C O N T E N T S

• Editorial by Erwin Engeler, President of SGFI, the Swiss Society for the Advancement of Computer Science and its Applications

• The ERCIM Fellowship Programme 1996/97 by Bruno Le Dantec
• ERCIM Working Group Environmental Modelling by Achim Sydow
• ERCIM Working Group on Constraints by Krzysztof R. Apt
• ERCIM Workshop Sponsorship

Cooperation with Central
and Eastern European Countries

• Cooperation with Central and Eastern European Countries by Keith Jeffery
• Support or Partnership ? by Milan Mares
• Forum on Information Society by András Siegler
• The European Commission announces...
  
• The Liapunov Franco-Russian Institute celebrates its 3rd Anniversary by Pierre Népomiastchy
  
• Hyperlinked Multimedia Medical Data by Keith Jeffery
• An Integrated Visualization Environment for Computational Steering by Martin Göbel and Stanislav Klimenko
• Strengthening Cooperation with Polish Research by Janusz Launberg
  
• Professor Samarskij at GMD in Berlin by Achim Sydow
  
• Ukrainian Software Specialists in GMD-TechnoPark by by Karl M. Schmidt-Reindl
  
• Electronic Information Services in Eastern Europe by Maria-Anna Courage
• IRIS generates Thematic Maps by Hans Voss

SPECIAL THEME:

• Digital Libraries: A New Challenge by Constantino Thanos
• The NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative ­p; Mid-Term Perspectives by Stephen M. Griffin
• Digital Library Activities in Japan by Shigeo Sugimoto
• The Digital Library in China by George Wang
• Library Networks in Germany by Thomas Baker
• Bibliotheca Universalis - G7 Project on Electronic Libraries by Sonia Zillhardt
• The UK eLib Project by Bob Hopgood
• The ERCIM Digital Library Initiative by Constantino Thanos
  
• Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval by Reginald Ferber and Ulrich Thiel
• Tools and Techniques for Digital Libraries by Jacques Ducloy
  
• A System for Cross-Language Information Retrieval by Carol Peters and Eugenio Picchi
  
• Caching and Mirroring Techniques in WWW and Digital Library Architectures by László Kovács
  
• Digital Library Research at ICS-FORTH by Jakka Sairamesh, Sarantos Kapidakis and Christos Nikolaou
  
• Digital Library Initiatives at INESC-Porto by Paula Viana and Eurico Carrapatoso
• Bipartite Graphs and Automatic Generation of Thesauri by Michiel Hazewinkel
• Information Retrieval and Metadata - Digital Library Activities at SICS by Preben Hansen

• Next Generation Spreadsheets for Microsoft Excel by Eero Hyvönen and Stefano de Pascale
  
• Electronic Race Track at CWI by Henk Nieland
  
• RELIWE - Predicting Biomolecular Interactions by Bernd Kramer, Christian Lemmen, Thomas Lengauer and Matthias Rarey
  
• Distance Training by Cable TV by António Gaspar
  
• Automatic Program Derivation by Transformation by Alberto Pettorossi and Maurizio Proietti
  
• Fast Isosurface Extraction from Regular Volume Datasets - The DiscMC System by Claudio Montani, Riccardo Scateni, and Roberto Scopigno

• Constraint Technologies in Production Planning by Janusz Launberg
• Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer in Computer Vision by Bernard Hidoine
• Devolopping Document Handling Technologies by Bernard Hidoine
• COBRA - Common Open Brokerage Architecture by Christoph Thomas
  
• A Smoggy, Smoggy Day ... by Henk Nieland

• Eurographics'96: Computer Graphics - Virtual Reality - Graphics Highways by Sabine Coquillart
  
• SOFSEM: The Seminar - Winter School - Conference of the Czech and Slovak Computer Science Community by Keith Jeffery
  
• Prague ERCIM Workshop on Systems and Control by Petr Zagalak and Vladimír Kucera
  
• ERCIM Computer Graphics Network Workshop at ECAI '96 by Giorgio Faconti
  
• Parallel Computing Empowers Industry by Ute Gärtel
  
• Computer Algebra and Education by Fritz Schwarz
  
• ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop on Heterogenous Information Management, Praha, Czech Republic, 4-5 November 1996
  
• 2nd ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Prague, Czech Republic, 7-8 November 1996