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Subject: Re: ICPP Sponsorship?
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 09:05:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 09:05:23 1987
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Summary: Penn State has not always owned ICPP

I inquired about this at ICPP, and was told that Tse-yun Feng
"owns" the conference.  He has been General Chairman, at least
since 1976 (the earliest proceedings I have), and apparently
since 1972, the first Conference on Parallel Processing.  Through
1986, ICPP has been co-sponsored by a University and IEEE
Computer Society, in cooperation with ACM, and published by IEEE
Press.  From 1976 (or earlier) to 1979, ICPP was co-sponsored by
Wayne State University.  From 1980 until at least 1982, it was
co-sponsored by Ohio State University (I don't have 1983 or 1984
proceedings).  Since at least 1985 (possibly 1983 or 1984), ICPP
has been co-sponsored by Penn State.  This movement of
co-sponsorship has apparently tracked Dr. Feng's appointments at
these universities.  In 1987, IEEE Computer Society and ACM were
dropped from sponsorship.  While Feng has certainly done the
parallel processing community a great service by keeping the
conference going for many years, I think loss of co-sponsorship
by the two major computer science societies is a shame.

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