<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Exactly – that's what I did for France, mapping the emergence of computer science measured in terms of equipment, labs, chairs, diplomas, doctorates, etc. The social/institutional construction of a "normal science".</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">According to a <span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">California</span>n library site, there is even a <em>Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences</em>, dated 1900…</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001832431" data-mce-href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001832431">https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001832431</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">More seriously, the <em>Directory</em> was published from 1968 tà 1995:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><a href="https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/361791" data-mce-href="https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/361791">https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/361791</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Attached, a page sample.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Regards,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Pierre</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"></span><br></div><div><img src="cid:d18836c25815b99c7269c7cca8f5e0aec09fedbd@zimbra" data-mce-src="cid:d18836c25815b99c7269c7cca8f5e0aec09fedbd@zimbra"></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Nabeel Siddiqui" <nabsiddiqui2@gmail.com><br><b>À: </b>"Pierre Mounier-Kuhn" <mounier@msh-paris.fr><br><b>Cc: </b>"members" <members@sigcis.org><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Lundi 17 Février 2025 21:01:48<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Directory in the Computer Sciences, 1971-1972</div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Does anyone know if there are directories for other years? I think it may be interesting to map to see the growth of the discipline over time. <br><br>On Monday, February 17, 2025, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-mce-href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;">Dear SIGCIS,</span></div><br><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;">A little gem found among my archives:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;"><em>Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences</em>, 1971-1972, published by the ACM.</span></div><br><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;">It lists 102 universities (95 US, 5 in Canada, 1 in England and 1 in Holland), with their computing equipment, their teaching & research programs, name of contact (typically the head of the computer department), tuitions, etc.</span></div><br><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;">Unsurprisingly, the details of computing equipments reveal a wealth of large mainframes and sometimes of supercomputers, well above those possessed then by European universities.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;">45 of these universities had teaching or research programs on AI and Pattern Recognition.</span></div><br><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman' , 'new york' , 'times' , serif;">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn</span></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>