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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">IT History Society</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Logo-iths-wiki.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Logo-iths-wiki.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="57" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="51" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">2007</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data">Promote and facilitate the preservation and study of the history of Internet Technology and be a "table of contents" of where information technology history is located</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Origins</th><td class="infobox-data">Charles Babbage Foundation</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Region served </div></th><td class="infobox-data">World-wide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Membership </div></th><td class="infobox-data">700+<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Chairman</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Jeffery Stein</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main organ</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Board of Directors</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ithistory.org">www<wbr />.ithistory<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>IT History Society</b> (<b>ITHS</b>) is an <a href="/wiki/Organization" title="Organization">organization</a> that supports the <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scholarship" title="Scholarship">scholarship</a> of <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">information technology</a> by encouraging, fostering, and facilitating archival and historical research. Formerly known as the <b>Charles Babbage Foundation</b>, it advises historians, promotes collaboration among academic organizations and museums, and assists IT corporations in preparing and archiving their histories for future studies. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Activities">Activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IT_History_Society&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The IT History Society<sup id="cite_ref-ByPresidentCRA_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ByPresidentCRA-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> provides background information to those with an interest in the history of <a href="/wiki/Information_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Information Technology">Information Technology</a>, including papers that provide advice on how to perform historical work and how historical activities can benefit private sector organizations. It tracks historical projects seeking funding as well as projects underway and completed. It maintains online, publicly available, lists of events pertaining to IT history, IT history resources, an IT Honor Roll acknowledging more than 700 individuals who have made a noteworthy contribution to the information technology industry, and a database of notable technology quotes. </p><p>A continuing project is one of aggregating the locations and content of IT history archival information around the world to facilitate and encourage IT history research and scholarship.<sup id="cite_ref-tech_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tech-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This International Database of Historical and Archival Sites currently consists of 1,663 international information technology historical and archival collections encompassing over 49.8 million documents.<sup id="cite_ref-tech_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tech-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An IT Hardware database has been added consisting of 12,187 entries, an IT Honor Roll with 1,031 entries, and a Technical Quotes database with over 1,000 entries. These databases are being added to on a regular basis an IT Software and IT Companies databases will debut soon. ITHS holds an annual meeting and conference. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IT_History_Society&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The International Charles Babbage Society was founded in 1978 and operated out of <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto, California</a>. The following year the <a href="/wiki/American_Federation_of_Information_Processing_Societies" title="American Federation of Information Processing Societies">American Federation of Information Processing Societies</a> (AFIPS) became a principal sponsor of the society, which was renamed the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Babbage Institute">Charles Babbage Institute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1980, the institute moved to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>, which contracted with the principals of the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Babbage Institute">Charles Babbage Institute</a> to sponsor and house the institute.<sup id="cite_ref-AtUMinnNYT_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AtUMinnNYT-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A new entity, the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Babbage Foundation">Charles Babbage Foundation</a>, was created to help support and govern the institute, in partnership with the university. In 1989, CBI became an organized research unit of the university. </p><p>Around 2000, CBF broadened its mission to support the history of information technology through other organizations, collaborating, for example, with the <a href="/wiki/Sloan_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Sloan Foundation">Sloan Foundation</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Software_History_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Software History Center (page does not exist)">Software History Center</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Computer_History_Museum" title="Computer History Museum">Computer History Museum</a> in experimenting with Internet-based archival and historical research. In 2002, the Charles Babbage Foundation broadened its mission to support the entire IT history community. In 2007, CBF changed its name to the IT History Society and reworked its programs to better support the IT history community. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Charles_Babbage_Institute">Charles Babbage Institute</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IT_History_Society&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Charles Babbage Institute"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>Charles Babbage Institute</b> is a research center at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a> specializing in the history of <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">information technology</a>, particularly the history of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking since 1935. The institute is named for <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage" title="Charles Babbage">Charles Babbage</a>, the nineteenth-century English inventor of the programmable computer.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The institute is located in <a href="/wiki/Elmer_L._Andersen" title="Elmer L. Andersen">Elmer L. Andersen</a> Library at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota_Libraries" title="University of Minnesota Libraries">University of Minnesota Libraries</a> in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Babbage_Activities">Babbage Activities</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IT_History_Society&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Babbage Activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to holding important historical archives, in paper and electronic form, its staff of historians and archivists conduct and publish historical and archival research that promotes the study of the history of information technology internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CBI also encourages research in the area and related topics (such as <a href="/wiki/Archiving" class="mw-redirect" title="Archiving">archival methods</a>); to do this, it offers graduate fellowships<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and travel grants,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> organizes conferences and workshops, and participates in public programming. It also serves as an international clearinghouse of resources for the history of information technology. </p><p>Also valuable for researchers are its extensive collection of <a href="/wiki/Oral_history" title="Oral history">oral history</a> interviews, more than 400 in total. Oral histories with important early figures in the field have been conducted by CBI staff and collaborating colleagues.