ACM's new Allen Newell Award is for career contributions that have breadth within CS, or that bridge CS and other disciplines. $10,000 will be awarded biennially (for now). Nominations are solicited by 11/30/93. [CACM, 9/93, p. 26.]

Nominations for the Sylvia Scribner Award for influential work in learning and cognition (in the past 10 years) are due by 10/10/93. The award is made each year by Division C of the American Educational Research Association. Contact King D. Beach (kdbeach@msu.bitnet) or Laura Martin (lwm@cunyvms1.bitnet). [Gene V. Glass (atgvg@asuacad.bitnet), net-hap, 8/15/93.]

Beginning EE graduate students may apply for the Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Fellowship, by 1/15/94. $24K, for one year only. IEEE Awards Dept., 345 E. 47th Street, NY, NY 10017; (212) 705-2882, (212) 223-2911 Fax. [The Institute, 9/93.]

NASA is soliciting proposals for Neurolab, a 1998 Shuttle mission dedicated to brain and behaviour research. Apply to Dr. Frank Sulzman, (202) 358-2359, by 12/1/93. [Commerce Business Daily, 7/6/93. Jim Sims (sims@pdesds1.scra.org), connectionists, 8/26/93.]

Adobe's Acrobat Reader is available to ZiffNet and ZiffNet/Mac members through 9/18, for just downloading charges (GO ZNT:ACROBAT Item 4) or $19.95 + $7 from (800) 85-ADOBE. ZiffNet also has several demo files in Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). [CARR-L, 9/2/93.] (Acrobat PDF is a new PostScript derivative that can send fax-quality or high-resolution documents with ASCII-like convenience and compression, even if the receiver doesn't have the original fonts. Adobe aims to win out over SGML and other structured document formats and markup languages, and wants to distribute the readers so that publishers will have a ready market.)

(An alternative page-description language is the Open Document Architecture (ODA) of ODAC, a Brussels consortium of IBM, BULL, Olivetti, Siemens, Digital, and others. WP and Lotus are also considering it. A CD-ROM developer kit is available for about $100. [Lode Goukens (ps890866@fpsw.ufsia.ac.be), CARR-L, 8/29/93.])

So many people signed up for the World Robot Championships next month that the event has been canceled. Only 200 entries could be accommodated, but far more signed up. A new competition limited to national champions will be scheduled for spring or summer. [Ken MacFarlane (irg@turing.ac.uk), comp.robotics, 9/10/93.] (There may still be a gathering of roboticists who purchased non-refundable tickets to Glasgow.)

Gary Cottrell has lost his long-time Dognitive Science collaborator, Jellybean. Cottrell is now soliciting humorous submissions (of any kind) for a "festschrift" memorial e- publication in the neuroprose archive. 11/1/93 deadline. [gary@cs.ucsd.edu, connectionists, 9/2/93.]