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After EATCS was officially founded in 1972 the Bulletin issuer one was edited by Maurice Nivat in 73, issue two by Giorgio Ausiello in 76. I was elected EATCS Secretary and Bulletin editor at the 4 th ICALP (Turku, 1977) The regular appearance (three issues a year) was started by me with issue three: I am happy that some of the logo-design and structure that we introduced (particular the ideas ...

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I hope you will enjoy reading this issue of the ISBA Bulletin. I have included a section on general information of ISBA awards, that might be of interest to everyone, besides the more regular sections of Applications, Software Review and News of the World. Bruno Sansó and Gabriel Huerta are leaving as AE’s. We thank them for their enthusiastic participation in creating this Bulletin. Also, I th...