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The article discusses developments and innovations in computer displays that are lighter, more durable, and more flexible than liquid-crystal displays (LCD). The article states that the new technology consists of front planes and back planes. According to the article, front plane technology in the form of electronic paper, also called e-paper, is produced by Massachusetts-based E Ink Corporation, and used in digital book readers such as the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Sony Reader Digital Book. The article describes the other front plane technology called organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which emit light and consume more power than e-paper yet have a higher lumen-per-watt rating. The article also discusses various possibilities in incorporating glass in flexible displays.

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 discusses the role of the man as an Information-Processing System. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) will conduct a session regarding technological innovations in data processing. Computer system design which has been patterned on man as recently been moving away from totally central control system design concepts headed for decentralized control concepts. Chairman of the session will be Isaac L. Auerbach which is also the president of IFIP. The plans of this computer organization will make a big progress in information technology.

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.

This article presents several developments related to Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) in different parts of the U.S. The Los Angeles Chapter of ACM recently devoted a meeting to short talks by representatives from some of the local Special Interest Groups. The purpose of this "Sigsampler" was to acquaint members with the purposes and activities of the local SIGs. It is hoped that this will spark increased membership in the SIGs and enable members to select the Group most closely aligned with their interests. The article includes details of meetings and symposiums. One of them was a Symposium on Statistics, Governments, and the Analysis of Social Problems that will be held on December 27, 1969 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. The purpose of the symposium is to explore ways to improve the design of statistical systems for economic and social data so that information about the relationships between various socio-economic conditions may he more readily available. Another event was the 1970 National Telemetering Conference that will be held in Los Angeles, April 27-30, 1970 under the sponsorship of two IEEE professional groups, Communications Technology, Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

The article presents a calendar of events to be held in various parts of the world. Computer conference on advances in bio-medical applications will be held on June 3-5, 1965 in New York City. Western electronics show and convention will be held on August 24-27, 1965 in San Francisco, California. The third international congress and exhibition for instrumentation and automation will be held on October 13-19, 1965 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

With plagiarism an increasing concern at colleges and universities in the age of the Internet and the Web's advancing search technology, a University of Virginia physics professor has decided to fight back by using a simple computer program designed to search out any similar six-word strings and phrases. After he set the program loose on his electronic database of 1,500 term papers, the professor's heart sank as his computer churned out one match after another, triggering University of Virginia's biggest cheating investigation in memory. "It was a little more common than I hoped ," the professor, Lou Bloomfield, said. A total of 122 students now face possible expulsion. A blow to the university's famed honor code, the staggering number of cases is forcing the student-run disciplinary system to work overtime.

The article presents a calendar of events related to computing. The symposium "Economics of Automatic Data Processing" will be held on October 19-22, 1965 at the International Computation Centre in Rome. The annual fall symposium of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society will be held on November 29, 1965 at Stanford University in California. The National Electronics Conference will be held at Chicago, Illinois on October 25-27, 1965.

Two homemade weapons capable of frying electronics and crashing computers were demonstrated at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. These weapons, cobbled together using electronic available in stores, catalogues and over the Internet, were designed to pump out short but powerful pulses of electromagnetic radio waves. The smaller of the two prototypes did not work, but the larger device-which could fit inside a car-crashed computers, destroyed data and disrupted the functioning of medical systems. Requested by the U.S. government, these tests were conducted to determine whether cheap but effective radio waves could be made with little technical know-how and used by terrorist groups to disable commercial or military computers or even bring down planes.