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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 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 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 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.