IFIP NEWSLETTER Vol. 10, no. 1, March 1993 CONTENTS A Message from the President of IFIP Compiler Construction Workshop Human-Computer Interaction and People with Special Needs Isaac Auerbach Dies Austrian Computer Society Member Organizations Report to IFIP Security and Control of Information Technology in Society Integrated Network Management Human-Computer Interaction New Press Officer Books by IFIP Authors Prof. Karl Kaiser Is Chairman of OC for IFIP Congress '94 Intellectual Property Rights in Software and Impact on Developing Countries Albania Joins IFIP Millions Can Now Access IFIP Databases National Abbreviations Calls for Papers Changes in IFIP Future IFIP Meetings MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF IFIP A Focus on Quality Since its founding in 1960, IFIP has grown to be a large and eminent organization. Currently our technical activ- ities are arranged into 11 Technical Committees, a Special- ist Group, and 68 Working Groups. The total number of people involved in this technical structure is around 2000. They are all volunteers, taking part in IFIP work because they can advance the work of our Federation, as well as ben- efit from the international network it provides. IFIP de- pends on the qualifications and the work offered by these people. It is their contributions that can keep IFIP pres- tigious. The "products" of IFIP fall mainly into two categories: conferences and publications. Conferences comprise a vari- ety of activities, from small workshops to the World Com- puter Congresses. Publications are mainly conference proceedings and some state-of-the-art reports. During the last few years, we have seen an international de- cline in the conference market. This can, of course, be at- tributed to the declining business conditions that have been experienced internationally. IFIP's mission is to dissem- inate information. We have an obligation to spread know- ledge about information processing with a high level of quality, to both industrialized and less-industrialized countries. To fulfil our mission, we must survive in the fierce competition of the conference and publication market. We are not in that competition for profit; we are in it to transfer technology on a nonprofit basis. I believe that in the conference market, only high-quality activities with specific and specialized scopes will attract delegates from industry and academia in the future. Quality thus becomes a major concern for IFIP in the future. Our greatest strategic advantages in the conference market are probably o High-quality technical content o A truly international network o A volunteer workforce of leading professionals We must develop these advantages further to strengthen our position. The IFIP name must always be associated with the best quality. This can be obtained only by mobilizing the total workforce of our 2000 volunteers. Each of you, through your contributions to IFIP, determines the quality of our activities, and thus our reputation. Only if IFIP maintains this reputation can you justify the volunteer ef- fort you expend for IFIP. The General Assembly is the body responsible for the over- all operation of IFIP. Through the Technical Assembly, we have been able to strengthen the bond between the Technical Committees and the General Assembly. The Technical Assem- bly is today the true strategic body of IFIP. A signif- icant challenge is to strengthen the bond between IFIP and its Working Groups (WGs). I would like to encourage each WG and each individual WG member to consider this question carefully. I shall be happy to receive any proposal or viewpoint, since I believe that to improve the relationship with the WGs represents a major challenge. The second challenge is to create a quality-assurance sys- tem in each WG. It is necessary to ensure that our confer- ences have the necessary technical focus and that what is presented represents the best quality, according to inter- national standards. It is equally important that our pub- lications have a similar reputation for quality. We must carefully select what we publish, to comply with the very highest standards. Quality is, in the end, also dependent upon the qualifications of the WG members. I will encour- age each WG to establish procedures for admitting new mem- bers, to make sure that they have the required skills. The IFIP name must continue to be associated with the very highest quality. I am open to any proposals or ideas con- cerning how we can strive towards continuous improvement of the quality of IFIP activities. Asbjoern Rolstadas President INTERNATIONAL COMPILER CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP -- CC '92 by Prof. Uwe Kastens (D)* The International Compiler Construction Workshop -- CC '92 was held October 5-7, 1992 at the University of Paderborn, Germany, with 84 participants from Europe and North America. The main topics of the lectures and dis- cussions were methods and tools for compiler construction, optimization, and compilation for parallel processors and for specific languages. The International Program Commit- tee was chaired by Prof. Uwe Kastens, and the organization team by Dr. Peter Pfahler, both of the University of Paderborn. The Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (the German member of IFIP), the IFIP Technical Committee on Software: Theory and Practice (TC2), and the IFIP Working Group on System Implementation Languages (WG2.4) supported the event. The proceedings, Compiler Construction, 4th Inter- national Conference, CC 92, were edited by Kastens and Pfahler and published by Springer-Verlag. Prof. Niklaus Wirth (CH) opened the workshop with an in- vited keynote lecture on "30 Years of Programming Languages and Compilers." He summarized his occasionally provocative talk as follows: The first part of this talk was a brief review of the de- velopment of high-level programming languages, whose es- sential purpose is to let the programmer formulate programs in terms of abstractions, i.e., in terms of structures independent of those offered by individual com- puters. We regard Algol 60 as the ancestor of high-level languages. Languages designed by this author (Wirth) re- flect the continuous evolution of programming methodology during the subsequent decades: Pascal originated around 1970 and reflects the ideas of structured programming; Modula-2 (1980 and later) reflects those of modular pro- gramming; and Oberon (1990) those of object-oriented pro- gramming. During these three epochs, the subjects of program design and software engineering have made substan- tial advances. The second part of the presentation started with the ques- tion whether today's programmers in general make use of this progress. In view of the current spread of the pro- gramming language C, the answer is rather negative, since C -- because of its lack of guarded abstractions -- must be equated with low-level languages of the 60s rather than with high-level languages of the Algol line. Particularly regrettable is the broad and uncritical acceptance of C in education, where learning method and abstraction, learning to choose appropriate, structured representations, and learning clear and concise formulation should be the pri- mary goal. In the last part of the talk, a number of suggestions were offered for reverting the current trend. Among them was reflection about what is truly essential in Computer Sci- ence education: that academic education influence prac- tice in industry and commerce. The next event of this series on compiler construction, CC '94, is scheduled for April 1994 in conjunction with ESOP '94 (European Symposium on Programming) in Edinburgh. * chairman of WG2.4 HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION AND PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS by Prof. Brian Shackel (GB)* and Prof. Julio Gonzalez Abascal (E) ** In September, the IFIP Technical Assembly, meeting in Toledo, Spain, approved the formation of a Working Group on Human-Computer Interaction and People with Special Needs (WG13.3). The following background information was pre- sented to support this activity. