Post by Los Alamos National Laboratory

Did you know that 50 years ago scientists, engineers and software developers of early computing convened in Los Alamos? This month, the National Security Research Center commemorated the 50th anniversary of the first International Research Conference on the History of Computing, hosted by the Lab in June 1976 and later dubbed “Computing’s Woodstock” by the Computer History Museum. 📷 1: Participants at the first International Conference on the History of Computing — “Computing’s Woodstock” — filling the Physics Auditorium of Building 03-0215, June 1976. 📷 2: Manhattan Project physicist Nicholas Metropolis greets conference participants at registration at the first International Research Conference on the History of Computing, held at the Lab in June 1976.