You are invited to submit a discussion piece to Computing Surveys on topics arising from the recent Turing Award article by Juris Hartmanis in the October CACM. The overall topic of his article, `On Computational Complexity and the Nature of Computer Science', lends itself to both technical discussion of questions in theoretical computer science and broader discussion of policy issues relating to `Computing the Future'. I hope you will be able to participate so that we can start a meaningful discussion on the research directions and goals of computer science in the pages of Computing Surveys. Juris has agreed to comment on accepted discussion items. Potential topics for discussion, all of them related to questions raised in the paper, are listed in the full version of this invitation (see above).
Your discussion should be between 500 and 1000 words, and should be received no later than Dec 15th for inclusion in the March 1995 issue of Computing Surveys. Please send a message to my secretary `kha@cs.brown.edu' with a copy to me `pw@cs.brown.edu' to let me know if you can participate in this `Computing Surveys Symposium'.
Yours
Peter Wegner
Editor in Chief Computing Surveys (starting January 1995)