The first official CHECK conference was held on May 25, 1972 at Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University). It grew out of a series of ad hoc conferences organized by the Kansas Regents computing center directors during 1970, 1971 and early 1972. The last of these was February 10 at Kansas State University where the name CHECK was adopted for subsequent conferences. The organization behind CHECK, RITC, was formerly the Kansas Regents Computer Advisory Committee (RCAC).
Originally CHECK was a one day conference. The two day format started in 1995 when Kansas State University held a special one day security conference on May 18 immediately ahead of the usual one-day CHECK conference on May 19. Following the 1995 conference the two-day format became the standard format for the CHECK conference itself. At about the same time the conference was expanded to include Kansas colleges and universities outside the Regents system. The host school has generally remained at a Regents school, although in 2005 CHECK was co-hosted by Fort Hays State and Washburn and held at Washburn University in Topeka.
If you have further details concerning the history of the CHECK Conference, please send the information to check@kanren.net.
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