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Brochure, "The Selection, Training and Placement of Blind Computer Programmers." Created jointly by the ACM Committee on Automation and Computation and the Committee on Professional Activities of the Blind in 1966.

Facsimile Report, "Statuts De L'Association: ACM SIGGRAPH France," in original French. "Version modifiee le 15 mai 1989, conformement a l'assemblee generaic du 28 mars 1989."

Report, "Bylaws of the Association: ACM SIGGRAPH France." Updated version, 19 December 1990. Version modified the 15 May 1989 in accordance witht he General Meeting of 28 March 1989.

Report, "Estatutos Del Capitulo Profesional ACM SIGGRAPH, Buenos Aires." Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998.

ACM Press history series

The October 1990 Special Issue of "Computers & Society" was a joint publication of SIGCAS (Special Interest Group on Computers and Society) and SIGCAPH (Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physcially Handicapped). This issue contained the…

Program for Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics, July 23-24, 1984.

Floppy disk with ACM Membership Handbook

"Report Number 3" was issued by the Association for Computing Machinery on November 7, 1947. The report outlines the meeting of the Executive Council and the Bylaws Committee.

"Report Number 2" was issued by the Association for Computing Machinery on September 30, 1947. The report outlines the election of officers to the Executive Council as well as new association business.

"Report Number 4" was issued by the Association for Computing Machinery on January 30, 1946. The report outlines organization's change in name and meeting activity.

Membership Application for the Association for Computing Machinery, December 15, 1948.

Brochure, Guide to ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs), SIG99 Focus.

Brochure, SIG GUIDE to ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs), 2000-2001.

Brochure, SIG GUIDE to ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs), 2001-2002.

Brochure, SIG GUIDE: ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs), 2002-2003.

Brochure, SIG GUIDE: ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs), 2005-2006.

Photograph, ACM Conference attendees at the Hypertext booth, undated.

Journal, Communications of the ACM volume 25, number 5, June 1982. In this issue: ACM Election Results and New ACM Quarterly on Office Information Systems.

Journal, ACM Transactions on Graphics, volume 1, number 1, January 1982.

Announcement: "ACM is pleased to announce the inception of a new publication, Transactions on Information and System Security. First issue to be published June 1998."

Subscription form for Computers in Entertainment, an online magazine. October 2003 inaugural issue: "Educating Children Through Entertainment."

Advertisement for Queue magazine, published by ACM and focused on emerging technology.

ACM Newsletter, Number 56, November 1979.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.

Brochure, ACM Student Membership. The brochure asks the question, "Why should every computer science and IT student join ACM?"

ACM Professional Development Seminar Schedule, January-June 1970.

Photograph, View of a chess match in progress, undated.

Photograph, ACM International Computer Chess Championship Banner, undated.

Report, "Constitution and Bylaws of the Association for Computing Machinery," dated May 30, 1949.

Brochure for ACM Membership with a list of discounts, goods, and services available to members, undated.

Membership Brochure for the Association for Computing Machinery, undated. The cover states, "Join ACM and be a part of the IT revolution!"

Brochure for ACM membership, undated.

Brochure, ACM Membership advertising "A vast world of resources for the probing mind."

Poster and Map of ACM 20th Anniversary Conference, subtitled "Past is Prologue." The poster invites participants to reserve space at the conference and features the 1967 Exposition Rules and Regulations as well as a map of the available booth space.…

Program, The Twenty-First Annual ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, New York Hilton, New York, NY on November 11-14, 1990.

Program, The Second ACM SIGPLAN; History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-II) in Cambridge, MA; April 20-23, 1993. Advance Program, Conference and Hotel Registration.

Program, The ACM's Eighteenth North American Computer Chess Championship in Dallas, TX, October 25-27, 1987. A Special Event at the ACM-IEEE Computer Society's FJCC.

Program, The ACM's Nineteenth North American Computer Chess Championship, Orlando, Florida, November 13-15, 1988. A Special Event at the Supercomputing '88 Conference.

Program, The Sixteenth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship in Denver, CO, October 13-15, 1985. The Championship was a special event at ACM85.

Program, The ACM's Seventeenth North American Computer Chess Championship and the Sixth world Microcomputer Chess Championship in Dallas, TX, October 31-November 5, 1986. A special event at the ACM-IEEE Computer Society FICC.

Program, The Eleventh ACM North American Computer Chess Championship in Nashville, Tennessee, October 26-28, 1980.

Program, The Twentieth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship in Reno, Nevada, November 12-15, 1989.

Program, The 22nd Annual ACM International Computer Chess Championship, Doubletree Hotel in Albuquerque, NM, November 17-20, 1991.

Photograph, ACM Annual Meeting Attendees, 1970.

Program, "ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace" Conference Schedule at San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA on March 10-14, 2001.

Photograph, woman presenting at ACM70 on "The Housewife's New Helper" which was a computer designed by Honeywell.

Program, The Twenty-Third ACM International Computer Chess Championship, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Indianapolis, IN on February 14-17-1993.