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and People with Special Needs (PSN). It is commonly accepted that Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is one of the most important factors in achieving sat- isfactory use of the computer. The importance of the Human- Computer Interface becomes critical when the user has any difficulty in using the computer. This difficulty may orig- inate in different causes: physical or mental disabilities, aging, poor language knowledge, etc. In all cases, the de- sign of an adequate interface can give access to the complex world of computers and teleinformatics to people that tradi- tionally have been excluded because of their limitations. Different groups of users are considered together in the catch-all expression "People with Special Needs" (PSN). This usually includes people with disabilities (the blind, deaf, motor-impaired, mentally-impaired, etc.), elderly peo- ple, children, and others. All of them can see their lives changed in some way by the use of computers if they are pro- vided with an adequate interface. People with disabilities. The spectacular development dur- ing recent years of the so-called new technologies of infor- mation has permeated the application of recent techniques to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities. Several different handicaps have been overcome, giving to people new possibilities of communication, environmental control, and access to computers and telematic networks. Elderly people. Most of the new home-care systems and tele- alarms are based on teleinformatics techniques. They are evolving to very complex and sophisticated devices that re- quire some training for correct use. Moreover, very popular computer-based services such as automatic bank offices are not commonly used by elderly people because they do not un- derstand usage procedures well. In these cases, it could be useful to design easy procedures. Children. Computer-based telecommunication systems, home- alarm systems, environmental-control devices, etc., are be- coming common in homes. In some situations their accessibility by children can be of vital importance. Others. There are other PSN. For instance, people whose first language is not the official language have problems understanding information given through computers. In this case, numerous problems in information systems for daily life could be overcome if multilingual interfaces were available. People hospitalised for a long time can be con- sidered as another group of users with special needs. They can largely profit from special interfaces to computerised help and environmental-control systems. To give an idea of the numerical significance of PSN, let us mention a paragraph of a report of the European Commission: "If the elderly people with disabilities and children are taken together, they probably amount to as much as 30% of the population. According to available statistics the group of people with disabilities amounts to 15-20% and the group of elderly is as large. However, the two groups overlap to a very great extent..." Nowadays, computers provide new op- portunities of access to work, leisure, culture, communi- cations, etc. So it is fundamental to design interfaces that permit the use of the computer to a large number of people with special needs, for whom the computer represents a win- dow to a new world. But the evolution in the design of human-computer interfaces has not always given better oppor- tunities to PSN. As an example, the profusion of graphic interfaces has increased the difficulty of access to comput- ers for blind people used to managing a command-based inter- face. In this kind of case, it is important to offer the possibility of using an alternative interface based on a different physical skill. To sum up, and generally speaking, the main problems that PSN find in using a computer are: o Physical accessibility and device usability. The use of terminals requires some physical skills, like sight (to read the display or screen), good control of hand movements (for keyboard and mouse), and in some cases hearing (for some alarms). When people lack one or more of these skills, they need to replace the standard interface by another one appropriate to their abilities. o Cognitive performance. Often, mentally-impaired people are not expected to be computer users. On the contrary, comput- ers can provide a huge help in their rehabilitation, commu- nication, and social integration. Adaptive interfaces that can correspond to the cognitive capacities of users have to be developed. o Procedure comprehension. In some other cases, people not used to manipulating computers have difficulties in under- standing the procedures for use of the device. Some Previous Initiatives in the Field of Technology and PSN A number of international initiatives have been taken to en- courage and facilitate the use of computers by PSN. Their objective is to break the isolation of PSN and enhance their social integration. To this end, they promote the adapta- tion of standard computers to PSN and/or the design of spe- cifically user-oriented devices. These initiatives include the following: the Industry/Government Cooperative Initiative on Computer Ac- cessibility in the U.S.A.; the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Sub-Technical Committee on Human Factors on the topic of "Telecommunication Facilities for People with Special Needs"; the European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Project 219 on "Future Telecommunications and Teleinformat- ics Facilities for Disabled People"; and several projects within the Commission of the European Communities RACE and TIDE Programmes (Research and Development in Advanced Commu- nication Technologies in Europe, and Technology for the Social-Economic Integration of Disabled and Elderly People). All these initiatives aim to promote the use of information processing technology to help PSN in their daily lives. As mentioned above, one of the most important problems that PSN find in using standard computers is that the HC interface does not fit their needs. Frequently, the more complex and sophisticated the interface is, the more difficult it is to adapt to PSN. So, it is very important that the designers have in mind from the beginning of the design process these special needs for alternative access to computer. The use of different interfaces according to the needs of the user can no longer be the result of a patchwork process, but should be decided in the design process. Conclusion It is considered that an IFIP Working Group on Human Com- puter Interaction and People with Special Needs will be able to provide an important international scientific forum for gathering, exchanging, focusing and disseminating the latest developments in both research and application. (The Scope and Aims of WG13.3 were printed on page 7 of the December 1992 IFIP Newsletter. -- Ed.) * chairman of the IFIP Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction (TC13) ** chairman of WG13.3 ISAAC AUERBACH, IFIP FOUNDER, DIES IFIP mourns the death of its key founder, Mr. Isaac L. Auerbach (USA), who died of myelofibrosis (a bone-marrow disease and a precursor of acute leukemia) 24 December 1992. He was instrumental in the creation of IFIP and served as its first president, from 1960 to 1965. We owe him an immeasurable debt. "Ike" was born in Philadelphia in 1921 and received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1943 and the M.S. degree in applied physics from Harvard University in 1947. Upon graduation, he worked as a re- search engineer with the Eckert Mauchly Corporation (later to become the Univac division of the Sperry Rand Corpo- ration) and then, from 1949 to 1957, as director of the De- fense and Special Products Division of the Burroughs Corporation. In 1957, he left Burroughs to found Auerbach Associates, a computer design and consulting company, and Auerbach Corporation for Science and Technology, a holding company, in Philadelphia. Auerbach Publications, a publisher of information about computers and communication equipment, was incorporated in 1960. Mr. Auerbach served as presi- dent and chief executive officer of these companies and several others. Auerbach Consultants was founded in 1976, and he served as its president until his death. Honors bestowed on him include Fellow of the In- stitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the U.S. honor societies Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. We quote the following material written by him for the book A Quarter Century of IFIP (ed. by H. Zemanek and published by Elsevier/North-Holland in 1986, (c) IFIP) to memorialize his signal role in IFIP. I vividly remember when the original idea for the formation of IFIP came to me. I was attending the Eastern Joint Com- puter