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 [computer] field."
9-726: 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),
18-462: A computer conference is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . National Joint Computer Committee The American Federation of Information Processing Societies ( AFIPS ) was an umbrella organization of professional societies established on May 10, 1961, and dissolved in 1990. Its mission was to advance knowledge in the field of information science , and to represent its member societies in international forums. AFIPS grew out of
27-603: 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
36-703: The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), formed a year earlier under the auspices of UNESCO . In 1962, AFIPS took over sponsorship of the EJCC and WJCC and renamed them the Spring (SJCC) and Fall Joint Computer Conferences (FJCC). In 1973, the two were merged in the National Computer Conference (NCC), which ran annually until it was discontinued in 1987. AFIPS also sponsored smaller conferences such as
45-626: The National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC), an organization formed in 1951, which held two major computer conferences: the Eastern (EJCC) and Western Joint Computer Conferences (WJCC). The three founding societies of AFIPS were the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). AFIPS represented these societies in
54-778: The History of Computing). The IEEE-CS also joined the ACM to form the Federation on Computing in the United States (FOCUS) in 1991, to take the place of AFIPS as the United States’ representative in IFIP. In 1999, IFIP accepted separate membership for both IEEE-CS and ACM, and FOCUS was dissolved. AFIPS was managed by a board of directors, originally called the "Governing Board." Each member society had one to three directors on
63-741: The Office Automation Conference, published the Annals of the History of Computing and other magazines, and presented an annual award—the Harry Goode Memorial Award—recognizing outstanding achievement in information processing . AFIPS was dissolved in 1990. The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) became the sponsor of the Goode Award, and took over publication of Annals (renamed the IEEE Annals of
72-505: The board depending on the size of the society; each affiliated member had one director. Under this board were various committees including the executive committee, the education committee, the finance committee, and the awards committee. The conferences were managed by a conference board, which set the overall direction and policies of the conferences, coordinated the actions of the Conference Steering Committee and
81-559: 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 Douglas Engelbart presented " The Mother of All Demos " presenting such then-new technologies as the computer mouse , video conferencing , teleconferencing , and hypertext . Source: This article about
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