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Konrad Zuse. The opening address was given by Prof. Dr. Fr i tz KrUckeberg, the President of the GMD Board of Directors. A panel discussion was chaired by Dr. GUntsch, also Chairman of the Council of the GMD. Dr. GUntsch is also the leader of the Department on Data Processing in the Federal Minist ry of Research and Technology. Dr. GUntsch also reported on the new Federal Funding Program on Data Processing and Informa- t ion Technology. One of the resumes of the work- shop was that there should be more research ac- t i v i t i e s in the Federal Republic on Computer Ar- chitecture and Computer Organization. I t was a l - so stated that Industry research is mostly medium term product oriented, and that i t presently is d i f f i c u l t to organize larger projects at Univer- s i t i es . R,H.

ACM German Chapter Meeting

End of 1979 the membership assembly of the Ger- man Chapter of the ACM was held in Bad Nauheim. The resul t of elections is : Chairman Dr. P. Schnupp (Softlab Munich), Vice-Chairman: Prof. Dr. H.-W. Wippermann (Computer Science Depart- ment of Kaiserslautern Univers i ty ) , Secretary: Dr. Weicker (Siemens AG), Treasurer: Mr. Weyde. The out-going Vice-Chairman reported on meetings held by the German Chapter: "Reliable Software" (Bonn), "PASCAL" (Kaiserslautern Univers i ty ) , "Data Base Technology" (Bad Nauheim), "Microcom- puting" (Munich), "Portable Software" (Erlangen), "Software Engineering" (Ber l in ) , "Hardware for Software" (Konstanz). The out-going Secretary, Dr. Schimpf, reported the Chapter having 461 members. R.H.