Conference in Boston, in November of 1955. ... (Sev- eral colleagues and I) were talking about the state of the art of computers as if all of the developments were taking place in the United States, while little or nothing was hap- pening elsewhere in the world. I suggested that it would be interesting and potentially very valuable to have an inter- national meeting on information processing at which computer scientists and engineers from many nations of the world might exchange information about the state of the computer art. ... The next day, I presented my idea to the U.S. National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC) ... The chairman of the NJCC ap- pointed me to chair an ad hoc committee to develop the idea and bring it back for subsequent discussion. ... Eventually, we were authorized to develop a formal proposal for submission to Unesco. ... In the fall of 1957, Prof. Pierre Auger, the Director of the Natural Sciences Division of Unesco, extended an invitation to a few countries to send a representative to Unesco House in Paris to advise them on the feasibility and practicality of a conference on information processing. I was formally appointed by our State Department to be the official United States delegate. ... The invitation could not have come at a more difficult time for me personally. In June of 1957, I had resigned my position as Director of the Defense and Spe- cial Projects Division of Burroughs Research Laboratories to start a new company, then known as Auerbach Electronics Cor- poration. By December, we had seven employees, and I was working seven days a week and most nights. But the opportu- nity was too great to miss... The first Committee of Experts, as we were called, met just before Christmas, and ... was able to convince Prof. Auger and his associate, Mr. Jean A. Mussard, ... that the subject of information processing was important enough for Unesco to convene an international conference as soon as possible. ... Prof. Auger had no difficulty in securing approval from Unesco to fund, organize and convene the First International Conference on Information Processing (ICIP), to be held at the Unesco House in Paris on June 15-20, 1959. ... By far the most important success of the conference was the co-mingling of people from all parts of the world, their making new ac- quaintances, and their willingness to share their knowledge with one another. ... During the very first meeting of the Committee of Experts in December of 1957, Prof. Auger posed the question as to the existence of an international organization in the field of information processing that could convene international conferences in future years. ... At our next meeting in June of 1958 and at subsequent meetings, after completing Unesco business, a group of us would meet regularly in late afternoons and evenings to explore the creation of an organization for convening future information processing conferences. ... We agreed that the federation would be a society of socie- ties, and would not have individual members so as not to compete with national professional societies. ... It would be noted that in the Scandinavian countries, Netherlands, Japan and Italy no professional technical society dealing specifically with information processing had yet been formed. ... The situation was similar in ... France and the Federal Republic of Germany. ... To join IFIP, ... each country had to either organize a national technical society, form a society of societies, or have its Academy of Science apply for membership. In each case, the desire to affiliate with IFIP was the driving force that stimulated the forma- tion of umbrella organizations or professional technical so- cieties. On June 18, 1959, the fourth day of the ICIP, the final meeting of the IFIP Organizing Committee was held, and by the conclusion of the meeting, the following decisions had been taken: to create an international federation of infor- mation processing societies (IFIPS) if seven or more na- tional technical societies agreed to ratify the statutes before January 1, 1960, and to authorize the Council to ex- amine the possibility of holding a Second International Con- ference and Exhibition on Information Processing in 1963... This was a most auspicious occasion, and all of us who had spent so many hours planning for this meeting were delighted with its results. ... By January 1, 1960, thirteen national professional technical societies had formally agreed to ad- here to the statutes proposed by the Organizing Committee, and IFIP legally came into existence. ... Aware that politics can often get in the way of science and technology, IFIP established from the very beginning that the General Assembly meetings were to be apolitical. People of vastly different cultural and political backgrounds have come together at IFIP General Assembly meetings, Congresses, and Conferences, and there has never been a major outburst or rift due to national or political differences. ... (IFIP's) success was largely due to the unflagging energies of the early IFIP representatives and officers and their successors, all of whom had the foresight to recognize IFIP's importance and the dedication to devote countless hours to its concerns. ... Mr. Auerbach was also a co-founder of the American Feder- ation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS). In addition to serving as IFIP's president, he had many other roles, including representative of the U.S. from 1960 to 1964, Individual Member from 1964 to 1970, and Council member from 1966 to 1969. He was IFIP's first Honorary Mem- ber (elected in 1969) and one of the first recipients of the Silver Core award, in 1974. The IFIP community last saw him participating in 1989, when he attended the General Assembly in San Francisco. He was clearly a man of great warmth and charm. In addition to his technical interests, he was also a philanthropist. In particular, he was a benefactor of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), serving as vice-governor of the board of governors from 1988 to the time of his death. IFIP extends its deepest sympathy to his wife Carol and his five children. We too mourn the loss of our founder, a man of vision and devotion. THE AUSTRIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY "The comprehensive and interdisciplinary promotion of infor- mation processing, with due regard to its effects on man and society" is the objective of the Austrian Computer Soci- ety (Osterreichische Computer Gesellschaft, or OCG). In fulfilling this objective, the Society performs five primary functions: o It serves as an umbrella organization of associations, or- ganizations, and institutions in Austria involved in infor- mation processing. o It represents Austria in IFIP and in similar regional asso- ciations (e.g., CEPIS -- the Council of European Profes- sional Informatics Societies -- and IMIA -- the International Medical Informatics Association). o It provides members with services, information, and consul- tation. o It promotes research and development projects, especially those of an interdisciplinary nature. o It organizes international conferences and congresses and helps its member institutions to organize such events. The Society was founded in 1975, after more than three years of preliminary negotiation. Its institutional members, which number 30, include federal ministries, professional societies, universities, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, and the Union of Private Employees. The Society -- unlike IFIP -- also has a sub- stantial number of individual members (approximately 900). In addition, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and nearly 80 corporations and businesses are spon- sors of the Society. The Society has five standing committees and sixteen working and special-interest groups, active in a great number of fields, from the technical to the pragmatic (e.g., legis- lation and contracts). In addition, the Society offers sem- inars in various areas of information processing, at a high academic level. The seminars are intended for career- advancement training. Also, a comprehensive seminar program on data processing is held for secondary school teachers, as well as a seminar on the Social Problems of the Computerization of Austria. Computers for handicapped persons is a major focus of the Society, which organized the First International Conference on Computers for Handicapped Persons in Vienna in 