The Joint Computer Conferences were a series of computer conferences in the United States held under various names between 1951 and 1987. The conferences were the venue for presentations and papers representing "cumulative work in the
omputerfield."
Originally a semi-annual pair, the Western Joint Computer Conference (WJCC) was held annually in the western United States, and a counterpart, the Eastern Joint Computer Conference (EJCC), was held annually in the eastern US. Both conferences were sponsored by an organization known as the ''
National Joint Computer Committee'' (NJCC), composed of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) Committee on Computing Devices, and the
Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) Professional Group on Electronic Computers.
In 1962 the
American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) took over sponsorship and renamed them Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) and Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC).
In 1973 AFIPS merged the two conferences into a single annual National Computer Conference (NCC) which ran until discontinued in 1987.
The 1967 FJCC in
Anaheim, California attracted 15,000 attendees.
In 1968 in
San Francisco, California
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Douglas Engelbart presented "
The Mother of All Demos" presenting such then-new technologies as the
computer mouse,
video conferencing,
teleconferencing, and
hypertext.
Conference dates
Source:
Eastern Joint Computer Conference
Western Joint Computer Conference
Spring Joint Computer Conference
Fall Joint Computer Conference
National Computer Conference
See also
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American Federation of Information Processing Societies
*
COMDEX
Notes
References
External links
AFIPS conference bibliography, 1951-1987*
Computer conferences
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