BIOS Reporter – Volume 18, No.1 – January 1994

In the first editorial of a new year, it is appropriate to review the events and the achievements of the old year, to try to see what conclusions can be drawn, and to attempt to look ahead. Only its most ungenerous critics could argue that 1993 was other than a modestly successful year for the Society: three meetings took place, at the University of Reading, at the premises of N.P. Mander Limited, and at St. Nicholas’s, Stanford on Avon; a residential conference was held, at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge; one edition of the Society’s Journal – that for 1992 – and four issues of this publication appeared; the work of the Archivist, the Information Technology Officer and the Redundancies Officer went on, unobtrusively but effectively, behind the scenes; and the Society’s other officers and its other active members in their various ways pursued the aims which are printed on the back cover…