• DocumentCode
    1404978
  • Title

    Cold War Origins of the International Federation for Information Processing

  • Author

    Tatarchenko, Ksenia

  • Author_Institution
    Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    32
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    46
  • Lastpage
    57
  • Abstract
    The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) was born as a nongovernmental federation with the main goal of bringing together computer professionals from countries in the East and West. This article examines the Cold War context of the IFIP´s origins and the mechanisms its founders used to reconcile computing and politics and to construct computing as an international discipline.
  • Keywords
    nonprofit organisations; socio-economic effects; Cold War context; International Federation for Information Processing; computer professionals; international discipline; nongovernmental federation; Cold War; IFIP; Soviet computing; UNESCO; history of computing; international cooperation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2010.8
  • Filename
    5406487
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1404978