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

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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.

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

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

Program for Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics, 1983.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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

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…

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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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.

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…

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…

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.

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.…

"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…

Photograph, Young girl at the ACM International Computer Chess Championship

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

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

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

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

Photograph, Unidentified man at the ACM International Computer Chess Championship

Photograph, Student Playing Computer Chess, undated.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photograph of conference attendess.

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

Photograph, Chess board

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.

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, Association for Computing Machinery banner, undated.

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

Photograph, ACM Publication Booth, undated.

Photograph, ACM Membership Booth, undated.

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

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

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

Photograph, ACM International Computer Chess Championship Banner, undated.

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

Photograph, ACM Conference attendees at the Hypertext booth, 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.

Photograph, ACM Computer Chess Tournament award winners, undated.

Photograph, ACM Annual Meeting Attendees, 1970.

Photograph, 1979 Awards Banquet at the ACM Annual Meeting.

Photograph, 1979 Awards Banquet at the ACM Annual Meeting.

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 John W. Mauchly, undated.

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.

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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…

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

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.

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

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