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This article focuses on the Association for Computers Machinery (ACM) 1968 National Conference and Exposition that was held during August 27-29, 1968 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A keener recognition of member interest and professional responsibilities characterizes the spirit in which the Conference Program for ACM68 was organized. Appropriately, technical and special sessions of timely and practical concern to the information processing; community have been planned for Conference attendees. The Program Committee has worked with ACM Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Special Interest Committees (SIC) in an effort to integrate SIG/SIC efforts with the aim of presenting a distinguished program. By developing sessions with the cooperation of ACM SIG's and SIC's, the Program Committee has attempted to evolve a program which is most responsive to the needs of the ACM membership. SIG and SIC also assisted the Program Committee by encouraging their members to develop and submit papers, and by advising the SIC on the newest developments in each special interest area. Further, they were able to provide knowledge and guidance to the SIC for the selection of session chairmen and technical paper referees.

The article presents information on various discussion sessions of the Fall Joint Computer Conference to be held between November 30 to December 2, 1965 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It reports that the conference will be having two discuss-only sessions in software and three on hardware, preprints of which will be available before the conference. It also discusses names of chairmen, invited panelists and papers to be discussed during different sessions including one on high-speed Read Only Memories, another on online interactive software systems and on the latest developments in computer memories.