Contains 130 papers, which were selected based on originality, technical contribution, and relevance. Although the papers were not formally refereed, every attempt was made to verify the main claims. It is expected that most will appear in more complete form in scientific journals. The proceedings also includes the paper presented by invited plenary speaker Ronald Graham, as well as a portion of the papers presented by invited plenary speakers Udi Manber and Christos Papadimitriou.

Annotation Proceedings of a conference that took place in Austin, Texas in January 1993. Contributors are impressive names from the field of computer science, including Donald Knuth, author of several computer books of "biblical" importance. The diverse selection of paper topics includes dynamic point location, ray shooting, and the shortest paths in planar maps; optimistic sorting and information theoretic complexity; and an optimal randomized algorithm for the cow-path problem. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

This symposium is jointly sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory and the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics.