Table of Contents

• 1. ACM and the Computing Revolution (Thomas J. Misa)
• Theme 1: Defining the Discipline
• 2. From Handmaiden to 'Proper Intellectual Discipline': Creating a Scientific Identity for Computer Science in 1960s America (Janet Abbate)
• 3. George Forsythe, the ACM, and the Creation of Computer Science As We Know It (Joseph November)
• 4. Solving a Career Equation: The First Doctoral Women in Computer Science (Irina Nikivincze)
• 5. The History and Purpose of Computing Curricula (1960s to 2000s) (Sebastian Dziallas)
• Theme 2: Broadening the Profession
• 6. 'Deeply Political and Social Issues': Debates within ACM 1965-1985 (Janet Toland)
• 7. Organized Advocacy for Professional Women in Computing: Comparing Histories of the AWC and the ACM-W (Amy Sue Bix)
• 8. The Development of Computer Professionalization in Canada (Scott Campbell)
• 9. The Anatomy of an Encounter: Transnational Mediation and Discipline Building in Cold War Computer Science (Ksenia Tatarchenko)
• 10. Concern for the 'Disadvantaged': ACM's Role in Training and Education for Communities of Color 1958-1975 (R. Arvid Nelsen)
• Theme 3: Expanding Research Frontiers
• 11. Other Places of Invention: Computer Graphics at the University of Utah (Jacob Gaboury)
• 12. Framing Computer Security and Privacy, 1967-1992 (Rebecca Slayton)
• 13. Hypertext, Digital Libraries, and Beyond: A History of SIGWEB (Inna Kouper)
• Bibliography

About the Author

Thomas Misa directs the Charles Babbage Institute (http://www.cbi.umn.edu/), a leading international research and archiving center specializing in the history of information technology, at the University of Minnesota. There he teaches in the Program for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and holds the ERA Land Grant Chair in History of Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2014 to 2016 he was chair of the ACM History Committee, which assisted in the support and preparation of these chapters.