Overview of papers from the U.S./Japan workshop on parallel symbolic computing -- Prioritization in parallel symbolic computing -- A priority control system for OR-parallel Prolog and its performance evaluation -- Extending the Multilisp sponsor model to deal with intertask synchronization side effects -- Distillations of dynamic partitioning experience -- A message passing implementation of lazy task creation -- P-continuation based implementation of PaiLisp interpreter -- Running higher-order unification in PaiLisp -- HyperDEBU: A multiwindow debugger for parallel logic programs -- MulTVision: A tool for visualizing parallel program executions -- Managing side effects on shared data -- Design of a concurrent and distributed language -- TS/Scheme: Distributed data structures in Lisp -- A SIMD environment TUPLE for parallel list processing -- Architecture independence and coordination -- Persistent immutable shared abstractions -- Asynchrony and real-time in distributed systems -- Asynchronous communication model based on linear logic -- Parallel inference system research in the Japanese FGCS project -- Massively parallel symbolic computing -- Sparcle: A multithreaded VLSI processor for parallel computing -- A new architecture design paradigm for parallel computing in scheme -- Customizable policy management in the Sting operating system -- An efficient implementation scheme of concurrent object-oriented languages on stock multicomputers (extended abstract) -- Panel discussion I: Massively parallel architectures and symbolic computation -- Panel Discussion II: Applications for parallel symbolic computation.