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A Look Back in Time.

The article discusses the history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2007. The ACM History Committee, which was founded in 2002 after the death of four Turing Award laureates within a small time-frame, was tasked with cataloging the history...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 25 - 27
Autor principal: Wise, David S.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery May2007
Materias:
Association for Computing Machinery
Computer science
Computer programming
Computer training
Information science
Information technology
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Sumario:The article discusses the history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2007. The ACM History Committee, which was founded in 2002 after the death of four Turing Award laureates within a small time-frame, was tasked with cataloging the history of the organization and its efforts to improve the field of computer programming. The committee's work, included interviews with former ACM presidents, can be found on the Internet at the web site http://history.acm.org.