The Joint Computer Conferences were a series of computer conferences in the United States held under various names between 1951 and 1987.[1] The conferences were the venue for presentations and papers representing "cumulative work in the [computer] field."[2] 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.[3]
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.[2] 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.
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| Year | Location | Dates | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Philadelphia, PA | December 10–12 | Presented papers published with the title "Review of Electronic Digital Computers"[5] [6] | |
| 1952 | New York, NY | December 10–12 | "Review of Input and Output Equipment used in Computing Systems"[7] [8] | |
| 1953 | Washington, DC | December 8–10 | Theme: "Information Processing Systems – Reliability and Requirements"[9] | |
| 1954 | Philadelphia, PA | December 10–12 | "The Design and Application of Small Digital Computers"[10] | |
| 1955 | Boston, MA | November 7–9 | "Computers in Business and Industrial Systems"[11] [12] | |
| 1956 | New York, NY | December 10–12 | "New Developments in Computers"[13] | |
| 1957 | Washington, DC | December 9–13 | ||
| 1958 | Philadelphia, PA | December 3–5 | ||
| 1959 | Boston, MA | December 1–3 | UNIVAC LARC[14] | |
| 1960 | New York, NY | December 13–15 | ||
| 1961 | Washington, DC | December 12–14 |
| Year | Location | Dates | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Los Angeles, CA | February 1–6 | Subjects: "evaluation of digital and analog computers, commercial applications of computers, airplane problems, etc."[15] | |
| 1954 | Los Angeles, CA | February 11–12 | "Trends in Computers: Automatic Control and Data Processing."[16] [17] | |
| 1955 | Los Angeles, CA | March 1–3 | "Functions and Techniques in Analog and Digital Computers"[18] [19] | |
| 1956 | San Francisco, CA | February 7–9 | [20] [21] | |
| 1957 | Los Angeles, CA | February 26–28 | "Techniques For Reliability"[22] | |
| 1958 | Los Angeles, CA | May 6–8 | ||
| 1959 | San Francisco, CA | March 3–5 | ||
| 1960 | San Francisco, CA | May 3–5 | ||
| 1961 | Los Angeles, CA | May 9–11 |
| Year | Location | Dates | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | San Francisco. CA | May 1–3 | Exception to East Coast siting, FJCC was on East Coast. Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) | |
| 1963 | Detroit, MI | May 21–23 | ||
| 1964 | Washington, DC | April 21–23 | ||
| 1965 | ||||
| 1966 | Boston, MA | April 26–28 | ||
| 1967 | Atlantic City, NJ | April 18–20 | ||
| 1968 | Atlantic City, NJ | April 30-May 2 | ||
| 1969 | Boston, MA | May 14–16 | ||
| 1970 | Atlantic City, NJ | May 5–7 | PDP-11 | |
| 1971 | Atlantic City, NJ | May 18–20 | ||
| 1972 | Atlantic City, NJ | May 16–18 |
| Year | Location | Dates | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Philadelphia, PA | December 4–6 | Exception to West Coast siting, SJCC was on West Coast. | |
| 1963 | Las Vegas, NV | November 12–14 | ||
| 1964 | San Francisco, CA | October 27–29 | General Motors DAC-1 CAD system | |
| 1965 | Las Vegas, NV | November 30-December 1 | Multics Operating System | |
| 1966 | San Francisco, CA | November 7–10 | ||
| 1967 | Anaheim, CA | November 14–16 | ||
| 1968 | San Francisco, CA | December 9–11 | XPL, "The Mother of All Demos" | |
| 1969 | Las Vegas, NV | November 18–20 | ||
| 1970 | Houston, TX | November 17–19 | Four-Phase IV/70 | |
| 1971 | Las Vegas, NV | November 16–18 | ||
| 1972 | Anaheim, CA | December 5–17 |
| Year | Location | Dates | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | New York, NY | June 4–8 | ||
| 1974 | Chicago, IL | May 6–10 | ||
| 1975 | Anaheim, CA[23] | May 19–22 | ||
| 1976 | New York, NY | June 7–10 | ||
| 1977 | Dallas, TX | June 13–16 | ||
| 1978 | Anaheim, CA | June 5–8 | ||
| 1979 | New York, NY | June 4–7 | ||
| 1980 | Anaheim, CA | May 19–22 | ||
| 1981 | Chicago, IL | May 4–7 | ||
| 1982 | Houston, TX | June 7–10 | Microcomputers prominent for first time[24] | |
| 1983 | Anaheim, CA | May 16–19 | ||
| 1984 | Las Vegas, NV | July 9–12 | ||
| 1985 | Chicago, IL | July 15–18 | ||
| 1986 | Dallas, TX | November 2–6 | ||
| 1987 | Chicago, IL | June 15–18 |
