Preface

THE Automatic Programming Information Centre was established at

Brighton College of Technology in 1960. Its aim has been to disseminate

information and to encourage discussion of problems relating to computer

languages. In the four years of its existence, it has attracted as members both institutions and individuals in many countries.

Besides the Annual Review in Automatic Programming, A.P.I.C. has issued free to its members a bulletin of reviews and discussion, Automatic

Programming Information. In addition, five volumes in the series A.P.I.C. Studies in Data Processing, published for A.P.I.C. by the Academic Press,

have been published. They are:

1. 2.

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4. 5.

Some Commercial Autocodes : A Comparative Study.

A Primer of ALGOL 60 Programming by E. W. Dijkstra. Input Language for Automatic Programming Systems by A. P. Yershov

G. I. Kozhukhin and U. M. Voloshin.

Introduction to System Programming edited by P. Wegner. ALGOL 60 Implementation by B. Randell and L. J. Russell.

A.P.I.C. has also produced two surveys of automatic programming languages in use or projected in the U.K. for the British Standards

Institution. These were published in Nos. 14 and 17 of Automatic Program-

ming Information. During 1964, a series of six seminars on Compiler Writing has been organized with B. Randell, K. Samelson, D. W. Barron, E. W.

Dijkstra, A. G. Fraser and P. Naur. The main papers are being published

individually in A.P.I. and will subsequently be issued collectively in the next issue of the Annual Review.

The need to reorientate and reorganize the work of A.P.I.C., now part

of the Department of Computing, Cybernetics & Management, is now being considered. An announcement will be made before the end of 1964.

Brighton College of Technology, Moulsecoomb, Brighton 7, England

RICHARD GOODMAN