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CHEESE, ANYONE? 
I had thought the ultimate in "buy-four-get-one-free" had 
been reached when I read about the Exotic Cheese Club, with its 
gruyere of the month, but I've just been invited to join the 
"Library of Computer and Information Sciences," which offers to 
help you keep "pace with the giant strides in computer science." 
They claim to screen hundreds of manuscripts each month in 
choosing only the most informative and important to offer to 
over 22,000 members. They do list some interesting stuff, of 
course, and in case any MUDPIE reader might like this easy way 
to "keep up-to-date and move ahead in their careers" (yes, that 
is what it said), you can contact them at the Library of Com¬ 
puter and Information Sciences, Riverside, N. J., 08075.--JAP. 
RESOURCE SHARING COMPUTER NETWORKS 
The Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department 
of Defense, Washington, D. C., 20301, has put together a coll¬ 
ection of papers presented at the Spring Joint Computer Con¬ 
ference, Atlantic City, N. J., May, 1970, under the above title. 
All papers are concerned with aspects of the ARPA Computer Net¬ 
work, which is the most ambitious attempt to set up a nationwide 
computer interchange to date. The problems are multiple and 
staggering, and it is a good thing we’ve got this group working 
on them. At the present time, participation in the network is 
restricted to DOD grantees engaged in computer research. As 
presently envisioned, the network will be expensive for anyone 
who wishes to join, and it will be out of the reach of museums 
for a long time—but it doesn't hurt to keep up with what they 
are doing. The papers included in this special leaflet were 
all published in the report of the proceedings of the Spring 
Joint Computer Conference, 1970, and the pagination included 
below is from that publication.-JAP. 
Roberts, L. G. & B. D. Wessler. Computer network develop¬ 
ment to achieve resource sharing. [pp. 543-549.] 
Heart, F. E., et al. The interface message processor for 
the ARPA computer network. [pp. 551-567.] 
Kleinrock, L. Analytic and simulation methods in computer 
network design. [pp. 569-579.] 
Frank, H., I. T. Frisch & W. Chou. Topological considera¬ 
tions in the design of the ARPA computer network. [pp. 581-7.] 
Carr, C. S.ET AL. HOST-HOST communication protocol in the 
ARPA network. [pp. 589-597.] 
