• DocumentCode
    887025
  • Title

    Reflections on a Quarter-Century: AFIPS Founders

  • Author

    Armer, Paul ; Astrahan, Morton ; Auerbach, Isaac ; Carlson, Walter ; Cohen, Arnold A. ; Fox, Margaret R. ; Kagan, Claude A.R. ; Rubinoff, Morris ; Sherman, Jack ; Ware, Willis

  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1986
  • Firstpage
    225
  • Lastpage
    256
  • Abstract
    On July 18, 1984, several persons assembled at the IBM Los Gatos facility to discuss the founding of AFIPS (the American Federation of Information Processing Societies). We could not gather together everyone involved in the formation of AFIPS, of course, but the group that was convened was a representative subset.
  • Keywords
    Assembly; Corporate acquisitions; Documentation; History; Information processing; Joining materials; Lifting equipment; Permission; Professional societies; Reflection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0164-1239
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.1986.10047
  • Filename
    4640555
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=887025