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Conferences in which the Computer Society is a sponsor or participant are indicated by the IEEEComputer Society logo; other conferences of interest to our readers are also included. For listingin the Calendar Section, submit information by the first of the month preceding the month ofpublication to Computer Magazine, 5855 Naples Plaza, Suite 301, Long Beach, CA 90803.

MARCH 1977 APRIL 1977

&a Tenth Annual Simulation Symposium,March 16-18, Tampa, Florida. For further

information write Ira Kay, P.O. Box 22573,Tampa, FL 33622; (813) 839-5201.

First Regional Personal Computing Show,March 19-20, Los Angeles, California. ContactPersonnel Computing Magazine, 401 Loui-siana S.W., Albuquerque, NM 87108; (505) 266-1173.

Industrial Applications of Microprocessors,March 21-23, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Con-tact S.J. Vahaviolos, Engr. Research Ctr., West-ern Electric Corp., POB 900, Princeton, NJ08540.

Medical Data Processing Symposium, March22-25, Toulouse, France. Contact IRIA Sym-posium Secretariat, External Relations Depart-ment, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt,B.P. 105, 78150 Le Chesnay, France.

/ Fourth Annual Computer Architecture7SymposIum, March 23-25, College Park,

Maryland. Contact Dr. Bruce Wald, conferencechairperson, at the Communications ScienceDiv., Naval Research Lab, 4555 Overlook Ave.,Washington, D.C. 20390.

AIIE EDP Third Annual Conference, March23-25, New York, New York. Contact Dept. PR,AIIE Seminars, P.O. Box 3727, Santa Monica,CA 90403; (213) 450-0500.

1977 Computer Users Conference, March25, Commerce, Texas. Contact Donna Hutche-son, East Texas State University, D'epartmentof Computer Science, Commerce, TX 75428;(214) 468-2954.

Interface '77, March 28-30, Georgia WorldCongress Center, Atlanta, Georgia. ContactSheldon G. Adelson or the Interface office,160 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701; (800)225-4620.

Computer Designers' Forum, March 29-31,San Francisco Civic Auditorium. Contact EdwardBride, 797 Washington St., Newton, MA 02160;(617) 965-5800.

Computer Systems and Technology, March29-31, Sussex, England. Contact ConferenceDept., I.E.R.E., 8-9 Bedford Square, LondonWC1 B 3RG; 01 -637 2771.

March 1977

Developments in Semiconductor Micro-lithography 11, April 3-7, San Jose, California.Contact SPIE, Box 1146, Palos Verdes Estates,CA 90274.

Third Annual Mass Storage Workshop, April5-6, Palo Alto, California. Contact Erik Salbu,MASSTOR Systems Corporation, 1333 LawrenceExpressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051.

Computer Designers' Forum, April 5-7, LosAngeles Convention Center. Contact EdwardBride, 797 Washington St., Newton, MA 02160;(617) 965-5800.

Carnahan Conference on Crime Counter-measures, April 6-8, Lexington, Kentucky.Contact John S. Jackson, Dept. of ElectricalEngineering, University of Kentucky, Lexing-ton, KY 40506.

Digital Processing of Signals In Communi-cation, April 6-8, Loughborough, England.Direct inquiries to IERE, 8-9 Bedford Square,London WC1 B 3RG, England.

Aj Microcomputer-77, April 6-8, Lincoln'~' Plaza Forum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.Contact Dr. S. C. Lee, School of Electrical En-gineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman,OK 73019.

&XQSymposlum on High Speed Computa-'tIon and Algorithm Organization,. April13-15, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign. Contact Professor Duncan Lawrie, De-partment of Computer Science, University ofIllinois, Urbana, IL 61801; (217) 333-3373.

10th Annual Interface of Computer Scienceand Statistics Symposium, April 13-15,Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact David Hogben,A338, Administration Building, NBS, Washing-ton, D.C. 20234; (301) 921-2315.

Interactive Design Systems 1977, April 13-15, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Contact theComputer Aided Design Centre, MadingleyRoad, Cambridge, England CB3 OHB; 022363125.

