Institute activities: 1,750 attend eastern computer conference; west coast conference scheduled March 1–3

More than 1,750 engineers and others in the computer field attended the Eastern Joint Computer Conference, December 8–10, the largest registration in the history of the conference. The conference, sponsored by AIEE, the Institute of Radio Engineers, and the Association for Computing Machinery, took place at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa.