COMPUTER CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA - AFIPS (33 VOLUMES)

Review of electronic digital computers. Papers and discussions presented at the Joint AIEE-IRE Computer Conference, Philadelphia, PA, December 10-12, 1951. New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1952, (ownership stamp of Calvin N. Mooers (1919-1994), computer pioneer, on title page), original wrappers, [T&W A13; Origins of Cyberspace 740]; another copy, (stamp of the General Electric library, Schenectady, NY); Review of input and output equipment used in computing systems. New York, NY December 10-12, 1952. New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1953, original wrappers, [T&W A14]; Proceedings of the Western Computer Conference. Los Angeles, CA. February 4-6, 1953. New York: Institute of Radio Engineers, 1953, original wrappers, wrappers repaired, (IBM Engineering Library, Endicott, NY, bookplate), [T&W A15]; together with 27 further volumes of Proceedings, starting with the Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference held in Washington, DC, December 8-10, 1953 and ending with the Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference held in Washington, DC, December 12-14, 1961, original paper covers or cloth bindings, some volumes present in duplicate, (some vols. with bookplate of Frank E. Heart, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; or Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.), [T&W A17, A18, A19, A20, A21, A22, A23, A24, A25, A26, A27, A28, A29, A30, A31, A32, A33, A34, A35, A36, A37; cf. Origins of Cyberspace 740 (18 volumes only)]; 8vo or 4to (33)

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A set of AFIPS conference proceedings from the inaugural conference in December 1952 through to the 26th conference held in October 1964 (lacking proceedings for conferences no.23 and 24), together with the Consolidated Index volume.
The American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) was an umbrella organisation of professional societies established on May 10, 1961 and dissolved in 1990. Its mission was to advance knowledge in the field of information science, and to represent its member societies in international forums. AFIPS grew out of the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC), an organization formed in 1951, which held two major computer conferences - the Eastern (EJCC) and Western Joint Computer Conferences (WJCC).