1989. The second, organized together with the Swiss Federation for In- formation Processing Societies, was held in Zurich in 1991, and the third was held in Vienna in July 1992. Because of its concern with social issues, the Society initiated a re- solution, "Proscription of Inhumane and Malicious Computer Games," which was passed by the IFIP General Assembly in September 1992. Each year, the Society administers a programming competition for young people, which is sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Arts. The Society grants the Heinz Zemanek Award (in honor of Prof. Dr. Heinz Zemanek, IFIP's fourth president and an Hon- orary Member) annually to a deserving recipient, for re- search in the field of informatics and computer science. An additional award is given annually to talented university students in the area of informatics. In 1982, the Society created a regional subsidiary, the In- stitute for Applied Information Processing, in Graz. This institute is devoted to interdisciplinary research, coordi- nating the activities of institutes in the region of Graz concerned with information processing. The Society publishes a journal six times a year, which con- tains papers from the working groups and institutional and individual members of the Society. The Society also pub- lishes a book series in the field of Information Technology. Sixty-five volumes have been published since 1975. Other publications provide basic information on technical and eco- nomic matters and consider the possible effects of informa- tion processing on humans and society. The Society also sponsors conferences, seminars, and lectures, having held 20 such events in 1992 and cooperated with other institutions to sponsor an additional 25. The Society cooperates very closely with the Hungarian John von Neumann Society. Their annual joint conference is a most important event. There is further cooperation in re- search and university education. The societies will bid to- gether to host and organize IFIP Congress '98 in Vienna and Budapest. The Society also cooperates with the Swiss Federation for Information Processing Societies and the German Gesellschaft fuer Informatik. The Society is active in IFIP, with members on all but two of the IFIP Technical Committees. In 1993, three IFIP ac- tivities will be held in Austria. The Society is pleased to welcome the IFIP Council to Vienna this March. MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS REPORT TO IFIP Czechoslovak Report Especially Interesting Every year the IFIP Full Member organizations are asked to prepare a report for the General Assembly (GA) that sum- marizes their major activities, new initiatives, and con- cerns regarding IFIP. Sixteen Members submitted reports to the 1992 GA, which met in Toledo, Spain in September. Prof. Angel Alvarez-Rodriguez (E), an IFIP trustee, scans these reports to call the attention of IFIP to the concerns of the Member societies. This year Prof. Alvarez made the follow- ing observations: As usual, the reports are full of interesting facts regard- ing activities carried out by the different societies, which can be of much interest for others to consider. This year, however, few suggestions were made for initi- atives for IFIP to take. One exception is a Member (British Computer Society) opposing the rule that TC mem- bership should be discontinued after a TC member misses a certain number of consecutive meetings. The Member society is of the opinion that the current widespread difficulty in finding adequate funds for attending international meetings makes this a rather harsh rule and can only deprive IFIP of the hard work of willing representatives." Another Member (Danish Federation for Information Process- ing) suggests that "The apparent difficulties in getting a proper share of the surplus generated from successful IFIP events are, in our view, a strong argument in favour of the concept of a royalty on IFIP sponsorship. We are partic- ularly favourable to the idea of a 'sponsorship fee' of a fixed amount per registered participant-day, somewhat simi- lar to what, we understand, has been applied by ACM for some time." 12 At least two Members suggest that IFIP should take initi- atives in the field of accreditation, either of educational institutions or professionals. Another Member (SADIO of Argentina) makes a specific re- quest for TC members to consider a Latin American visit next year at the beginning of August to lecture at the an- nual Latin American Conference PANEL'93, which will be held in Buenos Aires in conjunction with their national annual conference. The IFIP President has also been invited to at- tend this event. Large Student Membership In addition to recommendations to IFIP, many other interest- ing items can be found in these reports. For example, two Members recorded large numbers of student members: the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), with the following break- down of membership categories of its 3600 members: student 47% associate 20% ordinary 19% affiliate 14% and the British Computer Society (BCS) with 13 000 student members out of a total of 39 000. Several Members complained of the current difficult economic times and the problems they face in financing travel to IFIP meetings. The SCS mentioned a new program, the Distin- guished Speaker Series, and solicited recommendations from the IFIP TCs for speakers. The BCS noted that 200 British people serve on IFIP's Working Groups. The French Member, AFCET, announced plans for a large, biennial congress with 12 parallel streams, beginning in 1993. The 1991 convention of the Computer Society of India attracted 2300 delegates and 100 000 visitors to the associated exhibition. Perhaps the most interesting report came from Czechoslovakia. In it, Prof. Branislav Rovan, president of the Czechoslovak National Committee for IFIP, wrote of a process that is surely taking place in most of the the cen- tral European republics. (Since the report was written, Czechoslovakia has divided. Until the issue of IFIP member- ship for the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic is set- tled, the National Committee is serving as the IFIP Member. Nevertheless, the transition described is of interest, and we print the bulk of that report here.) Czechoslovakian Representation Let me use this report to explain how Czechoslovakia chose its representation in the past and to highlight possible changes in the future. 13 The Past As in the other countries of the former "Communist Block," science was directed and financed via the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Also, all professional societies were organized under this big umbrella organization. When it came to representing Czechoslovakia interna- tionally, the Academy would form "National Committees" for various disciplines. The role of these Committees was to represent their professional communities. With the Academy "covering all" and no other professional societies allowed, this seemed to be a fair scheme. The members of these Com- mittees were appointed by the Presidium of the Academy, with the selection process somewhat unclear. The National Committee for IFIP used to have 15 members (10 from Bohemia and Moravia, 5 from Slovakia), with a heavy hardware bias, and its connection to the professional community was almost nil. The Present Formally, nothing has changed. The old National Committees were dissolved in early 1990, and new ones were formed in- stead. The selection process was more democratic this time, with the Academy soliciting nominations from all parts of the professional community. The final choice, though, remained with the Academy. The newly appointed members of the National Committee for IFIP then elected the President, Vice-President, and Secretary. This happened in June 1991. The more democratic procedure used by the Acad- emy to form the Committee did not result in an ideal pro- fessional structure of the Committee and caused some problems with TC representation and links to the profes- sional community. The Future I see two main goals that the National Committee for IFIP in Czechoslovakia should strive to achieve within its pe- riod in office. The first is to establish closer con- nection to the professional community in all areas of the IFIP activities. The second is to prepare new schema for representing Czechoslovakia in IFIP. The present changes in the political life in Czechoslovakia and a possible split into two states