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Dating from the 1940s! > The ACM was founded in 1947 under the name Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, which was changed the following year to the As
by eesmith 5y ago
Dating from the 1940s!
> The ACM was founded in 1947 under the name Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, which was changed the following year to the Association for Computing Machinery. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Mach...
Actually, Google Scholar pointed me to a 1933 example (!) at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1167450 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1167450
> In the computing field, a number of technics have been reported (346, 348, 413) whereby correlations and other computations may be computed by means of standard computing machinery. Hull (373) described the most elaborate computing machine for making the almost interminable calculations utilized in the partial and multiple correlation technics for combining tests according to optimum weights.
along with other citations from the 1930s.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoBut the association isn't for the machinery. That day is still some ways off hopefully.
- eesmith 5y agoI don't think I understand your comment. I think you (and criddell) are observing that the association is not composed of computing machines, but rather is composed of people - people who are interested in computing machines. If so, it seems a not uncommon construction; hardly enough to even comment on. The Association for Rural & Small Libraries" isn't composed of libraries, but people who work in, and/or are supportive of, rural and small libraries. - https://www.arsl.org/ https://www.arsl.org/ The Association for Glycogen Storage Disease isn't composed of a disease, but is "an organization which would be a focus for parents of and individuals with glycogen storage disease", https://agsdus.org/ https://agsdus.org/ . Am I missing something?