Abstract :
The third Electronic Computer Session at the 1954 IRE National Convention was an experimental discussion on how to make computers more autonomous and how to make them self-repairing. The following pages are a transcript of that session, edited to make it more suitable for print. Each speaker´s remarks have been edited by the speaker, which is why it has taken so long for this publication to appear. Some speakers merely corrected their grammar and some went considerably further, but the gist of the original discussion is still there.
