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                          NEWS FROM NATIONAL
                          December 18, 1995

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                CASCON'95: FREE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

          CASCON'95, co-sponsored by IBM Canada Ltd and NRC's
          Institute for Information Technology, took place in November in
          Toronto. The theme of the conference, "Meeting of Minds", was
          chosen to emphasize the interaction that occurs between
          government, industry and academe.

          Topics addressed within the Proceedings include: distributed
          computing environments, databases, software engineering and
          testing, compiler optimatization, computer-human interfaces and
          program understanding.

          The Proceedings are available in hardcopy or CD-ROM from:

          Publication Office, Room 211
          Institute for Information Technology
          A.G.L. McNaughton Building (M-50)
          National Research Council
          Ottawa, K1A 0R6

          tel: (613) 993-7941
          fax: (613) 952-7998
          email: editorial@iit.nrc.ca

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                            UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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          EVENT: The 1996 Telecom, Cable and Broadcasting Summit

          WHO: Insight Information Inc and the Globe and Mail

          WHEN: February 20-21, 1996

          WHERE: Sheraton Centre, Toronto

          CONTACT: Insight Information Inc., 55 University Ave, Suite
          1700, Toronto, M5J 2V6, tel. (416) 777-1242

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          EVENT:  CeBIT '96

          WHO: Hannover Trade Fairs

          WHAT: world's largest trade fair for office, information and
          telecommnications technology  (in 1995 CeBIT attracted 750,000
          visitors from 100 countries and 6,167 exhibitors from 59                     countries)

          WHERE: Hannover, Germany

          WHEN: March 14-20, 1996

          CONTACT: Represented in Canada by Co-Mar Management
          Services Inc., 8 King Street East, Suite 110, Toronto, M5C 1B5
          tel. (416) 364-5352 or 1-800-727-4183
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          EVENT: COMDEX/UK '96

          WHEN: April 23-26, 1996

          WHERE: Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England

          CONTACT: COMDEX, 300 First Avenue, Needham,
          Massachusetts, 02194-2722, tel (617) 449-6600

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                             HEY CIPS MEMBER!

          Coming soon to all CIPS publications and mailings near you:
          details on the 1996 National Membership Campaign!

          Pay particular attention to:
          information on the prizes for the Top Individual Recruiter and the
          Top CIPS Section!

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                              HAVE YOU HEARD?

          * The CIPS National Membership system now holds the email
          addresses of 1211 members ( if you have an email address that we
          don't have please beam it along to info@cips.ca)

          * CIPS Edmonton uses innovative procedures for maintaining and
          increasing their membership. Their Membership Coordinator
          contacts all CIPS Edmonton members whose membership is about
          to expire and he also sleuths down the whereabouts of members
          who are "unknown" in the CIPS National Membership system.
          Applause should be given to Neil Lang, the CIPS Edmonton
          Membership Coordinator!  Last year's CIPS Edmonton Section
          Executive should also be congratulated for participating in a                survey of inactive members in order to uncover some of the reasons           behind the non-renewal of  membership.

          * The Russian Federation Association for Pattern Recognition and
          Image Analysis (RAPRIA) recently  became the 33rd member of
          the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
          IAPR can be reached on the Web at http://peipa.essex.uk/iapr/.

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                               HAPPY HOLIDAYS

          The CIPS National Office staff wish everyone a wonderful Holiday
          Season.

          Please note that the National Office will be closing at noon on
          Friday December 22 and will remain closed until Wednesday
          December 27. In addition, the National Office will be closed on
          Monday January 1, 1996.

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                            REQUEST FOR IDEAS

          If you have any ideas, thoughts or opinions for articles or
          reoccurring columns that you would like to see covered in YOUR
          electronic News From National please contact the National Office,
          (416) 593-4040.

          Mary  Jean, Executive Director, mj@cips.ca
          Gina, Professional Development Coordinator, gina@cips.ca
          Dawn, Membership Coordinator, dawn@cips.ca
          Alex, Communications Coordinator, astc@cips.ca
          Michele, Coordinator - Internet Services, michele@cips.ca

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