Joint Computer Conference

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The Joint Computer Conferences were a series of computer conferences in the United States that took place under different names between 1951 and 1987. The purpose of the meetings was to provide presentations and lectures in the electronic computer sector.

history

Originally the Joint Computer Conference (WJCC) was held every six months and took place in the western United States. The WJCC was the counterpart to the Eastern Joint Computer Conference (EJCC), which took place annually in the eastern United States.

Both conferences were sponsored by organizations such as the National Joint Computer Committee, consisting of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) , the AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers) as well as the Committee on Computing Devices and the IRE (Institute of Radio Engineers ).

In 1962 the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) took over the sponsorship and renamed the Joint Computer Conference the "Spring Joint Computer Conference". In 1973 the two conferences merged into a single, annual National Computer Conference (NCC), which was held until 1987 and then discontinued.

In 1968 in San Francisco , California at the JCC Douglas Engelbart presented the latest technology at the time, the computer mouse, as “the mother of all demos”, as well as other technologies such as video conferencing, teleconferencing and hypertext protocols.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Design Objectives for the IBM Stretch Computer - History textfiles.com - Retrieved March 31, 2013
  2. ↑ Proceedings of the Spring Joint Computer Conference AFIPS interaction-design.org - accessed on 31 March 2013
  3. ^ Douglas Engelbart Institute - The Mother of All Demos. dougengelbart.org - Retrieved March 31, 2013