ACM Established to Develop Communication about Computing.

The article discusses the Association for Computing Machinery, which was founded in 1947 to promote the sharing of research between computer scientists working in the United States. The association was founded after Howard Aiken from the Harvard Computational Laboratory organized a symposium to gather people who were interested in sharing their activities and knowledge about computer science. The popularity of the conference revealed that a method to promote robust communication in the field was required.