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Introduces a series of papers presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's Second Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation held on March 23-25, 1971, in Los Angeles, California. Members of the technical program committee; Titles of papers presented at the symposium.

The article presents an overview of a series of papers presented at the third Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. They include "TENEX: A Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10," by D. G. Bobrow and colleagues, "Synchronization of Communicating Processes," by A. Nico Habermann, "Properties of the Working Set Model," by Peter J. Denning and Stuart C. Schwartz, and "An Operating System Based on the Concept of a Supervisory Computer," by R. S. Gaines.

The article informs that members of the Association for Computing Machinery's annual national conference are happy with the caliber and quantity of the papers received by them for the conference which will be held on August 24-26, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. Two years ago, the intensive technical refereeing process was introduced for screening papers for ACM national conferences. Technical papers will be given importance in the conference for the educational benefit of students. Public relations chairman for the conference Raymond F. Hitti is cooperating with professor Lewis Winner in planning the conference.

This article presents information on the winning papers of the first annual ACM Communications Student Paper Competition organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). First place was given to the paper "Generating Parsers for Affix Grammars," by David R. Crowe of the University of British Columbia. The prize included $250 cash, a trip to ACM 72 to receive the award in person, and a three-year subscription to the ACM serial publication of his choice. Second place was given to the paper "Political Redistricting by Computer," by Robert E. Helbig, Patrick K. Orr, and Robert R. Roediger of Washington University. The prize included $150 cash, and for each author a three-year subscription to the ACM serial publication of his choice. Third place was given to the paper "An Extensible Editor for a Small Machine with Disk Storage," by Arthur J. Benjamin of Brandeis University. The prize included $100 cash, and a three-year subscription to the ACM serial publication of his choice. All of the refereeing of Competition papers was done by graduate students at various colleges and universities.

This article presents information on various activities organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The Fifth Annual Microprogramming Workshop will be held in the Illini Union of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 25 and 26. Sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Microprogramming and the 555 Computer Society, this workshop provides a leading forum where active workers in the microprogramming area can hear several formal papers and participate in informal discussion groups oriented to specific topics. Professor Daniel L. Slotnick, director of the Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be the featured speaker at a banquet on September 25; his topic will be "Parallel Processing." The 1973 San Diego Biomedical Symposium will be held January 31 through February 2, 1973, at the Sheraton-Harbor Island Hotel, San Diego, California. The Symposium theme will be "Innovations in Biomedicine." Technical papers appropriate to the following sessions are invited: aids to clinical care, modeling and analysis, interpretation and data reduction, scanning and image processing, information engineering, and general innovations.

The article offers information about the 21st National Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery to be held in Los Angeles, California, from August 30 to September 1, 1966.

The article presents news related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The new position of Director of Administration has been established at ACM Headquarters and Joseph Saetta has been hired to fill it. The position collects into one department the activities of three units which were previously in different department. They are--first, the unit which handles all membership, subscription, and single copy transactions; second, the unit which handles purchasing, the stock room, and incoming and outgoing mail; and third, the accounting unit. The Second ACM Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation will be held on March 23-25, 1971, at the International Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation is sponsoring the symposium, with the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence as a co-sponsor. The symposium will cover developments in the field in the past five years. A number of sessions of contributed papers are scheduled, and approximately ten invited tutorial papers will survey key subject areas. The symposium will be of interest to users of both symbolic and manipulation systems as well as to system developers.

The article presents information on various chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) across the U.S. The Greater Rio Grande Chapter of ACM has recently extracted from its files a list of the titles of all technical papers presented at Chapter meetings since its inception in 1957. Using a program developed by D.K. Robbins of Sandia Corp., a KWIC-type listing of permuted titles of these papers has been made. This listing has been distributed to all members of the Chapter. Topics and speakers at ACM Chapters across the U.S. indicate the current trends of interest in computer science and data processing. The ACM Tidewater Chapter is sponsoring this spring a professional development course on "Real-Time Computing." The course is given by the Chapter's professional development chairman, Cecil Frost, who is applications staff specialist for Control Data Corp. At its April 21, 1966 meeting, the Westchester-Fairfield Chapter heard William Orchard-Hays speak on "Linear Programming of Computational Techniques."

The article offers information about activities related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). According to Micro 6 program Chairman Louise H. Jones, research papers have been received for the microprogramming workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Group of ACM. The 8th Annual Urban Symposium of the ACM will take place in New York City which aims to deliver a discussion to individuals who uses computers to solve problems of urban society. The new executive director of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies Inc. is Robert W. Rector.

The article comments on the origin and history of publications in computing. Prior to the second World War, there was only disordered and infrequent publication about computing. The journals related to mathematics, science and engineering, carried occasional contributions concerning computations with mechanical aids. There was a scarce amount of publication concerning methods for efficient computing and the editors of the mathematical journals seemed to consider that papers concerning the process of actually dealing with complex numbers had insufficient content to justify publication by them. The publication started to increase in the early 1950s. A new journal was published in 1949, with the title "Digital Computer Newsletter of the Office of Naval Research," which provided a medium for the interchange among interested persons of information concerning recent developments in various digital computing projects. The first publications of the Association for Computing Machinery were the 1952 Proceedings of the Association meetings in Pittsburgh and Toronto.

The article presents information on various meetings to be held in the field of computing in 1971. The Southeastern Region of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is holding its Tenth Annual Conference in Mobile, Alabama on June 19, 2005 at the Admiral Semmes Hotel. The conference is being chaired by Ted E. Turner. The Washington Chapter of the ACM will hold its Tenth Annual Technical Symposium on June 24, 2005 at the National Bureau of Standards. The one-day symposium will consist of panel discussions and papers reviewing ten years of growth and change in the computing industry and looking into the future. The sixth annual ACM Urban Symposium will be held on October 29, 1971, at the New York Hilton Hotel. Sponsored by the New York Metropolitan Chapters of ACM, this Symposium brings together interested professionals from the computing field and from the urban problem areas, and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and information. The Technical Committee on Computer Architecture and the Midwest Area Committee of the IEEE Computer Society are co-Sponsoring a Workshop on Modular Computer Systems.

Invites several research papers for conferences related to computer architecture by the Association for Computing Machinery.

This section presents news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the U.S. Editor-in-chief William S. Dorn is soliciting papers for the tutorial and survey journal of the ACM. The ACM has decided to reprint "Proceedings of the Decision Tables Symposium, 1926." Paul Armer of RAND Corp. was elected president of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies.

The article informs about some activities of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM's Washington D.C. Chapter's 1973 Technical Symposium will take place at the National Bureau of Standards, Oaithersburg, Maryland, on June 21. Program Chairman is Helmut E. Thiess. The article also informs that the 4th Annual Symposium of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Systems Installation Management is scheduled for October 18-19 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Papers are invited on the following topics: security; virtual systems evaluation; data entry systems-COM; personnel evaluation, measurement, and development; nonprofessional status of data processing personnel; job estimation; etc. The American Society of Indexers will hold its Second Annual All-Day Meeting on Saturday, April 28, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Editors, indexers, librarians and index users will participate in forums and speeches concerned with "Index Traps and Pitfalls: Human Generated/Computer Generated." Three speakers for the morning session include Jessica L. Harris, a professor.

The article presents information about the schedule of events of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), related to the computer software industry. A four-day symposium on Computer Graphics in Medicine will he conducted by the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics. The symposium will be hosted by Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from March 7-10, 1972. A Symposium on Decision Making to be held in November 1972 has been announced by the Council for Cybernetics, Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. ACM is cooperating in certain aspects of the planning for American papers and attendance, announced W. Smith Dorsey, chairman of the ACM Conferences and Symposia Committee. The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research will hold its Tenth Annual Conference at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto from June 15-17, 1972. The Conference will focus on research findings, ease studies, and operating practices concerning computer personnel problems.

