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The article focuses on the program for the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America. The meeting will be held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada, from June 20-24, 1971. The chairmen of the program will be Harold C. Bold and Louis Druehl. All sessions of the program at which contributed papers, lectures and the symposium are presented are scheduled as joint sessions of the Phycological Society of America, the Phycological Section of the Canadian Botanical Association and the Phycological Section of the Botanical Society of America.

This article presents the personal and professional profile of the author, but the central theme is his research and work in Ottawa and at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. The author attended Wortley Road Public School, London South Collegiate Institute, and the University of Western Ontario, from where he graduated in mathematics and physics in 1949. The author then went to the University of Toronto from which he received a PhD. in mathematical statistics in 1952. After leaving Toronto, Ontario, the author worked for several years in Ottawa in several departments of the federal government and in private industry. In 1963, he went to the University of Alberta, where an academic computing department was being formed. The author retired in 1992 as a professor emeritus of computing science, and since then have continued to pursue his various professional interests. Upon completing his PhD, he accepted a position with the Operational Research Group of the Defence Research Board in Ottawa where he worked as an applied statistician. When the author arrived in the University of Alberta, he became involved in the usual academic work of teaching and research, and, as was understood when he was appointed, some consulting on statistical computing in the university. His first course was a new one in probability statistics, and numerical analysis for first-year students in mathematics, and for computing science students when the Department of Computing Science was formed on April 1,1964. In about 1965, he began a one-term "service course" in programming for students in the Faculty of Agriculture.

Describes the impact of technology on the teaching and learning of Wesley Cooper, a professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. Introduction of acronym MUD for the use of Multi-User Dungeon to Cooper; Distinction between traditional educational practice and distance education experienced by Cooper; Appraisal of integrative approach to education that has been adopted by Cooper; Indication about time spent by Cooper on teaching.

Focuses on resident programs being conducted in the department of otolaryngology in two universities in the U.S. Analysis of achievements of senior residents at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Atlanta in 1997-1998; Improvements in the residency program at the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Appointments done in the university for further improvement; Graduates who passed the fellowship exam.

Presents news briefs concerning biologists and biological research. Presentation of the 1987 Award for Excellence in Weed Science in Western Canada to William H. Vanden Born of the University of Alberta's Department of Plant Science; Award of the 1988 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement to Bert Bolin, a professor of meteorology at the University of Stockholm; Presentation of the Outstanding Young Investigator Award by the American Federation of Clinical Research to Richard Klausner of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland, and to William Chin of the Harvard University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts; Alumni award from Rutgers University which was presented to F. Herbert Bormann of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

The article provides guidelines to authors who wish to contribute to the journal "Journal of Historical Sociology." The journal welcomes articles that contribute to the historically grounded understanding of human societies, whatever their disciplinary provenance or theoretical standpoint. For paper submission, four copies of the manuscript should be sent to Derek Sayer and Yoke-Sum Wong, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton in Alberta. All contributions should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 100 words, and a brief biographical note including institutional affiliation. The article states that the authors should write in plain English, and that various spellings may be used as long as they are consistent within an article. Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced throughout, including quotations, notes, and references. Illustrations should be submitted in camera-ready form, and provided on separate sheets and should not included in the body of the text. A note in the text should indicate location of illustrations.

Reports that the Division of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery has received full accreditation from the Royal College Review for the University of Alberta Residency Training Programs. Resident activities in 1999; Total number of residents in the training program in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at the University of Alberta; Visiting guest speakers during the academic year 1999-2000 for the division.

Presents a history of computing at the University of Alberta. Origins in the 1950s; Formation in the 1960s; Growth in the 1980s; Teaching and research; Hardware; Software.