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The Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, the First Professional Computing Organization, Holds its First Meeting

9/15/1947

On September 15, 1947 the Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, predecessor of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), held its first meeting at Columbia University in New York. Seventy-eight people attended. John H. Curtiss was elected president, John Mauchly, vice president, and Edmund Berkeley, secretary.

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