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The International Science Lecture Series (ISLS) operates as a special project of the National Research Council's Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications. The series was established in 1990 at the request of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and joined in 1992 by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The purpose of the series is to advance communication and cooperation within the international scientific community. A search committee established by the National Research Council (NRC) selects prominent U.S. scientists to lecture in three areas of basic scientific inquiry: ocean and meteorological sciences, materials science, and information science. The countries in which the lectures are to be given are selected on the basis of consultations with the international scientific community, with the science attache in U.S. embassies, with senior representatives of ONR-Asia and ONR-Europe, and with both ONR and AFOSR representatives in Washington, D.C. Wherever appropriate, each lecture in a host country is followed by formal and informal discussions with senior government, industrial, and academic representatives to expand the dialogue on research progress, problems, and areas of common interest in order to identify research opportunities that lend themselves to greater cooperation and collaborative effort. Following each tour, the formal lecture is published for wider international distribution.

The fourth lecture of the series, which is presented here, is Traffic Management for High-Speed Networks by H.T. Kung, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Harvard University. The first lecture in the series, The Heard Island Experiment, was presented by Walter H. Munk, holder of the Secretary of the Navy Research Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and the second lecture, Fountainhead for New Technologies and New Science, was presented by Rustum Roy, Evan Pugh Professor of the Solid State and professor of geochemistry, Pennsylvania State University. The third lecturer was John E. Hopcroft, who is the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and who gave the lecture, Computing, Communication, and the Information Age.

Professor Kung's lecture tour consisted of two separate trips—one in the Far East and the other in Siberia. He gave his lecture first at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on June 5, 1995, to the computer sciences community. While in Hong Kong, Professor Kung and the ISLS representatives from the NRC, ONR, and AFOSR also visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong University. Professor Kung delivered his lecture at these two institutions as well. On June 8 he presented his lecture at the Sino-American Joint Seminar on Trends in Information Science held in Beijing, China. Discussions also were held with the staffs and faculties of Tsing Hua University and Peking University. Professor Kung visited Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University on June 14 and 15 and Zhejiang University in Hanzhou on June 16. He gave his lecture at Fudan University.

The second tour took Professor Kung and the ISLS group to Novosibirsk, Siberia, in January 1996. They met on January 8, 1996, with the staff of the A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics

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