Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

4-2010

Abstract

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.

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Philosophy of Science

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volume

32

Issue

2

First Page

46

Last Page

57

ISSN

1058-6180

Identifier

10.1109/MAHC.2010.8

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2010.8

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