AFCAL and the Emergence of Computer Science in France: 1957-1967
| Autor: | Maël Pégny, Pierre-Éric Mounier-Kuhn |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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05 social sciences Library science computer science Pascal (programming language) Sister 050905 science studies computer.software_genre [SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences afcal Professional association history 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences Discipline computer learned society computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Pursuit of the Universal. 12th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2016. Arnold Beckmann, Laurent Bienvenu, Natasa Jonoska (eds), Paris, June 27-July 1, 2016 Pursuit of the Universal Pursuit of the Universal, Jun 2016, Paris, France Pursuit of the Universal ISBN: 9783319401881 CiE |
| Popis: | Founded in 1957, the Association Francaise de Calcul (AFCAL) was the first French society dedicated mainly to numerical computation. Its rapid growth and amalgamation with sister societies in related fields (Operations Research, Automatic Control) in the 1960s resulted in changes of its name and purpose, including the invention and adoption of the term informatique in 1962–1964, then in the adoption of cybernetique in 1967. Our paper aims at explicating the motives of its creation, its evolving definition and the functions it fulfilled. We seek to understand how this association, altogether a learned and a professional society, contributed to the emergence and recognition of Computing as an academic discipline in France. The main sources are the scattered surviving records of AFCAL, conserved in the archives of the Observatoire de Paris, of the Institut de Mathematiques appliquees de Grenoble (IMAG) and of the CNRS’ Institut Blaise Pascal in Paris, as well as AFCAL’s first congress and journal, Chiffres. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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