Artifact Details

Title

ACM 71 : a quarter-century view

Catalog Number

102742752

Type

Document

Description

Published for the ACM '71 conference. Includes "Electronic Computers: A Historical Survey" by Saul Rosen, which first appeared in "Computing Surveys," vol. 1, no. 1, March 1969; reprints of selected pages of the "New York Times"; a list of software developments compiled by Grace Murray Hopper; photographs of the ENIAC from the Nov. 9, 1946, issue of "The Illustrated London News"; and miscellaneous photographs of other computers. This copy also contains the poster, "A progress of computation" and a program from the ACM "Founder's dinner silver anniversary evening" held Aug. 15, 1972 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date

1971

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Extent

vi, 52 p.

Category

Book

Credit

Gift of Donna Holden Bliss

Lot Number

X3991.2007