The article presents news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). At the request of the U.S. Department of State, ACM arranged for four U.S. representatives to present papers at a Seminar on the Application of Computers as an Aid to Management held in Geneva, Switzerland from October 11-15, 1971 under the sponsorship of the Working Party on Automation of the Economic Commission for Europe. Mike Duggan, editor-in-chief of the journal "Computing Reviews," and Lee Revetis, executive editor, advice that the long contemplated revision of the journal's category system has finally been approved. "Computer Communications, Cooperation or Confusion" is the title of a three-day seminar to be held at San Jose State College in San Jose, California from January 24-26, 1972. This first annual Computer Communications Conference is being held at San Jose State College in cooperation with the ACM San Francisco Peninsula Chapter and various other professional organizations. A change in the SIGPLAN Bylaws last spring specified an Executive Committee that includes three persons elected by the general membership of SIGPLAN.

The article reports that at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Association for Computing Machinery has recently cosponsored a three-and-one-half day technical conference in Tokyo, in conjunction with Commerce's six-day exhibition of U.S. computer equipment. Computer '70 and the Computer '70 Colloquium, as the show and conference were called, were held at Tokyo's Harumi Pier, from October 12-14, 1970. Over 19,000 members of Japan's data processing community queued up to view at the open admission exhibition the products of 65 U.S. manufacturers. In addition, over 350 persons, most in key managerial and research positions, attended the Colloquium where, to defray expenses, attendance was on a fee basis--about $100 for the full conference and $25 for one day. Also participating in the seven half-day sessions were 27 U.S. computing experts and 10 leading Japanese professionals, whose papers were presented simultaneously in English and Japanese. The timeliness of the topics and the caliber of the participants can be recognized from the program.

This article reports on recent developments related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Nominating Committee is preparing to nominate candidates for Regional Representatives to Council from the Northeast, North Central, Pacific, and South Central regions. The elected representatives--one from each region--will serve a three-year term effective from June 1, 1975. The Special Interest Group on Computer Uses in Education has proposed two sessions for ACM 74. A session of four technical papers has been proposed. These four papers exhibit a rich variety of types of computer use in learning. One emphasizes the technique of artificial intelligence. Another paper by a Japanese author describes an ambitious computer managed system. The third paper illustrates a system that couples tape recorders to a minicomputer. And the fourth paper suggests the important role of the computer in self-paced courses. A new Committee on International Scientific and Technical Information Programs has been established within the Commission on International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council.

The article presents news related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Charles W. Gullotta has been appointed Chairman of the ACM Accreditation Committee by President Walter M. Carlson, to succeed Carl Hammer. The Accreditation Committee has been particularly active in the programmer training area, concerning itself with the creation of proper guidelines for trade school accreditation. The enthusiasm generated by the call for papers issued in early November 1970, for ACM 1971, the ACM annual conference, is evidenced by an unusually large early response. According to Melvyn H. Schwartz, Technical Program Chairman, 265 notices of intentions to submit papers have been received. Alan J. Perlis has been appointed by Yale University to be the first Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science. He will join the university's computer science department, effective July 1, 1971. The chair which he will occupy is named after Eugene Higgins, who was responsible for the establishment of trusts for the advancement of science at several major universities.

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 news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery. Adrian Ruyle, chairman of the ACM 72 annual conference, reports that by the end of January 1972, the technical program committee had received more than 360 responses to the call for papers. About 60 of these came from overseas locations. Although at this time of reporting the form of the response is only the initial intention to submit a paper, the high volume augurs well for the meeting, which will be held August 14-16, 1972, at the Prudential Center in Boston. M. Stuart Lynn, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Communications of the ACM," has announced that Elliott I. Organick is the new editor for the Education department. Organick is filling the gap left when Peter Wegner resigned to accept a sabbatical at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Organick heads the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah. Frederick Hoar has been appointed chairman of the ACM Committee on Public Relations, as announced by Walter M. Carlson.

