These are excerpts from the program for the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 10-13, 1996, Orlando, Florida.

• Taylor series solutions of ODEs using Mathematica.
  George Edgar Parker, James Madison University
  
• Using the Picard algorithm in an introductory course.
  James S. Sochacki, James Madison University
  
• The use of MicroCalc by differential equation students.
  Richard N. Barshinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  
• Using Mathematica to explore differential equations via graphics and data.
  William D. Emerson, Metropolitan State College of Denver
  
• The solver of choice at the University of Puget Sound.
  Elly Claus-McGahan, University of Puget Sound
  
• SYSTEMS, a public-domain software package.
  David O. Lomen, University of Arizona
  
• Maple: A comprehensive tool for introductory ODEs.
  Douglas B. Meade, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  
• VisualDSolve, a Mathematica package for exploring ODEs.
  Edward W. Packel, Lake Forest College
  
• PHASER: An animator/simulator for dynamical systems for IBM PCs.
  Huseyin Kocak, University of Miami
  
• Usefulness of Maple and MacMath in differential equations.
  Allen R. Killpatrick, University of Redlands
  
• The MODELS software package for ODEs.
  Thomas G. Wangler, Illinois Benedictine College
  
• MacMath: From the beginning of ODE solver time.
  Beverly H. West, Cornell University
  
• Why I like and use differential systems.
  John C. Cantwell, Saint Louis University
  
• Interactive differential equations.
  Jean M. McDill, California Polytechnic State University
  
• Examples from "Interactive Differential Equations."
  Steven H. Strogatz, Cornell University