make our work even more complicated. Because of total lack of finances, pres- ent activities of the National Committee are based solely on the enthusiasm and support its members are able to gather personally. We expect this to change when our econ- omy recuperates a bit and industrial sponsorship becomes available. Much can be learned from these reports. We urge all Member societies to prepare informative annual reports describing their activities and concerns. SECURITY AND CONTROL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY Dependence on information technology (IT) is widespread. IT is used for the operation and control of a range of so- cial, industrial, commercial, governmental, and regulatory processes, yet it introduces new potential threats to per- sonal privacy and freedom, and new opportunities for crimi- nal activity. These dangers have to be countered and controlled in a manner that balances the benefits of IT. Therefore, careful consideration has to be given to deter- mine what constitutes the most effective control and regu- lation of IT. Such topics should be high on national agendas. IFIP's Working Group on Information Technology Misuse and the Law (WG9.6) is holding a working conference to explore these issues, from 12 to 17 August aboard the conference ship M/S Ilich between Stockholm and St. Petersburg. On the Saturday of the conference week, the conference will convene in St. Petersburg for meetings with Russian representatives, providing a valuable opportunity to discuss some of the problems of IT in an emerging capitalist economy. The conference, Security and Control of IT in Society, will explore major issues, including particular reference to Eastern European economies. The organizers are eager to at- tract people representing a wide range of interests, includ- ing central governments, regulatory bodies, information system users, relevant public interest groups, the legal profession, and academics. Participants from all parts of Europe and beyond will be welcome. In addition to full con- ference papers, there will be shorter papers in a "case study" format, each designed to address a specific issue of relevant concern. Sessions will allow ample time for com- ment and general discussion. Eur. Ing. Richard Sizer (GB), chairman of WG9.6, is confer- ence chairman, Dr. Louise Yngstrom (S) is in charge of local organization, and Prof. Martin Wasik (GB), secretary of WG9.6, is chairman of the International Program Committee. The proceedings will be edited by Ing. Sizer, Prof. Wasik, and Prof. R. Kaspersen (NL). Since the number of delegates is limited, those desiring to attend should immediately con- tact Prof. Wasik at the following address: Prof. Martin Wasik Faculty of Law Manchester Univ. Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom tel: +44 61 275 3594 fax: +44 61 275 3579 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT by Branislav Meandzija (USA) * and Wolfgang Zimmer (D) ** We live in an era when computer and telecommunications net- works and distributed systems are not only exploding in terms of volume and complexity, but are rapidly becoming as commonplace in business as the personal computer. Such rapid changes induce growing challenges to manage an ever- increasing variety of underlying network technologies and applications. These challenges are magnified by the growing demand for seamless integration of computer and communi- cations services into overall enterprise management. The 1993 International Symposium on Integrated Network Manage- ment (ISINM '93) -- to be held 18-23 April 1993 -- offers a comprehensive response to these challenges of the nineties, through a week-long evaluation, review, and discussion of current research, development, technologies, and products. ISINM '93 is sponsored by IFIP's Working Group on Network Management for Communication Networks (WG6.6). For the first time, the 1993 symposium offers Technology Centers, where multiple vendors will participate in live interoperability demonstrations. This highlight of the sym- posium program reflects our perspective on the principal el- ement in any solution in integrated network management: interoperability across technologies, platforms, and appli- cations. When we held the first ISINM in Boston in 1989, standards for enabling integrated network management across multiple vendor networking resources were in the midst of development in regional and international arenas. While some people thought that developing these standards was the most diffi- cult part of the road to integrated management, many real- ized a few years later that standards were just the beginning of a long journey. When we held the second ISINM, in Washington, D.C. in 1991, the need for enterprise-oriented management across data and telecommunications applications and distributed systems be- came increasingly apparent. Multi-vendor demonstrations in Europe, Japan, and North-America seemed to indicate that the time had come when users could competitively procure network management products in any of several countries and be con- fident that they would interoperate with comparable products in other regions. That was not the case. We have learned. We are not at the end of the road; we are not even in the middle. We are only at the beginning and will probably remain there for the greater part of the nine- ties. Worldwide coordinated strategies are needed for evolving network management in the best way. As the network management world continues evolving, our on- going series of biennial international symposia will con- tinue to foster and promote nonpartisan forums among individuals of diverse and complementary backgrounds to en- courage international information exchange about all aspects of network and distributed systems integrated management. For a copy of the advance program or registration informa- tion for ISINM '93, please contact ISINM '93 P.O.Box 191885 San Francisco, CA 94119, U.S.A. tel: 1 (415) 512 0800 fax: 1 (415) 512 1325 e-mail: 004367585@mcimail.com To broaden the scope of these symposia, WG6.6 has been suc- cessfully collaborating with the Committee on Network Oper- ations and Management (CNOM) of the Communications Society (COMSOC) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics En- gineers (IEEE). ISINM and the Network Operations and Man- agement Symposium (NOMS), originally a CNOM activity, are the premier technical conferences in the area of network and systems management, operations, and control. ISINM is held in odd-numbered years, and NOMS is held in even-numbered years. CNOM and WG6.6 have been working together as a team to develop both these symposia. Since 1990, WG6.6 and CNOM have also been organizing the International Workshops on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM), which take place every October. DSOM '93 will take place October 5-6 in Long Branch, New Jersey and will be hosted by AT&T Bell Laboratories. For more in- formation, contact Dorotea DeSan Room 1L-314 AT&T Bell Laboratories 101 Crawfords Road Homdel, NJ 07733, U.S.A. tel: 1 (908) 949-5534 fax: 1 (908) 949-8569 e-mail: dds@arch3.att.com For more information on future events (DSOM '94, ISINM '97, etc.) and other related activities, please contact Wolfgang Zimmer GMD-FIRST Rudower Chaussee 5/G13.7 D-1199 Berlin-Adlershof, Germany tel: +49 (30) 6704-2652 fax: +49 (30) 6704-5610 e-mail: zimmer@first.gmd.de or zimmer@first.berlin.gmd.dbp.de * vice-chairman of WG6.6 ** chairman of WG6.6 CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION INTERCHI'93, a joint conference sponsored by IFIP's Techni- cal Committee on Human-Computer Interaction (TC13) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is an espe- cially important conference in the Human-Computer Inter- action field. (Also see the article on page 6 of the December 1992 IFIP Newsletter.) The conference, to be held 24-29 April 1993 in Amsterdam, has significant advantages because of its European location and its combination of the IFIP INTERACT conference with the CHI conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer and Human Interaction (ACM/SIGCHI). Those involved in planning the conference look forward to the possibility of future joint meetings. "Both series of conferences began in the early 1980s," comments Prof. Brian Shackel (GB), TC13 Chairman, "and it is excellent that they have come together on this occasion." People with diverse backgrounds have the opportunity to get to know one another