The article focuses on the objectives of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 1970. The ACM's literature is its most basic service to its members. Not every ACM member attends chapter meetings regularly; only a fraction of the members attend national conferences. But every member regularly receives the ACM publications. It is suggested that a fair fraction of the issues for the next two years be assigned to the largest and most active Special Interest Groups (SIG). Each designated SIG would be responsible for selecting and obtaining subject matter for one such special issue. The process of organizing the technical program for national conferences needs overhauling. The "call for papers" philosophy too often results in mish-mash sessions. Panel sessions can be simply excuses for delivering full papers--which escape refereeing and do not appear in the proceedings. The Professional Development program has had a very successful first year. It has brought high quality technical seminars to many cities throughout the country. It needs continued support, so as to offer more subjects in more cities. How can the ACM better serve the business data processing community, which represents over one-half of the computer field, for this the ACM needs a much more vigorous program addressed to supporting the technical competence of these people.

The article presents information related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Jay Wright, technical program chairman for ACM66, has reported that the response to the "Call for Papers" has been good. Wright stated that 105 papers were submitted. David F. Weinberg, general conference chairman, has announced that plans for the meeting are taking shape under the able handling by the Conference Committee. The 1966 ACM Roster of membership information came off the press on April 8, 1966 reflecting the full membership as of the first of the year. The new Roster is a significant improvement over previous issues. Each entry, clearly and compactly printed, now gives the individual's title of address and also the earliest year when his present uninterrupted span of membership in ACM started. Auxiliary information includes ACM officers and Council members, ACM chapters with chairmen's names, a list of ACM Institutional members, and a listing of the geographical areas where ACM members are located--by country, state and city.

The article focuses on the 29th annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM 74, to be held at the San Diego Convention Center, in November 1974, promises to be one of the most accommodating and exciting conferences ever held. The technical program chairman, David Bulman has designed the program to inform through controversy as well as exposition. ACM 74 will be a particularly well-balanced conference with virtually each special interest group (SIG) sponsoring one or more technical sessions. However, unlike previous ACM conferences, this one has more sessions provided through the SIG for Business Data Processing. The ACM SIG for Computers and the Physically Handicapped will underline the role of the computer in medicine with papers on "Modes of Information Presentation for the Blind Programmer," and "Computer Applications in Artificial Limb Research." For the fifth year, ACM will host the annual U.S. Computer Chess Championship Tournament in which computer programs meet in open competition.

Discusses a proposed reorganization of the Computer Systems Department of the Association for Computing Machinery. Information that the department has been divided into two sub-departments: Computer Architecture and Measurement, and Performance Evaluation; Functions and roles of the departments; Information on the steps taken by the association for the publication of valuable papers related to the field of computer science in the periodical "Communications of the ACM."

The article focuses on the Association for Computing Machinery annual conference to be held in Chicago, Illinois on August 3-5, 1971. The association will make it a memorable event with offerings to suit all the diverse tastes and interests of its broad membership and the computer community. A surprise highlight of the conference will be the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the invention of the prototype large-scale digital electronic computer ENIAC. The invention and pioneers of the industry will come together at the Conrad Hilton, where in two special sessions they will pay tribute to a quarter-century of progress and will forecast for the coming quarter-century. In addition, presentations of nine "single" papers have been individually scheduled in the program. Coordinated by nearby universities, interactive utilization of computers by high school students and continuous teaching of a Fortran subset will illustrate university-secondary school cooperation in computer education.

This article presents information on the technical meetings and workshops held by a number of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Groups and Committees during the Fall 1970 Joint Computer Conference in Houston, Texas. Among the more ambitious ACM-related events held in Houston was an evening panel session on Social Implications of Computer Technology. Sponsorship support came jointly from the ACM Special Interest Committee on Computers and Society, the Social Implications Committee of the IEEE Computer Group, and the AFIPS Social Implications Committee. The high caliber of the panelists was matched by that of the discussion which took place during the session. Shortly before the ACM Council authorized its conversion into a Group, the Special Interest Committee on File Description and Translation brought together representatives from commerce, industry, government and universities, meeting to exchange technical information on data description and access. Papers and discussions alike reflected interests going from the theoretical to the practical, and efforts ranging from individual projects to large committee undertakings.

Several letters to the editor about the inequality of justice and legal proceedings in the U.S., the social security number, and the criteria for accepting paper in publications of the Association for Computing Machinery are presented.

