1960 Proceeding- Conference Chair:
- R. M. Bennett
The 1960 Western Joint Computer Conference met in San Francisco for the third time. Interest in these conferences has been increasing steadily along with the impressive growth of the computer industry in the San Francisco Bay area. Manufacturing representation in the form of exhibits was the greatest in the history of the Western Joint Computer Conference.
In keeping with the theme of the 1960 Conference, "The Challenge of the Next Decade," the papers presented in the Proceedings were selected on the basis of trends in techniques and applications rather than descriptions of existing or about-to-be announced equipment. The philosophy of this year's conference committee was that of "taking stock" and attempting to "look ahead" to determine which way this dynamic industry is going. We have essentially reached a plateau where technology has given us a feel for the tremendous impact that this industry will have upon our everyday life. It seems desirable, occasionally, to pause and evaluate and, indeed, this in itself can justify the value of a conference.
This publication contains the papers presented at the 1960 Western Joint Computer Conference, and was available at the time of the Conference.
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The historical development, and predicted state-of-the-art of the general-purpose digital computer
Some of the important characteristics of all the general-purpose digital computers that have ever been built, or are in the process of being built, have been collected together in order to show the changes in performance and characteristics during the ...
The harvest system
The Harvest System is a large-scale data processor designed for maximum performance in handling extremely large amounts of data in primarily non-arithmetic operations. It is being built by IBM under contract with the Government and incorporates both a ...
Organization of computer systems: the fixed plus variable structure computer
The past decade has seen the development of productive fast electronic digital computers. Significant problems have been solved and significant numerical experiments have been executed. Moreover, as expected, a growing number of important problems have ...
Horizons in computer system design
"Computer system design", or using the new phrase "computer organization design", has not received nearly the attention that the design of circuitry and components has received. Circuitry and component development tend to provide the user with higher ...