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This article reports that the second Stony Brook Conference on Advances in Computing was held on the campus of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York on Friday, June 10, 1966. The Long Island Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery joined with the University to sponsor the conference which was partially supported by International Business Machines Corp. The first technical presentation was a thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion of "Feasible Large-Scale Computer Models" by C. West Churchman of the University of California at Berkeley. He pointed to the very large models that can now be built, and the very much larger models that we will soon be able to build, and stated that the models are not realistic because the quality of information is not adequate and because the right questions remain unasked. Walter F. Bauer, president of Informatics Inc., discussed "On-Line Systems, Past, Present and Future."A talk by Oscar L. Morgenstern of the Mitre Corp. on the Air Traffic Control Subsystem of the Airspace System concluded the morning program.