Abstract :
THE 2nd Annual Joint conference on automatic techniques, sponsored jointly by AIEE, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), was held at the Hotel Pick-Congress in Chicago, Ill., May 11–13, 1959. The second of a series to be held annually, the Conference was devoted to a discussion of fools and methods available for introducing automatic techniques in manufacturing industries, process industries; in sorting and handling; and in the processing of business data.