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The article reports on the fourth symposium of the Association for Computing Machinery, on Operating Systems Principles. For the symposium, over 60 papers were submitted to the program committee in response to a call for papers. From this set, 21 papers were selected for presentation in five formal sessions. Two sessions on the first day of the symposium contained papers describing principles relevant to operating system design and measurement, as well as papers describing complete operating systems. An important focal point of the symposium was the topic of computer security and protection. The banquet speaker, professor Maurice Wilkes of Cambridge University, also emphasized protection. The need to understand the technical aspects of security is particularly urgent in view of the current national attention being given to the social implications of computerized data banks and the rights of citizens. The symposium was co-hosted by the Computer Science Department of Yale University and the Computer Sciences Department of IBM Research Center.

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.

Invites research papers for several conferences related to the field of computer science.

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.

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.

Session 19 of the ACM 20th Anniversary Conference on August 31, 1967, was entitled Education, Design Experiments, and Computer Appreciation. Its second half consisted of a panel discussion on computer appreciation, organized and chaired by Elliott I. Organick. The four panelists were Charles H. Davidson, Bernard A. Goller, Richard W. Hamming, and Alan J. Perlis. After making prepared statements, the panelists were joined in discussion by Andries van Dam and Arthur B. Kohn, who had presented papers in the first half. This is a transcript of the panel discussion, condensed by Dr. Organick and edited by him and the panelists. Same remarks referred to papers by van Dam and Kahn or to the discussion during the first half of the session. Pertinent papers are included in the references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 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 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 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.

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 information on several conferences and symposiums on computer programs. The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $50,500 for a Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula. It is intended to aid dissemination of plans and actual experiences in the use of computers in under graduate education, particularly in small two and four-year colleges. The Twelfth Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory will be held in East Lansing, Michigan, on October 13-15, 1971. Papers are being sought, describing original research in general areas of switching theory, automata theory, and the theoretical aspects of computers, computation and programming.

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.

Presents several letters to the editor about the computing machinery. Dissatisfaction with the quality and nature of the average technical paper presented at the Joint Computer Conferences; Comment on the article "One-Pass Compilation of Arithmetic Expressions for a Parallel Processor," by Harold S. Stone; Use of a coordinate system or characteristic indices for the progress of an algorithm.

The article reports on certain upcoming conferences, exhibitions, symposiums, and other events related to computing machinery. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Southwest Region will sponsor a meeting on the "Philosophical, Moral, and Ethical Problems of the Computer Scientist in the Computerized Society." In addition to contributed papers by ACM members in the Southwest Region, the program will include special presentations. Donn B. Parker, ACM secretary, will speak on the New ACM Code of Professional Ethics. The Computing Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, and the Long Island Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery are jointly sponsoring the Third Annual Stony Brook Conference on "Advances in Computing" to be held at Stony Brook on June 9, 1967. The International Business Machines Corp. is providing financial assistance for the conference. "Spectrum of Data Processing" is the title of a one-day technical symposium to be held on May 26, 1967, that will be sponsored by the San Diego, California, chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.

This article focuses on the press coverage of an international conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The American press struggled along as best it could. The old timers, Frederick Kuh and Edgar Mowrer mixed with Pertinax, Madame Tabouis and other specters risen from the thirties. Less experienced international reporters: Fred Collins of the "Providence Journal," Martin Hayden of the "Detroit News," Nat Finney of the "Buffalo Evening News," Arthur Sylvester of the "Newark News" and Richard Wilson of the "Cowles" papers compared notes on the separate briefings with painstaking concern for details. Drew Pearson resorted to a series of flashbacks from the past.

This article reports on the International Federation for Information Processing's (IFIP) 74 Congress held from August 5 to 10, 1974 in Stockholm, Sweden. It is of course an understatement to term the IFIP Congress 74--or indeed any of its predecessors--merely a "meeting." Conferences in the United States may have more attendees, and/or more sessions, but the flavor imparted by the international character of these triennial events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing makes them unique. The congress had 88 sessions, in which were scheduled 41 invited papers and 174 contributed papers, the latter selected from among more than 600 submitted. There were also 18 panel sessions on the program, and a fair number of additional informally organized discussions were held. The Congress was distinguished by considerably more interest in the social problems connected with computers than was evident in its predecessors. Its setting in Sweden was particularly appropriate for this.

