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The article presents information on the chronology of events related to the field of computer industry. The Association for Computing Machinery will present a program at the AAAS meeting in Washington D.C. in December on "Current Advances Toward Better Computing for Researchers." The Seventh Annual Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems will be held at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, during March 22-23, 1973. Authors are invited to submit papers describing new advances, applications, and ideas in the fields of computer science, communication theory, system and circuit theory including contributions which explore the application of these and related disciplines to current societal issues. The First International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition will be held from October 30-November 1, 1973, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. The conference will cover all aspects of theoretical and applied pattern recognition, including classification theory and complexity, non-parametric methods, image processing, and character recognition.

This article presents information about meetings related to the Association for Computing Machinery. Some of them are as follows: The Eighth Hawaii International Conference on System Science will be held at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii during January 7-9, 1975. The Second Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture will be held at University of Houston during January 20-22. The International Meeting on Mini-Computers and Data Communication will be held in Belgium during January 20-22. The American Mathematical Society Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. during January 23-27. The American Association for the Advancement of Science 141st Meeting on the topic "Science and the Quality of Life" will be held at Americana Hotel and City Squire Motor Inn in New York City during January 26-31. The Sixth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing will be held in Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida during February 17-20. The Computer Science Conference 1975 will be held in Washington, D.C. during February 18-20.

This article provides information about the proposed American National Standard Identification of States of the U.S. (Including the District of Columbia) for Information Interchange developed by the American National Standards Institute. This standard provides numeric codes and alphabetic abbreviations for the states and the District of Columbia. The codes are reserved for use in identifying certain major outlying areas which may be included in particular data systems. The areas are: American Samoa, Panama Canal Zone, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

The article reports on the National Conference and the twentieth anniversary meeting of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), to be held at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington D.C. from August 29-31, 1957. Professional computer people and others interested in the data processing field will have the opportunity to hear the anecdotes, memories and future thinking of the pioneers who launched the development of the electronic computer at a special historical session of the ACM 20th Anniversary Conference. ACM is instituting a new type of session in conjunction with this meeting. In order to improve the communication between members and the national organization, the ACM Executive Committee will meet with the membership in open session. Members of the Executive Committee will make short presentations on activities and plans of the Association. The goal of the ACM Forum is to provide information to the members as well as feedback to the ACM administration on matters of current interest and importance. distinguished speakers will include Dr. Emanuel G. Mesthene and Senator Edmund S. Muskie.

The article presents information on the Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation held on March 29-31, at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington D.C. The symposium was sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Committee on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation, and held under the general chairmanship of Jean E. Sammet. A registered attendance of 450 included international visitors such as M. Wilkes of Cambridge, England and A. Caracciolo of Pisa, Italy. The meeting was opened by ACM Vice- President H.S. Bright, followed by Jean Sammet who surveyed the present state of the art in this area. There were ten informal discussion sessions during the first two evenings and two online demonstrations. The most heavily attended sessions were on LISP-2 and on the "Mathematics and Metamathematics" of algebraic manipulation, but the other sessions, such as on graphical languages, drew large numbers of interested participants. This conference made clear that many independent groups were making significant progress in fabricating techniques for a new tool in computer science.