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This World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) list includes prior and scheduled Worldcons. The data is maintained by the Long List Committee , a World Science Fiction Society sub-committee. Notes:
Some fan historians claim that the 1936 Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference, a.k.a. Philcon, was the first science fiction convention ever held. Others, such as Fred Patten and Rob Hansen , make this claim for the January 1937 event in Leeds , England , [ 1 ] organized by the Leeds Science Fiction League, which was specifically organized as ...
Academy Con, New York City (1965–1967) Adventure Con, Knoxville, Tennessee (2002–2012) Atlanta Fantasy Fair, Atlanta (1975–1995) Boston Comic Con, Boston (2007–2017) Comic Art Convention, New York City (1968–1983) — also held in Philadelphia from 1977–1979; Comix Fair, Houston (1983–c. 1996) — replaced the defunct Houstoncon
Ahmed Agiza (Arabic: أحمد عجيزة) and Muhammad Alzery (Arabic: محمد الزيري) (also Elzari, el-Zary, etc.) were two Egyptian asylum-seekers who were deported to Egypt from Sweden on December 18, 2001, apparently following a request from the United States Central Intelligence Agency. [1]
I-CON was preceded by SUNYcon (April 14, 1973), Mudcon (May 8, 1977), and Brookcon (October 28–30, 1977), held on the Stony Brook campus. I-CON was held annually from 1983 through 2012 at Stony Brook University, except for 2009, when it relocated temporarily to the Brentwood campus of Suffolk County Community College, due to planned construction at Stony Brook University.
Nintendo Space World, [a] formerly named Shoshinkai [b] and Famicom Space World, [c] was an annual video game trade show hosted by Nintendo from 1989 to 2001. Its three days of high-energy party atmosphere was the primary venue for Nintendo and its licensees to announce and demonstrate new consoles, accessories, and games.
A quite positive New York Times article on Wikipedia has appeared today (page D2, "Circuits" section). An online version is available. Given the healthy but limited amount of traffic so far this morning and the fact that the story is buried pretty deep inside the nytimes.com website, the article probably won't bury us in traffic.
Steve Jobs delivers the 2005 keynote address. Attendees at Macworld Expo 2006 in the Moscone Center. The first Macworld Expo occurred in 1985 in San Francisco.The conference itself was created by Peggy Kilburn, [9] who helped to increase the size and profit of the event during her tenure (1985–1999).