A Policy for JACM
Gerard Salton · Journal of the ACM · 1969
When the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery was first issued in 1954, the intention was to make it into the definitive journal in the computer area. This in many ways it has become. Even in some of the applied areas—for example, in information retrieval—many of the articles consistently referred to over the years, and thus considered of fundamental importance, have appeared in the ACM Journal .