ALAN J. PERLIS
EIC YEARS
JANUARY 1958–JULY 1962
AT FIRST GLANCE
Excerpted from Communications, Jan. 1958, Volume 1, Issue 1, page 1.
“The Communications of the
Association for Computing
Machinery, published by the
Association for Computing
Machinery, is a new monthly
periodical, which will be
mailed to all members of the
Association and subscribers of
the Journal at no added cost.
This new periodical is
intended primarily for the
rapid dissemination of information whose kind and quality will be of value to the
members of the Association.
...[T]his journal will provide
space not elsewhere available for
publishing worthwhile, but possibly fragmentary, developments
in the use and understanding of
computers, e.g., descriptions of
computer programs, computer-inspired techniques in numerical
analysis, and educational efforts, to
name a few. The Communications
will also provide a forum for the
Association’s membership with the
Letters-to-the-Editor department.
This department will be ideal for
nourishing controversies that illuminate informed differences of
opinion.” c
THE SIX-PERSON EDITORIAL TEAM FOR THE FIRST
EDITION WERE EMPLOYED AT BURROUGHS CORP.,
RAMO-WOOLDRIDGE CORP., IBM, SPERRY RAND CORP.,
SYLVANIA ELECTRIC, AND CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY (PERLIS)
