Whither Intercon?

Abstract

Perhaps a more accurate title would be "Wither INTERCON" The boom year of the sixties left IEEE ill-prepared of cope with the harsher economics and changing attitudes of the seventies. this fact is manifest in the plan for INTERCON'74 and in the report of on ad Hoc Committee of IEEE Conference Board entitled "Long Range Plan for INTERCON" (May 7, 1973).