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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.

The article presents information on the First Student Paper Competition organized at Stanford, California by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Although launched barely two years ago, the Student Paper Competition is proving to be a constructive force in computer science education at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Editorial and refereeing activities undertaken by graduate students translate into a type of professional development experience that is enriching for the participants and healthy for the profession as a whole. The active participation of an equal if not larger number of undergraduate students who submitted papers for the competition attests to the stimulation for scientific and professional growth among students in computer science everywhere. George E. Forsythe, who was a pioneer and who encouraged many of his colleagues to work toward the development of a computer discipline of widespread scientific value, strongly favored promoting the Student Paper Competition to serve this end. As a computer science department chairman he had encouraged the active participation of students in academic and administrative affairs at Stanford University and also at ACM. This example was the inspiration for the plan that graduate students take active and major roles in the management of the Competition.

The article presents the program schedule of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference to be held in San Francisco, California on August 26-28, 1969. The opening remarks will be delivered by Conference Chairman Solomon L. Pollack, while ACM President Bernard Galler will deliver an address. Doctor Marvin Minsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present this year's A. M. Turing lecture. Topics to be discussed include visual prosthesis and generalized database management system.

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.

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 news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Committee chairmen for the ACM 1969 National Conference and Exposition in San Francisco, California were announced by Solomon L. Pollack of Information Management Incorporated, general conference chairman. The annual conference will be held at the San Francisco Civic Center from August 25-28, 1969. Thomas R. Dines of NASA-Ames Research Center has been named conference vice-chairman and Ward Sangren of University of California Berkeley will chair technical program committee. The ACM Symposium on October 18 for the evaluation by national experts of experience and potentialities in the use of the computer as an adjunct in seeking solutions to present-day urban problems, brought together in New York City over 425 national, state, and local officials and researchers involved in the urban affairs of the nation. The Third Annual ACM Symposium on the Application of Computers to the Problems of Urban Society focused on grave urban problems of a visible character.

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.

The article presents information on the eighth annual one-day Technical Symposium of the Association for Computing Machinery's Southern California Region Chapters--Antelope Valley, Arrowhead, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and San Fernando Valley--held at Disneyland Hotel on March 29, 1966. Chairman for the Symposium was Ed Manderfield of North American Aviation, Space and Information Systems Division. Program chairman was Lee Schmidt of Beckman Instruments, Systems Division. About 400 attended. The sessions were titled "Adventureland," "Frontierland," "Fantasyland," "Tomorrowland," and "Partyland." Robert H. Terry, director, Western Service Center, Internal Revenue Service, spoke on "The Role of the Computer in the Internal Revenue Service." In the course of his talk, Terry provided many interesting statistics. The last speaker in the Adventureland session was Richard L. McClain of Burroughs Corp., who gave a spirited and well-illustrated talk on "ACTION--a Complete Manufacturing Control System."

The article presents information on Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) national conference in Los Angeles, California, from August 30 to September 1, 1966. ACM President Anthony Oettinger's remarked that professional responsibility is to make clear in good conscience and in bald truth what the real possibilities and capabilities of computers are, and to see that this gets to the highest reaches of Government. He was replying to guest panelist Robert H. Ryan from the U.S. President's Commission on Automation, Economics and Technology. Ryan appeared before the ACM to invite the ACM's backing for having Government's first national communications/computer network aimed at coping with the nation's health problem. He claimed that not only would the results bring prolonged life, relief of pain and the elimination of disease, but would be a first specific way that the computing profession could talk to every citizen of the nation to make him aware of the benefits to be had from the use of computers.

This article reports that "New Partners in Progress--Communications and Computers" is the topic to which Russell W. McFall will address his remarks when he presents the keynote address at the Association for Computing Machinery's 1966 National Conference on August 30, 1966. McFall, president of the West Union Telegraph Company, will speak at the opening session, which starts at 10 a.m. in the Main Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. McFall will explore the far-reaching advances to he expected from the current interphasing of computers and communications. As president of the company that considers itself the data communications facility of the future, he is well qualified to speak on this timely subject which offers many aspects for speculation on the control and design of a new utility of the future. Conference attendees will find in three convenient locations Recruitment Information Booths where room numbers and other information for each Registered company may be obtained.

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.

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.