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I was President in 1968, the year during which the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics became the Association for Computational Linguistics. Names always create controversy, and the founding name, selected in 1962, was chosen in competition with others, not the least of which was the one that subsequently replaced it. In fact, a change of name to the Association for Computational Linguistics was actually approved in 1963, at what has been described as an "unofficial meeting." However, that action was subsequently ruled out of order, since it did not result from a constitutional amendment. . | A SOCIETY IN TRANSITION Donald E. Walker Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International Menlo Park California 94025 USA I was President In 1968 the year during which the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics became the Association for Computational Linguistics. Names always create controversy and the founding name selected In 1962 was chosen In competition with others not the least of which was the one that subsequently replaced It. In fact a change of name to the Association for Computational Linguistics was actually approved in 1963 at what has been described as an unofficial meeting. However that action was subsequently ruled out of order since it did not result from a constitutional amendment. Five years later proper procedure having been followed the change was made officially. The organizational Impetus for the establishment of the Association did came primarily from a group of people who had been working on machine translation. However as In most scientific societies there has always been and probably always will be--a tension between research and applications. The primary motivation for the name change in 1968 was the recognition shared but by no means universal that we needed to address more basic Issues first. The report on Language and Machines Computers In Translation and Linguistics by the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee ALPAC In 1966 became a focal point for this controversy. It was viewed by translation specialists as an attack on their work and It certainly resulted In dramatic reductions In funding for machine translation. However Its authors claim It was Intended as an argument for Increased support of research. Certainly the lead article In the October-November 1966 issue of The Finite string which was titled Potential Bright for Language-Analysis by Computer NRC Report Urges Support presented that view. In any case the argument that computational linguistics should be supported as a science and .