Originally posted on July 17, 2019. The ACM History Committee held a successful workshop to stimulate ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to document and preserve their history from May 20th, 2019 to May 21st, 2019. The workshop had broad participation from the following dozen ACM SIGs: ACM SIG on Multimedia (SIGMM) ACM SIG on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) ACM SIG on […]

Originally Posted on November 30, 2019. The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to support up to four research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful […]

The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to support up to four research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful candidates […]

The ACM History Committee held a successful workshop to stimulate ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to document and preserve their history from May 20th, 2019 to May 21st, 2019. The workshop had broad participation from the following dozen ACM SIGs: ACM SIG on Multimedia (SIGMM) ACM SIG on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) ACM SIG on High […]

Congratulations to 2019 ACM History Fellowship Winners: Kira Lussier, University of Toronto Mississauga, and Frances Corry and Anna Loup (USC) The current and past winners of the fellowship along with their project information can be found here.

The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to support up to four research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful candidates […]

The ACM History Committee is sponsoring a SIG Heritage workshop to help diffuse knowledge of professional archival practices into ACM's membership and to others with an active interest in preserving our computer heritage. Applications are invited to 1.5 day workshop to be held 20-21 May 2019 at the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. […]

Congratulations to 2018 ACM History Fellowship Winners: Tomas Petracek (Kent University, U.K., nee Charles University in Prague), Frances Corry and Anna Loup (USC), Urooj Raja (University of Colorado)! The current and past winners of the fellowship along with their project information can be found here.

By Bonnie Mitchell and Jan Searleman Introduction The SIGGRAPH Art Show Archive project is currently well underway thanks to the support of the ACM and SIGGRAPH History Committees. The goal of this project is to preserve the history and achievements showcased at the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Shows from 1980 to the present, and make it […]

The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to support up to four research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful candidates […]