First West Coast Computer Faire, April 15-17, San Francisco, California. Contact Box 1579,Palo Alto, CA 94302; (415) 851-7664.

Americas Univac Users Association SpringConference, April 17-21, Orlando, Florida.Contact Jack Pugh, University of Dayton, Day-ton, OH.

Law EnforcemenVData Processing Manage-ment, April 18-19, Washington, D.C. ContactWilliam D. Ellingsworth, public affairs officer,International Assoc. of Chiefs of Police, 11 First-field Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20760; (301)948-0922.

SCS Conference on Transportation, April18-20 (date change), Ann Arbor, Michigan. Con-tact James Bernard, Dept. of ME, MichiganState Univ., East Lansing, Ml 48823; (517) 355-5131.

International Purdue Workshop on IndustrialComputer Systems, American Regional Meet-Ing, April 18-21, West Lafayette, Indiana. Con-tact Dr. T.J. Williams, 102 Michael Golden, Pur-due University, West Lafayette, IN 47907; (317)494-8425.

Information Display International Symposium,April 19-21, Boston, Massachusetts. Contactthe Society for Information Display, 654 N. Se-pulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049.

ELECTRO 77, April 19-21, New York City, NewYork. Contact Joseph Antonaccio, conventionmanager, Electro 77, c/o IEEE, 345; E.:47th St.,New York, NY 10017.

LSI Applications Conference, April 19-21,Amsterdam; April 27-29, Stockholm, June 14-16, Paris. Contact Sybex Europe, 313 Rue Le-courbe, 75015 Paris.

,Workshop on Microprocessors in Per-spective, April 20-22, Pacific Grove, Cali-

fornia. Contact Ted Laliotis, ASI, 840 Del ReyAvenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086; (408) 739-6700.

- Picture Data Description and Manage-ment, April 21-22, Chicago, Illinois. Con-

tact K.S. Fu, Purdue University, School of EE,Lafayette, IN 47907.

Circuits and Systems International Sym-posium, April 25-27, Phoenix, Arizona. Con-tact W.G. Howard, Motorola Integrated Cir-cuits Center, MS/MR, P.O. Box 20906, Phoenix,AZ 85306.

Fourth Annual AIIE Conference, April 25-27, Washington, D.C. Contact Diane Summers,American Institute of Industrial Engineers, P.O.Box 3727, Santa Monica, CA 90403; (213)450-0500.

AEDS Fifteenth Annual Convention, April25-29, Fort Worth, Texas. Contact Alton God-dard, Association for Educational Data Sys-tems, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washing-ton, D.C. 20036; (202) 833-4100.

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Artificial Intelligence: Special issue of thejournal devoted to applications of artificialintelligence methods to tasks in medicine, thelife sciences, the behavioral sciences, and re-lated areas. Papers concerning completedsystems as well as those concerning ongoingresearch are welcome. Complete manuscripts(three copies) including figures and tables shouldbe received by June 1, 1977. Manuscriptsshould follow the guidelines of the journal. Pub-lication will be in December 1977. Send con-tributions to N.S. Sridharan, Dept. of Com-puter Science, Rutgers University, New Bruns-wick, NJ 08903; (201) 932-3546.

Third International Conference and Exhibi-tion on Computers In Engineering and Build-Ing Design: March 14-16,1978, Brighton Metro-pole, Sussex, UK. Potential authors should sub-mit three copies of a short (1500-word) versionof their papers to Mabel Stacey, conferencesecretary, IPC House, 32 High St., Guildford,Surrey, England, GUl 3EW; 0483-71661. Draftpapers must be received by July 1, 1977. Po-tential authors are requested to send a pro-

visional title and a 20-40 word summary in ad-vance of the draft.

BIOSIGMA 78, April 1978, Paris, France. Papersare invited on signals and images supplied byradiological, nuclear, electrical, mechanical, andother techniques under such aspects as patternrecognition, signal and image processing, anddata display. Submit four copies of abstracts(two simple lead typed pages, with diagramsand drawings) in both English and French byJuly 30, 1977, to Secretariat General de 310-SIGMA 78, F.N.I.E., 11, rue Hamelin 75783,Paris Cedex 16, France.

