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Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) Sous-fonds
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Sous-fonds
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18.5cm of textual records.
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The Canadian Information Processing Society is a national organization with individual sections in major cities throughout the country. Each team has its executive and elected members. CIPS's mission is to define and foster the IT profession, encourage and support the IT practitioner. It also endeavours to advance IT's theory and practice while safeguarding the public interest. Before 1965, CIPS was known as The Computing and Data Processing Society of Canada. This name was changed to The Computer Society of Canada. By 1968, this name had been officially changed to CIPS. Dr. Jim M. Kennedy was director of the Computing Centre at UBC from 1966 to 1979, was the president of CIPS from 1971 to 1972. The sous-fonds also include the Northwest CIPS 1978 Conference materials, apparently collected by Jack Leigh of the UBC Computing Centre, and the North West '78 Conference proceedings.
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The sous-fonds consists of constitutional amendments, board meetings, executive meeting files and correspondence made or received by CIPS, and some miscellaneous records created before the name changes. However, the majority of records originated from the time that James M. Kennedy was the president of CIPS.