A two-day conference held at Northampton College of Advanced Technology with the co-operation of the BCS.in April 1962. T.R. Thompson presented a paper on considering the fundamental principles for expressing a procedure for a computer application independently of any compiler or computer considerations. See review by Caldwell in Dropbox at: http://www.dropbox.com/s/08ap89c8n26oxjs/J%20Caldwell%20Report%20Automatic%2 0Programming%20Conference%201962.docx?dl=0