2nd International Symposium on the OperatorTheory of Networks and Systems: August 17-19, 1977, Lubbock, Texas. Papers are solicitedon any aspect of mathematical network and/orsystem theory. Submittals should be addressedto Prof. R. Saeks (address above) or Prof. N.Levan, Department of Systems Science, Uni-versity of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024.Dates and submittal information can be found inabove listing.

Editorial schedule for ...

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ONSOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Editor: Prof. Raymond T. Yeh, Dept. of Computer Science, Physics Bldg. 3.28, Universityof Texas, Austin, TX 78712

May 1977

Programming Methodology"Constructive Methods in Program Verification," Ben Wegbreit"Extending Concurrent PASCAL to Allow Dynamic Resource Management," A. Silberschatz,

R. B. Kieburtz, A. Bernstein

Data Base Engineering"Use of Psychological Experimentation as an Aid to Development of A Query

Language," Phyllis ReisnerSoftware Project Management"Management of Software Development," Edmund B. DalyAnalysis of Programs and Algorithms"Compiler Analysis of the Value Ranges for Variables," William Harrison"A Study of the Physical Structure of Algorithms," Stuart H. Zweben

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERSEditor: Dr. Richard Merwin, U.S. Army Safeguard System Office, 1300 Wilson Blvd.,

Arlington, VA 22209

April 1977Algorithms"Algorithms for a Set Partitioning Problem Arising in the Design of Multipurpose

Units," M. R. Garey, F. K. Hwang, and D. S. Johnson

Computational Networks"Testing Random Number Generators by Walsh Transform," C. K. Yuen

Fault Diagnosis"Sequential Fault Diagnosis in Combinational Networks," I. Koren and Z. Kohavi

Image Processing"A Semicausal Model for Recursive Filtering of Two-Dimensional Images," A. K. Jain"Maximum Entropy Image Reconstruction," S. J. Wernecke and L. R. D'Addario

Logic Design"Tree Realization of Interative Circuits," S. H. Unger

Pattern Recognition"Two-Stage Template Matching," G. J. Vanderburg and A. Rosenfeld

Picture Processing"An Application of Relaxation Labeling to Line and Curve Enhancement," S. W. Zucker,

R. A. Hummel, and A. Rosenfeld

For subscription information on Transactions, circle reader service number 65 on p. 79.

March 1977

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First Regional Personal Computing Show,April 30-May 1, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Contact Personal Computing Magazine, 401Louisiana S.E., Albuquerque, NM 87108; (505)266-1173.

MAY 1977

1977 ACM/SIGACT Symposium of Theory ofComputing, May 2-4, Boulder, Colorado. Con-tact Emily P. Friedman, Symposium on Theoryof Computing, 3532C Boelter Hall, ComputerScience Department, UC Los Angeles, CA 90024.

1977 Offshore Technology Conference, May2-5, Houston, Texas. Contact Offshore Tech-nology Conference, 6200 N. Central Express-way, Dallas, TX 75206.

ISA/77 Industry-Oriented Conference andExhibit, May 2-5, 1977, Anaheim, California.Contact Gail Milby, Instrument Society of Amer-ica, 400 Stanwix Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222;(412) 281-3171.

Computer Designers' Forum, May 3-5, Chi-cago's McCormick Place, May 10-12, NewYork Hilton. Contact Edward Bride, 797 Wash-ington St., Newton, MA 02160; (617) 965-5800.

EUROCON 77, European Conference on Elec-trotechnics, May 3-6, Venice, Italy. Contactthe EUROCON 77 Office, c/o AEI, Viale Monza259, 20126 Milan, Italy.

IOSA Twelfth Annual International Input/Output Systems Seminar, May 4-6, 1977,London, England. Contact Input/Output Sys-tems Association, P.O. Box 1333, Stamford,CT 06904; (203) 323-3143.

1977 IEEE International Conference on Acous-tics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May9-11, Sheraton-Hartford Hotel, Hartford, Con-necticut. Contact Ronald Crochiere, Bell Labora-tories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974; (201) 582-4623.

