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Program, American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS), Fall Joint Computer Conference, 1965. For many years, ACM was a co-sponsor of the joint computer conferences.

Awards banquet at the 1979 Association for Computing Machinery's annual meeting at the Detroit Plaza Hotel in Detroit, MI. Carl Hammer, recipient of the ACM Distinguished Service Award, is seated to the immediate left of the podium.

Photograph, unidentified men at the ACM International Computer Chess Championship, undated.

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Presentation of the Distinguished Service Award to Carl Hammer at the 1979 Association for Computing Machinery's annual meeting at the Detroit Plaza Hotel in Detroit, MI.

In 1979 Steve Wozniak was presented with the Grace Murray Hopper Award at the ACM annual meeting in recognition of "his many contributions to the rapidly growing field of personal computing and, in particular, to the hardware and software for the…

Computer programming with Braille.

Photograph of a street scene with a bus advertising the town meetings to be held at the New York City Hilton Hotel in conjunction with ACM's 1970 annual meeting.

Exhibit hall filled with tables and personal computers for the use of the competitors of the programming contest.

Photograph of the 1980 ACM Membership Booth featuring a poster for the ACM's halloween Computer Graphics Contest.

Photograph of Robert Bates, chairman of the Washington, DC chapter of SIGDEAF (Special Interest Group for the Deaf). Bates is standing inf ront of a display at an undated National Association of the Deaf Convention.

Photograph of Edmund C. Berkeley, undated. Berkeley was one of the founders of the ACM and served as the association's first secretary. He did much of the early work in forming and organization the association.

Photograph of John W. Mauchly, undated.

Program, women's conference activity for women accompanying their husbands. The program assured attendess that "every day will bring a program of activities to please a variety of feminine tastes."

Photograph from the ACM International Computer Chess Championship in Indianapolis, IN; February 1993.

Photograph, Woman Standing by a Poster Presentation at ACM68. Poster boards demonstrate "Who makes the computer work," "What makes a computer work," and "How we make a computer work."

Photograph of conference attendess.

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

Photograph, ACM79 Conference Attendees at the Membership Booth, 1979.

Photograph, ACM International Computer Chess Championship, undated and unknown location.

Awards banquet at the 1979 Association for Computing Machinery's annual meeting at the Detroit Plaza Hotel in Detroit, MI. Carl Hammer, recipient of the ACM Distinguished Service Award, is seated to the immediate left of the podium.

Photograph, ACM International Computer Chess Championship, Indianapolis, IN, February 1993.

Photograph, ACM International Computer Chess Championship, Indianapolis, IN, February 1993.

Photograph, 1979 Awards Banquet at the ACM Annual Meeting.

Photograph, 1979 Awards Banquet at the ACM Annual Meeting.

Photograph, Robert Hyatt of the University of Alabama and an unidentified man at the ACM International Computer Chess Championship.

Photograph, Young girl at the ACM International Computer Chess Championship

Photograph, Unidentified man at the ACM International Computer Chess Championship

Photograph, ACM Membership Booth, undated.

Advertisement for The Machine That Changed the World featuring a man and woman exchanging information via computer. The five-part television series explored the history of the computer and its impact on society and aired on PBS.

Advertisement for The Machine That Changed the World featuring an image of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs holding the circuit board for their first Apple computer. The five-part television series explored the history of the computer and its impact on…

Advertisement for "The Machine That Changed the World" featuring an image of Walter Cronkite and J. Presper Eckert as well an an image of Thomas J. Watson, Sr. The five-part television series explored the history of the computer and its impact on…

Advertisement for "The Machine That Changed the World" featuring an image of an early room-sized computer juxtaposed with a desktop computer of the early 1990s. The five-part television series explored the history of the computer and its impact on…

Photograph, Chess board

Photograph, Conference attendees at the ACM Publication Booth, undated.

Photograph, Student Playing Computer Chess, undated.

Photograph, Conference Attendees at the ACM Publication Booth, undated.

Photograph, ACM Publication Booth, undated.

Photograph, Young boy playing in a chess match, undated.

Photograph, Overhead projector shot of a chess board, undated.

Photograph, Association for Computing Machinery banner, undated.

Photograph, Conference attendees browse at the ACM publication booth, undated.

Photograph, Computer Chess Tournament with Players Seated at Tables, undated.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.

Poster advertising the the exhibit, "The Machine That Changed the World: ACM and the History of Computing, 1947-2010." Elmer L. Andersen Gallery, January 11 - March 5, 2010.

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Correspondence from the advertising manager of Communications of the ACM regarding the demographics of ACM members based on the results of a membership questionnaire.

Article, "Professional Computer Work for the Blind" by Theodor D. Sterling, M. Lichstein, F. Scarpino, D. Stuebing of the University of Cincinnati and William Stuebing of Steubing Automatic Machine Company in Cincinnati, OH. The article was…

Prepared by the Task Force of the Pre-College Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Model High School Computer Science Curriculum guide includes specific recommendations for "the essential concepts in computer science which every…

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Report, "Suggestions for Curriculum and Ancillary Services in Training the Blind to Program Computers" by Raymond B. Stewart, Jr., System Development Corporation in Santa Monica, CA. Report is dated October 1967.

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Report by Lillian Israel, ACM's Associate Director of Membership Services and Marketing. "Why Are SIGS Not Growing? Stabs, Guesses and Shots in the Dark" was produced circa 1990 and in it Israel suggests six problems facing SIGs along with proposed…

Correspondence, two letters between John von Neumann and Edmund Berkeley regarding interest in the ACM, dated September 15, 1947 and September 23, 1947.

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"Report Number 1" was issued by the "Temporary Committee for an Eastern Association for Computing Machinery" and is dated August 21, 1947. The memorandum outlines the first schedule meeting at Columbia University and includes information on…

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Profile of Readers, Communications of the ACM documents reader demographic information such as the type of company worked for, year of birth, year entered the computer field, education level and job title/function. Dated 9/65.

Brochure produced in 1965 by the Committee on Professional Activities of the Blind of the Association of Computing Machinery.

First Glossary of Programming Terminology, Report to the Association for Computing Machinery produced by the Committee on Nomenclature (Grace Murray Hopper, Chairman with C. W. Adams, J. W. Backus, J. W. Carr, III, R. F. Osborn, G. W. Patterson, J.…

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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.

Program for Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics, 1983.

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

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

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…

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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…

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 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…

"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…