This article presents information about the organizational structure, purposes and functions of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), as illustrated in its articles of association. The purposes of the ACM, reportedly, are: to advance the sciences and arts of information processing; to promote the free interchange of information about the sciences and arts of information processing both among specialists and among the public in the best scientific and professional tradition; and to develop the skills of those engaged in the sciences and arts of information processing. The methods of the ACM for achieving these purposes include, formation of Chapters and Special Interest Groups, holdings of meetings for reading and discussing papers, holding of training and education meetings, and the publication of journals, books, and other materials. Article 3 of ACM's articles of association contains guidelines about membership-related issues. Articles 4 and 5, reportedly, deal with the functions of ACM's officers and executive committees. Bylaws of the ACM, illustrated in article 11, may be adopted or amended by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of all the members of the Council.

The article comments on issues related to membership of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). It is said ACM often get the feeling that the members of ACM don't really know each other well. It is suggested to enhance members' participation in activities to build a collective computing environment. It is noted that members can review papers and participate in panel discussion of ACM.

The article presents information on conferences, which are scheduled to be held in the coming months. The ad hoc committee USASI X3.6.7/X3.4.2D will sponsor a one-day symposium on Decision Tables in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on April 21, 1967. The papers to be presented will reflect the current state of the art. The Joint User Group (JUG) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will hold an all-day workshop session in Atlantic City on April 17, 1967. This is the third in a series of successful workshops held by JUG. The Instrument Society of America (ISA) has announced that the Exhibit portion of the 22nd Annual ISA Instrument-Automation Conference and Exhibit has been transferred to the Exposition Hall of the International Amphitheater in Chicago. The date, September 11-14, 1967, remain as originally scheduled. The Philadelphia Chapters of the ACM and IEEE Computer Group will jointly sponsor a one-day symposium on Computer Time Sharing at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia on March 9, 1967.

This article reports on the proceedings of an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s SIGFIDET Workshop on Data Description, Access and Control which was convened in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during May 1-3, 1974. The convention featured a debate on the differences and similarities between the data structure set model and the relational model for data management systems. Educators C. W. Bachman and E. F. Codd were the two principals in the debate who were joined by E. Sibley and J. Lucking, on the one side, and V. K. Whitney and D. Tsichritzis, on the other. The moderator was R. Rustin. The discussion ranged over most of the relevant issues and topics, except possibly one posed by the moderator beforehand, that is, "Do databases eat their young?" Bachman took the position that the two points of view are perhaps two sides of the same coin, and that which is more natural depends on stylistic preferences. Other sessions on several related subjects featured contributed papers.

The article offers news briefs related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM national chairman George Heller has certified the New Milford High School Computer Club as the first Secondary School Computer Club in Connecticut assisted by the association. Christophe Dupont and A. Kuevangueven were announced as winners of a student paper competition hosted by the French National Institute for Research in Computing and Automation.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium of the Association for Computing Machinery. Establishment of committees covers the election of new council officers namely Aaron Finerman, Leland H. Williams, and Richard Blue including the appointments of various members as chairmen of standing and ad hoc committees. Updates on the financial collection, publications, and external relations of the council are provided.

This article acknowledges various contributors who have helped in the publication of the periodical "Communications of the ACM." The results of the first Student Paper Competition be dedicated to the memory of George E. Forsythe, who among his many contributions to the field was a past president of the Association for Computing Machinery and was the first editor of the Education Department of Communications. The author also expresses his gratitude to Elliott Organick for all that he did to help this project get started. It has been particularly rewarding to observe the progress of this competition. Special thanks are due to the outstanding students of Stanford University whose pioneering activities have undoubtedly defined the basic rules for what should become an important annual event.

The article comments on the July 1972 issue of the journal "Communications of the ACM," which is devoted to the 25th anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery. This issue was produced with constraints like time and budget and the editorial team hopes that the finished product contains material which, in whole or in part, will be of current interest to all the readers of the journal and of lasting interest to many. This issue has been produced with the cooperation of several scholars of the related field. The ultimate responsibility for the success of this issue lies with the many authors and contributors who have contributed their work. Special gratitude has been paid to the ad hoc committee responsible for the technical contents of this issue including, Roman Weil, as Chairman, Robert Ashenhurst and William Timlake and to Cherie Weil for her secretarial help and to the many referees for their very professional assistance. This these people devoted great time in reviewing and editing the papers received for publication.