27th Electronic Components Conference,May 16-18, Arlington, Virginia. Contact CharlesM. Tapp, Sandia Labs, Dept. 2150, Albuquerque,NM 87115.

ACM Third Workshop on Computer Architec-ture for Non-Numeric Processing, May 17-18, Syracuse, New York. Contact P. Bruce Berra,conference chairman, 441 Link Hall, SyracuseUniversity, Syracuse, NY 13210; (315) 423-2826.

23rd Annual ISA Analysis InstrumentationSymposium, May 17-19, Charleston, West Vir-

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ginia. Contact Earl G. Trawick, Union CarbideCorp., Box 8361, S. Charleston, WV 25303;(304) 747-4482.

NMA 26th Annual Conference and Exposition,May 17-20, Dallas, Texas. Address correspond-ence to Dynamics of Micrographics, NationalMicrographics Association, 8728 ColesvilleRoad, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

A4 Trends and Applications Symposium:M Computer Security and Integrity, May19, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact MarshallAbrams, B212, Technology Bldg., NationalBureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234;(301) 921-2601.

Seventh Annual AIPR Symposium, May 23-24, College Park, Maryland. Contact Ruth E.Pansar, Electronic Industries Assoc., 2001 EyeSt., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.

First ACM Greater New York Regional Con-ference, May 23-24, New York, New York.Contact James M. Adams, ACM Headquarters,1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY10036; (212) 265-6300.

International MInicomputers-Microcom-puters-Mlcroprocessors '77, May 24-26,Palais de Exhibitions, Geneva, Switzerland.Contact Joseph C. Maurer, Industrial and Scien-tific Conference Management, 222 W. AdamsSt., Chicago, IL 60606; (312) 263-4866.

& Seventh International Symposium onMultiple-Valued Logic, May 24-27, Char-

lotte, North Carolina. Contact Prof. C. MichaelAllen, EAD Dept., University of North Carolina,Charlotte, NC 28233; (704) 597-2302.

Power Industry Computer Applications(PICA), May 24-28, Royal York, Toronto, On-tario, Canada. Contact L.M. Gordon, 24 Wimble-ton Road, Islington, Qntario, M9A, 3R8, Can-ada.

1977 Spring Meeting and Star Symposium-SNAME, May 25-27, San Francisco, Ca'i-fornia. Contact Arthur J. Haskell, c/o MatsonNavigational Co., 100 Mission St., San Fran-cisco, CA 94105; (415) 982-7700.

1977 Region Six Conference of IEEE, May25-27, Portland, Oregon. Contact Patrick P.Fasang, Multnomah School of Engineering,University of Portland, 5000 N. WilliametteBlvd., Portland, OR 97203.

Symposium on Minicomputers and Large-Scale Computations, May 29-June 2, JointConference of the American Chemical Societyand the Chemical Institute of Canada, Mont-real, Canada. Contact Prof. Peter Lykos, IllinoisInstitute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616; (312)567-3430.

JUNE 1977

Sixteenth Annual Technical Symposium,June 2, Gaithersburg, Maryland. ContactBryce L. Elkins, Computer Sciences Corp.,400 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, VA 22202.

Systems and Software: Operational Reli-ability and Performance Assurance, June2, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact Stewart Kat-zke, A265, Technology Bldg., National Bureau ofStandards, Washington, D.C. 20234; (301) 921-3861.

k Joint Workshop on the New CSE ModelW Curricula, June 6-8, Williamsburg, Vir-ginia. For more information on the Four-YearComputer Science and Engineering CurriculaWorkshop, contact Dr. David Rine, Universityof Texas, San Antonio, TX 78285.

& Pattern Recognition and Image Proc-essing, June 6-8, Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute, Troy, New York. Conference is spon-sored by the Machine Intelligence and PatternAnalysis Committee of the Computer Society.Contact Prof. Herbert Freeman, general chair-man, Dept. of Electrical Systems Engineering,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY12181; (518) 270-6311.

Computer Designers' Forum, June 7-9, Bos-ton's Northeast Trade Center. Contact EdwardBride, 797 Washington St., Newton, MA 02160;(617) 965-5800.

