Claudia Mazzetti, Executive Director of AAAI, will henceforth spend most of her time on long-term issues affecting the society. Carol Hamilton, Managing Director, will take over management of the AAAI office. [AI Magazine, Spring 1991.]

SIGAPP is a new ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, including graphics, databases, communications, software engineering, AI, and office automation. The chair is Hal Berghel (hlb@uafhp.uark.edu) of the Center for AI and Expert Systems, UArkansas. Other officers are George Hedrick (Oklahoma State), Beth Unger (Kansas State), and John Talburt (UArkansas at Little Rock). SIGAPP will assume responsibility for the 6th Symposium on Applied Computing and will publish a quarterly, Applied Computing Review. Contact ACM Headquarters to join. [ACMemberNet, 5/91.]

SIGLINK is a new ACM SIG for hypertext scientists, designers, and users. Officers include Robert Akscyn (akscyn@zog.cs.cmu.edu) of Knowledge Systems (Murrysville, PA), Janet Walker (DEC), Tim Oren (Apple), and John Legget (Texas A&M). [ACMemberNet, 5/91.]

Complete directories of academic e-mail conferences are now available via anonymous FTP from ksuvxa.kent.edu, or by sending a "GET ACADLIST FILEn" message to listserv@kentvm.bitnet. FILE1 and FILE2 cover Humanities and Social Sciences; FILE3 covers Biological/Medical Sciences; FILE4 is Physical Sciences; and FILE5 is a mix of Business and Academia (grants, academic freedom, etc.). These files will also be available in print format from the ARL in June 1991. A self-decompressing, binhexed Macintosh Word 4.0 version of the Directory in its entirety will be available on the FTP server soon. Contact Diane Kovacs (dkovacs@ksuvaxa.kent.edu or dkovacs@kentvm.bitnet, (216) 672-3045), Kent State Reference Librarian for the Humanities, with questions or updates. [LIBRES 1.4.]