Rosalie Steier
Page 805
Paul Abrahams
Page 807
Peter J. Denning
Pages 808-809
The computerists of 1947, as creative and foresighted as they were, could hardly have imagined that the industry they helped to mold would one day be forcing technological issues of worldwide consequence. Back then the idea was …
Diane Crawford
Pages 810-813
Karen A. Frenkel
Pages 815-828
"Age 30 is kind of appropriate because I got the first copy of volume 1 from the publisher nine days after my 30th birthday. So, a large part of the work had been done when I was 30 years old. They already were working on typesetting …
Karen A. Frenkel
Pages 816-819
"When the Securities Exchange Commission was created by Franklin Roosevelt, he was trying to fix a lot of problems on Wall Street. There were various Ivan Boesky-type crimes being committed on the stock market, and Roosevelt
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Karen A. Frenkel
Pages 820-823
"Most of the work I've done has been done to break things into existence that didn't exist before. . . . In a sense, my whole career's been about building organizations that didn't exist before, creating processes to do things …
Karen A. Frenkel
Pages 824-828
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) played a vital role in the postwar support of basic research in the sciences at the nation's universities in the years immediately following World War II before the establishment of the National …
Mina Rees
Pages 832-848
Linda Feczko
Page 849
The development years of ACM, as recounted in 1962 by founding member and former president Franz L. Alt, depicts the players and progress of an organization committed to sharing computing knowledge and skills.
Franz L. Alt
Pages 850-857
Lee Revens
Pages 860-865
Anita Cochran
Pages 866-872
A longtime member comments on the trends, happenings, events, and accomplishments of ACM in the period 1972-1987, followed by "Self-Assessment Procedure XVII."
Eric A. Weiss
Pages 880-883
A self-assessment procedure dealing with ACM
Eric A. Weiss
Pages 886-890
