Sources for ACM history

Abstract

ACM has developed a rich and varied history over its first six decades. Preserving that history in an open and plentiful archive is key to helping future historians tell the ACM story.

The history of information technology

“…Aspray has published seminal articles on the history of early computing departments (Aspray, 2000) and the University of Pittsburgh's information science program (Aspray, 1999). The history of the Association for Computing Machinery appears as a subsidiary theme in the work of several scholars (Haigh, Kaplan, & Seib, 2007) and has been sketched by several insiders. The recent transfer of the Association's records to the Charles Babbage Institute is likely to spur additional work in this area.…”