in Paderborn, Germany.

This article presents a discussion on whether reverse engineering is a lawful way to acquire trade secrets embodied in mass-marketed products, in light of a case pending with California Supreme Court. The precedent set in this case could, in turn, influence courts in other jurisdictions. A key issue in the case, one that legal scholars and intellectual property lawyers have debated for many years--is whether an anti-reverse-engineering clause in a mass-market license should be enforceable. California trade-secrecy law explicitly provides that reverse engineering is a lawful way to acquire a trade secret, as do the laws of other jurisdictions. Several reasons support reverse engineering as a sound principle of trade-secret law. Purchase of a product in the open market generally confers personal property rights in the product, including the right to take the product apart, measure it, subject it to testing, and the like. The law also regards the sale of a product in the open market as a kind of publication of innovations it embodies and a dedication of them to the public domain unless the creator has obtained patent protection for them.

Traces a German trespasser who slipped through operating system security holes and browsed through sensitive databases of a military networks at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California. Monitors, alarms and traffic analysis; Various ways a site should respond to an attack; Organizing efforts; Responsiveness of law-enforcement communities.

Seismology has burgeoned into a modern science--force-fed by federal funding to advance technology for detecting underground nuclear explosions and predicting earthquakes, and by industry to improve tools for gas and oil exploration. Computers, seismic instrument systems, telemetry, and data reduction have played key roles in this growth. INSETS: WHAT IS SEISMOLOGY?;AN EXAMPLE OF A SEISMIC REFRACTION EXPERIMENT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information about meetings which will be held in the year 1985. The Ada Fair 85 will be held on June 15 in Los Angeles, California. The 12th International Symposium on Computer Architecture will be held during June 17-19 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Fourth International Conference on Systems Documentation will be held during June 19-21 in Ithaca, New York. The 1985 American Control Conference will be held during June 19-21 in Boston, Massachusetts. The FTCS-15: 15th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing will be held in June 19-21. The ACM SIGOA Workshop Fundamental Issues in Office Automation will be held in June 23-25. The 22nd Design Automation Conference will be held during June 23-26. The SIGPLAN 85: Symposium on Language Issues in Programming Environments will be held during June 28-29 in Seattle, Washington. The IEEE Workshop on Languages for Automation: Cognitive Aspects in Information Processing will be held during June 28-29 in Palma de Mallorca Island, Spain. The International Workshop on Times Petri nets will be held during July 1-3 in Torino, Italy.

An academic program at Harvey Mudd College, called the Clinic program, brings projects from industry on campus to be studied and solved by student teams. The objective of the Clinic is to provide students, working as small teams under careful faculty supervision, an opportunity to work on real world problems of sufficient magnitude and complexity. Under this program, students can acquire essential skills of software engineering, such as team work, software project management, software design methodology, and communication skills, in a realistic environment. Sample software projects undertaken by the Clinic are described. Experience so far has shown that the program is a viable transition from an academic to industrial world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the effectivity of program verification on securing shared computer systems in California. Definition of data security; Derivation of shared-resource operating systems; Properties of secure operating system .

Presents the result of a study testing the s-shaped budget curve of Nolan's stage model of computer development in an organization in California counties. Discussion on the stages of the model; Concept of a stage model; Effect of inflation on the computer budget.

Reports on the Association for Computing MemberNet97 Awards Ceremony in San Jose, California. Presentation of the A.M. Turing Award; Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award; Outstanding contribution to ACM Award.

This article offers news briefs on ACM. John H. Esbin was appointed ACM Treasurer at the Council meeting at NCC in May 1984. Bernard A. Galler, ACM president from 1968 to 1970, received AFIPS' Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the Federation and its constituent societies. Meanwhile, the ACM Nominating Committee is preparing to nominate candidates for Regional Representatives to Council from Greater New York, Allegheny, East Central, and Southern California Regions. The elected representatives will serve for a three-year term commencing July 1, 1985.

This article focuses on the need of multilanguage web sites. The coming predominance of non-English-speaking users means it's imperative for web sites to offer multiple language choices. By 2002, the majority of worldwide Internet users will be non-English speaking, by 2005 six of 10 users are expected to speak a language other than English, according to research firm Computer Economics Inc., Carlsbad, California. Astronomical growth in the presence of Japanese and Chinese in the Internet have been seen. Soon multilanguage sites will become the norm.

The article highlights the topics discussed at a Computer Science and Industry Interface meeting held in Anaheim, California on June 4, 1978. The meeting, which was attended by representatives from universities, industrial research, development groups and the Federal government, explored issues such as the benefits that can be gained by the industry from computer science and its curricula, the industry's needs for continuing education and ways by which the industry can better work with universities on joint research project and interchange personnel. Speakers in the meeting include Marshall Yovits of the Ohio State University and J. N. Rosen of the University of Minnesota.

This article reports that the largest exhibit of computer hardware, software, systems, and services ever held will be at the 1978 National Computer Conference (NCC) in Anaheim, California during June 5-8, 1978. The demand for booth space has been so great that a West Hall has been built at the Anaheim Convention Center to accommodate exhibitor overflow. Conference chairman Stephen W. Miller views NCC 78 as a picture of unparalleled breadth and diversity, encompassing the complete spectrum of information technology and applications. A major theme of the conference is the role of computers in alleviating the national energy problem. A special symposium will focus on the ability of current computer technology to cope with the U.S. energy problem and to help forge a national energy policy and program serving the public interest. This year emphasis will be on practical applications rather than theoretical concepts, according to program co-chairman Leonard Y. Liu and Sakti P. Ghosh. The Professional Development Series organized under the direction of Gopal Kapur, will consist of 15 tutorial seminars.

