Online BookStore encourages submission of original "betabooks" on consignment. Distribution will be via gopher, Voyager, WWW, or gopher+ ASCII; any revenue will be split 50/50. HTML format is preferred; 1MB max. Send a 1-screen proposal to OBS@marketplace.com. [Laura Fillmore. Tracy LaQuey Parker (tparker@cisco.com), net-hap, 1/14/94.]

Scientific databases; Information Systems. Yannis Ioannidis (yannis@cs.wisc.edu) and Maria Zemankova (mzemanko@ciis.mitre.org); 2/28/94 deadline. [12/29/93.]

High-tech marketing; IEEE Engineering Management Review. Includes product development, the R&D/marketing interface, strategic marketing, technology transfer, and product forecasting techniques. David Scott Lewis (d.s.lewis@ieee.org), (714) 662-7037. [callewis@netcom.com, RITIM, 12/20/93.] (The audience is 10,000 senior managers and executives in computer, communications, and electronics firms. Good contacts.)

Language and proof theory; J. of Logic, Language and Information (JOLLI). Submit LaTeX-format papers by 9/1/94 to Dov M. Gabbay (Imperial College) or Ruth M. Kempson (kempson@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk). [ELSNET, 1/6/94.]

The linguistics of humor; symposium of the International Society of Humor Studies (ISHS '94), Ithaca, NY, 6/(22-26)/94. Send abstracts by 2/15/94 to Salvatore Attardo (attardo@cc.ysu.edu). Conference details from M.A. Rishel (rishel@ithaca.bitnet). [HUMANIST, 1/10/94.]