Advanced Computer Techniques

Advanced Computer Techniques (ACT) was a <a href="/facts/Computer_software/RP79lVSW">computer software</a> company most active from the early 1960s through the early 1990s that made software products, especially <a href="/facts/Language_compiler/WNfCDFJe">language compilers</a> and related tools. It also engaged in <a href="/facts/Information_technology_consulting/r0YqxEXo">information technology consulting</a>, hosted <a href="/facts/Service_bureau/cBHMQqFe">service bureaus</a>, and provided applications and services for <a href="/facts/Behavioral_health/QIszfk6D">behavioral health</a> providers. ACT had two subsidiaries of note, InterACT and Creative Socio-Medics.
Both writer Katharine Davis Fishman, in her 1981 book The Computer Establishment, and computer science historian <a href="/facts/Martin_Campbell-Kelly/5ayslnom">Martin Campbell-Kelly</a>, in his 2003 volume From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry, have considered ACT an exemplar of the independent, middle-sized software development firms of its era, and the <a href="/facts/Charles_Babbage_Institute/7CbplQuX">Charles Babbage Institute</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Minnesota/vN1uQvP5">University of Minnesota</a> has also viewed the company's history as important.

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Advanced Computer Techniques