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The Counter - ConferenceGeneral Chairman

robert r. fenichelMIT*

Technical Programrobert m. graham

U. of California Berkeley 1

MICHAEL A. HARRISONU. of California Berkeley*

FinanceJOSEPH OSSANNA

BTL*

Local Arrangements

WILLIAM S. DORNU. of Denver*

Publicity

DAVID E. BURMASTERMIT*

Organizing Committeeedmund c. Berkeley

Computers and Automation*G. E. BRYAN

XDS*C. T. CLINGEN

GE*JOHN J. DONOVAN

MIT*WILLIAM ENGLISH

SRI*E. A. FEIGENBAUM

Stanford*JEROME A. FELDMAN

Stanford*R. W. FLOYD

Stanford*M.E.HOPKINS

IBM*B. W. LAMPSON

U. of California BerkeleyJohn McCarthy

Stanford*ALBERT R. MEYER

MIT*MARVIN L. MINSKY

MIT*ROBERT MORRIS

BTL*HARRISON R. MORSE, 111PETER G. NEUMANN

BTL*SEYMOUR PAPERT

MIT*J. C REYNOLDS

Syracuse U.*LEONARD UHR

U. of Wisconsin'LEE C. VARJAN

Princeton U.*S. WARSHALL

Applied Data Res.*JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM

MIT*

"Organizations listed foridentification only.

Harvest House MoteBoulder, Colorado

3-5 Aug. 1971

IMMEDIATE RELEASEFOR

17 March 1971

The Counter-Conference will not be held. Despiteselective, intensive solicitation, too few papers werereceived to warrant the meeting.

No single reason accounts for the lack of papers.Some would-be authors will be inaccessibly abroad, enroute to the conferences in Israel and Yugoslavia. Onepotential author was discouraged from Counter-Conferenceparticipation by his (large) employer. Several potentialauthors anticipated extreme difficulty in getting anytravel money this year, and could see no way of attendingthe Counter-Conference or any other.

The Counter-Conference is grateful for such supportas it has received, and proud of such long-term effectsas its short-term existence may have had.

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The Counter - ConferenceGeneral Chairman

ROBERT R. FENICHELMIT*

Technical Program

robert m. grahamU. of California Berkeley'

MICHAEL A. HARRISONU. of California Berkeley

FinanceJOSEPH OSSANNA

BTL*

Local Arrangements

WILLIAM S. DORNU. of Denver*

Publicity

DAVID E. BURMASTERMIT*

Organizing CommitteeEDMUND C. BERKELEY

Computers and AutomationG. E. BRYAN

XDS*C. T. CLINGEN

GE*JOHN J. DONOVAN

MIT*WILLIAM ENGLISH

SRI*E. A. FEIGENBAUM

Stanford*JEROME A. FELDMAN

Stanford*R. W. FLOYD

Stanford*M.E.HOPKINS

IBM*B. W. LAMPSON

U. of California BerkeleyJOHN MCCARTHY

Stanford*ALBERT R. MEYER

MIT*MARVIN L. MINSKY

MIT*ROBERT MORRIS

BTL*HARRISON R. MORSE, 111PETER G. NEUMANN

BTL*SEYMOUR PAPERT

MIT*J. C. REYNOLDS

Syracuse U.*LEONARD UHR

U. of WisconsinLEE C. VARIAN

Princeton U.*S. WARSHALL

Applied Data Res.*JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM

MIT*

"Organizations listed foridentification only.

Harvest House MoteBoulder, Colorado

3-5 Aug. 1971

Call for Papers

The Counter-Conference will be a technical meeting devoted to recentadvances in computer science and the impact of computers on society.The meeting will be held 3 - 5 August 1971 at the Harvest House Motelin Boulder, Colorado. The conference will consist of contributed papersand of special invited papers. Papers descrbing significant progress inany of the following areas are solicited: programming language design andimplementation; operating systems; computer hardware including I/O andterminals (c. g., graphics); systems organization; applications of computersin education, medicine, process cbntrol, management; theory of comput-ing; numerical analysis; artificial intelligence; computers and society withemphasis on the issues of privacy and data banks; professional educationand the role of the professional in society.

The Program Committee will include R. M. Graham and M. A. Harrison(Co-Chairmen), R. W. Floyd, A. R. Meyer, R. Morris, and E. I. Organiclc.

Authors should submit preliminary versions of their paper by I Feb-ruary 1971. Papers should be sent (in triplicate) to Program Committee,Counter-Conference, Department of Computer Science, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, California 94720. This address should also be usedfor inquiries concerning the technical program.

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 15 April 1971.The final drafts, typed on bond paper, are due by 15 June 1971. The col-lection of papers will be available before the conference.

General inquiries concerning the Counter-Conference should be sentto Room 803, 545 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.

Statement of PurposeWe who organized the Counter-Conference were drawn together by various

overlapping concerns. We now recognize these as concerns for the various aspectsof professionalism. We understand this latter term as follows:

(I) A distinguishing mark of a professional, in any field is hisacceptance of responsibility for the consequences of his activities,including indirect and remote consequences. We believe that the ACMdoes not adequately emphasize this aspect of professionalism. For ex-ample, we believe that the ACM's decision to hold the 1971 NationalConference in Chicago was particularly irresponsible, since Chicago isan established symbol for the repressive side of current American life.

(2) Another distinguishing mark of a professional is his main-ance of standards of technical work in his field.

(3) The final distinguishing mark of a professional is the tech-nical excellence of his own work.

We do not assert that a high level of professionalism is unachievable within theACM. Most of us are ACM members, and many of us hold responsible positions inthat organization. We are working within the ACM, and we expect to continue todo so. We have no plans for organization of a competing society. If, however, wewere merely to abstain while the ACM is in Chicago, we would share responsibilityfor the ACM's action. This we cannot do.

The Counter-Conference will emphasize all of the aspects of professionalism.The timing of our meeting is intentional, as is its location away from Chicago. It isour further intention that an exemplary standard of technical quality will be main-tained at our sessions.