Edmund Berkeley Publishes "Computing Machinery Field", the First Journal on Electronic Computing

10/1952

Cover of Vol. 2, No. 1 of "Computing Machinery Field" that Berkeley published offset from typewriter type.

In October 1952 Edmund Berkeley began publication of Computing Machinery Field, the first journal on electronic computing, and the ancestor of all commercially published periodical publications on computing. The first three quarterly issues were mimeographed. By the March 1953 issue the title was changed to Computers and Automation.

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Publishing

Data Processing / Computing

Computers & Society

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