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This article presents proceedings of the 108th annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) held in San Francisco, California from January 5-7, 1996. The John Bates Clark Medal for 1995 is awarded to the economist David Card in recognition of these impressive achievements. Card has largely defined and developed the currently dominant methodology in applied labor economics. This approach sets out a testable hypothesis, searches for exogenous variation in the key determinants, and leads to the labor and time-intensive development of an appropriate data base. He has successfully applied this methodology to the most important issues in labor economics, and his research papers have achieved the status of standard references in many areas. The one hundred and eighth annual meeting of AEA was called to order by President Victor Fuchs on January 6, 1996. The first item on the agenda to be considered was minutes of the previous annual meeting as published in Papers and Proceedings issue of the journal "The American Economic Review."

The article highlights the "Audio Engineering Society (AES) 121st Convention" held in San Francisco, California from October 5 to 8, 2006. The event was opened by AES executive director Roger Furness. The delegates were welcomed by AES president Neil Gilchrist. The Publications Awards were given to Gilbert Soulodre, Scott Norcross and Michel Lavoie for their paper "Objective Measures of Listener Envelopment in Multichannel Audio Systems."

The article discusses issues related to the College on the Practice of Management Science's prize competition in the year 1977. A major purpose of the College on the Practice of Management Science is to promote practice. Since there is a general feeling that practitioners do not normally publish their work, an attempt was made to devise a scheme, which would provide a continuing positive incentive for publishing practice. Given that personal gain is a strong motivator, the prize competition was devised. Members of the Council of the College on the Practice of Management Science served as judges. After having reviewed all abstracts, the judges considered each one for its responsiveness to the call for papers. Roughly half of the submissions were rejected on that basis. It was considered important to the judges to verify the claims of the various authors. Each author was personally contacted and asked to give references on impact. These references were high-level management personnel of the organization under study. The task of selecting the finalists was completed based on relative impact. Because of the diversity of the applications being reviewed, such a relative evaluation was difficult. The finalists were scheduled to present their work at a conference of the College on the Practice of Management Science held in conjunction with the joint ORSA/TIMS meeting in San Francisco, California in May 1977.

The article presents information related to the National Council on Measurement in Education annual meeting which was held in San Francisco, California in 2006. The meeting included sixty five paper sessions, two board sessions and a cocktail party and reception. Some of the photographs which highlights the awards which presented in the meeting is also presented.

The article presents various announcements of several societies in the U.S. The 10th national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America will be held in San Francisco, California on November 15-16, 1956. The Johns Hopkins University will award the third annual Lanchester Prize of $1000 for the best operations-research paper published in calendar year 1956. The council of the Operations Research Society of America has agreed to underwrite the publication of a series of independent bound volumes called Operations-Research Monographs.