mechanical translation Vol. 7, No: 1 DEVOTED TO THE TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGES BY THE AID OF MACHINES July, 1962 Professional Society Formed On June 13, 1962 a new professional society was David G. Hays, Vice-President; Harry H. Josselson, formed. To be called the Association for Machine Secretary-Treasurer. Mrs. Ida Rhodes, Paul Garvin Translation and Computational Linguistics, the new and Winfred P. Lehmann are members of the Executive society will encourage high professional standards by Council. Richard See, Anthony G. Oettinger, and Syd- sponsoring meetings, publication and other exchange ney M. Lamb are members of the Nominating Com- of information. It will provide a means of doing to- mittee. The association is not a national organization, gether what individuals cannot do alone. The officers but welcomes members from any country. For mem- for the first year are Victor H. Yngve, President; bership information, write the Secretary-Treasurer. Some of the delegates attending the International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis, held at the National Phy- sical Laboratory, Teddington, England, September 5-8, 1961. Left to right are O. S. Kulagina, Moscow; D. W. Davies, N. P. L.; I. S. Mukhin, Moscow; J. McDaniel, N. P. L.; S. Ceccato, Milan; I. Sakai, Tokyo; R. See, Washington, D. C.; J. Barton, Milan; G. W. King, IBM; A. Janiotis, Wayne State; S. Comet, Sweden; A. G. Oettinger, Harvard; B. Vauquois, Grenoble; M. Masterman, Cambridge, U. K.; V. H. Yngve, M. I.T.; A. M. Uttley, N. P. L.; D. G. Hays, Rand. (Photo by N. P. L.) . mechanical translation Vol. 7, No: 1 DEVOTED TO THE TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGES BY THE AID OF MACHINES July, 1962 Professional Society Formed. Some of the delegates attending the International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis, held at the National