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 &lt;<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: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"><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">Dear <span><span>SIGCIS</span></span>,</span></div><div><br></div><div><span 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"><em>Graduate Assistantship Directory in the Computer Sciences</em>, 1971-1972, published by the ACM.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span 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 &amp; research programs, name of contact (typically the head of the computer department), tuitions, etc.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span 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">45 of these universities had teaching or research programs on AI and Pattern Recognition.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span 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">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn</span></div><div><img src="cid:a2c1a25295da424ea7fe54a2733b84574d093949@zimbra"></div></div></div></blockquote>