Association of Information Technology Professionals

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>The group was first organized in <a href="/facts/Chicago/yPMokrXH">Chicago</a>, United States, in 1949 as the National Machine Accountants Association (NMAA).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> The State of Illinois granted the NMAA a charter on December 26, 1951. It soon had over 20 chapters. Harvey W. Protzel, systems manager for Protzel's Company, was elected the first International President at the 1952 First Annual Convention in <a href="/facts/Minneapolis/gEsXsP3d">Minneapolis</a>. In 1962, it adopted the more inclusive name, Data Processing Management Association (DPMA), and in 1996, the present name.
</p><p>The Association began its certification program with the Certificate in Data Processing (CDP) professional examination, first  held in 1962 in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a>. In 1970, it added  the Registered Business Programmer (RBP) examination. In 1974, the Association joined in establishing the <a href="/facts/Institute_for_the_Certification_of_Computing_Professionals/CFop19DB">Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals</a> (ICCP) to administer the examination program and stimulate industry acceptance of the examinations. The certification is now called <a href="/facts/Certified_Computing_Professional/CFop19DB">Certified Computing Professional</a> (CCP).
</p><p>In 1969, the Association created the annual DPMA Man of the Year Award, awarding it (incongruously, given its name) to <a href="/facts/Grace_Hopper/MEhbGazn">Dr. Grace Murray Hopper</a>. After Dr. Ruth Davis of the US <a href="/facts/National_Bureau_of_Standards/gr9Fnh85">National Bureau of Standards</a> won the 1979 award,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> it was renamed the Distinguished Information Sciences Award.
</p><p>In 2017, the Association was purchased by <a href="/facts/CompTIA/7NBGmcLw">CompTIA</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
</p><p>In 2019, CompTIA rebranded the national AITP as CompTIA IT Pro and Student Membership; however, many local chapters still retain the AITP name.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h2 id="ethics">Ethics</h2>
<p>The Association requires its members to abide by a <a href="/facts/Code_of_ethics/RzCldKDL">code of ethics</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> The Association also requires members to operate by a <i>"Standards of Conduct"</i> for IT Professionals, which adds specifics.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Association_for_Computing_Machinery/abI2atlP">Association for Computing Machinery</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/IEEE_Computer_Society/asUJfKHp">IEEE Computer Society</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.aitp.org/">AITP official website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://purl.umn.edu/107239">Oral history interview with Willis Daniel</a>, <a href="/facts/Charles_Babbage_Institute/7CbplQuX">Charles Babbage Institute</a>, University of Minnesota. Daniel focuses on the origin and growth of the National Machine Accountants Association (NMAA), later the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA). He describes how the changes in business data processing in the 1940s and 1950s led to the creation of NMAA in an effort to pool knowledge and resources as well as increase the professionalism of the emerging position of data processing manager.</li>
<li><a href="http://purl.umn.edu/41128">Data Processing Management Association Records</a>, <a href="/facts/Charles_Babbage_Institute/7CbplQuX">Charles Babbage Institute</a>, University of Minnesota.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Professional Chapter List". AITP.org. Retrieved 31 March 2014. <a href="http://www.aitp.org/?page=Chptmap" target="_blank">http://www.aitp.org/?page=Chptmap</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Student Chapter List". AITP.org. Retrieved 31 March 2014. <a href="http://www.aitp.org/?page=FindStuChap" target="_blank">http://www.aitp.org/?page=FindStuChap</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Johnson, Charles (1958). Data Processing: 1958 Proceedings. Paris, Illinois: National Machine Accountants Association. p. 412. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>DISA Award Winners, AITP. <a href="http://www.aitp.org/?page=DISA" target="_blank">http://www.aitp.org/?page=DISA</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Bernier, Paula. "CompTIA Expands Training with AITP Buy – Tech Culture". Retrieved 2019-10-18. <a href="https://techculture.tmcnet.com/comptia-expands-training-with-aitp-buy/" target="_blank">https://techculture.tmcnet.com/comptia-expands-training-with-aitp-buy/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"IT Pro and Student Membership | CompTIA". Default. Retrieved 2020-01-27. <a href="https://www.comptia.org/membership/it-pro" target="_blank">https://www.comptia.org/membership/it-pro</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>"Code of Ethics & Standards of Conduct". AITP.org. Retrieved 31 March 2014. <a href="http://www.aitp.org/?page=EthicsConduct&hhSearchTerms=%22ethics%22" target="_blank">http://www.aitp.org/?page=EthicsConduct&hhSearchTerms=%22ethics%22</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>"Code of Ethics - Standards of Conduct" (PDF). AITP.org. Retrieved 31 March 2014. <a href="http://www.aitp.org/resource/resmgr/forms/code_of_ethics.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.aitp.org/resource/resmgr/forms/code_of_ethics.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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