The nation’s largest computer science organization has decided to sever its relations with the USSR as a result of Soviet persecution of colleagues, in particular, Anatoly Shcharansky. This decision was conveyed in a letter to the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences A.P. Aleksandrov, by Herbert R.J. Grosch, president of the 35,000-member Association of Computing Machinery. The letter was released today by the Committee of Concerned Scientists which has been working closely with the computing community on the Shcharansky case.
In his letter to Aleksandrov, which was later unanimously affirmed by the organization’s executive committee, Grosch stated that ACM “will not cooperate with or cosponsor scientific meetings in your country until the climate of intellectual freedom clearly improves.”
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