Edmund Berkeley

Edmund Callis Berkeley (March 21, 1909 – March 7, 1988)[1] was an American computer scientist who co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1947.[2] His 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think popularized cognitive images of early computers. He was also a social activist who worked to achieve conditions that might minimize the threat of nuclear war.[3]

  1. ^ Edmund C. Berkeley. IEE Computer Society. Retrieved 31 Oct 2024.
  2. ^ Atsushi Akera, "Edmund Berkeley and the origins of ACM." Communications of the ACM 50 no. 5 (May 2007): 30-35. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1230819.1230835
  3. ^ Longo, Bernadette (2015). Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals. doi:10.1145/2787754. ISBN 9781970001396.