Academic
Edmund Berkeley
American computer scientist
- Life
- 1909 – 1988
- Born
- February 22, 1909
- Died
- March 7, 1988
- Nationality
- United States
Edmund Callis Berkeley was an American computer scientist 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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