Cold War Origins of the International Federation for Information Processing

Cold War Origins of the International Federation for Information Processing

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) was born as a nongovernmental federation with the main goal of bringing together computer professionals from countries in the East and West. This article examines the Cold War context of the IFIP's origins and the mechanisms its fou...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE annals of the history of computing 2010-04, Vol.32 (2), p.46-57
1. Verfasser: Tatarchenko, Ksenia
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Appropriate technology
Cold War
Computation
Computer networks
Computer vision
Construction
Europe
Federations
History
history of computing
IFIP
Information processing
international cooperation
Iron
Laboratories
Military computing
Origins
Politics
Soviet computing
Space technology
UNESCO
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Zusammenfassung:The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) was born as a nongovernmental federation with the main goal of bringing together computer professionals from countries in the East and West. This article examines the Cold War context of the IFIP's origins and the mechanisms its founders used to reconcile computing and politics and to construct computing as an international discipline.
ISSN:1058-6180
1934-1547
DOI:10.1109/MAHC.2010.8