Eric is Associate Editor-in-Chief of Computing Reviews, in which role he chairs the Best Review Award Committee which since 1988 has annually selected the best book review published by CR in the previous year. As Contributing Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing he contributes short articles, reviews manuscripts, encourages computing pioneers to write about the past, and helps potential authors who are literacy-challenged.

He has participated in ACM's publishing program since 1961 as a writer, editor, and appointed officer. He was the first chairman of ACM's Publication Board. IEEE and its predecessors have published his writings from time to time since 1941. He became a volunteer editor of Annals in 1980 and served as its Biographies Editor for sixteen years. From 1965 to 1988 he wrote and edited seven computing college textbooks, all but the most recent now out of print.

He received ACM's Distinguished Service Award in 1978 and, as a consequence, became an ACM Fellow in 1994. As a Senior Life Member of IEEE he is required to critically evaluate the Institute's performance.