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CHI'94 "Celebrating Interdependence" ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Boston, MA, USA, April 24-28, 1994 The next conference of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer and Human Interaction ( A C M / SIGCHI) will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, the 24th-28th of April, 1994. CHI conferences in the past have provided important venues for learning about advances in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. People with diverse backgrounds have an opportunity to come together and get to know one another at this conference. Originally a small conference for psychologists interested in user interface design, CHI now attracts a broad participant group including computer scientists, engineering psychologists, researchers, designers and performance artists, dealing with larger problems such as the organizational integration of technology. The CHI'94 theme, Celebrating Interdependence, invites you to explore the links among the
disciplines and perspectives. Participants from all over the world will find an exciting, vigorous conference dealing with a wide range of ideas, research topics and practice. The technical program includes: Tutorials, Workshops, Demonstrations, Exhibits, Interactive Experience, Papers, Panels, Posters and Short Talks, Doctoral Consortium and Organizational Overviews. Mark your calendar for CHI'94. For more information about the conference and to receive an Advance Program contact the CHI'94 office: CHI'94 Office 703 Giddings Avenue, Suite U-3 Annapolis, MD 21401 USA Tel: + 1-410-269-6801 Fax: + 1-410-267-0332 Email: chi94-office.chi~t xerox.corn
CEEDA '94 The International Conference on Concurrent Engineering and Electronic Design Automation Bournemouth, UK, April 7-8, 1994
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Over the last two years since CEEDA 91, much has been written on the subject of Concurrent Engineering and the place of Design Automation within its implementation. Global companies have learnt to reap the benefits of timely investments, whereas others have fallen by the way, either to slow the change or else not cornElsevier Science Publishers B.V.
mitted enough to underpin the change with real action. Anyone associated with new product development, will know that the new paradigm for success is "Provide the most value for the lowest cost in the least amount of time" (G. Stalk Jnr, Boston Consulting Group). To achieve quicker time to market, product design, development, production, and manufacture must be done concurrently to maximize the