George Glaser papers 1960-1989

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George Glaser papers 1960-1989

Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, brochures, newspapers clippings, and news releases relating to George Glaser's professional activities. Most of the collection concerns AFIPS and includes information about administration, the National Joint Computer Conference (1973-1977), committees, board of directors, planning, finances, the International Federation for Information Processing, and Washington activities. Also included are records relating to Glaser's activities as treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery and a regent of the DPMA Education Foundation.

9 boxes (9 cubic feet)

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Rector, Robert.

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

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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...

ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia

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The Association for Computing Machinery was founded in 1947 and has grown to become the oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society. It maintains the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves a membership in more than one hundred countries with publications, conferences and career resources. The Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the ACM are technical communities representing virtually every major area of computing. There are also hundreds of professional and studen...

International Federation for Information Processing.

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The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is an umbrella organization for national information processing organizations. It was established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO. IFIP organizes a number of events, including conferences, working groups and workshops, and general assemblies.Information taken from the IFIP web site, http://ifip.or.at. From the description of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) conference papers 1966-1986. (Univ...

Simmons, Dick B.

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Glaser, George

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George Glaser received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1952 and later studied business administration at the University of New Mexico. He worked in engineering for several companies before becoming a consultant for McKinsey & Company, Inc. in 1961. In 1973 he became an independent consultant as managing partner in Centigram Enterprises. Glaser founded its successor, Centigram Corporation, in 1977. In 1981 he incorporated as George Gla...

Data Processing Management Association. Education Foundation

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American federation of information processing societies

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The American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) was established on May 10, 1961 to advance and disseminate knowledge in the field of information science, and to represent member societies on an international level. The federation was an outgrowth of the National Joint Computer Committee, which was established in 1951 to sponsor the Joint Computer Conferences. One of the main contributions of AFIPS was its sponsorship of the Joint Computer Conference, renamed the National Comp...

Yau, Stephen Shing-Toung

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National Computer Conference

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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 Machine...

Ralston, Anthony.

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Uncapher, Keith W.

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