Abstract
THE design of the Third IEEE Conference on Scientific Journals was largely, like that of the second, the work of Charles W. N. Thompson of Northwestern University, who owed part of his inspiration to the success of the first Conference, held in New York in 1973, which in turn was based on a suggestion by George Schindler of Bell Laboratories and was organized mainly by John Phillips of RCA. The success of all three Conferences owes more to these people than to anyone else, and they deserve special mention here.