Anderson, Walter L. (Walter Leonard), 1922-

Anderson joined Engineering Research Associates in 1946 and worked as a design engineer. He later transferred from St. Paul to the Arlington, VA office and worked in sales. He was one of the founders of General Kinetics, Inc. in 1955 and became its president in 1965. From 1962 to 1964 he was chairman of the IEEE Professional Group on Electronic Computers (now the IEEE Computer Society). He served as director of American Federation of Information Processing Societies and held many committee posts from 1962 to 1971, becoming vice president in 1971 and president in 1972. In 1974 Anderson joined the U.S. General Accounting Office as the associate director for automatic data processing.

From the description of Walter L. Anderson papers, 1942-1955. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63282475

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