Title :
Cold War Origins of the International Federation for Information Processing
Author :
Tatarchenko, Ksenia
Author_Institution :
Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
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;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2010.8
