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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.

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…

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

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

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 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…

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

ACM Newsletter, Number 56, November 1979.

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

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ACM Press history series

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.

ACM Membership Directory, members as of May 21, 1948

ACM membership application from the late 1960s.

Conference attendees at the ACM Membership Booth.

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

ACM Membership Card

Floppy disk with ACM Membership Handbook

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…

ACM Professional Development Seminar Schedule, January-June 1970.

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

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

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

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

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.

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…

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

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

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."

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…

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.

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…

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

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

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

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.

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.

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."

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

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

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Computer programming with Braille.

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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.

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

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

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

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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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.

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.

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."

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.…

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

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

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

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.

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

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…

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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.

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, 1979 Awards Banquet at the ACM Annual Meeting.

Photograph, 1979 Awards Banquet at the ACM Annual Meeting.

Photograph, ACM Annual Meeting Attendees, 1970.

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.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.