Keynote address

Abstract

I speak to you this morning as Chairman of the Technical Program Committee for the AIEE-IRE-ACM Joint Computer Conference. At the first of these conferences, in December 1951, at Philadelphia, a program was devoted to a description of existing electronic computers or those under development. The second conference, at New York, in December 1952, was devoted to a review of input-and-output equipment necessary for efficient usage of computer systems.