Communities of computing : computer science and society in the ACM /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Misa, Thomas J. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[New York] : [San Rafael, California] : Association for Computing Machinery ; Morgan & Claypool, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	ACM books ; #13.
Subjects:	Association for Computing Machinery > History. Computer science > History. Electronic data.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. ACM and the computing revolution / Thomas J. Misa
1.1 History in computing
1.2 History of computing
1.3 Chapters of ACM history
Broadening the profession
6. Deeply political and social issues: debates within ACM 1965-1985 / Janet Toland
6.1 Introduction
6.2 1969: a question of importance
6.3 1972: the Equal Rights Amendment
6.4 1975: the Turchin issue
6.5 The Committee on Computers and Public Policy
6.6 History of SIGCAS
6.7 Analysis of changing interests within SIGCAS
6.8 Conclusion
Appendix A
7. Organized advocacy for professional women in computing: comparing histories of the AWC and ACM-W / Amy Sue Bix
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Gender, computing, and organized advocacy for women
7.3 Advocacy for women in computing and K-12 outreach
7.4 The shifting nature of advocacy for women in computers
7.5 Conclusion
8. The development of computer professionalization in Canada / Scott Campbell
8.1 Rise of Canadian computing
8.2 ACM's early start in Canada
8.3 Canadian computing and data processing societies
8.4 The DPMA in Canada
8.5 CIPS, DPMA, and the Canadian accreditation battle
8.6 Toward Canadian identity?
9. The anatomy of an encounter: transnational mediation and discipline building in Cold War computer science / Ksenia Tatarchenko
9.1 Novosibirsk- Moscow- New York- San Francisco- Los Angeles
9.2 Person-to-person, institution-to-institution, discipline-to-discipline
9.3 Twisted truths: dealing with hazards of boundary-crossing
9.4 Conclusions: divided worlds, a shared community
10. Concern for the disadvantaged: ACM's role in training and education for communities of color (1958-1975) / R. Arvid Nelsen
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The discussion of social implications and issues within the ACM
10.3 Programs for the "disadvantaged" 1968-1972
10.4 ACM involvement
10.5 ACM establishes a National Committee on Computing and the Disadvantaged
10.6 Conclusion
Defining the discipline
2. From handmaiden to "proper intellectual discipline": creating a scientific identity for computer science in 1960s America / Janet Abbate
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The status of computing at NSF in the early 1960s
2.3 Organizational boundary-work: getting a seat at the table
2.4 Discursive boundary-work: establishing a scientific identity
2.5 Success: the creation of NSF's office of computing activities
2.6 Conclusion
2.7 Acknowledgments
3. George Forsythe and the creation of computer science as we know it / Joseph November
3.1 The man who would remove the "M" from the ACM
3.2 Forsythe before CS: from mathematics to meteorology to computing
3.3 Hard lessons on the road to computer science
3.4 Building a home for computer science at Stanford
3.5 Forsythe and the challenge of defining "computer science"
3.6 Conclusion
4. Solving a career equation: the first doctoral women in computer science / Irina Mikivincze
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Historical context
4.3 Gender and science
4.4 Gender and computing: identifying the problems
4.5 Data and method
4.6 Findings
4.7 Conclusion
5. The history and purpose of computing curricula (1960s-2000s) / Sebastian Dziallas and Sally Fincher
5.1 Always volunteers: coordinating volunteer efforts
5.2 Accreditation: addressing a threat to the reputation of the discipline
5.3 Definition of a discipline
5.4 Conclusion
5.5 Acknowledgments
Expanding research frontiers
11. Other places of invention: computer graphics at the University of Utah / Jacob Gaboury
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Salt Lake City, 1966
11.3 Practical applications
11.4 Problem solving
11.5 Community
11.6 Other places
12. Framing computer security and privacy, 1967-1992 / Rebecca Slayton
12.1 Framing record-keeping security
12.2 Transitions in the 1980s: specialization and the growth of computer networking
12.3 Reframing security amid growing computer networking
12.4 Conclusion
13. Hypertext, digital libraries, and beyond: a history of ACM SIGWEB / Inna Kouper
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
13.3 ACM SIGWEB
13.4 Conclusion: toward a model of epistemic work in professional organizations
Acknowledgments
References
Index
Contributor biographies.