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T he conventional wisdom has been that SIGCAS was born 30 years ago because many computer special ists were feeling a gnawing awareness of the potential consequences in general of computerization upon society. However, I have found evidence that computer-related privacy concerns were perhaps the major force behind the launching of SIGCAS.Keep in mind that 1969 was many years before the personal computer was invented and even years prior to widespread timesharing. It was a time when modems were just being invented. None-the-less, many people, especially scholars and politicians, were concerned about inappropriate access to computerized data files. If you read the first few issues of the SICCAS newsletter, Computers and Society, you will find not only computer experts, but attorneys and congressmen who were actively trying to foster discussion and understanding of the social implications of computers, especially privacy.During the first year the organization was officially a Committee, not a Group. Hence it was called SICCAS until enough members could be counted to meet the ACM's requirements. ACM no longer makes this distinction, but the fact that the new group initially did not hav

Who reads SIGCAS history: the early years?

Author

Anderson, Ronald E.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (ISSN 0095-2737)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences