Complex sentence: The basic ideas behind META II were derived from papers by Schmidt, Metcalf, and Schorre presented at the 1963 national A.C.M. convention in Denver Colorado representing, at the time, a culmination of work by the L.A. SIGPLAN working group on syntax-directed translation.
Split into simpler sentences: The basic ideas behind META II were derived from a papers by Schmidt, Metcalf, and Schorre presented at the 1963 national A.C.M. convention in Denver. Representing, at the time, a culmination of work by the L.A. SIGPLAN working group on syntax-directed translation.