This article offers news briefs on several issues and events in the U.S. society, as of January 24, 1942. John Temple Graves of the Age-Herald conducted a symposium to learn why the South was more warlike and more interventionist than any other section. Twenty-two deaf mutes have made good as mechanics in the Interstate Aircraft plant. Theresa Garranome found a ten-carat diamond in a gutter in Union Square in April 1940.

The article presents information on the 1970 Fall Joint Computer Conference that will be held in Houston, Texas, on November 17-19. The conference will have a truly Texas-sized setting, the Astrohall, the world's largest convention and exhibit structure. The technical program may also appear to be Texas-sized in view of its size and diversity. However, it is not so much the program that has grown as the computer industry. The program has therefore been expanded to reflect new developments in computer usage and technology while maintaining its emphasis on various subjects of continuing importance. One of the chief areas of interest is computer software, its present problems and future promises. Two sessions will be devoted on it. Session 21, chaired by M.A. Melkanoff, University of California at Los Angeles, is devoted to the three principal and self-excluding approaches to long-range programming language development being advocated today. A distinguished panel will present a position paper on each of the three approaches and a fourth position paper on relevant research problems.

The article provides information on the upcoming symposiums related to the computer engineering in 1966. A one-day symposium will be sponsored by ACM, SIAM and Florida State University on March 14 on "The Recommended Impact of Computer Applications on the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum." The four New York Metropolitan Area chapters will hold a one-day symposium in New York City on March 18. A session of invited papers will be devoted to "The Application of Computers to the Problems of a Metropolitan Society." In addition, a session of contributed papers on any topics in the computer field is now in the process of being organized . Automatic Data Processing exhibits and workshops headline the Federal Government Accountants Association 15th National Symposium, in Minneapolis, June 15-17. Topics include "Case Studies in ADP," "Programming: The Modern Budget Officer's Tool," and "The Future of Computers in the Federal Government." The Instrument Society of America (ISA) has invited papers for presentation at the 21st Annual ISA Conference and Exhibit, to be conducted October 24-27 in New York City. Theme of the meeting is "Instrumentation for an Urban Society."

The article presents information on technical program and sessions of the "25th Anniversary Conference" of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which would be held in Boston, from August 14-16, 1972. John J. Donovan would hold Feature session on "Current Research in Computer Science." The following papers would be presented in the paper sessions: "Artificial Intelligence: Theoretical Papers," by George W. Ernst; "Artificial Intelligence: General Paper," by Thomas G. Evans; "Implementation of Medical Information Systems," by Lael Gatewood; "Computer Languages for Interactive Health Services," by Allan H. Levy; and others.

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.

This article presents several forthcoming events related to the computing machinery. The University of Illinois 5th Annual Review of Electronics will be held from November 20-22 at Urbana. The conference is for researchers, development engineers and technical managers in government and industry, and will include laboratory visits and individual discussions with university faculty. Short technical papers will be given on solid state and quantum electronics, cybernetics and computers, and electromagnetics and plasma research. A conference on "Optimization" will be held at the University of Keele in Staffordshire from March 25-28, 1968. Survey papers will be presented on "unconstrained optimization," "constrained optimization by hill-climbing methods" and "non-linear programming by linear programming methods," and offers of original papers that are relevant to any of these three fields are invited. The program for the 8th Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory to be held in Austin, Texas from October 18-20 has been completed.

The article presents a list of forthcoming events related to computer science scheduled to held in various parts of the United States. A Forum on the PL/I Language will take place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1967 under the aegis of the ACM Special Interest Committee on Programming Languages. The meeting has been organized to further the understanding and improvement of PL/I by providing an open forum for serious discussion of the language. Participants in the forum should have an active interest in PL/I, be familiar with the current language manual. Those who wish to contribute short papers are urged to reply as promptly as possible so that advance distribution of the papers can be arranged. A Symposium on the design and implementation of interactive systems for experimental applied mathematics will be held on August 26-28, 1967. The theme of the Symposium concerns the development of new hardware and software on interactive computer systems for online mathematical assistance.

