Report on Federation of Materials Societies Workshop on Electronic Materials
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associated technology. The second day of the workshop was devoted to working sessions to address three questions: (1) Why are electronic materials a key to U.S. competitiveness? (2) What is the present position of U.S. electronic materials technology? (3) What can we do in the U.S. to maintain (regain) our competitive position in electronic materials technology? All attendees participated in one or more of these working sessions. A capsule summary of the deliberations on these three questions might be stated as follows: The importance of communication technology, of computers, and of instruments and controls technology, all of which are based on electronic materials, is obvious throughout industry and for defense. The U.S. must maintain preeminence in elec-
tronic materials. Whereas the U.S. was the principal source of both science and technology in this area, we are rapidly losing our preeminence, particularly in the technology. The question of what we can do to maintain (regain) our preeminence evoked much discussion, and many suggestions were made for actions that universities, industry, government and scientific societies could take that would improve our position. Obviously, there is no simple answer to this last question and the discussion resulted in a long list of possibilities. A full report on the workshop is being prepared and will be published by the Federation of Materials Societies. "Fred W. Young, jr. of Oak Ridge NaHonnl Laboratory is chairman of of the MRS External Affairs Committee and is an MRS Councillor,
AIP Holds Annual Symposium for Society Officers The American Institute of Physics (AIP) held its annual symposium for officers of member and affiliated societies on March 13 and 14 in Woodbury, New York. MRS was represented at this year's AIP symposium by past president Elton N. Kaii'fmann. General interest presentations covered manpower trends in science and engineering, the potential effect of current tax reform legislation on retirement plans (particularly from universities), options for membership cards and meeting operations services, and automation of accounting services provided by AIP. The overall theme of the symposium was electronic publishing and information services. Of particular interest was the new "Pi-NET" service offered by AIP. This communications network will include announcements of job opportunities; meetings information (registration, programs, and abstract submission); advance abstracts and titles from journals; on-line ordering of publications; news; and eventually telemail connections to other data sources such as airline guides and to other networks such as BITNET, which some universities currently use. Not all services will be available in all cases, particularly in the beginning because much depends on how frequently cooperating societies utilize the system and supply information to the data base. Pi-NET is being offered free for the first year (beginning March 31) to members of all AIP member and affiliated societies and is thus available to MRS members, ac-
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