Congratulations to 2017 ACM History Fellowship Winners: Bethany G. Anderson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Beth A. Robertson (Carleton University), the team of Bonnie Mitchell (Bowling Green State University)! 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 […]

By Mary Whitton and Carol Hutchins A group of 16 individuals, each interested in preserving some aspect of computing history, met May 12 and 13 in Chapel Hill (NC) for the ACM History Committee sponsored workshop on Doing Oral History. In addition to being of diverse age, gender, and national origin, the attendees were interested […]

Yishai Feldman from IBM Research Haifa wrote a review of book “Ada””””””””””””””””s legacy” for the ACM Computing Reviews May 13, 2016 issue: “Known as the first computer programmer, and popularized by the programming language named after her, who really was Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and what does she signify for us? Ada’s legacy, a […]

The ACM History Committee is sponsoring an oral history workshop to help diffuse knowledge of professional oral history practices into ACM’s membership and others with an active interest in preserving our computing heritage through the medium of oral histories. Applications are invited to a 1.5 day oral history workshop, to be held Thursday and Friday, […]

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 […]

Congratulations to 2015 ACM History Fellowship Winners: Ismail Akturk (University of Minnesota), Sebastian Dziallas (University of Kent ), Rajeev Agrawal (North Carolina A & T State University ), Scott Campbell (University of Waterloo), and Janet Mary Toland (Victoria University of Wellington)! The current and past winners of the fellowship along with their project information can […]

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 projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful candidates may […]

Welcome two new ACM History Committee members: Jon Bashor (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Kim W Tracy (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)! The current members of the ACM History Committee can be found here.

Congratulations to 2014 ACM History Fellowship Winner: Rebecca Slayton (Stanford University)! The current and past winners of the fellowship along with their project information can be found here.