Speech -- " Power & Limitations of Randomization (Columbia) ", February 6, 1990

The Professional Activities series is housed in twelve archival boxes and arranged alphabetically by the title of the organization or conference. This series contains correspondence, notes, publications, newspaper articles, grant proposals, conference proceedings, and graphic materials. Correspondence, notes, and publications documenting Traub's involvement with numerous professional organizations (particularly meetings and conferences) and various government projects comprise the majority of this series. Notes or graphic material from Traub's presentations at these meetings are included in many instances. (Traub's presentations and lectures that were typed and published in proceeding books or pamphlets can be found in the Publication series, series six.) In the Professional Activities series, Traub's activities during the 1980s and early 1990s are particularly well documented, including his sabbatical work. Examples of miscellaneous professional activities included in this series are consulting work to develop new Computer Science programs and recruit faculty and students; President of the John von Neumann Consortium for Scientific Computing at Princeton University; refereeing papers and grants.

Commonly used acronyms in this series include:

ACM- Association of Computing Machinery

AMS- American Mathematical Society

CSTB- Computer Science and Technology Board

IFIP- International Federation for Information Processing

NSF- National Science Foundation

ONR- Office of Naval Research

SIAM- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

SIGNUM- Special Interest Group on Numerical Mathematics (ACM)

SIG/SIC- Special Interest Group/Special Interest Committee (ACM Board)