Elsevier

Advances in Computers

Volume 8, 1967, Pages 103-152
Advances in Computers

Standards for Computers and Information Processing

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This chapter discusses the status of standardization in the field of computers and information processing, an activity that had its formal beginnings in 1960. The chapter focuses on programming languages standardization. There are two reasons for this choice: (1) this topic is good for the illustration of the process, (2) programming languages are the most complicated entities ever considered in the industrial standardization business. The two principal international standardization groups related to information processing are the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and its affiliated organization, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). A third international organization of importance to information processing is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This organization includes, among others, the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultive Committee (CCITT). The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is concerned with standards in the field of telephone, telegraph, and broadcast communications. However, CCITT has the responsibility for data transmission standards, a matter of considerable importance to information processing.

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