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Owing to the poorly documented state of many early computer developments, these oral histories are immensely valuable documents. One author called the set of CBI oral histories "a priceless resource for any historian of computing."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of CBI's oral histories are transcribed and available online.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The archival collection also contains <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscripts</a>; records of <a href="/wiki/Professional_association" title="Professional association">professional associations</a>; corporate records (including the <a href="/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation" title="Burroughs Corporation">Burroughs</a> corporate records and the <a href="/wiki/Control_Data_Corporation" title="Control Data Corporation">Control Data</a> corporate records, among many others); <a href="/wiki/Trade_publication" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade publication">trade publications</a>; <a href="/wiki/Periodicals" class="mw-redirect" title="Periodicals">periodicals</a>; manuals and product literature for older systems, photographic material (stills and moving), and a variety of other rare reference materials. </p><p>It is now a center at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>, and is located on its <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis-St._Paul" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis-St. Paul">Twin Cities</a>, Minneapolis campus, where it is housed in the <a href="/wiki/Elmer_L._Andersen" title="Elmer L. Andersen">Elmer L. Andersen</a> Library on the West Bank. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Archival_papers_and_oral_histories">Archival papers and oral histories</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IT_History_Society&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Archival papers and oral histories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The CBI has collections of archival papers and oral histories from many notable figures in computing including: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col div-col-small" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Amdahl" title="Gene Amdahl">Gene Amdahl</a></li> <li>Walter L. Anderson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_L._Auerbach" title="Isaac L. Auerbach">Isaac L. Auerbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Bace" title="Rebecca Bace">Rebecca Bace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bachman" title="Charles Bachman">Charles W. Bachman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Baran" title="Paul Baran">Paul Baran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Bartik" title="Jean Bartik">Jean Bartik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Berkeley" title="Edmund Berkeley">Edmund Berkeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RSA_Security" title="RSA Security">James Bidzos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Blanch" title="Gertrude Blanch">Gertrude Blanch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vint_Cerf" title="Vint Cerf">Vint Cerf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Day_(computer_scientist)" title="John Day (computer scientist)">John Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra" title="Edsger W. Dijkstra">Edsger W. Dijkstra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_John_Eckert" title="Wallace John Eckert">Wallace John Eckert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Illmer_Forsythe" title="Alexandra Illmer Forsythe">Alexandra Illmer Forsythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_R._Fox" title="Margaret R. Fox">Margaret R. Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gideon_Gartner" title="Gideon Gartner">Gideon Gartner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Gilchrist" title="Bruce Gilchrist">Bruce Gilchrist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Datamation#Misc" title="Datamation">George Glaser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Goetz" title="Martin Goetz">Martin A. Goetz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_H._Golub" title="Gene H. Golub">Gene H. Golub</a></li> <li>Carl Hammer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Hellman" title="Martin Hellman">Martin Hellman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Holberton" title="Betty Holberton">Frances E. Holberton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuthbert_Hurd" title="Cuthbert Hurd">Cuthbert Hurd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anita_K._Jones" title="Anita K. Jones">Anita K. Jones</a></li> <li>Brian Kahin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Knuth" title="Donald Knuth">Donald Knuth</a></li> <li>Bryan S. Kocher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_P._McCahill" title="Mark P. McCahill">Mark P. McCahill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_D._McCracken" title="Daniel D. McCracken">Daniel D. McCracken</a></li> <li>Alex McKenzie</li> <li>Carl Machover</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Sean_Mahoney" title="Michael Sean Mahoney">Michael Mahoney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvin_Minsky" title="Marvin Minsky">Marvin Minsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Mooers" title="Calvin Mooers">Calvin N. Mooers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Norris_(CEO)" title="William Norris (CEO)">William C. Norris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Nycum" title="Susan Nycum">Susan Nycum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donn_B._Parker" title="Donn B. Parker">Donn B. Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Perlis" title="Alan Perlis">Alan J. Perlis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_M._Price_(business_executive)" title="Robert M. Price (business executive)">Robert M. Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claire_Kelly_Schultz" title="Claire Kelly Schultz">Claire K. Schultz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erwin_Tomash" title="Erwin Tomash">Erwin Tomash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Uncapher" title="Keith Uncapher">Keith Uncapher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willis_Ware" title="Willis Ware">Willis Ware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Winograd" title="Terry Winograd">Terry Winograd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Winston" title="Patrick Winston">Patrick Winston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Zuse" title="Konrad Zuse">Konrad Zuse</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="CBI_History">CBI History</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IT_History_Society&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: CBI History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CBI was founded in 1978 by <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Tomash" title="Erwin Tomash">Erwin Tomash</a> and associates as the <i>International Charles Babbage Society</i>, and initially operated in <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto, California</a>. </p><p>In 1979, the <i><a href="/wiki/American_Federation_of_Information_Processing_Societies" title="American Federation of Information Processing Societies">American Federation of Information Processing Societies</a></i> (AFIPS) became a principal sponsor of the Society, which was renamed the Charles Babbage Institute. </p><p>In 1980, the institute moved to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>, which contracted with the principals of the Charles Babbage Institute to sponsor and house the institute. In 1989, CBI became an organized research unit of the university. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IT_History_Society&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col div-col-small" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_computing" title="History of computing">History of computing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware" title="History of computing hardware">History of computing hardware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_operating_systems" title="History of operating systems">History of operating systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_internet" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the internet">History of the internet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_governance" title="Internet governance">Internet governance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science" title="List of pioneers in computer science">List of pioneers in computer science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standards_Setting_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Standards Setting Organization">Standards Setting Organization</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IT_History_Society&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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