The evolution of communication design: A brief history of the ACM SIGDOC

SIGDOC'11 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-256

  Mehlenbacher, Brad ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

communication design; computing profession; history of computing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DESIGN; COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS; COMPUTER USERS; COMPUTING MACHINERY; COMPUTING PROFESSION; EXPLOSIVE GROWTH; HISTORY OF COMPUTING; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MAINFRAME COMPUTER; RESEARCH INITIATIVES; SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS; TECHNICAL WRITERS;

ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MACHINERY; MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 80054791056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2038476.2038524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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