European Cooperation in Informatics, a joint enterprise of the Information Processing Societies, conference report 1976 | dijkstra

seems it was the first eci conference and according to dijkstra not a very successfull one.

(In this respect the panel discussion was very revealing: at least half of the time was devoted to problems related to standardization! From the history of programming language development they should have learned to what disasters that premature concern about standardization may lead.)

P.S. To give you some impression of how "international" this conference was: more than 150 participants were Dutch. P.P.S. A final quotation from our IBM-spokesman: "Interfaces decrease performance and increase manufacturing cost.".

the papers.