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 presents information about ACM Symposium on symbolic and algebraic manipulation, to be held from March 20-31, 1966 at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington D.C. It is being- sponsored by the Special Interest Committee on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation of the ACM. A major purpose of the symposium is to make available to the computing community information on developments in this field which have taken place since the ACM Conference on Symbolic Manipulation held in May 1960. Another purpose is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas in this area among system designers. The papers to be presented in eight sessions will include selected expository papers, as well as specific technical presentations on the implementation and use of systems for the manipulation of symbolic and algebraic information.

The article presents the national conventions of the Progressive and the Republican parties which happened in Chicago on June 7, 1916. It was a convention to nominate each party's candidate. This paper gives the highlights of the eventful week as accounted from Mary Kihm's transcript of the conversations between Theodore Roosevelt and George W. Perkins.

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.

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.

The article focuses on the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Congress 68 in Edinburgh, Scotland and the fall meeting of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to be held in California. The IFIP exhibition will be held in Edinburgh, from August 5-10, 1967 as a part of the Congress. The computer exhibition will exhibit computer and peripheral equipment from 16 nations. Papers are invited for SIAM meeting on the theme "Combinatorial Mathematics."

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.

The article presents information on congresses related to the computer and information processing industry in the U.S. The first annual IEEE Computer Conference will be held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago on September 6-8. The conference will be sponsored by the IEEE Computer Group in cooperation with Northwestern University and the IEEE Chicago section. GUIDE International, an organization for large-scale IBM computer users, will hold its next regular session at the Americana Hotel in New York City, May 23-26. The Instrument Society of America (ISA) has invited papers for presentation at the 22nd Annual ISA Conference and Exhibit, to be conducted in Chicago, Illinois, during September 11-14, 1967. The four-day conference will highlight "Instrumentation in the Service of Man." The Eighth International Electronic Circuit Packaging Symposium will be held concurrently with WESCON 67 in San Francisco, during August 21-22, 1967, one week before ACM's National Conference in Washington D.C.

The article presents information on events related to computers and technology. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Joint User Group (JUG) and Council to Advance Programming would hold a workshop on November 7, 1966 in the Garden Lounge of the Del Webb Town House, San Francisco. Major topics would be the purpose and effectiveness of user groups, inter-relationships between user groups, and their relationship to JUG. Scientists, engineers and law enforcement officials throughout the nation were being extended an open invitation to submit papers for presentation at a symposium to study application of science and technology to law enforcement scheduled for March 7-9, 1967. "Systems Approach to Biology" was the theme of the Third Systems Symposium sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Case Institute of Technology. It would be held at Case on October 20-21, 1966. The University of Pittsburgh would hold its second national conference on "Electronic Information Handling" on April 12-14, 1967.

This article presents information related to the 5th Annual Symposium of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM. On October 29, 1965, the topic "Computers--Software for Online Systems," was discussed. Over 300 people attended this symposium which reflects the great interest in the topic. The papers given represented the broad interests in the time-sharing field of the diverse organizations from government, business and universities. The impact of online systems has been felt in each of these areas. The Octopus operating system for the Control Data 6600 is one of the first steps at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California, to interconnect various types of computers and storage devices. This system provides a response within reasonable time to users located at remote teletypes. Up to 100 programs are known to the system at one time, of which ten are active and in main core. Programming the Octopus system has required two calendar-years and fifteen man-years.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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."

The article offers news briefs related to American history. The skeleton of one of the first American warships has been recovered from the Lake Champlain and is now on the beach below Fort Ticonderoga. The National Historical Publications Commission is considering the creation of microfilm edition of the Papers of the Continental Congress.

The article focuses on the April 1949 issue of "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography." The issue is dedicated to the Second Conference on American History held on February 4-5, 1949. It contains the papers read during the conference. The conference was supported by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.