American Federation of Information Processing Societies
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Armer, Paul, 1924- (computer technician)
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content: Paul Armer Collection
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.0323, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
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content: The series documents the American federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) activities during the late sixties, when the donor, Paul Armer, served as Chairman of the AFIPS Committee on the Social Implications of Information Processing Technology, as Vice President, and as President of AFIPS. AFIPS (the American Federation of Information Processing Societies) was organized on 10 May 1961. The founding societies were the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Institute of Radio Engineers (later combined to form the IEEE), and the Association for Computing Machinery.  Prior to the founding of AFIPS, members of its founding societies began in 1951 to sponsor the Eastern and Western Joint Computer Conferences through the National Joint Computer Committee.  The founding of AFIPS was a response to the perceived need of expanding the functions of that Committee.