Program, 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference. Final Program, June 12-16, 1988 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Program, Conference on Automatic Computation, September 7-9, 1950 in Washington, DC.

Program, "40 Years of Achievement, ACM 1947-1987." Anniversary event held at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in Dallas, TX, October 27, 1987.

Summary report, "The Pilot Model of EDVAC" documenting the First Meeting of the Eastern Association for Computing Machinery at Columbia University, September 15, 1947. Draft of September 22, 1947.

Report of proposed "Constitution and Bylaws of the Association for Computing Machinery," Form proposed February 15, 1948.

Program, "Founder's Dinner Silver Anniversary Evening" held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA to honor the founders of the association.

The "Notice on Organization of an 'Eastern Association for Computing Machinery'" recounts the formation of the ACM in the early months of 1947.

Advertisement for the Association for Computing Machinery's "History of Porgramming Languages" conference sponsored by SIGPLAN and held in Los Angeles, CA.

Brochure for SIGDA, ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation.

Brochure for SIGGROUP, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for Groupwork.

Program for the 20th anniversary of SIGBOOZE, a special interest group "serving computing and the imbibing arts," held during the 40th anniversary meeting of ACM, October 28, 1987.

This guide lists each ACM SIG along with a brief description, its membership costs, areas of interest, benefits accrued from joining, and publications and professional activities.

Ballot for the 1948 Election of ACM offices including President, Vice-President, Section Officers and Members-at-Large.

Ballot for Voting on the Porposed Association for Computing Machinery's Proposed Constitution and Bylaws, dated May 20, 1949.

Flyer reminding ACM members to vote on the proposition "that the ACM Constitution, Article 12, Amendments, Section 2, Constitution, be amended."

ACM membership application from the late 1960s.

"People" includes contact inforamtion for council members, headquarters office, members of each board, chapter officers and the heads of each special interest group.

Conference attendees at the ACM Membership Booth.

ACM Membership Directory, members as of May 21, 1948

ACM Membership Card

Advance program for the ACM 17th Annual Computer Science Conference. The focus of this conference was on preparing for computing in the 1990s as well as emerging trends in computing.

Press release issued in 1991 by the Association for Computing Machinery. The release outlines two key predictions: computer speed and memeory will continue to grow and advances in comunications will make computer power available to virtually…

The ACM Conference, "Strategic Directions in Computing Research" aimed to "develop an understanding of and consensus on the goals of computing research."

The "ACM Name Change Feasibility Study" explored "the always-defeated effort to adopt a different name." The 1996 report also outlines a number of goals, including: working to ensure ACM's relevance, expand its international presence, increase its…

"Planning for Leadership: The ACM in the 1990's" was authored by the Long-Range Planning Committee in 1986 and identified the four key roles for the organization during the 1990s. These included "providing publications for scientists and providing…

The Final Report of the Long Range Planning Committee covers the dates May 1973-November 1974 and made recommendation on changes in direction in a number of areas, and additionally suggested that the organization be grouped into four overarching…

Report No. 2 listed the early purpose of the organization as "to advance the science, development, construction, and application of the new machinery for computing, reasoning and other handling of informaiton." The memorandum also discussed the…

The ACM "Strategic Planning for the 1990s: A Report to the ACM Executive Committee" begins with the statement, "ACM has reached a state of stagnation. It knows too little about its members and subscribers. It knows virtually nothing about its…

The Teacher's Guide to "The Machine That Changed the World" includes background information, viewing goals, discussion questions and suggested activities for each of the five episodes in the series.

Press release announcing the Association for Computing Machinery's sponsorship of a PBS series on the history of computers. "The Machine That Changed the World" was a five-part televsion series that aired on PBS in 1992.

Invitation to the premiere screening of "The Machine That Changed the World" on April 2, 1992 at the Computer Museum in Boston, MA.

Advertisement for "The Thinking Machine." This was the fourth episode in the five-part television series "The Machine That Changed the World." The fourth episode focused on the search for artificial intelligence.

Student membership brochure for the Association for Computing Machinery. The brochure lists the special benefits associated with a student membership.

Blank certificate used to certify that a given school has been chartered as a secondary school Computer Club of the Association for Computing Machinery. Certificate includes room for sponsorship information as well as space for the signatures of the…

1987 Awards Program brochure celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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Program cover for the Association for Computing Machinery's 1997 conference.

Program for the 20th Anniversary National Conference Exposition of the Association for Computing Machinery on August 29-31, 1967 in Washington, D.C.

Program cover for the Association for Computing Machinery's 1997 Expo and Conference.

1974 Annual Report from SIGART (Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence) for the chairman of ACM's SIG/SIC board. Each SIG filled out similar yearly reports with information about their elected officials, newsletter activity, meeting…

Program for Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics, 1983.

Organization directory featuring lists and ocnfact inforamtion for the council members, headquarters office, members of each board, chapter officers and heads of each special interest group.

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