The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) was founded by Dr. David Hays of the RAND Corporation in 1965 to promote the biennial International Conference on Computational Linguistics, which since the third conference in Stockholm is known by the acronym COLING after the Swedish fictional character Kolingen by Albert Engström. The current President of ICCL is Professor Jun-Ichi Tsujii of the AIRC and membership of the committee is permanent.
[1] A list of current and previous ICCL members, a list of past COLINGs, current proposals for COLING conferences and indications on how to propose a COLING conference and what that entails