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Presents information related to developments in the computer industry as of June 1, 1973. Session organized by the Association of Computing Machinery, which is titled ACM 73 that will feature several research abstract sessions for which abstracts are invited from laboratories, institutes, industry, and universities; Meeting of the Computer Law Association, a recently incorporated nonprofit organization, scheduled on August 8, in Washington D.C.; Declaration of the Carnegie-Mellon University's Mellon Institute Award for 1973 that will be given to C. Gordon Bell, a leader in the development of minicomputer.

The article presents information on various chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). People from South Bend, Indiana, have been invited to attend a meeting on May 18, 1965 to discuss about Northern Indiana Chapter of the ACM. Richard T. Kanter has been elected president of the Westchester-Fairfield Chapter for the period 1964-65. At the March meeting of the chapter, Robert M. Graham discussed "Translator Construction" and gave examples of several simple translation algorithms.

The article focuses on the objectives of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 1970. The ACM's literature is its most basic service to its members. Not every ACM member attends chapter meetings regularly; only a fraction of the members attend national conferences. But every member regularly receives the ACM publications. It is suggested that a fair fraction of the issues for the next two years be assigned to the largest and most active Special Interest Groups (SIG). Each designated SIG would be responsible for selecting and obtaining subject matter for one such special issue. The process of organizing the technical program for national conferences needs overhauling. The "call for papers" philosophy too often results in mish-mash sessions. Panel sessions can be simply excuses for delivering full papers--which escape refereeing and do not appear in the proceedings. The Professional Development program has had a very successful first year. It has brought high quality technical seminars to many cities throughout the country. It needs continued support, so as to offer more subjects in more cities. How can the ACM better serve the business data processing community, which represents over one-half of the computer field, for this the ACM needs a much more vigorous program addressed to supporting the technical competence of these people.