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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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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."