MIMI '77-Mini- and Microcomputers andTheir Applications, June 7-9, Zurich, Switzer-land. Contact MIMI '77, P.O. Box 354, 8053,Zurich, Switzerland.

aInternational Symposium on Computer-WAided Seismic Analysis and Discrimina-tion, June 9-10, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.Contact C. H. Chen, Electrical Engineering Dept.,Southeastern Massachusetts University, NorthDartmouth, MA 02747; (617) 997-9321, Ext. 358.

International Conference on Communica-tions, June 13-15, Chicago, Illinois. ContactE.J. Glenner, Systems Research, GTE Auto-matic Elec. Labs., P.O. Box 17, Northlake, IL60164.

4 NCC, June 13-16, Dallas, Texas. For in-' formation on the 1977 National Computer

Conference, contact Dr. Portia Isaacson, Uni-versity of Texas, P.O. Box 688, Richardson, TX75080.

First Regional Personal Computing Show,June 18-19, Boston, Massachusetts. ContactPersonal Computing Magazine, 401 LouisianaS.E., Albuquerque, NM 87108; (505) 266-1173.

MECO '77, June 20-21, Zurich, Switzerland.Contact MECO '77, P.O. Box 354, 8053 Zurich,Switzerland.

Ajj 14th Design Automation Conference,'June 20-22, New Orleans, Louisiana. Con-

tact Design Automation Conference, P.O. Box639, Silver Spring, MD 20901.

ffi~MachIne Processing of Remotely SensedWbata, June 21-23, Purdue University, In-diana. Contact D. B. Morrison, LARS, PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

IOSA Eighth Annual U.S. Input/Output Sys-tems Seminar, June 21-23, New York, NewYork. Contact Input/Output Systems Associa-tion, P.O. Box 1333, Stamford, CT 06904; (203)323-3143.

World Electrotechnical Congress, June 21-25, Moscow, U.S.S.R. Contact Joseph E. Casey,TAB Office, Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers, Inc., 345 E. 47th St., New York, NY10017.

Joint Automatic Control Conference, June 22-24, San Francisco, California. Contact J.S. Me-ditch, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717.

Simulation '77, June 22-24, Montreux, Switz-erland. Contact Simulation '77, P.O. Box 354,8053 Zurich, Switzerland.

9 FTCS-7, Seventh Annual InternationalSymposium on Fault-Tolerant Comput-

ing, June 28-30, Los Angeles, California. Forinformation on the symposium, sponsored eachyear by the IEEE Computer Society's TechnicalCommittee on Fauit-Tolerant Computing, con-tact Prof. Arthur D. Friedman, Dept. of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science, USC, LosAngeles, CA 90007.

JULY 1977

Summer School 1977: Microprocessors andApplications, July 11-29, Le Breau, France.Sponsored by CEA, EDF, and IRIA. ContactSecretariat des Ecoles, D'ete 1 Ave. du GeneralDe Gaulle 92141, Clamart, France.

Computer-Aided Design of Electronic andMicrowave Circuits and Systems, July 12-14, University of Hull, England. Contact theConference Secretariat, Department of Elec-tronic Engineering, University of Hull, Hull,England, HU6 7RX.

CAD ED: International Conference and Exhibi-tion on Computer Aided Design Education,July 13-15, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, Eng-land. Contact Conference Secretary, CAD ED,Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough, Cleve-land, England; Middlesbrough 44176.

Summer Computer Simulation Confer-ence, July 18-20, Chicago, Illinois. Con-

tact Robert D. Brennan, Summer ComputerSimulation Conference, 10775 Willowbrook Way,Cupertino, CA 95014.

Fourth Annual Conference on ComputerGraphics and Interactive Techniques, July20-22, San Jose, California. Contact StephenLevine, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, P.O.Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550; (415) 447-1100,X3360.

OCR First Annual Equipment, Supplies, andServices Exposition, July 24-27, Washington,D.C. Contact Optical Character RecognitionUsers Association, 10 Banta Place, Hacken-sack, NJ 07601; (201) 343-4935.

Institute of Management Science XXIII Inter-national Conference, July 25-27, Athens,Greece. Contact Prof. Z. S. Zannetos, MITSloan School, 50 Memorial Dr., Cambridge,MA 02139.

1977 International Conference on CrimeCountermeasure Science and Engineering,July 26-29, Oxford, England. Contact GeorgeC. Byrne, Stanford Research Institute, MenloPark, CA 94025.

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AUGUST 1977

IFIP Congress 77, August 8-12, Toronto,Canada. Contact IFIP Exhibition 77, CanadianInformation Processing Society, 212 King St.West, Suite 501, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM5H 1K5.

Fifth Symposium on the Simulation of Com-puter Systems, August 9-11, NBS, Gaithers-burg, Maryland. Contact Paul F. Roth, NBS,Room B250 Technology, Washington, D.C.20234; (301) 921-3545.

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Sys-tems, August 15-16, Lubbock, Texas. ContactMidwest Symposium, P.O. Box 4439, TexasTech University, Lubbock, TX 79409.

International Symposium on Computer Per-formance Modeling, measurement, andEvaluation, August 16-18, Yorktown Heights,New York. Contact Dr. Hisashi Kobayashi, IBMResearch Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598;(914) 945-1105.

2nd International Symposium, on the Oper-ator Theory of Networks and Systems, August17-19, Lubbock, Texas. Contact 2nd Interna-tional Symposium, P.O. Box 4439, Texas TechUniversity, Lubbock, TX 79409.

International Conference on Computer Ap-plications in Developing Countries, August22-25, Bangkok, Thailand. Contact Dr. Fook LoyNg, secretary ICCA, Asian Institute of Tech-nology, P.O. Box 2754, Bangkok, Thailand.

1977 International Conference on Parallel

Processing, August 23-26, Bellaire, Michi-gan. Contact Dr. Charles S. Elliott, College ofEngineering, Wayne State University, Detroit,Ml 48202; (313) 577-3812.

& 1977 International Optical ComputingConference, August 23-26, San Diego,

Calif. Contact Sam Horvitz, general chairman,Naval Underwater Systems Center, Newport,RI 02840.

First Annual Rocky Mountain Symposium onMicrocomputers: Systems, Software, Archl-tecture, August 31-September 2, PinegreePark Retreat, Fort Collins, Colorado. ContactMike Andrews, Department of Electrical En-gineering, Colorado State University, Fort Col-lins, CO; (303) 491-5767.

SEPTEMBER 1977IFAC Control and Management of IntegratedIndustrial Complexes, September 6-8, Tou-louse, France. Contact M.G. Singh, L.A.A.S.-C.N.R.S. 7, avenue du Colonel-Roche, 31400Toulouse, France.

COMPCON Fall 77, September 6-9, Wash-ington, D.C. Contact COMPCON Fall 77,

P.O. Box 639, Silver Spring, MD 20901; (301)439-7007.

1977 MUMPS Users' Group Meeting, Sep-tember 7-9, Boston, Massachusetts. ContactRichard Zapolin, The MITRE Corp., P.O. Box208, Bedford, MA 01730; (617) 271-2534.

Symposium on Data Analysis and Informs-tics, September 7-9, Rocquencourt, France.Contact IRIA Symposium Secretariat, ExtemalRelations Department, Domaine de Voluceau,Rocquencourt, B.P. 5, 78150 Le Chesnay,France.

Wescon, September 19-21 (date change), SanFrancisco, California. Contact W.G. Weber Jr.,Wescon, 999 N. Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo,CA 90245.

Distributed Computer Control Systems In-ternatlonal, September 26-28, University ofAston, Birmingham, England. Direct inquiries toIEE, Savoy Place, London, WC2R OBL, Eng-land.

4 Fifth Data Communications Symposium,September 27-29, Snowbird, Utah. Con-

tact Joe Marchese, IBM Corp., 18100 FrederickPike, Gaithersburg, MD 20760.

Data Element Management Symposium,September 28-30, Gaithersburg, Maryland.Contact Hazel McEwen, B226, TechnologyBuilding, National Bureau of Standards, Wash-ington, D.C. 20234; (301) 921-8157.

