{{Infobox convention | name = Joint Computer Conferences | image = | caption = | status = Discontinued | genre = Computer science and information technology | venue = Various locations in the United States | first = 1951 | last = 1987 | attendance = 15,000 (1967 FJCC) | organizer = National Joint Computer Committee (1951–1961) AFIPS (1962–1987) | sponsors = ACM<br />AIEE<br />IRE<br /> | website = | notes = }}
The '''Joint Computer Conferences''' were a series of computer conferences in the United States held under various names between 1951 and 1987.<ref>{{cite news|title=Five Years Ago, Nov.24, 1971|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kuEuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kE0DAAAAIBAJ&dq=fall-joint-computer-conference&pg=4164%2C3551676|access-date=Feb 2, 2013|newspaper=Computerworld|date=November 15, 1976}}</ref> The conferences were the venue for presentations and papers representing "cumulative work in the [computer] field."<ref name="CW1968">{{cite news|title=Fall Joint Computer Conference Expected to Draw Record Crowds|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0NtOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lE4DAAAAIBAJ&dq=fall-joint-computer-conference&pg=4268%2C4180094|access-date=Feb 2, 2013|newspaper=Computerworld|date=Dec 11, 1968}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kent|first1=Allen|last2=Lancour|first2=Harold|title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 2 - Association|year=1969|publisher=CRC Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kauItn1mh6QC&dq=%22national+Joint+Computer+Committee%22+founding&pg=PA47|isbn=9780824720025}}</ref>{{rp|p.47}}
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''').{{Citation needed|date=May 2026}}
In 1973 AFIPS merged the two conferences into a single annual '''National Computer Conference''' ('''NCC''') which ran until discontinued in 1987.{{Citation needed|date=May 2026}}
The 1967 FJCC in Anaheim, California attracted 15,000 attendees.<ref name="CW1968"/> 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.
==Conference dates == Source:<ref>{{cite web|title=AFIPS Conference Dates|url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/afips/AFIPS_Conference_Dates.txt|access-date=Feb 2, 2013}}</ref> ==={{anchor|EJCC}}Eastern Joint Computer Conference=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Location !! Dates !! Comments |- | 1951 || Philadelphia, PA || December 10–12 || Presented papers published with the title "Review of Electronic Digital Computers"<ref>{{Cite web |date=1952-10-01 |title=Office of Naval Research, Mathematical Sciences Division, Digital Computer Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 4. Unclassified. - NOTICE |url=https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16897-office-naval-research-mathematical-sciences |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=National Security Archive |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=1953 |title=Automatic Computing Machinery - Bibliography Z - 1054. Joint AIEE-IRE Computer Conference |url=https://www.ams.org/mcom/1953-07-044/S0025-5718-53-99352-1/ |journal=Mathematics of Computation |language=en |volume=7 |issue=44 |pages=258–264 |doi=10.1090/S0025-5718-53-99352-1 |issn=0025-5718|doi-access=free }}</ref> |- | 1952 || New York, NY || December 10–12 || "Review of Input and Output Equipment used in Computing Systems"<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1953-07_2_5/page/n19/ |title=Computers and Automation 1953-07: Vol 2 Iss 5 |date=1953-07-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=15–16 |language=en |chapter=4 & 11. Joint AIEE-IRE-ACM Computer Conference ...}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=NOTICES - JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE |url=https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16903-office-naval-research-mathematical-science |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=National Security Archive |series=Digital Computer Newsletter Vol. 5, No. 4 |pages=15–18}}</ref> |- | 1953 || Washington, DC || December 8–10 || Theme: "Information Processing Systems – Reliability and Requirements"<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1954-01_3_1/page/n5/ |title=Computers and Automation 1954-01: Vol 3 Iss 1 |date=1954-01-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=6–7 |language=en |chapter=ARTICLES - The End of an Epoch: The Joint Computer Conference, Washington, D. C., December, 1953}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> |- | 1954 || Philadelphia, PA || December 10–12 || "The Design and Application of Small Digital Computers"<ref group="note">Small Digital Computers "being defined roughly as automatic digital computers costing less than $150,000 or using less than 20 kilowatts of power."</ref><ref name=":2" /> |- | 1955 || Boston, MA || November 7–9 || "Computers in Business and Industrial Systems"<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1955-09_4_9 |title=Computers and Automation 1955-09: Vol 4 Iss 9 |date=1955-09-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=30 |language=English |chapter=Forum: EASTERN JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE, BOSTON, NOVEMBER, 1955}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1955-11_4_11/page/n11/ |title=Computers and Automation 1955-11: Vol 4 Iss 11 |date=1955-11-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=12–13 |language=English |chapter=Forum: EASTERN JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE}}</ref> |- | 1956 || New York, NY || December 10–12 || "New Developments in Computers"<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1956-12_5_12/page/n19/ |title=Computers and Automation: Vol 5 Iss 12 |date=1956-12-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=20–23, 26, 31 |language=English |chapter=Eastern Joint Computer Conference}}</ref> |- | 1957 || Washington, DC || December 9–13 || |- | 1958 || Philadelphia, PA || December 3–5 || |- | 1959 || Boston, MA || December 1–3 || UNIVAC LARC<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Eckert |first1=J.P. |display-authors=etal |title=Design of the Univac - LARC System: I |book-title=Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference |date=1959 |volume=16 |pages=59–65 |url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/afips/1959-12_%2316.pdf |access-date=Nov 4, 2022}}</ref> |- | 1960 || New York, NY || December 13–15 || |- | 1961 || Washington, DC || December 12–14 || |}
