Spelunking CACM's First Decade

 I've been slowly, oh so slowly, making my way through the contents of ACM's Communications of the ACM, starting from its inception. Here's a quick index to the first decade:

• vol. 1 (1958): Accelerating Convergence of Iterative Processes
• vol. 2 (1959): Abstracts -- Nuclear Reactor Codes
• vol. 3 (1960): Automatic Graders for Programming Classes
• vol. 4 (1961): Soviet cybernetics and computer sciences, 1960
• vol. 5 (1962)

• vol. 6 (1963): Doubly-linked lists, CAM, and insights into computers and society

• vol. 7 (1964): blind programmers and animations on microfilm

• vol. 8 (1965): debugging, peephole optimization, and an undergraduate curriculum

• vol. 9 (1966): Eliza (and now 2022's LaMDA)

• vol. 10 (1967)

The title is a little bit bland, but if you check out only one year's worth of articles, I'd recommend 1964. As I noted in the blog entry, it feels like a year where computing really started to blossom.