Winter meeting´s 51 technical sessions draw heavy attendance at Pittsburgh

When plans were announced a year ago for the holding of the 1948 AIEE winter general meeting in Pittsburgh, many and diverse were the estimates of probable attendance, estimates ranging all the way from 1,000 to a “optimistic” 2,500. The final verified registration figure was and might have been even greater if more people had been able to obtain hotel accommodations. Official headquarters for the meeting were on the 17th floor of the William Penn Hotel where a variety of meeting rooms and halls provided facilities for a continuous succession of parallel committee, technical, and conference sessions. This was the second time since 1924 that the AIEE´s big winter meeting has been held outside the city of New York, it having been held in Philadelphia in 1924 and again in 1941. The 1949 winter general meeting is scheduled again to be held in New York City.