Bruce Gilchrist papers 1960-1973.

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Bruce Gilchrist papers 1960-1973.

Chronological files which contain outgoing correspondence relating to Gilchrist's duties as an officer of the ACM and AFIPS. Most of the records prior to 1965 concern ACM and those records created in 1965 or later relate to AFIPS.

1.6 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7886027

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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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...

Gilchrist, Bruce.

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Gilchrist was a prominent computer scientist. In the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) he served as secretary (1960-1962) and vice president (1962-1964). In 1966 he was elected president of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) and was the organization's executive director from 1968-1973. From the description of Bruce Gilchrist papers 1960-1973. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63306801 ...

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...