The issue contains:
3rd IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing
Montréal, Canada — 18–20 August 1980. Organized by the Associate Committee on Automatic Control of the National Research Council Canada and the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, with the scope, topics, time schedule, languages and call for papers.
6th IFAC/IFIP Conference on Digital Computer Applications to Process Control
Duesseldorf, F.R.G. — 14–17 October 1980. Organized by VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Regelungstechnik (GMR), with the purpose, topics and time schedule.
IFAC Information Brochure
Note that the 1979 edition of the brochure on IFAC information, aims, structure and activities is available from the IFAC Secretariat.
New Editor of IFAC Newsletter
Announcement that the present editor resigns with this issue and that the new editor will be IFAC general secretary Mr Fred Margulies.
IFAC Proceedings
- A Link between Science and Applications of Automatic Control — Proceedings of the 7th Triennial World Congress of IFAC, Helsinki, Finland, June 1978, in four volumes.
- Systems Approach for Development — Proceedings of the IFAC Conference, Cairo, A.R.E., November 1977.
Non-IFAC activities
- Systems Science VI International Conference on Systems Science — Wroclaw, Poland, 10–13 September 1979, with its topics and language.
- Application of Statistical Methods in Measurement — Proceedings of the symposium organized by the IMEKO Technical Committee on Measurement Theory (TC7), Leningrad, 16–19 May 1978.