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Algol in France: From Universal Project to Embedded Culture
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 36, Number 4, October-December 2014
- pp. 6-25
- Article
- Additional Information
This article focuses on Algol as a research agenda and a decisive step in the building of a new scientific community. It provides an analysis of the main French actors involved in the global Algol endeavor—small groups of computer scientists who participated in its evolution, within academic laboratories, R&D departments of computer companies, user organizations, or learned societies.