Conferences, cities and themes
The 50 annual CPTSC meetings in the corpus, 1974 to 2025, with the city of each and what its proceedings volume lets us read.
There is no volume in the corpus for 1976 or 2020. Each volume was read by a parser written for its layout, and the scanned volumes through 2004 were read by OCR and checked by hand against their contents, so the notes below say where the reading is weak. A volume is a set of proceedings, an agenda or an abstract book, and the papers' texts are not republished here.
| Year | City | Notes | Sessions | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Lubbock, TX | An abstract book. The editors' roundtable lists editors with their journals, not institutions. | 67 | 97 |
| 2024 | Menomonie, WI | An abstract book. The editors' roundtable lists editors with their journals, not institutions. | 46 | 74 |
| 2023 | Charleston, SC | 61 | 123 | |
| 2022 | Colorado Springs, CO | 52 | 87 | |
| 2021 | Online | An online meeting. The volume is an abstract book, and its contents list titles and authors. | 48 | 89 |
| 2019 | West Chester, PA | 60 | 109 | |
| 2018 | Minneapolis, MN | The editors' round table is one entry that lists journals in place of institutions. | 57 | 120 |
| 2017 | Savannah, GA | A flat contents list. Some page numbers were lost in the print and come from a title search. | 58 | 140 |
| 2016 cancelled | Brunswick, GA | The meeting was cancelled for Hurricane Matthew; the proceedings were still published. The meeting was cancelled for Hurricane Matthew, and the proceedings were published anyway. Session 1B has no presenters, because its speakers are named only inside the abstract. A few presenters may be missing where bylines follow the abstract. The day headings print the year as 2015. | 39 | 141 |
| 2015 | Logan, UT | 21 | 88 | |
| 2014 | Read from the program by font. The editors' round table lists editors without pairing them to journals. Eight listings carry no institution. | 37 | 171 | |
| 2013 | Cincinnati, OH | Sessions come from the printed schedule. A moderator's institution is copied from that person's presenter row where there is one. The editors' forum lists journals in place of institutions. | 37 | 126 |
| 2012 | Houghton, MI | 20 | 73 | |
| 2011 | Harrisonburg, VA | The contents list 25 panels and no keynote. Panel 2A has nine presenters and no titles. A few names carry typos in the print, and they appear here as printed. | 25 | 102 |
| 2010 | Boise, ID | The opening events were entered by hand from the contents page. Where several names share one printed institution, all of them get it. | 18 | 68 |
| 2009 | Aarhus, Denmark | A one-day meeting. The contents print names only, and institutions were read from the paper bylines. Nine of 31 listings have no institution anywhere in the volume. | 9 | 30 |
| 2008 | Minneapolis, MN | Sessions come from the printed schedule. The editors' roundtable lists editors with their journals, not institutions. | 24 | 99 |
| 2007 | Greenville, NC | The contents give moderators. The schedule prints times and buildings for each slot but not for each session, so rooms and times are not entered. | 21 | 81 |
| 2006 | San Francisco, CA | The contents do not list the papers, so papers were found by their Keywords lines. Completeness rests on that count. Three plenary speakers have no paper title. | 16 | 70 |
| 2005 | Lubbock, TX | Sessions, rooms and times come from the printed schedule, which lists some papers that never reached the proceedings. Five invited panelists in session 4C print no institution. | 20 | 104 |
| 2004 | Read from a scan. The schedule was not read, so there are no moderators, rooms or times. Two panel statements print no title and no authors in the contents, and they are not entered. | 60 | 76 | |
| 2003 | Potsdam, NY | The volume is one-page position statements, several to a page. Moderators come from the contents. Posters shown in the schedule are not in the contents and are not entered. | 62 | 82 |
| 2002 | Logan, UT | Institutions come from bylines and from the printed program, which also supplies rooms, days, times and some moderators. | 54 | 66 |
| 2001 | Pittsburgh, PA | The contents print names only, so institutions come from each paper's byline. There are no moderators, rooms or times. | 42 | 54 |
| 2000 | Menomonie, WI | The contents print names only, so institutions come from each paper's byline. The scan is out of order, so some page numbers are estimates. There are no moderators. | 48 | 56 |
