From time to time the Computerworld Honors Program convenes distinguished participants in the information technology revolution to discuss, for the historical record, the development and use of this technology to benefit society.

These symposia, seminars, meetings, and small-group discussions have ranged in size from standing-room-only public forums for hundreds of participants to intimate conversations at a table for eight at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. They are typically initiated by a member of the Chairmen’s Committee who sees the need to capture for posterity the robust exchange of ideas surrounding a particularly pressing issue or series of developments in information technology.

The goal is to capture these discussions at an early moment in the evolution of conversation around the topic, so as to catch ideas even as they are being generated, to provide for history a view of what is was like for those guiding it to ride on the cutting edge of technology.

Topics have ranged over all regions of uses of information technology, from the way that information technology is altering the character of loyalty in business, to its effect on methods of automotive design, to its role in sequencing the human genome.

All proceedings are recorded for the Program's Archives On-Line and for presentation to appropriate research collections around the world.