Presents the author's criticism of Smith Dorsey's paper "More on ACM Meetings," that was published in the March 1972 issue of the Journal "Communications of the ACM." Inability of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to sponsor and execute meetings; Request for framing a blue ribbon committee to thoroughly examine the entire range of ACM sponsored meetings.

The article offers news briefs on issues regarding the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Communications Student Editorial Committee received more than 50 intentions to submit papers. The report "Computers and Crisis," edited by R. W. Bemer, a volume representing the edited sessions of ACM 70 has been released. The 1970 annual issue of "Bibliography and Subject Index of Computing Literature" of the ACM is available to subscribers.

The article focuses on the paper "Accurate Floating-Point Summation," by Peter Linz, published in the June 1970 issue of the journal Association for Computing Machinery. In discussing his binary summation method Linz mentions two defects. According to him, it is more difficult to program than the standard method, and it is difficult to use unless all numbers are available at the start of the summation. A defect not mentioned is the extra storage space. The last two of these three defects can be removed by proper combination of partial sums.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues, including "ACM Ethics Enforcement Not Feasible at Present," in the July 1969 issue, on permitting the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to comments or act on political and social questions and on a paper describing the techniques used to collect information on the workings of a large time-sharing system by means of software measurement techniques.

The article presents information on forthcoming events related to computer science. A two-day Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Workshop in microprogramming will be held in Bedford, Massachusetts, October 7-8,1968. The ACM is sponsoring the workshop in cooperation with the Mitre Corp. The purpose of the workshop is to answer a need for discussing developments in microprogramming and its application with third generation equipment. The Instrumentation Society of America will sponsor the 1968 Research Conference on Instrumentation Science, July 29 - August 2, 1968, on the campus of Quinnipiac College, Hamden, Coinnecticut. The preliminary program and call for papers for the International Congress on Scientific Information, to be held in conjunction with the 34th International Federation for Documentation Conference in Moscow, Soviet Union, September 9-18, 1968 have been announced by the Soviet Organizing Committee. All individuals concerned with problems of scientific information are invited to participate.

The article reports on certain developments pertaining to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The Special Interest Committee on Programming Languages of the ACM will issue an information bulletin on the string manipulation language SNOBOL. This bulletin will be distributed as an occasional supplement to SICPLAN Notices, the Committee's informal newsletter. The bulletin will also be used as a forum for the discussion of problems associated with the use and implementation of the language. At a recent meeting of the ACM Committee for Professional Activities of the Blind, it was decided that Science for the Blind, a small nonprofit organization, should act as a central depository for all literature in the computing field that is recorded for the blind. ACM will hold its 20th anniversary meeting- at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. on August 29-31, 1967. Papers to be presented will stress historical perspective, present significant new developments, or explore trends and potential developments.

The article reports on the new policy recommended by Mario L. Juncosa, chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Editorial Board, at the ACM Council's meeting in Cleveland, Ohio over the concerns related to limited availability of papers presented at ACM national conferences that are published in ACM's journals. It mentions that the ACM policy is not in favor of duplicate publications and thus not allow publication in other journals that are widely available. The guidelines of the new policy recommended by Juncosa are mentioned.

The article discusses the latest developments related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). An interdepartmental Federal Government panel or task force has been organized by Burton W. Adkinson of the National Science Foundation's Office of Science Information Service to look into the scientific information activities of the U.S. The ACM Southeast region will offer prize for the best paper presented by an undergraduate at the national conference which is going to be held on August 24-26, 1965.

The article presents information on the first semi-annual meeting of the Greater Rio Grande Chapter of the Association for Computing machinery (ACM) for the academic year 1964-65. The meeting was held on October 1-2, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Twenty papers covering various topics including computer design, time sharing, numerical analysis and automata theory were presented in the meeting. Featured speaker professor E.I. Organick discussed "Non-Numeric Uses of Computers."