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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.

The article discusses the highlights of the two-day Integrating the Office for Electronics conference of the American Management Association that was held at Hotel Astor in New York February 1954. It says that close to 1,700 management people gathered to discuss and listen about integrated data processing via common language machines. Topics include the basic concepts involved in integrated data processing, the need for a high degree of standardization and an intensive study of paper-work operations and the latest common-language equipment available.

The article presents a list of upcoming symposiums on computer science and technology in the U.S. Texas A&M Instrumentation Symposium for the Process Industries will be held in Texas University on January 19-21, 1966. The American Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, cosponsored by the Mathematics Association of America, will be held in Chicago, Illinois, on January 24-28, 1966. The 1966 Annual Symposium on Reliability will be held at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California, on January 25-27, 1966. The International Symposium on Information Theory will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, on January 31-February 3, 1966. The 6th Annual Computing Center Conference, ACM-SIAM-FSU Symposium will held on March 12-19, 1966 at Florida State University, Tallahassee. The Symposium on Simulation Languages will be held on March 17-18, 1966, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The 4th International ISA Aerospace Instrumentation Symposium will be held at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, England, on March 21-25, 1966.

Information on the conference titled History of Programming Languages is presented. The event was intended to initiate the preservation of a historical record of the development of thirteen programming languages. The conference preprints contained thirteen papers on the history of the various languages. The conference was attended by 350 people, most of whom had entered the computing field within the last ten years.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference on the development of automatic computing equipment is presented. The first session discussed Howard Hathaway Aiken's concrete achievements including the Marks I, II, III, and IV. Moreover, the second session discussed Aiken's influence on his students and members of his staff. Meanwhile, heated argument emerged about Aiken's bias view on programming languages and others.

The article offers information on the plan of reissuing comprehensive sets of Proceedings of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) Conferences and of the National Joint Computer Committee. The sets will be released with 26 volumes from 1951 to 1964 at $100 for members of participating societies and an additional $50 for nonmembers. Charges for volumes of individual conferences shall be based on the original prices with exemption to proceedings with more than one conference. Information on the date and place of availability of reissued sets are provided.

The article presents information on a list of symposiums related to computer science to be held in the year 1978. The Symposium on Computer Simulation of Bulk Matter from Molecular Perspective, will be held at Anaheim, California in March. The 3rd Symposium on Programming, will be held in Paris, France, in March. The Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, will be held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in March.