An Industrial Advisory Group met in June 1996 in Silicon Valley, California to investigate how Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) might better serve the concerns of the computing industrial development community. The Industrial Advisory Group is one of three recent efforts to gather information about how ACM could better serve the industrial constituency. One important contribution that ACM could make would be to facilitate and influence the redirection of academic curricula to include more applications. ACM could provide a tremendous service to the industrial community if it could provide a common ground for the exchange of ideas in a neutral, objective context. ACM's successful model might be amplified to include new focal areas that are more industry centered. The observations and recommendations of the Industrial Advisory Group were reported in ACM's Council in July. They will be integrated with those of the member focus group and Vigon-Ellis Report to create a plan of initiatives to better serve the development community.

Features the Science, Industry, and Business Library in New York and the San Francisco Public Library in California. Application of state-of-the-art technologies; Funding for the construction of the libraries; Design specifications.

The article discusses the Fellow program of the Association for Computing machinery (ACM). Established in 1993 to honor ACM members who have made substantial contributions to computer science or information technology, the program will welcome 47 new inductees at a ceremony to be held in San Francisco, California in June, 2010. An accompanying list names the honorees.

A credit card that works only when it hears its owner's voice may become the new weapon against online fraud. A prototype built by engineers at Santa Monica, California-based Beepcard represents the company's latest effort to create a voice-recognition card of diminutive dimensions. The new version incorporates a microphone, a loudspeaker, a voice-recognition chip, and a battery. The owner pushes a button on the card that prompts it to ask for a password; once the password is confirmed the device uses its ID squawk to identify itself and an online server confirms it to permit a transaction. The only way thieves could possibly use the card is if they could copy the owner's voice with an extremely high degree of accuracy. Beepcard intends to use smaller chips to thin it down, as well as include a nonreplaceable battery to allow 10 transactions per day for two years.

This article reports on the increasing number of unemployed information technology workers in Santa Clara Valley, Santa Clara County, California who are working for free. According to the periodical "USA Today," recruiters and employers in the area are being inundated with requests from unemployed technologists willing to work without pay. Many hope a free placement eventually turns into a paid one.

This article focuses on the ACM Fellows Program. The ACM Fellows Program was established by the ACM Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues. The program is managed by an ACM Fellows Committee as apart of the general ACM Awards program administered by Calvin C. Gotlieb, Awards Committee Chair, and James Jay Horning, Awards Committee Vice-Chair. The men and women honored as ACM Fellows will be inducted at the ACM Awards Banquet on Saturday, June 7, 2003, in conjunction with the Federated Computing Research Conference in San Diego, California. This will expand the total number of ACM Fellows to 468. The article presents the names of all the 26 new inductees.

This article reports on the development of a robotic insect at AeroVironment, a California-based company that specializes in micro-spy planes, in 2001. The Black Widow, a pocket plane just six inches in diameter, is already being used by the U.S. military for outside surveillance behind enemy lines. But it flies too fast to navigate inside a room. The Microbat, an eight-inch-long robot that flaps its wings more like a bat than an insect, allows for excellent mid-air maneuverability and the ability to carry an electric motor and battery into the air. AeroVironment designers admit, however, that when it comes to micro-flapping flight, they are about the same stage as Orville and Wilbur Wright, pioneers in aviation, in 1903.

The article presents biographies and their justifying statements as candidates for secretary-treasurer of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). College teacher Steve Cunningham of Department of Computer Science at California State University in Stanislaus Turlock, California, has done his doctorate in mathematics, and started his profession as a professor and has become visiting scientist and is currently focusing on computer graphics curricula in computer science. He is a member of Eurographics, ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH etc. He states that his 17 years of work experience, allows him to understand the ACM financial models and support ACM's financial work. Another candidate is David S. Wise, professor at Department of Computer Science in Indiana University of the U.S. Both of them stated that their experience would help in the development of ACM.

Reflects on the systematic penetration of UNIX computer operating systems in San Francisco, California in September 1986. Hacker's goal of testing how many computers can be cracked; Estimated number of computers hacked; User-level networking features of the systems; Details of the penetration.

The article profiles Maria M. Klawe vice president, student and academic services, professor computer science at University of British Columbia and Charles P. Thacker director of advanced systems at Microsoft Research Ltd. contending for the post of members at large of the Association for Computing Machinery. Klawe has done her B.Sc. and Ph.D. in mathematics, from the University of Alberta. After eight years with IBM Research in California, Klawe joined the University of British Columbia as Head of the Computer Science Department. Now a senior vice president with responsibility for information technology, libraries and student affairs, Maria also holds the NSERC-IBM Chair for Women in Science and Engineering. Maria's research is in theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics and human-computer interaction. Thacker received the B.A. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. He was employed by the Berkeley Computer Corp., developing the BCG 500 timesharing system. Thacker was project leader of the MAXC timesharing system, was responsible for the Alto, the first personal workstation, was co-inventor of the Ethernet local area network and conducted research in computer architecture and networking.

The ACM Fellows Program was established by the ACM Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of ACM. The ACM Fellows served as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership as the world of information technology evolves. The ACM Council endorsed the establishment of a Fellows Program and provided guidance to the ACM Fellows Committee, taking the view that the program represents a concrete benefit to which any ACM member might aspire, and provides an important source of role models for existing and prospective ACM Members. The program is managed by an ACM Fellows Committee as part of the general ACM Awards program administered by Gwen Bell. The 41 men and women honored as ACM Fellows have made critical contributions towards and continue to exhibit extraordinary leadership in the development of the information age and will be inducted at the ACM Awards Banquet on March 2, 1997, during ACM97 in San Jose.