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Edmund Berkeley

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American computer scientist (1909-1988)

United StatesLived 1909 to 1988 · aged 79
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Edmund Callis Berkeley was an American computer scientist and actuary who co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1947. His 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think popularized cognitive images of early computers.

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Two legacies of Edmund C. Berkeley: his 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, and a 2021 issue of Communications of the ACM, the flagship publication of the computing society he co-founded in 1947Two legacies of Edmund C. Berkeley: his 1949 book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, and a 2021 issue of Communications of the ACM, the flagship publication of the computing society he co-founded in 1947

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Edmund Callis Berkeley was an American computer scientist and actuary who co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1947. 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.

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Lived 1909 to 1988 · aged 79
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