A quarter-century view.

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.