Institute activities: Five sessions held at conference on electron tubes for computers

That a better exchange of ideas should exist between manufacturers of vacuum tubes and the designers of computer circuits was one of the main conclusions reached at the Conference on Electron Tubes for Computers.The conference was sponsored by the AIEE and Institute of Radio Engineers, in collaboration with the Panel on Electron Tubes of the Research and Development Board, at Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City N. J. December 11–13, 1950 and was attended by more than 300 engineers from all parts of the country and from as far away as Canada and England. A great deal of the credit for the success of the conference is due to Dr. C. V. L. Smith, head of the Computer Section, Office of Naval Research.