at INTERACT and CHI conferences. From the start, INTERACT has attempted to provide an overview of the current international state of the field every three years. INTERACT'90 was attended by about 600 people from 29 different countries; its proceedings contained over 1000 pages. The annual CHI conference, originally a small meet- ing for psychologists interested in user-interface design, has grown to include a more diverse participant group, such as computer scientists, engineering psychologists, artists, and designers, and to deal with larger problems such as the organizational integration of technology. CHI'92 was at- tended by about 2600 people. In several areas, European user-interface work has a broader focus than that typical in North America, going beyond the more usual office automation tasks to many more embedded systems applications. European user-interface designers also concern themselves much more with "work psychology" and design of the total working environment than designers in North America have done in the past. Mr. Austin Henderson (USA), Chair of SIGCHI, is Technical Programme Chair for INTERCHI'93. For further information, please contact the European Office: INTERCHI'93, Soerenseweg 32 7314 CE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands tel: +31 (20) 5485591 fax: +31 (30) 6441746 e-mail: ic93-office.chi@xerox.com or the North American Office: INTERCHI'93 NA P.O. Box 1279 Pacifica, CA 94044, U.S.A. tel: +1 (415) 738-1200 fax: +1 (415) 738 1280 e-mail: ic93-office-na.chi@xerox.com IFIP HAS NEW PRESS OFFICER In order to increase international awareness of IFIP and its activities, our newly appointed Press Officer, Mr. Andrew Morris (ZA), would like to establish contact with IFIP General Assembly (GA) representatives and editors of appropriate newsletters and journals produced in member countries. Mr. Morris writes, "To ensure the success of major IFIP events, such as the Congresses, it is essential that we utilise the various publications. The first step in achieving this is to identify those individuals involved in producing newsletters for their societies. The next step is making contact with industry publications that are will- ing to use press releases from IFIP." Mr. Morris is engaged by The Argus, a Cape Town daily news- paper, as its computer correspondent and has established contact with international news services for the distrib- ution of topical news items. "There are many publications in the computer field," he writes, "and I am sure that the majority will be only too willing to promote IFIP, just as long as we give the mate- rial to them in the format they require. Even daily newspa- pers are a useful medium for promoting IFIP activities and news. All that is required is detail of a contact person." The success of IFIP events depends upon reaching as wide an audience as possible, so the Press Officer will establish a database of contacts for all publications in the computer field and related fields. Readers of this Newsletter, es- pecially GA representatives, are encouraged to submit the names of publications to Mr. Morris, so that he can accumu- late a list of contacts. Details should include the names of the publications, names of contact persons, addresses, e-mail addresses, and publication deadlines. Information should be sent to Andrew Morris Information Systems Department of Accounting University of Cape Town Private Bag Rondebosch 7700, South Africa e-mail: andrew@infosys.uct.ac.za tel: +27-021-650-4028 fax: +27-021-650-4085 BOOKS BY IFIP AUTHORS Several people active in IFIP published books in 1992 (in addition to books that were proceedings of IFIP events). We mention a few here and apologize for any we've missed. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heinz Zemanek (A), honorary member and for- mer president of IFIP, wrote Das geistige Umfeld der Informationstechnik (The Intellectual Environment of Infor- mation Technology), published by Springer-Verlag. It is a collection of 10 lectures on a variety of topics ranging from history and system architecture to computer philosophy. Prof. Gerard Reijns (NL), chairman of IFIP's Technical Com- mittee on Computer Systems Technology (TC10), and Dr. Jian Luo (NL) edited the book Transputing in Numerical and Neural Network Applications, published by I0S Press. The book "ex- amines the use of transputers in numerical computing and neural networks." Prof. Asbjoern Rolstadas (N), IFIP's president, is editor of Production Planning & Control, an international quarterly journal that "aims to bring together research papers, on all aspects of production planning and control, and provide a medium for their rapid publication." Now in its fourth year, the journal is published by Taylor & Francis. Prof. Peter Falster (DK), a member of IFIP's Technical Committee on Com- puter Applications in Technology (TC5), is co-editor of the journal. Prof. Edmund Clarke, Jr. (USA) and Dr. P. A. Subrahmanyam (USA), members of IFIP's Working Group on System Description and Design Tools (WG 10.2), and Prof. Robert Brayton (USA) are the editors of a new journal, Formal Methods in System Design, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. This is "the first international journal specifically devoted to formal methods for designing, implementing, and validating the correctness of hardware and software systems." In the editorial of the first issue, the editors say, "We feel that it is important to recognize the contribution of IFIP Work- ing Group 10.2 in the formation of this journal. WG 10.2 recognized the importance of formal methods in hardware quite early and has held a regular series of workshops on this topic beginning in 1984. Many of the seminal ideas in this area of research were first presented at one of these workshops." PROF. KARL KAISER IS CHAIRMAN OF IFIP CONGRESS '94 ORGANIZ- ING COMMITTEE Participants in IFIP Congress '92 and the subsequent IFIP General Assembly, held in September in Madrid and Toledo, respectively, had an opportunity to meet Prof. Karl Kaiser (D). He has been appointed chairman of the Organiz- ing Committee for IFIP Congress '94, the 13th World Computer Congress, to be held in Hamburg 28 August-2 September 1994. We print here some information about Prof. Kaiser, so that those of us who shall be working with him may know him bet- ter. Prof. Kaiser was born in 1942 in Krefeld, near Dusseldorf, Germany. He earned a university degree in mathematics and civil engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Aachen in 1968, after which he worked as a civil engineer in design and construction in an engineering office until 1970, fol- lowed by employment in the Department of Design and Con- struction at the Institute for Applied Informatics at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He was awarded the Doctor of En- gineering degree in 1977, based upon a dissertation in ap- plied mathematics related to informatics. From 1978 to 1980, he served as Visiting Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg; since 1980, he has held the rank of Professor in that de- partment. From 1983 to 1988, he was acting manager of the Regional Computing Center of the University, and he has been Director of the Computing Center since 1988. From 1985 to 1988, he was Dean of the Department of Informatics. During his career, Prof. Kaiser has published several works in the fields of digital signal processing, robotics, and medical engineering. He has organized other conferences and congresses, such as the annual conference of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (the German Member society of IFIP) in 1983. While he chairs the Organizing Committee for IFIP Congress '94, he is also involved with the organization of the fifth IFIP Conference on Computer Application in Production and Engineering -- CAPE '94, which will take place in Hamburg immediately prior to Congress '94. Prof. Kaiser and his wife, Birgitte, are the parents of two children and care for two foster children. When asked about his hobbies, he replied that most of his youthful athletic activities have been abandoned, replaced with gustatory pleasures. He leaves his office desk for his homey kitchen as often as his work permits. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND THEIR IMPACT ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WG9.4 Conference in India Prof. K. Gopinath (IND)* Since the landmark judgement in 1981 concerning a software- related invention in the U.S., and the extensive liti- gation involving user-interface copyrights, the issue of intellectual property in software has been crucial. It has become all the more important since the beginning of the Uruguay Round of the GATT talks (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs) in 1987, where the issue of protection of in- tellectual property has been debated in a general setting. Most recently (late 1991), the Secretary General of GATT (Arthur Dunkel) has proposed a draft (the Dunkel Draft Text, DDT) for consideration by the world community. The question of intellectual property in computer software is not well understood, and the DDT contains many new pro- posals that affect this area and that may have far-reaching effects in the future. As a result, IFIP's Working Group on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (WG9.4) is planning a conference on Intellectual Property Rights in Computer Software and Their Impact on Developing Countries, which will take place 20-21 August 1993 in Bangalore, India. The Conference is being organized by WG9.4 and the Computer Society of India in cooperation with the Indian Institute of Science. The issues to be debated are very pressing, since many de- veloping countries are hoping to generate jobs and exports through computer software. Productivity software that is used in developed countries is much too expensive for use in most developing economies. If such software is to be devel- oped in developing countries because of cost, it has to con- form with standard interfaces and also respect intellectual property rights extant at the time. The DDT proposals make contracting governments responsible for enforcing these rights. Hence, it is crucial to investigate the choices available to developing countries in the area of intellec- tual property rights. Papers are due 1 May 1993. They will be selected through a referee process. E-mail submission is strongly encouraged, especially in Latex / Wordstar format. All e-mail sub- missions will be acknowledged; authors should re-send a transmission if no acknowledgment is received. If an e-mail facility is not available, authors should submit five copies of the manuscript on A4-size paper, not exceeding 20 pages. The proceedings of the Conference will be published by Elsevier/North-Holland. For further information, please contact K. Gopinath, Asst. Prof. Computer Science & Automation Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012, INDIA telex: 0845-8349 IISc IN fax: 091-0812-341683 e-mail: ipr@maitreyi.csa.iisc.ernet.in * WG9.4 member and conference coordinator ALBANIA JOINS IFIP Approved by 1992 General Assembly The September 1992 IFIP General Assembly (GA), meeting in Toledo, Spain, approved the admission of the Albanian Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics (INIMA) as a Full Member of IFIP. According to our Bylaws, INIMA will be formally admitted when its representative attends a Coun- cil or GA meeting (preceded by payment of dues). Following is a description of INIMA. INIMA was created in 1986 from the old Center of Computa- tional Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. The Center itself was founded in 1971, with personnel from the University of Tirana Department of Mathematics. Forty professionals are employed at INIMA. The work of the Institute is concentrated in three areas. Besides scientific work on informatics and applied mathemat- ics, INIMA works on training and technical consulting for informatics and applied mathematics problems and methods. Internationally, INIMA is the representative (focal point) of Albania in the Intergovernmental Informatics Program (IIP) of UNESCO. INIMA is also working on some programs with the United Nations Development Program and UNESCO for the development of informatics in Albania. INIMA is composed of 6 scientific sectors (departments): Informatics Operating Systems Electronic Techniques Operational Research Probability and Mathematical Statistics Numerical Methods The INIMA staff has been trained abroad, mainly in France, in the fields of developing applications in informatics and mathematics and maintaining software and hardware. INIMA is a federal institute, totally financed by the gov- ernment. Because of the grim state of the Albanian economy, the resources of the Institute are very limited. The gov- ernment is considering the possibility of changing the sta- tus of INIMA from totally supported to half-supported, oriented towards a market economy. INIMA is also trying to become involved in projects supported by the European Commu- nity, to create connections with foreign institutions and enterprises, and to be involved in common projects with them. As a result of recent developments in Albania, INIMA plans to reorganize itself in order to increase its abilities in the following three ways: 1. To perform complex informatics projects for such diverse areas of activity in Albania as the economy, energy, tourism, and telecommunication. 2. To organize training courses for specialists, teaching them how to use computer systems and applied mathematical methods in the management of enterprises and other insti- tutions. 3. To computerize the economic and management activities of various enterprises and institutions. To achieve this, INIMA can perform analyses concerning the present and future needs of the enterprises, specify the informatics systems, write programs, install the equipment and maintain both hardware and software, translate technical documentation, and train personnel to operate the systems. We look forward to Albania's playing an active role in IFIP. IFIP INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH COMPUTER NETWORKS Millions Can Now Access IFIP Databases Two major repositories of IFIP information are now available for access by the IFIP community as well as by anyone else who can reach the repositories through international computer networks. Both databases contain similar informa- tion; however, one must use different techniques to access them. At present, the databases contain the following information: o the December 1992 and March 1993 issues of the IFIP Newsletter, in both ASCII and PostScript (binary) format o the brochure What Is IFIP? o information about IFIP Congress '94 o material about the Federation on Computing United States (FOCUS, the U.S. Member society of IFIP) More information will be added as time passes. The two means of access are "ftp" and ordinary e-mail. Brief instructions are included here; for more detailed in- formation, please consult the specialists at your computer installation. Access with ftp To access by means of ftp, please follow these steps: 1. Issue the command ftp software.watson.ibm.com 2. Login as "anonymous" 3. Use your Internet address (userid@nodeid) as the password. 4. Issue the command cd /pub/ifip to access the IFIP directory. 5. If a copy of the index of IFIP files is desired, issue the command get index.txt 6. Issue the command get fileid to receive a copy of file fileid (fileid = filename.exten- sion). To receive a copy of that file and change its des- ignation to fileid2, issue get fileid fileid2 7. Issue the command quit to exit from ftp. To get binary PostScript files through ftp, first issue the command "binary." Some systems will ask for format and size as well. In this case, enter binary f 256 To subsequently get ASCII files, issue the command "as." In requesting files, be aware that the file names are case- sensitive in ftp. For example, issuing "get NL4Q9201.PSB" will not fetch file nl4q9201.psb. To get multiple files, 25 use the wild-card character "*." For example, to get all pages of the December 1992 IFIP Newsletter, issue mget nl4q92*.psb Access with e-mail To access IFIP files by ordinary e-mail, send a note to listserv@cearn. The note should contain a line get fileid in its body (fileid = filename filetype). For example, "get index txt" results in file index txt, which contains the in- dex of IFIP files, being mailed to the requester. To re- ceive several files, send a note with several "get fileid" lines in the body. Users on Bitnet nodes need not send notes to receive files. Instead, they can issue the command tell listserv at cearn get fileid which will result in file fileid being sent. Binary PostScript files containing images of the IFIP Newsletter pages are available only through ftp (from the software.watson.ibm.com repository) and through Bitnet (from the listserv at cearn repository). Other users may