==={{anchor|WJCC}}Western Joint Computer Conference=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! 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."<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |date=1953 |title=Automatic Computing Machinery - News - IEE-IRE-ACM. |url=https://www.ams.org/mcom/1953-07-043/S0025-5718-53-99360-0/ |journal=Mathematics of Computation |language=en |volume=7 |issue=43 |pages=202–205 |doi=10.1090/S0025-5718-53-99360-0 |issn=0025-5718|doi-access=free }}</ref> |- | 1954 || Los Angeles, CA || February 11–12 || "Trends in Computers: Automatic Control and Data Processing."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1455200 |title=Proceedings of the February 11-12, 1954, western computer conference: Trends in computers: automatic control and data processing on - AIEE-IRE '53 (Western) |date=1954 |publisher=ACM Press |location=New York, New York, USA |language=en |doi=10.1145/1455200}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1954-01_3_1/page/n13/ |title=Computers and Automation 1954-01: Vol 3 Iss 1 |date=1954-01-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=14 |language=en |chapter=FORUM - 1. Western Computer Conference and Exhibit}}</ref> |- | 1955 || Los Angeles, CA || March 1–3 || "Functions and Techniques in Analog and Digital Computers"<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1955-01_4_1/page/n3/ |title=Computers and Automation 1955-01: Vol 4 Iss 1 |date=1955-01-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=4, 14–17 |language=en |chapter=THE EDITOR’S NOTES - WESTERN JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE, March, 1955; Eastern Joint Computer Conference, Philadelphia, Dec. 8-10, 1954}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1955-04_4_4/page/n37/ |title=Computers and Automation 1955-04: Vol 4 Iss 4 |date=1955-04-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=38–40 |language=English |chapter=Western Computer Conference and Exhibit, Los Angeles; March 1–3, 1955. Titles of Papers and Abstracts}}</ref> |- | 1956 || San Francisco, CA || February 7–9 || <ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1956-01_5_1/page/n41/ |title=Computers and Automation: Vol 5 Iss 1 |date=1956-01-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=42 |language=English |chapter=Forum - WESTERN JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE AND EXHIBIT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computers-and-people_1956-05_5_5/page/n25/ |title=Computers and Automation: Vol 5 Iss 5 |date=1956-05-01 |publisher=Berkeley Enterprises |pages=26–30 |language=English |chapter=WESTERN JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE}}</ref> |- | 1957 || Los Angeles, CA || February 26–28 || "Techniques For Reliability"<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sim_electronic-design_1956-10-15_4_20/page/21/ |title=Electronic Design: Vol 4 Iss 20 |date=1956-10-15 |publisher=Penton Media |pages=20–21 |language=English |chapter=Dec. 10-12: Eastern Joint Computer Conference; Feb. 26-28: Western Joint Computer Conference}}</ref> |- | 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 || |}
==={{anchor|SJCC}}Spring Joint Computer Conference=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Location !! Dates !! Comments |- | 1962 || San Francisco. CA || May 1–3 || Exception to East Coast siting, FJCC was on East Coast.<br />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 || |}
==={{anchor|FJCC}}Fall Joint Computer Conference=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! 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 || |}
==={{anchor|NCC}}National Computer Conference=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Location !! Dates !! Comments |- | 1973 || New York, NY || June 4–8 || |- | 1974 || Chicago, IL || May 6–10 || |- | 1975 || Anaheim, CA<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdkopCC9Q0QC&dq=Anaheim&pg=PA50 |title = Computerworld|date = 1975-05-14}}</ref> || May 19–22 ||ADM-3 |- | 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 || Xerox Star |- | 1982 || Houston, TX || June 7–10 || Microcomputers prominent for first time<ref name="morgan198209">{{Cite magazine |last=Morgan |first=Chris |date=September 1982 |title=NCC Report |url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-09/page/n58/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=2024-12-29 |magazine=BYTE |pages=58-61}}</ref> |- | 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 || |}
==See also== *American Federation of Information Processing Societies *COMDEX
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==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/afips/ AFIPS conference bibliography, 1951-1987] *{{Cite web |title=AFIPS Conference - Proceedings [1951-1984; Conference proceedings / Browse all Workshops alphabetically] |url=https://dl.acm.org/conference/afips/proceedings |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=ACM Digital Library |language=en}}
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