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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 section presents a calendar of international events and conferences sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, scheduled from 1982 to 1983. The International Micrographic Congress will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Conference on Theory and Practice of Knowledge Based Systems will be held in Middlesex, England. The 1982 International Computer Music Conference will be held in Venice, Italy.

The article focuses on the constitutionality of the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) spying on all Americans. It states the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution provides people the right to be secure in their persons, papers, houses, and effects against unreasonable search and seizure and mentions in colonial America officials of the British Crown conducted mass searches of houses and persons despite the English Court's Saman's Case of 1603. It comments on Judge William H. Pauley III's ruling Americans cannot file suit against the NSA when he dismissed a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union due to legislation in the Patriot Act requiring the spying be kept secret forever. It mentions a report by the independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on telephone spying.

This article focuses on the development of a new technique for customers to use a cash machine in England, which nationwide describes as the first of its kind in the world, scans users' eyes for identification. Only a direct match allows the transaction to proceed. The system, jointly developed by Great Britain's NCR Financial Solutions Group and Sensar Inc., can capture more than 250 recognition points. The iris is safer than fingerprints, which only have 40 recognition points. The ID even works with contact lenses, sunglasses, and cataracts.

The article focuses examines the performance of dataflow processor machine in Manchester, England. This Manchester project has developed a powerful dataflow processor based on dynamic tagging. This processor is large enough to tackle realistic applications and exhibits impressive speedup for programs with sufficient parallelism. Dataflow is a technique for specifying computations in a two-dimensional graphical form: instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside one another, and instructions that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between individual instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory, since the data-dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from generating instruction to subsequent instruction. Consequently, instructions can be viewed as pure operations. This perspective is described in the article. Each instruction can be activated independently by incoming data values. Execution commences as soon as all required input values for that instruction have arrived.

Describes the architecture and system software of the Mark I and the Atlas computers designed at Manchester University in England. History of Manchester's involvement with digital computers; Five prototype computers designed and implemented at Manchester; Contemporary performance of the Mark I and Atlas computers.

This article presents information about meetings related to computer science. Some of them are as follows: The second International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Aided Design and Manufacture Education and Training will be held in Manchester, England during July 19-22, 1982. The International Micrographic Congress will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark during September 13-16. The Conference on Theory and Practice of Knowledge Based Systems will be held at Brunel University, Runnymede, England during September 14-16. The 1982 International Computer Music Conference will be held in Venice, Italy during September 27-October 2. The International Conference on Musical Grammars and Computer Analysis will be held in Modena, Italy during October 4-6. The Annual Conference of Association of Public Data Users will be held in Washington, D.C. during October 14-15. The Sixth Western Educational Computing Conference will be held in San Diego, California during November 18-19. The 1983 Office Automation Conference will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during February 21-23, 1983.

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