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This article provides information on the forthcoming workshops and conferences to be held from August to November in 1998. An international conference on very large database will be held from 24 to 27 in the month of August in New York. The fifth annual EDINEB international conference will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, from 2 to 5th of September 1998. Sponsor for this conference is EDINEB Networks. The 3rd Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering will take place in Smolenice, Slovakia, from September 9-11. A workshop on principles of abstract machine will take place in Pisa, Italy on September 19th. The contact address to gather more information is also provide. Fifth ACM conference on Computer and Communication Security will be held in San Francisco, from 2 to 5 in November. On November 7, the Information Industry Outlook Conference will take place in Canberra, Australia. This conference will be hosted by the Australian Computer Society.

This article reports on conflicts between computer scientists and software engineers. A recent proposals to license software engineers have strained the uneasy tension between computer scientists and software engineers. Many computer scientists tend to believe certification is unnecessary and licensing would be harmful because it would lock in minimal standards in a changing field of rising standards. Frustrated, a growing number of software engineers want to split off from computer science and form their own academic departments and degree programs. According to the author, technologies and applications were changing too fast and unless they communicated and worked together, they could make no progress. The article suggests that separation between the theory and engineering has succeeded in other disciplines because they have matured to the point where they communicate well among their science, engineering, and applications branches.