Gilchrist, Bruce, 1959-
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Bruce Gilchrist received his doctorate in meteorology at the University of London, and then joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1952. He became director of the computer center at the University of Syracuse, then joined IBM in 1959 where he became director of planning with the Service Bureau Corporation (1963-1965) and manager in the Data Processing Division (1965-1968). He served as secretary (1960-1962) and vice president (1962-1964) for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 1966 he was elected president of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and was the organization's executive director from 1968 to 1973, after which he became director of computing activities at Columbia University.
From the guide to the Bruce Gilchrist papers, 1960-1973, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute. [cbi])
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