Gordon Conference on Computational

This volume of Reviews in Computational Chemistry is of the same very high standard as previous volumes. The editors have played a key role in carving out the discipline of computational chemistry, having organized a seminal symposium in 1983 and having served as the chairmen of the first Gordon Conference on Computational Chemistry in 1986. Thus, they have a broad perspective on the field, and the articles in this and previous volumes reflect this. 

Proposals for a standard file format were advanced separately by DeLos F. DeTar and by T. J. O Donnell and John S. Garavelli at the Gordon Conference on Computational Chemistry in July 1988. Both these proposals were advanced to address problems confronting molecular modelers. The proposal of DeTar provided for representation of force field data as well as molecular structure information. O Donnell and Garavelli presented several general formats including an alternative to fixed column, record oriented formats. 

Boyd DB, Lipkowitz KB, History of the Gordon Research Conferences on Computational Chemistry. In Lipkowitz KB, Boyd DB, editors. Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Vol. 14. New York Wiley-VCH, 2000. p. 399-439. 

Donald B. Boyd and Kenny B. Lipkowitz, History of the Gordon Research Conferences on Computational Chemistry. 

We would like to add that Peter was an invited speaker at the Symposium on Molecular Mechanics (held in Indianapolis in 1983) and was co-chairman of the second Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry in 1988. As we pointed out in the Preface of Volume 13 (p. xiii) of this book series, no one had been cited more frequently in Reviews of Computational Chemistry than Peter. Peter—and the others—will be missed. 

However, Ken s service to the chemical community extends far beyond his willingness to referee promptly and thoroughly manuscripts that I send him. Ken has served as Chair of the Gordon Conferences on Hydrocarbon Chemistry and Computational Chemistry, two Reaction Mechanisms Conferences, and a recent Symposium honoring the life and chemistry of Donald Cram. He has also been Chair of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at UCLA, and for two years he was the Director of the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation. 

LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY... 

The First Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry 403... 

Table 2 Financial Supporters of Past Gordon Research Conferences on Computational Chemistry"...

Figure 1 Group photo taken at the Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry, Donald B. Boyd (Lilly) and Kenneth B. Lipkowitz (lUPUI), Co-Chairmen, August 18-22, 1986, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire. 

The metamorphosis and coalescence of various computational interests of chemists into modern computational chemistry occurred in many steps. A landmark event in this change was perhaps the first Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry, which was held 10 years ago in August 1986, in the village of New London, New Hampshire. In 1984, the editors of this book series had written a proposal to the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences saying ... 

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