OCTOBER 1977

Aj Symposium on Computer Application In' Medical Care, October 3-5, 1977, Wash-ington, D.C. Contact Abund 0. Wist, Box 16,Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA.

t\Third Euromicro Symposium on Micro-W processing and Microprogramming, Octo-ber 3-6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ContactJ. D. Nicoud, LCD EPFL, Bellerive 16, CH-1007,Lausanne, Switzerland.

A* MICRO-10, October 5-7, Niagara Falls,New York. Contact J.P. Dorocak, Systems

Architecture Dept., IBM, Owego, New York13827; (607) 687-2121.

g:Third International Conference on VeryM Large Data Bases, October 6-8, Tokyo,Japan. Contact Professor Stuart Madnick, MIT,Sloan School of Management, 50 Memorial Dr.,Cambridge, MA 02139.

Stockholm International Technical Fair1977, October 6-12, Stockholm, Sweden. Con-tact Radley Communications Limited, 509Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022; (212)838-9215.

DPMA's Info/Expo 77, October 9-12, Wash-ington, D.C. Contact George Nagel, Wash-ington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Hyatts-ville, MD.

International Symposium on InformationTheory, October 10-14, Ithaca, New York. Con-tact Torrance Fine, School of Electrical Engi-neering, Phillips Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca,NY 14853.

ACM National Conference, October 16-19,Seattle, Washington. Contact James S. Ket-chel, P.O. Box 16156, Seattle, WA 98116; (206)935-6776.

International Conference on Modelling Semi-conductor Devices, October 18-20, Lausanne,Switzerland. Contactthe Secretariat desJourneesd'electronique de l'EPFL 16, chemin de Bellerive,CH-1 007 Lausanne, Switzerland.

March 1977

Design Automation Workshop, October 19-21, Michigan State University. Contact HarryM. Taxin, Computer-Aided Design Dept., HughesAircraft Company, Culver City, CA 90230; (213)391-0711 Ext. 2273 or 4186.

&,EIghteenth Annual Symposium on Foun-'datlons of Computer Sclence,' October31-November 2, Providence, Rhode Island.Contact Sheldon Akers, General. Electric Com-pany, Electronics Park, Syracuse, NY 13201.

Computers In Aerospace, October 31-November 2. Contact H. J. Harrington,

McDonnell Douglas Corporation, DepartmentE411, Bldg. 106/4, St. Louis, MO 63166.

N-OVEMBER 1977

g Asliomar Conference on Circuits, SystemsWand Computers, November 6-9, PacificGrove, California. Contact John W. Woods,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, School ofEngineering, Troy, NY 12181.

MIDCON, November 8-10, Chicago, Illinois.Contact Electrical and Electronics ExhibitionsInc., 999 N. Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo, CA90245; (213) 772-2965.

ACOMPSAC 77, November 8-11, 1977, Chl.Wcago, Illinois. The Computer Society's FirstInternational Computer Software and Appli-cations Conference will bring together computerpractitioners, users, and researchers. Con-tact Professor Stephen Yau, NorthwesternUniversity, Evanston, IL 60201; (312) 492-3641.

A Sixth Texas Conference on ComputingSystems, November 14-15, University of

Texas. Contact Prof. James Sneeringer, Dept.of Computer Science, Painter Hall 3.28, Uni-versity of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.

DECEMBER 1977

Winter Simulation Conference, December5-7, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Contact Paul F.Roth, B250 TechnologyBuilding, National Bureauof Standards, Washington, D.C. 20234; (301)921-3545.

Decision and Control, Adaptive Processes,December 7-9, New Orleans, Louisiana. Con-tact K. S. Fu, Purdue University, School of Elec-trical Engineering, Lafayette, IN 47907.

1978 CONFERENCES

A4 Eleventh Annual Simulation Symposium,WMarch 15-17, Tampa, Florida. ContactAnnual Simulation Symposium, P.O. Box 22621,Tampa, FL 33622.

6 1978 International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, June 21-23, Tou-

louse, France. Contact J.F. Meyer, Dept. of Elec.and Computer Engineering, University of Michi-gan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. U

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