SIGIR Forum, Volume 18

Volume 18, Number 1, Fall 1983 / Winter 1984

• Title.
  
• Michael Lesk:
  Chairman's Message. 1-2
  
• Linda C. Smith:
  Minutes of the SIGIR Executive Committee Meeting 1983. 3-5
  
• Linda C. Smith:
  SIGIR Conference 1983 - Report on Banquet Events. 6
  
• George Brown Jr.:
  Do we need an Information Policy? 7-12
  
• Maristella Agosti:
  Specialised Hardware for Database Management and Information Retrieval: A Classified Bibliography. 13-40
  
• Annals of the History of Computing. 41-42
  
• Book Reviews. 43
  
• Gerard Salton:
  Abstracts from Current Issues of Journals in the Retrieval Area. 44-51
  
• Announcements. 52-53
  

Volume 18, Number 2-4, Fall 1985

• Title.
  
• Clement T. Yu:
  Chairman's Message. 1
  
• Objectices of ACM SIGIR Officers. 2
  
• Michael Lesk:
  Report on the BCS/IR - SIGIR Meeting. 3-4
  
• Gerard Salton:
  Thoughts Regarding the RIAO-85 Conference in Grenoble. 5-9
  
• Michael Lesk:
  SIGIR 1985. 10-15
  
• SIGIR 1985 Panel. 15-16
  
• Vijay V. Raghavan:
  Workshop Report, University of Regina, June 10-11, 1985. 17
  
• Caroline M. Eastman:
  News from NSF. 18-19
  
• 1984 NSF Award Listing. 20-21
  
• Announcements. 22-23
  
• T. R. Girill:
  Online Access Aids for Documentation: A Bibliographic Outline. 24-27
  
• Gerard Salton:
  Some Characteristics of Future Information Systems. 28-39
  
• Announcements. 40-41