[CE] ================================================ AMAST Links 02 07 28th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC'96 Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 22--24, 1996 The LaTeX full version of the _Call for Papers_ is available at URL: http://www.cs.utwente.nl/data/amast/links/v02/i07/full/AC0207CE.tex The Twenty-Eighth ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, will be held in Philadelphia, May 22--24, 1996. Papers presenting original research on theoretical aspects of computer science are sought. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include algorithms and data structures, complexity theory, computational algebra and geometry, computational biology, cryptography, databases, machine learning, algorithmic graph theory, applications of logic, parallel & distributed computation, probabilistic computations, computer architectures and robotics. *Submission.* Authors are encouraged to submit extended abstracts and brief announcements electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission process is available on the Internet at the _STOC'96 WWW page_, URL: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/stoc96 You may also obtain instructions as an automatic reply to e-mail to stoc96@cs.rpi.edu with the subject heading HELP. See the full version of this announcement for more details relating to abstract format, submission requirements, program committee, etc. *Important Dates* Submission : November 8, 1995* (abstract received, *firm* deadline) Notification : January 12, 1996 Camera-ready : February 16, 1996, which is also a *firm* deadline. *Best Student Paper Award:* A prize of $500 will be given to the author(s) of the best student-authored paper (or split between more than one paper if there is a tie). A paper is eligible if all its authors are full-time students at the time of submission. This must be indicated in the submission cover letter. *FCRC'96:* STOC'96 participates in the 1996 Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC'96. Look for further information on FCRC'96 at _ACM's homepage_, URL: http://acm.org