access the same information in the form of ASCII files containing the individual articles from the Newsletter. The IFIP database facilities have been created by Mr. Howard Funk (USA), an IFIP vice-president, with the assistance of Mr. Nick Trio (USA) of the IBM Corporation and Mr. Olivier Martin (CH) of CERN. Technical Committee and Working Group chairmen are encour- aged to add information about their organizations to the da- tabase, which can be accessed by the millions of Internet and Bitnet subscribers. Chairmen may send requests for this service to hlfunk@watson.ibm.com (Internet) or hlfunk at watson (Bitnet). A special ftp repository has also been established in Hamburg for information about IFIP Congress '94. To access this database, issue the command ftp ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de and follow steps 2-7 listed above. As stated earlier, the Congress files are also available on the two complete IFIP databases. CALLS FOR PAPERS Fourteenth Annual Intl. Conf. on Information Systems -- ICIS '93 5-8 Dec 93, Orlando, Florida papers due: 8 Mar 93 contact: Dr. Robert Bostrom Dept. of Management College of Business Administration University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A. tel: 1 (706) 542-1294 fax: 1 (706) 542-3743 e-mail: bbostrom@ugabus Fifth WG5.7 Intl. Conf. on Advances in Production Management Systems -- APMS '93 28-30 Sep 93, Athens papers due: 10 Mar 93 contact: Asst. Prof. Ilfas P. Tatsiopoulos HMA: 2 Charokopou Str. GR-176 71 Kallithea, Greece tel: +30'1'937-3870-5 fax: +30'1'937-3884 IFIP/IEEE Intl. Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management -- DSOM'93 5-6 Oct 93, Long Branch, New Jersey papers due: 15 Mar 93 contact: Dr. Doug Zuckerman AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 3P-364 200 Laurel Avenue Middletown, NJ 07748, U.S.A. tel: 1 908-975-7874 fax: 1 908-957-7500 e-mail: w2xd@mrspock.att.com IFIP Work. Conf. on Fractals in the Na- tural and Applied Sciences 7-10 Sep 93, London papers due: 30 Apr 93 contact: Miroslav M. Novak School of Physics Kingston Univ. Surrey KTI 2EE, England e-mail: novak fax: +44 (0)81 547 7419 tel: +44 (0)81 547 2000 Intl. Workshop on The Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing 8-10 Nov 93, Tokyo papers due: 1 Jun 93 contact: DIISM 93 c/o Yoshikawa Laboratory The Univ. of Tokyo Dept. of Precision Machinery Engineering 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113, Japan e-mail: jago@zzz.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp fax: +81-3-3812-8849 tel: +81-3-3812-2111,ext. 6481 IFIP Work. Conf. on Programming Concepts, Methods and Calculi 6-10 Jun 94, San Miniato, Italy papers due: 1 Dec 93 contact: Prof. Dr. E.-R. Olderog FB Informatik Univ. Oldenburg Postfach 2503 D-2900 Oldenburg, Germany Thirteenth World Computer Congress: IFIP Congress '94 28 Aug-2 Sep 94, Hamburg papers due: 14 Jan 94 contact: IFIP '94 c/o Congress Centrum Hamburg Congress Organisation P.O. Box 30 24 80 W-2000 Hamburg 36, Germany tel: +49 40/35 69-22 42 fax: +49 40/35 69-23 43 telex: +212 609 Sixth World Conf. on Computers in Education 23-28 Jul 95, Birmingham, U.K. papers due: 31 Jul 94 contact: WCCE/95 Margaret St. Birmingham B3 3BW, U.K. tel: 44+(0)21-428 1258 fax: 44+(0)21-428 2246 CHANGES IN IFIP NEW APPOINTMENTS GA MEMBER GA rep. of CLEI: Prof. M.R.S. Borges NCE/UFRJ Caixa Postal 2324 Casilla 277 20001-970 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brasil tel: 55 (21) 5983168 fax: 55 (21) 2708554 e-mail: mborges@barra.nce.ufrj.br (succeeding Prof. J.A. Pino) WG OFFICER WG5.6 chairman: Mr. M. Villabo Deputy Managing Director Marintek P.O. Box 4125 N-7034 TRONDHEIM, Norway fax: 47 (7) 595776 (succeeding Dr. J.M. Hee) TC and WG MEMBERS: TC6: Prof. Dr. Tadao Saito (J) (succeeding Dr. K. Ono) WG7.3: G. Balbo (I) D.L. Eager (CDN) D. Gaver (USA) A.G. Konheim (USA) R. Muntz (USA) E. de Souza e Silva (BR) H. Takagi (J) K.S. Trivedi (USA) WG7.6: D. Ionescu (CDN) W. Wittig (D) WG8.2: R. Boland (USA) P. Kerola (SF) J. Travis (AUS) G. Walsham (GB) J. Wynekoop (USA) ADDRESS AND OTHER CHANGES IFIP trustee and GA rep. of Ireland: Mr. D. Dolan c/o Irish Computer Society 17 Earlsfort Terrace DUBLIN 2, Ireland tel: 353 (1) 6620857, fax: 353 (1) 6620788 GA rep. of Israel: Mr. M. Gottlieb e-mail: P81011@barilvm.bitnet GA rep. and TC6 rep. of Tunisia: Dr. F. Kamoun e-mail: kamoun@tuniscni.cni.tn Member society: CLEI The Secretariat c/o Secretaria Ejec. Clei Dr. David Fuller Dept. de la Ciencia de la Comp. Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile Casilla 306 SANTIAGO 22, Chile tel: 56 (2) 5522375 ext. 4440, fax: 56 (2) 5524054 e-mail: dfuller@ing.puc.cl WG2.8 secretary: Prof. R.J.M. Hughes Dept. of Computer Sciences Chalmers University S-41296 GOETEBORG, Sweden tel: 46 (31) 721000 e-mail: rjmh@cs.chalmers.se TC3 chairman: Dir. P. Bollerslev Ministry of Education Center for Applied Informatics in Teacher Education Peder Hvitfeldts Straede 4, 3. DK-1173 Copenhagen K, Denmark tel: +45 33 91 40 96, fax: +45 33 91 46 96 TC 5 chairman: Mr. M. Tomljanovich ALENIA S.p.A. Via Tiburtina, KM 12,400 I-00131 ROME, Italy tel: 39 (6) 419 72061, fax: 39 (6) 413 1355 WG5.3 Chairman: Prof. G.J. Olling Exec. CAE/CAD/CAM Res. & Dev. Chrysler Corp. - CIMS 483-0501 Chrysler Technology Center 800 Chrysler Drive East AUBURN HILLS, MI 48326-2757, U.S.A. tel: 1 (313) 576-2788, fax: 1 (313) 576-2029 WG6.5 chairman: Mr. Einar Stefferud e-mail: stef@nma.com WG7.6 secretary: Dipl. Phys. R. Koblo Dept. of Mathematics & Compt. Science Leipzig Inst. of Technology, Economics and Culture Gustav-Freytag-Str. 42a D-O-7030 LEIPZIG, Germany tel: 49 (341) 3928572, fax: 49 (341) 328028 e-mail: koblo@mathematik.th-leipzig.dbp.de TC8 secretary: Dr. M.Z. Hanani Bromine Compounds Ltd. Inf. Systems & Computing Div. Yanek House, P.O. Box 180 BEER-SHEVA 84101, Israel tel: 972 (57) 297676, fax: 972 (57) 280113 WG 8.1 vice-chairman: Prof. C. Rolland e-mail: rolland@masi.ibp.fr WG9.4 vice-chairman: Dr. M. Odedra Dept. of Inf. Systems & Compt. Science National Univ. of Singapore SINGAPORE 0511, Singapore tel: 65 (775) 6666, fax: 65 (778) 3948 WG9.5 chairman: Dr. D. Millin e-mail: betearn@ccsg.tau.il WG11.5 vice-chairman: Mr. K. Krueger Controls Unit The World Bank 1818 H Street N.W. WASHINGTON, DC 20433, U.S.A. tel: 1 (202) 458-1650, fax: 1 (202) 477-8278 e-mail: kkrueger@worldbank.org former TC11 secretary (resigned): Mr. D. Lindsay 30 The Dole Impington CAMBRIDGE, CB 4LP, U.K. tel: 44 (223) 234720 OC chairman for IFIP Congress '94: Prof. Dr. Karl Kaiser e-mail: kaiser@rz.informatik.uni-hamburg.dbp.de OC chairman of IFIP Congress '86: Prof. Dines Bjoerner e-mail: db@iist.unu.edu FUTURE IFIP MEETINGS GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND COUNCIL (AND RELATED MEETINGS) Council 1-4 Mar 93 Vienna GA 6-10 Sep 93 Tokyo GA (contiguous to IFIP Congress '94) Hamburg GA (contiguous to IFIP Congress '96) Canberra, Australia TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AND WORKING GROUP MEETINGS* WG2.1 10-14 May 93 Winnipeg, Canada WG2.2 28 Jun-2 Jul 93 Hamilton, Ontario WG2.3 5-9 Jul 93 Lake Simcoe, Canada WG2.4 22-26 Mar 93 South Africa (?) 4-7 Oct 93 Monterey, California WG2.7 20-23 Apr 93 Copenhagen Sep 93 New Jersey WG2.8 11-13 Jun 93 (with FPCA'93 conf.) Copenhagen mid 94 Calgary, Canada TC3 28-29 Aug 93 Birmingham, U.K. 26-27 Aug 94 Hamburg 22-29 Jul 95 Birmingham, U.K. WG3.1 7-11 Jun 93 (with conf.) Gmunden, Austria WG5.3 12-16 Sep 93 (with conf.) Phoenix, Arizona WG5.7 probably Sep 93 (with APMS'93 conf.) Greece TC6 5-6 Apr 93 Versailles 15-16 Oct 93 Sofia 23-24 May 94 Portugal (under study) Oct 94 South Africa (under study) WG6.1 May-Jun 93 Liege, Belgium WG6.6 21 Apr 93 San Francisco TC8 15-16 May 93 Netherlands 8-9 May 94 Queensland, Australia TC9 31 Jul-1 Aug 93 Farnham, U.K. WG9.2 22-23 May 93 Namur, Belgium WG9.6 5-7 Mar 93 Hamburg WG10.2 26-28 Apr 93 (during CHDL conf.) Ottawa WG10.4 Jun 93 Toulouse region, France WG10.5 6 Apr 93 Grenoble TC11 9-10 May 93 (with IFIP/SEC) Toronto WG12.2 Apr 93 (during conf.) Vienna WG12.4 16 Apr 93 Stanford, California WG13.1 24-29 Apr 93 (with INTERCHI'93 conf.) Amsterdam *Some meetings are scheduled in conjunction with Working Conferences, for which the conference dates are listed. Will TC and WG chairmen kindly keep the Secretariat advised of the dates and locations of their future administrative meetings and also send a copy of the minutes to the Secretariat. 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