| 1999 | Santa Fe, NM | The noisiest scan in the set: letters are misread and titles needed repair. Two award acceptances are left out. Because of the noise, this year does not count toward person pages. There are no moderators. | 49 | 56 |
| 1998 | Lewes, DE | The contents print names only, so institutions come from each paper's byline. The program was not read, so there are no moderators, rooms or times. The Distinguished Service Awards are not sessions. | 40 | 45 |
| 1997 | Austin, TX | The contents print names only, so institutions come from the byline on each paper's first page. The program was not read, so there are no moderators, rooms or times. | 48 | 54 |
| 1996 | Oxford, OH | Read from a scan that lost most of the spaces, so names come from the printed program. The scan is out of order, which makes page numbers less certain. The closing discussion session has no speakers. | 34 | 40 |
| 1995 | Houghton, MI | 25 | 31 | |
| 1994 | Las Cruces, NM | The banquet panel is in the program only, and no title is printed for it. Two papers marked as withdrawn in the program are left out. | 26 | 34 |
| 1993 | Charlotte, NC | Four items are in the program only, among them a panel called Corporate Visions. The institutions of two of the people were read from the list of conferees. | 30 | 42 |
| 1992 | Boise, ID | Two people on the program have no paper in the volume and no printed title. Their sessions are titled by the program's session heading. | 13 | 18 |
| 1991 | Cincinnati, OH | Three people on the program have no paper in the volume and no printed title. Their sessions are titled by the program's session heading. | 18 | 22 |
| 1990 | San Diego, CA | A proceedings volume. Three items are in the program only: a paper by Hackos, a report of the Program Review Board and the president's address. | 10 | 14 |
| 1989 | Rochester, NY | The volume is an agenda, minutes and a proposal, with no papers. Only a panel of four has presenters. The eight workshops list facilitators as roles and have no presenters, and some of the pre-registered names print a home address instead of an institution. | 10 | 20 |
| 1988 | Minneapolis, MN | A workshop meeting: two position papers, a president's address and four workshop reports. Facilitators and summary reporters are listed as roles. Two sessions are in the program only. | 9 | 15 |
| 1987 | Orlando, FL | A proceedings volume of fifteen-minute talks with a program. Eight sessions are in the program only, with no paper in the volume. | 24 | 24 |
| 1986 | Portland, OR | The meeting was six panels. Each panel is one session here, and the paper each person wrote is kept on that person's row. | 6 | 27 |
| 1985 | Oxford, OH | A proceedings volume with a program. Four sessions are in the program only. Read from a scan. | 23 | 27 |
| 1984 | Santa Fe, NM | A proceedings volume with a program. Four sessions are in the program only. The times are program blocks shared by several speakers, not a time for each paper. | 23 | 25 |
| 1983 | Lincoln, NE | A proceedings volume with a program. Two sessions are in the program only. | 12 | 12 |
| 1982 | Pittsburgh, PA | A proceedings volume with a program. One session is in the program only. | 18 | 18 |
| 1981 | Seattle, WA | A proceedings volume with a printed program. Two sessions are in the program only, with no paper in the volume. | 13 | 13 |
| 1980 | Orlando, FL | A proceedings volume with no table of contents and no program. Sessions were found by their headings, so completeness is less certain than in other years. One presenter has no institution anywhere in the volume. | 13 | 13 |
| 1979 | Stillwater, OK | A proceedings volume with a printed program. Five sessions are in the program only: the volume has no paper for them. | 17 | 14 |
| 1978 | Troy, NY | A proceedings volume of edited talks, with no program. Three graduate students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute gave oral presentations, according to a footnote, but their titles are not printed and they are not entered here. | 15 | 15 |
| 1977 | St. Paul, MN | A proceedings volume of edited talks. It prints no program, so there are no days or times. | 10 | 10 |
| 1975 | Boston, MA | A proceedings volume of panels. Speakers are printed as bare names, so their institutions come from the participants list. Contributors to the discussion are not listed. | 7 | 13 |
| 1974 | St. Paul, MN | A proceedings volume of edited talks. It prints no program, so there are no days or times. Institutions come from each paper's byline. Read from a scan. | 9 | 9 |